Here’s a real treat for collectors of UK punk, as Boss Tuneage reissues these two seminal albums by Instigators, coinciding with the band returning to the live stage for the first time in 30 years….
When you think of Taang! Records, you are automatically transported back to the heady days of the underground Boston music scene, with bands such as Negative FX, Gang Green and The Mighty Mighty Bosstones. But…
The UK punk landscape has been levelled several times in recent years by the likes of Grand Collapse, Pizzatramp et al. But the 2015 event saw a particularly gargantuan seismic shift, emanating from the Leeds…
If melodic, DC infused punk (NB: melodic NOT pop) is your thing then this will be right up your alley. Straight from the get go this is a head nodding, body moving slab of infectiously…
Trying to explain to someone, to anyone, who the Spermbirds are, what they do and why my heart beats faster and my neurons fire more efficiently whenever I hear them, is, as I’ve discovered during…
The first time Natterers damn near tore my head off was when my old band played a show with them nearly two years ago and they absolutely destroyed just about every other act on the…
Oh boy Civilised Society?, that’s a blast from the past and a name that I never thought I’d ever hear, let alone see adorning a record cover, again. Right around the same time that I…
I’ve said it before and for the benefit of those who came in late, I’ll say it again. There’s absolutely no way that Spoilers can deny the impact and influence that Snuff and Guns’n’Wankers had,…
Ever have one of those moments when a record snaps you straight back to a moment in time and a memory that’s so vivid and real that you swear you can almost smell the combination…
Sitting here in t-shirt and shorts listening to Parasite, I feel under-dressed. My amygdala* keeps insisting that I should be wearing a bullet belt, studded wristbands, skin tight leather pants, white basketball boots and a…
Has it really been thirty years since Face Up To It was originally released? Oh man, now I really do feel old. Back in the day, that’s the eighties for those of you who weren’t…
With their first release in 30 years Anti-System bring back the spirit of ’82 to such an extent you almost smell the Evostik as the needle hits the groove. The five tracks on offer are…
