Category: UK Punk

• LIVE REVIEW: Live at Leeds in the Park 2023 – Temple Newsam, Leeds 27/05

  May 30

  40 artists. 5 stages. All for one day of music: the start of festival season is now. We see this years’ festival season kicking things off in the right way… more ›

• slowthai: UGLY album review – frenetic third from the vexed British artist

  Mar 6

  “People have told me I wasn’t good enough to do this.” [*Note: for the benefit of art, we have decided not to mention the alleged rape allegations that Slowthai is… more ›

• shame: Food For Worms album review – at their most chaotic…

  Feb 24

  Welcome to the underground. After the vitriol-loaded Songs of Praise in the back-end of 2018 and gleaming psychosocial of Drunk Tank Pink in the Summer of 2021, you wouldn’t think… more ›

• The Return of Buzzcocks: 70s Punk to 2022… “Sonics in the Soul”

  Sep 28

  This legendary Manchester punk band needs little introduction.  77’s Spiral Scratch. 78’s Love Bites. 78’s Another Music in a Different Kitchen. Three landmark albums. Matched with their melodic punk-pop proving… more ›

• Kid Kapichi: “Here’s What You Could Have Won” album review – an explosive behemoth of raw punk

  Sep 24

  Earlier this year, four twenty-somethings from Hastings were rewarded for their graft with a record label signing. Welcome to the new world, The new normal, Look at us queuing up,… more ›