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From Wednesday 18 March 2009

Forums Moved

The Punktastic forums have now moved to the following address – www.punktastic.com/forums. We’ll provide more information shortly.

Monday 16 March 2009

Site Updates

The site has had some improvement work take place today which has improved load times and should reduce downtime, particularly for the main page. Forum optimisation is next and will hopefully take place over the coming days, so they might remain a bit rocky until then. And, if you’re

Tuesday 10 February 2009

Ticketmaster and Live Nation merge?

So the story goes. Can’t see that being a good thing for an industry with dwindling venue and outlet choices.

Saturday 24 January 2009

Aiden guy is Suite

Angel Ibarra of Aiden is touring solo in March with The Honeymoon Suite. 5th – Camden Underworld 6th – Birmingham Barfly 7th – Manchester Club Academy

Friday 23 January 2009

A Nightmare tour

Nightmare of You are doing a decent-sized tour in April. Tickets available from this weekend. Click the comments for the full dates.

Monday 29 December 2009

Are you a techie? Want to help PT?

PT is going through some server and site upgrades. As part of that we need someone with basic to average Linux webserver knowledge to lend a hand for an hour or two. Hit the comments for full details.

Wednesday 03 December 2008

Join the club

Polar Bear Club will visit the UK twice in quick succession early next year as part of hitting 14 countries in 3 months. Read on for the full dates: FEB 02 – Portsmouth, UK @ Wedgewood Rooms w/ The Gaslight Anthem, Frank Turner FEB 03

Wednesday 26 November 2008

Set Your Goals – Leeds Cockpit

PT vs Slam Dunk; UK vs USA gig Cockpit, Leeds Set Your Goals, Four Year Strong, All Or Nothing, Me vs Hero Geography trivia, awkward login-based introductions and plenty of drinking. That’s what seems to characterise a gig that Punktastic is involved with

Sunday 23 November 2008

Chad Kroeger gets self-important

A couple of days late on this, but it’s genius. The frontman of one of the worst bands on the planet has said that kids need to “put Guitar Hero down and learn a real instrument”. Presumably so we too can become stupidly rich by releasing the same song

Monday 27 October 2008

Rise Against – Appeal To Reason

I haven’t listened with incredulity to an album for quite a while. Rise Against‘s fifth studio album completes a remarkable turnaround for a band who produced the seminal Revolutions Per Minute. Quite simply, I haven’t heard someone rape their own sound quite so much since Against Me!