Swan Prince are from somewhere in the general Birmingham area, and describe themselves thusly: “Brummy mates with a lame band name making skate punk songs”.
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7in and EP round-up: April 2020 (part 2)
Afewyearslater / Trophy Jump split EP () Right on. We have some stuff here from continental Europe: Afewyearslater are from Hungary and Trophy Jump (who
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Screaming at Traffic – I Don’t Like Sports (Little Rocket Records, 2019)
Bands that proper worship Samiam? I love owt like that, me. But only when they do that classic band a proper bit of justice, which
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Lagwagon – Railer (Fat Wreck Chords, 2019)
Where to start? I fucking love Lagwagon, me. Pretty unfashionable to like Lagwagon these days, right? Which is something the band themselves made a joke
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Joey Cape – Let Me Know When You Give Up (Fat Wreck Chords, 2019)
Joey Cape is doubtless best known as the front man of Lagwagon, and sometime member of Me First & The Gimme Gimmes. He’s also in
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Rebellion Punk Festival 2019 recommendation: Spoilers
Seemingly I’m either too uncool or too non-adventurous to go to the Rebellion Punk Festival. But from the comfortable position of sitting on my arse
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Spoilers – Recently Re-Released (Brassneck Records / Little Rocket Records / Boss Tuneage / SBAM, 2019)
Spoilers are a band that I totally slept on until last year, despite my mate Martin constantly (well, frequently) saying how great they are. More
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Millencolin – SOS (Epitaph, 2019)
A few months back I was pretty excited to hear the teaser track Millencolin released ahead of their new album, SOS. Which came as a
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7in & EP round-up: April 2019 (part 3)
Trophy Jump – Haphazard EP CD (Horn & Hoof / JeboTon / Punk & Disorderly Records) Regular readers may recall that Trophy Jump made these
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7in & EP round-up December 2018 (part 1): Christmas Special
Me First & The Gimme Gimmes – Santa Baby (Fat Wreck Chords, 2018) I really used to enjoy Me First rather a lot. Nowadays, not
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