Old News
4th June
Reviews for Hinterland, Glamour for Better,
Kensifella, The Culprit and Retroscopic
28th May
Reviews for Freefall Felix, Dear Superstar and The
Penitraitors. I've cleaned some of the links up a bit too.
15th May
New reviews! Best of Both Sides, Dear Superstar,
Architects of Victory, Deathstar Preview and Glamour For Better have all been
through my ears, into my brain and out onto the interweb!
13th May
Public Urination join us, fucking up your
ears with grimey punk rock!
Punktastic, the UK's leading punk zine/record
label/community are releasing the 4th installment of their Un-Scene compilation.
This time it's gonna be 99 30-second songs, they're still accepting submissions,
so email over your track to
paul@punktastic.com and get some more decent punk rock on there!
Already confirmed for the compilation is Despondent,
Stashpocket, Sonic Boom Six, The Steal, Templeton
Pek, 32framespersecond and about 30 others. They're accepting submissions
til the end of May, but the earlier you get it in, the better chance you have of
getting on the compilation. This is shaping up to be an amazing CD.
Good luck!
Loads more reviews coming soon peeps!
27th March
Shotgun Johnny have gone all hardcore and renamed themselves
The Vents 35.
Pedestrian Missile join us, representing
Leicester Pop Punk!
New reviews for Enochian Theory, Djevara, Three Mile
Island, Gunning for Goliath and Forgotten Sleep
23rd March
Thanks to all the people who came to the gigs over the past couple of weeks.
The atmosphere was cracking last night!
21st March
Jacob's Fable sign to Party House Records, home
of Fandangle, Weeble, Zombies of Ska and stuff. Congrats!!!
11th March
Ok I'm starting to get back to normal life now I have internet again and a lot
of my uni work is out the way, and have done a shitload of new reviews, some of
them are up now on the reviews page, by Life
Sentence, XisLoaded/Iamthedoor, ClayPigeon, Human Targets, The StopMotion Men,
LAP, Obsessive Compulsive and Elvis is Dead.
Don't forget the gigs on Thursday 15th and
Thursday 22nd at the Shed, Leicester. There's plenty more in the pipeline
too, we're going to make it a regular thing. YAY.
15th February
Thanks to all the people who came along to the Firebug on the 12th, sorry to
anyone who couldn't get in, the bouncers were being over-zealous and there was
nothing we could do about it. Rest assured we won't be putting on another
gig there and all future gigs will be ALL AGES!
We've got another 2 gigs on in March. On the 15th the incredible
Chief are coming
from Liverpool with their massive hardcore show, think of a cross between
Comeback Kid, Bigwig and Propagandhi - but even better! On the support is
Despondent, Full Circle,
Flaming Aces
and Jacob's Fable. On the 22nd sees Crewe's
Stash Pocket coming with their blast of fast
bastard melodic punk, supported by Accidental
President, Fat Kids in Jumpsuits,
Round 2 and
Hired Goons.
Both of these gigs will be at the Shed
in Leicester and will be £4 to get in. It's very important you print out a
flyer before you come, if you don't it'll be £5 to get in. Bring all your mates along to these gigs they should be cracking nights. If anyone
wants to help promote these please contact me (Nik),
there are lots of very small things you could do that would help us
tremendously.
My internet should be connected properly from 20th Feb so the updates will be
more regular than they are currently.
1st February
A New Days Enemy will be reforming for 2 last
gigs, one in Feb/March in Lincoln and 7th April at the Shed, in Leicester. You simply HAVE to go, it will be your last chance
EVER to see them.
All Or Nothing have a video up of Sweating 6AM on their
myspace. Add it to
your profile or something!
New reviews of XisLOADED, Stealbackyourlife, Smokin
Tequila, The Apostates and Tripped and Falling.
25th January
For the next couple of weeks or so my updates will be few and far between as I
have limited access to the internet, but I have a new account on the way so
normal service will resume soon! But please still keep sending in your
news and CDs to review, I promise they will all get listened to and put up very
soon.
We're putting on a gig at
Firebug, Leicester on 12th Feb (next to the Market Street McDonalds)
featuring the incredible
3 Storeys High,
Despondent,
Accidental President, Fat Kids In
Jumpsuits and More Amour. If you fancy helping
out with the promotion for this gig, please email me,
we're gonna blow the roof off the place!
Please welcome... Lathkill,
Aisle 13 and Fat Kids in Jumpsuits to
the Punkscene family. They're coming to a venue near you so check them
out!
13th January
New review of Haddonfield.
11th January
New reviews of Public Relations Exercise, Koopa, Page
44, Thoughts Collide and Pax.
