This year I have FINALLY had the honour of helping out at Manchester Punk Festival! Stupid COVID has delayed that joy too many times, but it’s finally a reality
I took the train over with two of my favourite people in the world: Jen and Tim.
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Manchester Punk Festival 2022 – Day 1
The Undercover Hippy live at the New Cross Inn...with Ferocious Lopez and Smiley & The Underclass
A lucky happenstance found me in sunny London town this week, so I took the opportunity to visit the New Cross Inn for the first time.
For those of you who don’t know, the New Cross Inn is the spiritual home of much of the UK ska scene, with basically every band ever having played there nineteen times, it hosts the incredible Level Up Fest and, of course, its operated by the lovely Paul Smith and is the oft-home of the Be Sharp Promotions gang.
Laura Jane Grace – Stay AliveSometimes its about making something that matters. Or trying to
This review is not one of my normal ones. I usually listen to an album 20 plus times, really get to know it, so I can give you my honest balanced opinion.
The Warrington Ska Punk Podcast #1
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Pook from Pookout Records joins Chris for our first ever Podcast!
Featuring tracks from a range of cool bands, with a weirdly high number of them based in Japan for some reason…
Side Mission Records 1st Birthday ShowPizza, Punk and a Pop Up Record Store? What's not to love?!
Earlier this month I had the pleasure of attending the 1 year birthday of Side Mission Records. They celebrated in style at Liverpool’s premier veggie pizza/rock venue The Outpost. Pizza, punk and a pop up record store? That’s how life should be.
The Skints with Bedouin SoundclashToo much dancing, too much fun, the entirely correct amount of bass...
For the second of my weekend double-gig-athon (read the review of the first one here), I was back in Manchester once more, this time with tingling anticipation bubbling up inside me. After some appropriately spicy chips, myself and Josh found ourselves under the railway arches of Gorilla, ready for an evening of offbeat fun. Bedouin Soundclash
Record Store Day 2019… Part 2Sifting through the releases and deciding what to buy this year.
This article is part two of three. The first talks about why I don’t love Record Store Day. This one talks about the best of the Official RSD 2019 releases. And the final one bigs up some cool independent ska and punk releases you can also get this month… Not much UK Ska Punk…
As I mentioned in my previous article, there’s a bit of a gap in the releases available for Record Store Day 2019, at least for lovers of UK Ska & Punk.