Punk News
Celebrating its 30th anniversary this year, Rebellion Festival, the world’s largest annual Punk event, returned to its long-standing home, the Winter Gardens in Blackpool. Team Punktuation! were in the thick of the action on day 2, seeing bands including Rumkicks, The Outcasts, The Boys, Bite Me Bambi, The Kids, Bar Stool Preachers, The Whops, Split Dogs, Gypsy Pistoleros Continue Reading
Celebrating its 30th anniversary this year, Rebellion Festival, the world’s largest annual Punk event, returned to its long-standing home, the Winter Gardens in Blackpool. Team Punktuation! enjoyed the first day, seeing bands including Menace, Molly Vulpyne, Bar Stool Preachers, UK Subs, The Stranglers, TV Smith, Bad Cop Bad Cop, Buzzcocks, Hagar The Womb, Steve Ignorant Continue Reading
A tough act to follow, for sure, but Bad Cop Bad Cop still manage to (narrowly) snatch the gold. There must be something in our collective eye when lead singer/guitarist Stacey Dee dedicates ‘Victoria’ to those whom we’ve lost to suicide...Continue Reading
To say the past eighteen months have been flat-out for the Sleights is something of an understatement. Hailing from Colorado Springs, a place they affectionately describe as “8 hours from anywhere”, the band have quickly become used to nine-hour drives and long shifts out on the road.Continue Reading
After a six year break, Professor And The Madman return with a new album. The quartet are comprised of Sean Elliott and Alfie Agnew - both formerly with D.I. - plus Rat Scabies and Paul Gray - the rhythmic soul of The Damned.Continue Reading
It’s about time the world caught up with Norfolk’s own: Amongst Strangers. These East Anglian street punks dished up their banging five-track EP ‘Strength of a Few’, at the tail end of last year. It’s everything you’d want from a modern punk debut: punchy, high-velocity and anti-establishment.Continue Reading
Resistance is futile, folks, because tonight’s headliners Deaf Devils are coming for you, whether you like it or not. We’ve already witnessed the Spanish quartet dazzle at venues all over central London, and now it’s the turn of the sleepy suburb of Harrow-on-the-Hill to be Deafened.Continue Reading
From an intimate club in Düsseldorf to the Rebellion Festival stage in Blackpool, the Californian Fun Punk pioneers The Dickies continue to prove why they've lost none of their energy after almost five decades!Continue Reading
If you’re based around London and are into hardcore and screamo, then you really ought to be following Real Life Presents, who put on shows of both genres (and more besides) mostly at the New Cross Inn. We caught up with main man Theo shortly before the recent Psychomosher show at the Inn….Continue Reading
From the UK’s sunny south coast, Making Friends are a Skate-punk band who formed back in 2020. Returning with a banger of a second album, ‘Home Is Where The Heart Was’ is reviewer Hannah's new favourite of the year with its insane and powerful guitar riffs, killer basslines, impressively fast hard-hitting drum beats, melodic and raw vocals, what more could you ask for?Continue Reading


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