Jimmy Islip & The Ghosts – The Wild West Riding
I feel a bit out of my depth with this one. When I first got hold of this 12inch I was expecting a relatively stripped down acoustic record...
Reviews
Dinosaur Pile Up – Nature, Nurture
Yorkshire’s Dinosaur Pile-Up seems to have ducked off the radar until late. In fact I’ll be honest, I completely forgot about this band. Thankfully it was the album’s...
The Menzingers / Tigers Jaw / Nai Harvest @ The Cockpit, Leeds – 06/08/13
Potentially due to it being a dry period for touring bands passing through Leeds, this show had been sold out for a while and felt like quite a...
REVIEW: Legend in Japan – Welcome To The Pity Party
Legend in Japan are here to “inject a bit of old-school belief and energy back into the stagnant swamp that is the UK music scene today” – or...
REVIEW: Yellowcard – Ocean Avenue Acoustic
2003 was a good year for pop punk. Nowadays the genre seems to have changed but back in the early 2000’s, pop punk was in its hey-day. Blink...
REVIEW: Letlive. – The Blackest Beautiful
Chances are, you have heard of letlive. (and I double checked it’s definitely written ‘letlive.’). Originally hailing from Los Angeles, they first came into the UK spotlight around...
REVIEW: The Departed – Steal The Crown
Hailing from the modest town of Grimsby, in the burrows of North East England, comes a group whose name should be on the lips of many already, especially...
REVIEW: Some Sort of Threat – Not The End Of The World
As far as either of us can remember I played Some Sort of Threat’s first show. It was the second time Bangers played in Exeter and it was...
REVIEW: Skate Punk for South Bank
Written by Andrew Dawson For over forty years the undercroft of London’s famous Southbank Centre has been a hub of creativity, arts and most importantly skateboarding. In 2013...
REVIEW: Transplants – In A Warzone
American punk band the Transplants have released their highly anticipated third album, In A Warzone, this week on Epitaph Records. “When we started this band 13 years ago,...