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What a brilliant Saturday night that was! Mannie Zerafa sure knows how to put on a fun punk gig! He organises so many of these Shake Some Acton gigs, and each one gets better and better! Red Anger, Rage DC, Hukies and Continental Lovers were fun, and put everyone in the best mood!Continue Reading

We caught Brighton skate-core crew RAD about a year ago, opening a local show for KNOFX (a NOFX tribute band), and were blown away by their take-no-prisoners approach. There were only a handful of people presence, but the band gave it their all, and played a set so tight that you’d swear they’d been honing their craft for years.Continue Reading

Ahhh, sweet simplicity. The multi-national Los Pepes generally rely on two main ingredients: irresistible melodies and raw, fuzzed-up punk rock guitars. Sometimes they go harder on one, sometimes the other, but the results are always great.Continue Reading

From Salt Lake City, Utah, Bridge The Gap arrived on the punk scene back in 2023, so you'd think they’re quite a newish band. In fact, they were friends back in the 90s and played and released music together until the early 2000s. Starting 2025 with their sophomore album 'Gainsayer', reorganising as a new band, they are better than ever! Full of catchy songs, with lots of Continue Reading

Saturday, 19 April saw the postponed 2024 Breaking Barriers festival in Leuven, Belgium. Two English punk icons ever since the 1970s, Steve Ignorant and UK Subs, plus Cryssis from Germany, Deaf Devils from Spain, and Belgian bands Toxic Shock and BrainDead played a great festival, to be remembered for a long time!Continue Reading

The 90s Epitaph/Fat Wreck skate punk sound has made quite the comeback, and you can add Californian quintet Another Damn Disappointment to the list of veteran bands breathing new life into the genre.Continue Reading

It’s strange to think that Comeback Kid started out as a mere side project, only to become its members’ main concern after their second record won them both critical acclaim and legions of new fans. That record, 2005’s ‘Wake The Dead’, was like a knife of hardcore authenticity cutting through so much MySpace-era posturing, and tonight, they’ve returned to London to play it Continue Reading

Finally, the Easter weekend has arrived! it’s taken its own sweet time this year, and it probably won’t surprise you that here, at Punktuation Towers, we’re desperately in need of a quality punk/rock n’ roll gig to help us unwind. Pretty handy, then, that Shake Some Acton have got us covered - cheers, Mannie!Continue Reading

We've reviewed Fantazmaz's incendiary live shows at least twice in these pages, so we were delighted to discover that the Brazilian (but UK-based) quartet will unleash their debut album on July 4th.Continue Reading

From Northampton, UK, Liliths Army are a trio band best known for touring, including in the US. Their music is a mix of lo-fi punk, grunge, and metal, with it also being reminded of bands like Nirvana, L7, and Lush. This their third album 'Doll' was released on 28th March. What an incredible album to listen to! So heavy and raw, very authentic, lots of emotion and Continue Reading