Posts Tagged ‘oi’

Posted on July 15, 2010 - by Editor

EP Review: Jamie Clarke’s Perfect/ East Town Pirates/ The Will

Fucking Folkabillie Rock
Jamie Clarkes Perfect
Wolverine Records
Jamie Clarke gained some fame playing with The Pogues and performed on their “Pogue Mahone” album. Since 1997 he has been leading the ‘Perfect’ troupe with varying line-ups, and their aim is to deliver fun folk-a-billy with his grainy voice and the addition of a banjo adding some weight to…

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Posted on July 13, 2010 - by Editor

Record Review: Gimp Fist/ The Wild/ Locators

The Place Where I Belong
Gimp Fist
Sunny Bastards
Having seen the guys play last year at City Invasion in London they were good on the night but this album shows huge potential and is in fact a great in-betweener for streetpunk, Oi and The Clash sounding reggae rock. From album opener ‘The Place Where I Belong’ there…

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Posted on July 13, 2010 - by Editor

Crashed Out to release “Crash & Burn”

North East UK based punk band Crashed Out are due to release their latest record “Crash & Burn”. The band had the following to say:
Ok Latest Crashed Out news is : Our brand new 13 track album ‘Crash & Burn’ will finally be released very soon on ‘I Hate People Records’ (Germany) It is also…

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Posted on July 6, 2010 - by Editor

Record Reviews: Broken Nose/ Laura Stevenson And The Cans/ The Blackout Brigade

No Compromise
Broken Nose
Frontline Records
This Skacore band based in Bridgend South Wales offers an eclectic mix of punk, ska, dub and “urban” influences with a rap-core hip hop style on some songs. As a results it’s a difficult band and album to categorise which is fine but there are some distinct influences; vocally there are massive…

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Posted on July 2, 2010 - by Editor

Daggers Punk Promotions + Distorted Present:

Saturday 10 July
Left For Dead + Wasted Life + Eastfield + 2 Sick Monkeys + Jack Brews + Chaos:baby + Crimewave
Doors from 3pm – First Band at 4pm
Entry £7
Advance tickets
http://www.ticketweb.co.uk/user/?region=gb_london&query=detail&event=389886
Bridge House 2, Bidder Street, Canning Town, London E16 4ST

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Posted on June 29, 2010 - by Editor

Album Reviews: Authority Zero/ The Agitators/ Thin Ice

Stories Of Survival
Authority Zero
Viking Funeral Records
From the albums introduction, having dug through the archives to find an appropriate Winston Churchill speech about striving for victory and united strength, Authority Zero signal their intent on their fourth full lenght by delivering a powerful and melodic yet angsty album, still heavily bringing to the fore a distinctive…

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Posted on May 2, 2010 - by Editor

Review: The Best Seat In The House: A Cock Sparrer Story

The Best Seat In The House: A Cock Sparrer Story
Steve Bruce
Cherry Red Books
The front cover of the thick white book has an iconic punk rock image; in the middle of the cover photo in the backdrop of the bodiless stage setup sits the red and white Cock Sparrer logo. The red spanned red wings and…

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Posted on April 13, 2010 - by Editor

Album Reviews: The Slackers/ Flatliners/ Dirty Filthy Mugs

The Great Rocksteady Swindle
The Slackers
Hellcat Records

A 12th studio album and with the band members involved in so many projects it seems like some sort of Slackers affiliated material drops trough the letterbox every quarter, luckily most of its is classy upbeat and musically varied; something we look forward to. Despite some recent efforts being…

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Posted on April 5, 2010 - by Editor

Cock Sparrer + Agnostic Front + Street Dogs + Deadline + The Rabble

HMV Forum
London, UK
Friday 26th March 2010
All photos by LibraSnake
Well Its not often punk rock shows go on sale nearly a year before the show takes place, but the double date headlining shows for London legends Cock Sparrer playing their first shows in the capital for some 18 years were always going to generate an ample…

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Posted on March 21, 2010 - by Editor

Cock Sparrer London Shows This Week!

So arguably the big London shows happening this week are Cock Sparrer playing two dates; Friday 26th and Saturday 27th March (their first shows in 18 years in London) with a stellar bunch of support acts.
Distorted will be there to review the Friday show!
Press Release:
FRIDAY 26th March 2010
COCK SPARRER    10pm
AGNOSTIC FRONT    8.35pm
STREET DOGS    7.30pm
DEADLINE   …

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