I’m not too familiar with Portuguese music. I’ve played live in that there Portugal a few times, though. To my shame, I’ve never really paid
Read moreKicked In The Teeth – Salt Rocket to Nowhere (Rare Vitamin Records, 2022)
Northwich. Once an unassuming town in the wilds of Cheshire is now seemingly becoming something of a pit-stop on the UK punk rock circuit. This
Read moreGarry Bushell presents: Oi! 40 Years Untamed (Pirates Press Records, 2020)
Garry Bushell, for those who are unaware is the guy that christened ‘Oi!’, he was a music journalist at Sounds and went on to be
Read moreKicked in the Teeth – s/t (Rare Vitamin Records, 2019)
Seemingly I’m off to a reasonably good (albeit late) start to 2020 with this “getting stuff published” malarkey. So here is something else I was
Read more7in & EP round-up – July 2019 (part 1)
Fuck man. This is so weird. None of this stuff is bad. I’m proper weirded out. There’s usually at least one duffer in the set.
Read moreDemo round-up, June 2019
Kicked in the Teeth – Patient State / One Way Street (self-released, 2019) A semi-super group of sorts, this. Not that they are semi-super or
Read more7in & EP round-up December 2018 (part 2): Von Krampus special
Question The Mark – Nightmare on Misery Street 7in (Little Rocket Records, 2018) Wowsers. Are these guys Wales’ best kept secret or what? Graeme was
Read morev/a – They Came From Boston vol. 1 (State Line Records, 2017)
What we got here is what amounts to a 4-way split LP between some perhaps not so well known bands from the current Boston punk
Read moreWoah-woah! The gang’s all here! Introducing the writers (part 7)
I’ve known Mozza for a good number of years now (probably since around 1998/99? He’ll have to confirm that for sure, though), knocking on for
Read moreDropkick Murphys – 11 Short Stories of Pain & Glory (Born and Bred, 2017)
For a lot of people on this side of the pond, I can see the Dropkick Murphys being something of a secret guilty pleasure. Myself,
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