Like doubling over around a punch to the gut that you well and truly deserve. Accepting the punishment with humility and gratitude. Being violently thrust
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Days and Days – Chris MacDonald (ECW Press, 2024)
‘Days and Days: A story about Sunderland’s Leatherface and the Ties That Bind’, to give this volume it’s full title, is the second book by
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Distants – LP (Salinas Records, 2024)
I’ve been vaguely fucking with the music of Distants online for a few months now, but didn’t really know how to get ahold of their
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Tearjerker – s/t (Little Rocket Records / Sell The Heart Records, 2023)
There’s something unique about post-industrial small towns in the North of England in their seeming ability to spawn legendary or at least heavily cult status
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Yesterday’s Ring – Always A Little Bit Sad (Little Rocket Records, 2022)
Yesterday’s Ring are from Montreal, Canada, and feature members of The Sainte Catherines and Medictation. Yesterday’s Ring allegedly formed on the porch of a punk
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Joe Tilston – Tightrope (self-released, 2021)
Joe Tilston is a man of many fingers… or is it many pies… or fingers in many pies or something. If he lived in Wigan
Read moreBilly No Mates – S.F. Sourdough (Unless You Try Records / 10 Past 12 Records, 2020)
I saw Billy No Mates years ago on a tour with Frankie Stubbs of Leatherface. In the changeover, The Piss Mops performed which was a
Read moreFrankie Stubbs of Leatherface interview (part 2)
Those of you that have been following this obviously mediocre webzine for some time may well remember part one of the Frankie Stubbs interview from
Read more7in and EP round-up: June 2020 (part 1)
Frankie Stubbs – Blood Orange Moon (Little Rocket Records / Rad Girlfriend Records) The owner of one of the most distinctive voices in punk rock,
Read moreJoey 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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