30th December
Check out Nottinghamshire's own
Axminster Scotchguard and The Numskulls. I
could describe their sound, but you still wouldn't
be prepared for their brill sound. So go take
a listen to them over at their
website too.
New Reviews of My Mind's
Weapon, Shadows Amongst Silhouettes, Apocalypse
Babys and Accidents Never Happen
Accidental President have finished their
recording, mp3s soon, keep checking their
myspace
Switch NX are calling it a day after a long time
together and some amazing music, there will be one
last gig in Leicester for them first though, more
details soon.
Grab yourself some brand new
Random Outcome
T-Shirts on their
myspace
Go see the new My Jaded
Hero video for
Apart Of
Something. Not only a cracking song but
something cool to watch too!
12th December
More Amour have some studio mp3s up on their
myspace!
Check them out they're damn excellent.
My Jaded Hero have parted with their bassist Jay,
but they're looking for a replacement and will be
back in the new year with new set/merch/bassist.
New reviews of Bejebus,
Centrifuge, Honour Among None and UK 77.
3rd December
Hoofbite's bassist Craig has parted ways with them,
they are on the look out for a new bassist, get in
touch if you can help via their
myspace
site.
My Jaded Hero are taking some time out from
gigging to record some new songs, and have a stack
of t-shirts which should be ready to buy in the new
year.
New cover. New
simpler design. With new tracks!
22nd November
A slightly new look! And just look at those new
bands over there!
Round 2 play some fist-raising hardcore,
Rig Up Explosive play an experimental alt-rock
mix, Stash Pocket
play fun as fuck pop-punk and
Full Circle play hard-edged and fast punk rock.
21st November
New Reviews for 303 Did
This To Me, Whoreswhoreswhores, Imicus and Immune.
17th November
There's a shitload of new bands gonna join us here
in the next few days so keep your eyes peeled,
they're all gonna feature on the new punkscene.co.uk
compilation given away at the gigs on 28th and 30th
November at the Shed, Leicester, as are some new
tracks by some of our longstanding bands, so pop
along early if you want a copy, we don't have an
infinite supply!
The Ruined have a new album out, it's pretty
amazing so you should go and buy it
here.
They've got some tracks up on their
myspace as a preview.
All Or Nothing have got a load of new tracks on
their
myspace page, fast and frantic as ever with some
killer melodies in there.
Accidental President are recording in the
next few weeks, so expect some new stuff from them
just after Christmas.
New reviews for The Minor
Fall, I Killed Pharoah, Pink Widow, Pray for Hayden
and a split CD from Paul Marshall/Tascam Tapes.
I still have a pile to wade through, so if you've
sent me a CD, don't worry, it'll get reviewed in the
next week or so.
16th October
Apologies
for the lack of updates, some fucking chav stole my laptop, so I've
been gradually getting all my info back. In the mean time, if you see
an Acer 3502wlmi with a worn out trackpad button and a damaged
corner, get in touch please!
Back to the news: My
Jaded Hero have put a rough version of one of their new songs up.
Check out “Like a Living Story“ on their myspace.
Heart
Attack are touring for 8 dates on the 3 Storeys High 60 gigs in
60 days tour in February. Punkscene are putting on the Leicester show
on Feb 12th, so make sure you come to that one!
1st
October
New Reviews of For Those
Lost, Circle of One, Just Panic! and Midget and Giant
26th
September
New Reviews of Crash Car
Burn, Father, Day Of Rising and Desperado - it's a mixed bag!
No
Industries are recording new stuff very soon with their new
lineup.
15th September
My
Jaded Hero are to be doing a recorded session on local radio.
More details soon!
Check out brand new Leicester band More
Amour. They're recording soon, but you can enjoy a few live
tracks on their myspace
page in the mean time.
Not Shibby
have gone on hiatus.
8th September 2006
Dan Kenny from
Zombies of Ska is stepping in on bass for All
Or Nothing for a while until Tim comes back.
New Review
of Sharp End First.
1st September 2006
Random
Outcome have a new bassist.
New Reviews
of The First, Haemostatic Picnic Races and Breakneck
25th
August 2006
New Reviews of UK Death
Charge, I|am|the|door and a compilation called Count to III then
Run
All Or Nothing have
postponed their album release to October as their bassist Timmy is
going to Canada for a while.
23rd August 2006
New
reviews of Sixty Mile Smile, Supenik, The
Atoms and Pendleton.
Shotgun
Johnny have new storming tracks on their myspace
from their new EP.
