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From Sunday 02 October 2005

Trophy Scars

PAUL: Please introduce yourselves! JERRY: I’m Jerrrrrrrrry Jones. I sing and write lyrics. JOHN: I’m john, I play guitar. BRIAN: I’m Brian Ferrara and I play the drums. AJ: My name is AJ Scars, I was adopted into the Scars family 2 years ago and forced to play guitar or be injected

This Aint Vegas – The Night Don Benito Saved My Life

Have I written this review before? Have I listened to this album a dozen times already? Or is it so devoid of personality that it sounds, nay feels, like every other substandard, NME-courting, haircut sporting ‘post-hardcore’ release in the last four years? Something tells me that the latter of

From Thursday 18 August 2005

Ambry – Holding On By The Blindfolds We Hide Behind

I know people don’t like me comparing band’s to other groups, but Ambry really do sound like the bastard child of Taking back Sunday and Hidden In Plain View. It’s pretty uncanny at times – the vocals especially sound like those from

From Wednesday 01 June 2005

Special Guests – Promo

Before I start this review, I feel I must establish a disclaimer of sorts. This is not an attack on the ethics of Special Guests, nor am I lambasting them for not being “punk enough”. They’re just shit. And here they come, the wolves in sheep’s clothing. Leicester’s

The Eldora Parade – Demo

I like to think I keep my ear pretty close to the ground, so I’d heard all about The Eldora Parade before the recent Punktastic Tour hit Bournemouth. Infact, if you rewind the story further back, I was even aware of some of these

From Thursday 14 April 2005

Alkaline Trio – Crimson

Alkaline Trio are one of those bands that I will forever be disappointed by when they release a new album. It’s not because I know those albums will be bad, it’s because they will never, ever manage to recreate records like ‘Maybe I’ll Catch Fire’ or ‘Godamnit’,

From Sunday 20 March 2005

Tripdash – This Spells Disaster

Great! Yet another monotonous pop punk band with absolutely nothing whatsoever interesting about them and whose only discernible talent is being able to string clichés together at an alarming rate. This EP feels like it’s been put together with the express intention of trying to cover as many commercial

From Monday 07 March 2005

Phinius Gage – The Feeling Something’s Wrong

We have a pretty close affinity with Phinius Gage here at Punktastic. They were the first unsigned band that we ever reviewed (way, way back in the day), they headlined the second PT bash and have generally been as supportive of us as any

From Sunday 16 January 2005

Vanilla Sky – Waiting For Something

Vanilla Sky play some of the sweetest, melodic pop-punk known to man. And believe it or not, they’re not American! Forming in Rome (that’s Italy for the geographically challenged) in 2002, Vanilla Sky has forged a reputation on the European mainland for being

From Saturday 15 January 2005

Pama International – Float Like A Butterfly

Frustrating – the one word review of these 8 tracks. The latest release from Pama International is one of the most annoyingly trite albums I have heard in a long time, combining lazy lyrics with a painful grasp of poppy-trad ska to create a truly forgettable collection.