Reviews
There’s a lot to be said for not giving people exactly what they want. When this gig was first announced, a few eyebrows were raised at the combination of New York hardcore stalwarts Sheer Terror with melodic Seattle punk n’ rollers The Drowns, but ultimately it’s a winning combination: both bands dealing in street-level sounds and speaking plenty of truth to power.Continue Reading
Formed in London in 1983, combining the leather jacket look and defiance of the classic British rocker movement with the intensity of punk, Twenty Flight Rockers forged their own blistering brand of modern rock'n'roll with high octane live performances. Here we are in 2026 at a sold out 100 Club with the band back to celebrate the official release of the much bootlegged Continue Reading
Wednesday 28th October was Lol Tolhurst - a founding member of The Cure's - warm-up show before the band's sold-out performance at Whitby's legendary Tomorrow's Ghosts Festival. Brighton's Quarters venue hosted Lol and his band for a set of Cure classics, ably supported by talented dark pop artist Evi VineContinue Reading
Released just in time for Halloween, ‘The Fields’ finds Birmingham trio BLDSUGR! doing their best to make October considerably less comfortable. The band call their collision of punk, goth and doom metal “doom punk”, and it fits. Lolly, Leigh and Joe create something heavy, theatrical and pleasingly unhinged.Continue Reading
Of all the reunions to have taken place of late, Transvision Vamp’s was surely among the most unexpected. It’s been a whopping 34 years since the band originally split up, but now they’re back, with the promise to play “every single Transvision Vamp song you ever wanted to hear live!".Continue Reading
Happy 45th birthday, Desperate Measures! The London-via-New-Zealand punks may have emerged in more innocent times, but the songs have aged well, and remain - sometimes depressingly - lyrically relevant for the current state of the world. Last record ‘Sublime Destruction’ was one of our favourites of 2024...Continue Reading
Kudos is seriously due to all three bands performing tonight - not just for playing great sets, but for having covered pretty much the entire width and length of the UK over the past couple of weeks. Not for them the brief Glasgow-Manchester-London jaunt that so many international bands undertake; this tour has seen the Canadian/American/British alliance go as far west as Continue Reading
You can always trust Shake Some Acton to throw a great party, and indeed, Mannie has pulled a frightfully good line-up out of the bag for tonight’s Halloween show at the excellent Signature Brew Haggerston. It’s great to see the place already at least half full before anyone’s played a note...Continue Reading
This album is a new release from some very familiar faces on the punk scene, and I'm happy to report that the results are anything but disastrous. It's bloody great, in fact. If your preferred poison is short melodic punk rock songs, with hooks so large you could hang your coat off them, then this could be your tipple.Continue Reading
Meet Missratched. Despite not being known to many, the staunchly-DIY Lyon four-piece have actually been going since 2012 under various lineups, with demo and EP releases to their name. The latest EP, ‘Miettes’, landed early last month. Its title translates from French as “crumbs”.Continue Reading


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