21st August 2006
New reviews
of The Title The Author, The Invoice, AntiKid and Zero In.
Hoofbite
have some new tracks up. Check out their myspace page
here!
All
Or Nothing have a mental new track up on their myspace
Hostyle
Takeover play their first gig in ages on September 8th at the
Attik with If Lucy Fell (Lockjaw Records)
Sadly Pennychew
have split after 3 years of punking it up around Derby.
Accidental
President have got a couple of live tracks on the bottom of their
myspace
player.
Firebrand have got a load
of new recording which you can listen to on their myspace.
Easily their best stuff yet!
A
New Days Enemy have a new punchy track up on their myspace
from their forthcoming new record.
18th August 2006
Hi
everyone! We've been away getting married and going on honeymoon and
stuff but we're back now. If you sent in a CD to get reviewed
in the past month it will get reviewed soon, promise!
Expect
some relevant news on bands and reviews and gigs and the such
soon!!
7th July 2006
New reviews of The Shuffle and Visual Offence.
It's all pretty good actually!
There's an awesome gig at the Attik, Leicester on Wednesday 12th July featuring
Parachutes (Lockjaw Records), Switch NX, 3 Storeys
High, My Jaded Hero and
Accidental President. We're
definitely going - it should be a fucking stormer! It's £5 on the door and
starts around 7pm. Now that's value for money!
6th July 2006
New track on the compilation by The Ruined - She
Must Die
4th July 2006 positive
Accidental President are in a battle of
the bands competition with Radio 1 to play at this years Wasted Festival in
Blackpool. Vote for them to win it
right here! (hint: if you want to vote more than once, delete your cookies
after voting!)
3rd July 2006
Shotgun Johnny are recording some new stuff at
the moment, expect a rock and roll revolution!
New punkscene compilation will be available at forthcoming punkscene gigs
featuring new tracks by My Jaded Hero and
Switch NX.
1st July 2006
It's been a while since the last update cos i've had all manner of uni exams and
so forth, but that's all finished now so hope for some more regular updates.
One Gone No More have renamed themselves Heart
Attack.
Hostyle Takeover are back with a new line up,
they've got some gigs lined up and plan on recording soon too!
Last Orders are playing their last ever gig at the
Shed, Leicester on July 10th. Supporting is
Pankus The Henge, The
Sedations, Lazy Love Makers and more! They're giving away a shitload of
stuff so pop along, have a skank and fill your pockets with goodies!
4 Step Process are also playing their last
ever gig at the Vic Inn, Derby, supporting the incredible Sonic Boom Six.
Expect the place to be packed to the gills and get there early. In the
mean time check out their new version of Bullets on their
myspace
page
Switch NX are touring with
Burton's own 3 Storeys High and will be coming to a town near you!
Pennychew have parted ways with singer Jess, but
don't despair! They're here to stay and have even shoved up a new
website!
Hoofbite are recording new stuff in August.
Firebrand are playing the huge Summer Sundae
festival at DeMontfort Hall, Leicester on August 13th
Some new stuff reviewed by Golliwog, The Cunts, The
Lobotomies, Cedar Falls and The Autonomy Within.
As always the gigs page is fully updated so keep checking that out for amazing
gigs near you.
27th May
The Ruined have shoved a new track up their myspace.
Oh my god it rocks, check it out.
26th May
New Reviews added for The Kimberly Steaks, After, and
Seven Day Story. They're actually all pretty damn good!
Switch NX have a new track on their myspace called
"How Do I Play This Game Again?" from their forthcoming EP "Explode Into Life
This is your 9 to 5". It certainly doesn't disappoint! Click
here for it!
25th May
Get your asses down to the Shed on Tues 30th May to catch
Accidental President and
Weeble supporting the skank-tastic
Fandangle!
21st May
Cool as fuck female-fronted Leicester punkers
My Jaded Hero added! Check
them out!
Shiny New Bicycles aren't
dead! They're back with a new lineup!
Random Outcome put some new tracks up on their
myspace page this week, keep a look out for those!
All Or Nothing have announced plans of a new 14
track album this summer. Go and bug them on the myspace page to get them
to hurry up!
The Ruined have released a split EP with
Destructors 666. Get it from their website!
Accidental President have some videos up
on their site! Go see!
No Industries need a drummer. Get in touch
with matt_1308@hotmail.com if you
want to be in a damn good skate punk band.
A New Days Enemy's new CD is being put out by
Tardy Gate records. God damn I'm looking forward to that!
7th May
New compilation, view the tracks and cover details in the
info section.
Also, we're putting flyer images in the gigs section, so let us know if you have
one and we'll put it up.
