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Live review: The Godfathers and WitchDoktors rock the 100 Club!

By Ruth Rae
It’s Friday the Thirteenth, and The Godfathers are hosting their annual St. Valentine’s Day Massacre gig at The 100 Club tonight.. as frontman Peter Coyne quipped “What could possibly go wrong?” From the huge crowd’s point of view, it all went very, very right! We already knew this was going to be a special night - tickets had completely sold out for this show at the Continue Reading
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Opening today: Punk Guitar Exhibition in the Gibson Garage, central London

By Ruth Rae
Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of Punk, Gibson Guitars have put together an exciting new exhibition at their London shop The Gibson Garage, which includes guitars and suits from Captain Sensible of The Damned, Leigh Heggarty of Ruts DC / The Price, Mick Jones of The Clash, Matt West of Neck Deep, CJ Wildheart of The Wildhearts and Laurent Bernard from Gallows. The Continue Reading
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Album review: Gehimratszecken bring us ‘Mein Bester Trick’

By Florian Reith
Punk band Gehimratszecken from Bielefeld return with third album 'Mein Bester Trick'. These 12 songs in 30 minutes are no coincidence, it’s a statement - 'Mein Bester Trick' wastes no time. The guitars are sharp and direct, the drums push relentlessly forward, and the bass drives each track with solid force. This is melodic German punk in the spirit of the 1990s – Continue Reading
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Album review: The Fake Friends – ‘Let’s Not Overthink This’

By Phil Withall
Canadian band The Fake Friends have just launched their first full-length album, ‘Let’s Not Overthink This’ via Stomp Records, and it’s a powerful statement! The record flows, there’s a balance and continuity to it, it embraces the listener, like a mix tape made for the whole world and that is something I really enjoyed. It’s an album that doesn’t need multiple revisits to Continue Reading
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Album review: ‘Needs Must While The Devil Rides’ – Roadkill Drive-Thru

By Ruth Rae
Roadkill Drive-Thru describe themselves "Like a car crash into a moose, a band you just can't pigeonhole. A musical fusion brought to you by roadkill-eating hillbilly banger racers from the dystopian future." Coming into being just before the Covid pandemic (timing is everything!), they decided to tear up the rule book and play anything and everything they wanted to play.. Continue Reading
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Better Than The Book celebrate Ten Years On at The Hope & Ruin, Brighton, 5th Feb 2026

By Hannah Calver
DIY ska punk/pop punk Better Than The Book is a music project created by Nick Standing back in 2012. He has since released 1 EP and 3 full-length albums. Nick organised this gig to celebrate 10 years since the release of his debut full-length album ‘Two Years On’, with special guests Look What Happened and LUVD. Seeing Nick and his band play their debut live show was an Continue Reading