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Scarborough Punk Souvenir – are YOU in this fantastic photobook, by Phil Thorns?

By Ruth Rae
Scarborough Punk Festival 2024 was an amazing event - top photographer Phil Thorns presents the best of the action! Published in a fabulous 72 page book, featuring his awesome shots of Buzzcocks, Anti Nowhere League, Rezillos, Ruts DC, Chelsea, Goldblade, The Members, Hung Like Hanratty, and Face Up on Day One. Covering Day Two in the book, there are yet more great Continue Reading
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Live review: Chillitown Fayre, Suburbs at The Holroyd, 8th March 2025

By Ruth Rae
An all-day music event takes quite some planning; and these days it's a risky venture.. Fortunately for us, Undercover Festival and Events are seasoned pros, and the Chillitown Fayre afternoon and evening drew in a capacity crowd from across several regions! Featuring 9 bands from across the Ska / Punk / Dub/ Reggae / Folk tradition, including: Nihilist, Baldhead, Continue Reading
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Live review: TV Smith raises the Face Bar roof in Reading!

By Will Sewell
Punk legend TV Smith may just be one man with an acoustic guitar, but the founder of The Adverts can still fill a room with sound, as evidenced during his first gig at The Face Bar, Reading on 20.02.2025 - what an outstanding show! Tim is a brilliant singer songwriter, and through his vast collection of material, he makes very valid points about how messed up the world we Continue Reading
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Album review: Black Spiders – ‘Cvrses’

By Alex Goose
Isn’t rock n’ roll supposed to be a young person’s game? Then how come so many of the old guard are doing such a great job of breathing new life into the genre? A case in point: Sheffield rockers Black Spiders, who are about to unleash a beast of a fifth album in ‘Cvrses’, and who only seem to have become ever leaner, meaner and hungrier since forming back in 2008.Continue Reading
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Album review: Split Dogs – ‘Here To Destroy’

By Alex Goose
There’s one glaring omission on ‘Here To Destroy’; namely that, unlike a Split Dogs gig, it comes without vocalist Harry Atkins’ utterly magnetic stage presence. Seriously, of all punk rock vocalists currently doing the rounds, they take the crown - for somehow managing to keep up such gloriously frenzied, bug-eyed, confrontational performances night after night. Suffice Continue Reading
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Chaos and hypnosis: A night with the Brian Jonestown Massacre

By Phil Thorns
It was my first visit to the fantastic Albert Hall in Manchester and what a gem it is. Proving to be the perfect backdrop for a mix of 60s-inspired rock and modern psychedelia from The Brian Jonestown Massacre (BJM), whose name combines a tribute to Rolling Stones founder Brian Jones and a reference to the 1978 Jonestown Massacre, supported by the Swedish band, Les Big Continue Reading