27th April
Some more reviews added!
19th April
Shiny New Bicycles have split :( but we have the wicked pop-punkers
Pennychew now yay!
4 Step Process have some newly
recorded tracks, you should check them out over at their
myspace.
3 punkscene bands playing on Sunday 23rd April at the Frenzy Festival all-dayer
Shed, Leicester with Lockjaw Records' Tribute to Nothing -
A New Days Enemy,
Despondent and
No Industries. It starts at
4:30pm so don't be late peeps!
7th April
Boycot Jeffrey's excellently titled "Attack of the Giant Flapjack"
reviewed!
1st April
There's been a big gigs update, check out the gigs page, cos there's some
insanely good ones coming up this month where some of our bands are supporting
some big names.
2 new reviews added as well, from The
Attika State and Tim Butane.
There's a couple of new punkscene bands on the way and a revival of an old one -
watch out for the update soon.
12th March
New review added! Read all about
Selladore's Demo.
10th March
Like
Punk and Metal? - well don't miss this gig.
Punk v's Metal at The Vic Inn, Derby
Friday 17th March 6:30pm £5 on the door
This is
your big chance to appear in a punk rawk music video!!
Despondent are recording a video for one their new tracks.
Lots of footage will be taken at the punk alldayer Saturday 18th March at
The Attik, Leicester. Help create a wicked mosh pit, crowd surf and headbang
your way into shot.
So get along to The Attik, Leicester
Saturday 18th March for 15 kick ass bands. Show starts 5pm and it's
£5.
The punkscene bands showing up to entertain you are: A
New Days Enemy, Despondent, Random
Outcome, Switch NX and The
Squatters.
Limited free punkscene.co.uk compilation CDs available, so get there early to
get your much wanted copy!
click for bigness! click for bigness!
6th March
Want to see a rip roaring show? Well get
your backside down to the Music
Cafe, (aka The Jam Jar) Leicester this Thursday.
Punkscene.co.uk brings you 6 bands - 5 of your fav Punkscene.co.uk bands
in one show and the awsome Peterborough band Radicus Accidental
President, Last
Orders, Firebrand, All
Or Nothing, Shotgun Johnny
and Radicus. A bargain £4
1st March
One Gone No More are playing at the
Shed, Leicester this Sat 4th March at the matinee at about 4pm, so pop along
to see some of the finest new talent from the area and generally have a flipping
brill time, Don't forget to print some tickets off from
here
and write "One Gone No More" in the big blank space, it'll get you in for £4
instead of £5.
25th February
Switch NX are playing with Failsafe (Deck Cheese Records) and The Riverclub (Bravestar
Records) on the Big Cheese Magazine tour at the Attik, Leicester on Wednesday
March 1st. You should all pop down cos it's going to be a bloody good
show!
19th February
Sadly the Vaxines have split.
9th February
We're pleased to have
A New Days Enemy on our list of brilliant bands, they're a melodic punk rock
band from Leicester.
The Squatters new CD "Easing the Pain...?" is out now! so get along to one
of their
gigs
and pick up a copy for a fiver, and while you're at it, grab one of their shirts
for £6.
Despondent
will be recording some footage for their new video at the punk all dayer at the
Attik, Leicester on March 18th. So come along at get FAMOUS!
click for bigness!
4th February
Cor! New bands on the horizon...wait a few days
to see who!
Random Outcome are in the studio recording
some new stuff.
Firebrand have just finished their new
recording
31st Jan
Last Orders' new EP "Skank It Up" is
finished. It'll be available from their
gigs in March, listen to a couple of teaser
tracks at myspace.com/lastorders
New review posted - Blind To - Promising Dreams...
New cover available from info page
27th Jan
Things are a changing here at Punkscene!
This news page is going to get way more betterer
and more usefuler than ever. If you have
any news about any of the Punkscene bands or
about anything to do with the midlands Punkscene,
drop us an
email!
Sadly there have been
two departures from the roster. Newspeak
and Hostyle Takeover have sadly split.
Hostyle Takeover had been involved with us from
the beginning and helped promote us no end, they
will be missed.
But don't despair! A new band has been
added in the shape of
One
Gone No More, sickeningly talented
mini-punks from Derby.
Go check out Punktastic's review of All Or
Nothing's brill new CD
here!
11th Jan
YOU CAN
NOW GET TO THIS WEBSITE BY VISITING
www.punkscene.co.uk
so type that in from now on...it'll make
it all seem worth the £6 it cost me to register
the domain for 2 years!
10th Jan
Ok I've been a little lax on the updates, but we've got some new stuff for ya!
Jacob's Fable - brilliant skatecore from Burton have been added to Punkscene
New reviews - check
them out! If you want your stuff reviewed,
all you have to do is ask!
Contact
me for a postal address.
We still need more info on
venues
and
promoters, so if you have any info that we can
add to our database, we'd be extremely interested.
contact us!
8th December
Don't forget to check out the new punkscene.tk/ukstrange radio station on the listen page!
New band!
Last Orders
are a ska punk band from Leicester
5th November
New Punkscene website up. We now have some new sections. The Venues section should help bands know a little more about venues they are playing at soon and give punters a bit of an idea about places they might go. The Promo section is for promoters and bands to help get in touch with each other. We also have a Reviews section for unsigned bands, but we'll need material to review! so contact Nik for a postal address.
23rd October
The new cover is available from the
info
page. If you are in a band, make sure you
give me your postal address and I'll get a new
CD out to you with all the tracks on.
Also, check out the new section on the info page about where to get cheap stuff to make the CDs.
18th October
Even more new bands! Some fucking punk rock from Derby with Shotgun Johnny and Catchy Melodic Pop Punk goodness from Brum with Fairview.
Sadly, The Gary Colemans have called it a day after just over a year of playing together.
12th October
New band added! Check out quality old school punkers The Vaxines.
Despondent are playing in Liverpool on 30th October with Sonic Boom Six and are taking a coach up, email Nik if you want to go! Everyone is welcome!
9th September 2005
New cover and tracklisting. See info page.
6th September 2005
Pop-punkers Doof have been added to Punkscene! You can see them live along with Punkscene's No Industries, Despondent and Random Outcome at the Attik on 17th September!
30th August 2005
Sorry bout the lack of updates, I've been proper busy recently. Anyway - Accidental President have been added to the line up with their hard-hitting blend of ska and punk rock and No Industries with their awesome Epitaph style skate punk. Hoofbite are another great adddition with their crazy fast pop-punk madness.
We are also sorry to announce that End It All have split and Special Guests are soon to be going their separate ways, but not without a GOODBYE GIG - make sure you attend their last ever gig with Switch NX, To What End, The Airport Scene and Adeline @ The Charlotte on 7th September.
In happier news, 4 Step Process are undergoing an exciting line-up change which should see them making some cracking music some time in the future.
There is a gig on the 17th September promoted exclusively by Punkscene. It's at the Attik, Leicester with Despondent, Random Outcome, No Industries, Doof and My Jaded Hero.
25th July 2005
Download the new cover
from the
info page!
Any punkscene bands who want to download the
album for distribution,
email
us and we'll give you the link to download
from.
13th July 2005
Oh gosh I've been busy - another 2 bands on the site. First up the bubblegum-tastic The Atoms and secondly Leicester finest pop-punk band Special Guests . Watch out for their tracks on forthcoming punkscene compilations!
13th July 2005
New bands added! Derby skatepunkers Looking for 13 , Allestree's own rocking punk band Shiny New Bicycles and the horror-punks from Peterborough The Ruined . All these new bands are such amazing quality, you absolutely have to see them live! Make sure you pick up the new Punkscene CD coming soon with new tracks from all the above bands. I'm in the process of updating the site, so although some of the pages aren't complete yet, they will be in the next few days.
6th July 2005
We are now working in close partnership with Fallout Entertainment, who book quality gigs all over the midlands. Pay their site a visit here
17th June 2005
New band! The pop-punktabulous Not Shibby from Crewe will feature the song "Mind Control" on future compilations.
The Switch NX track on the Punkscene compo will be "Heterophony" and the FourStepProcess track will be "The Sausage Roll Song.
Download the new cover from the info page!
30th May 2005
We are
pleased
to
announce
that 2
new bands
have been
added to
Punkscene .
First up
-
FourStepProcess
from
Burton-on-Trent
and
secondly -
Switch NX
from
Leicester.
Both
will have
tracks on
future Punkscene
compilations
, although
you'll have
to wait and
see which
tracks will
go on!
25th May
2005
Thanks
for he
great
response
we've
been
having
already
from you
punks
out
there,
it's
good to
hear new
bands
all the
time.
So keep
it
coming!
We have a myspace page! Actually, we have 2 myspace pages due to an administr ative cock-up! Visit them and become our friend here and here
We are pleased to announce that All or Nothing are added to Punkscene . Their excellent "Greetings from Hurricane Park" will be on future compilations.
The
cover has
been
re-done. It
now looks
way, way,
way
better. It
can be
downloade
d from
the
info
page.
new
news...
click
for big flyer