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Razorcake Video doc!

So if your deep into your punkrock youl know there is this really ace zine called razorcake which is a bitch to get hold of in the UK but across the pond widely available heres a little ode to them so to speak..

Happy new year! New Shows!

Hello everyone! sorry to the 2 people who check this blog regularly for the lack of updates.. heres some deeets on upcoming shows.. also have your voice heard and join the awesome WWR group on facebook here:

Wrongwayround Promotions Presents...
Wednesday 10th March 2010
Joiners Southampton
Tickets £8 in advance £10 OTD
JOEY CAPE ( LAGWAGON ) / TONY SLY (NO USE FOR A NAME) / JON SNODGRASS ( DRAG THE RIVER) & DUNCAN REDMONDS (SNUFF) + MORE!

TICKETS AVAILABLE HERE: http://www.joinerslive.co.uk/product.php?xProd=374&xSec=1
OR IN HAND..
RESKUE Skate shop in southampton city centre
Southampton Guildhall box office

Joey Cape Of Lagwagon
http://www.myspace.com/joeycape
The man himself the legend of punk rock, one below fat mike. The lead vocalist from legends LAGWAGON is coming to town with hair spiked and Gatorade & vodka in tow, expect all the hits as well as solo album material and maybe even some Bad Astronaut for good measure.

After being on tours with the greatest in punk rock history ( NOFX, BAD RELIGION, AFI, PENNYWISE and then some..) and playing in acts such as ME FIRST AND THE GIMMIE GIMMIES, LAGWAGON, AFTERBURNER & BAD ASTRONAUT this is a night not to be missed!
And now After many years of fronting influential punk band LagwagonJoey Capereleased his first full length solo acoustic albumBridgein October 2008. Drawing inspiration from the candle lit emotion of Kill Rock Stars era Elliott Smith and an upbringing steeped in acoustic acts such as Simon & Garfunkel and Cat Stevens; Cape’s acoustic efforts stand up on their own and finally introduce him as a promising addition to the pantheon of great American singer-songwriters.

Tony Sly Of No Use For A Name
http://www.myspace.com/tonyslymusic
If that wasn't enough another of FATWRECKCHORDS greatest exports will be in town! Mr Sly lead vocalist and songwriter from pop punk rock heroes NO USE FOR A NAME, after the historical Split CD with joey cape himself back in 2004 it makes perfect sense for a healthy addition to this night we may even see some duo's?
He is currently tucked away writing his 1st solo full length record so expect great songs from the split CD plus more surprises!

Jon SnodGrass Of Drag The River
http://www.myspace.com/jonsnodgrass
This man needs no introduction always a huge part of the infamous Revival tour in the USA featuring CHUCK RAGAN, MIKE HALE, AUSTIN LUCAS, BEN NICHOLS and more.
He brings he blend of country punk rock to Southampton via Suburban Home records.
Since the premature dissolution of Drag the River in late 2007, Jon Snodgrass has continued to do what he has always done: write and record great music. His full length 10 track (plus the entire album over again as 1 track with alternate versions of nearly every song) album is some of Jon’s greatest work. You might think you know what this album sounds like, but I think it might surprise you a bit. The album incorporates the hard-edged rock you expect from Armchair Martian with the more rootsy sounds you might expect to hear with Drag the River and the resulting album is an album I have no problem calling a masterpiece.

WWR Presents : A St Valentines Massacre!

Featuring Live music from the Amazing...

THE PLIGHT - http://www.myspace.com/theplight
The boys from Leeds bring their heavy screaming punkrock to the south, after opening on this years Reading/Leeds Lock up stage big things are planned for 2010 with new album 'Winds Of Osiris' out now with some exceptional heavy anthems on!
FFO : Cancer Bats, Ghost of a thousand

THE COMPUTERS - http://www.myspace.com/thecomputersfromexeter
'Devon knows how they make it so creamy?' West county lads the computers are easily one of the hardest working UK bands with non stop touring all last year up and down the country and taking Europe by storm! Having shared a stage with the top punk rock acts in the world these are not be missed!
FFO: The bronx, Lower than atlantis, Brides

THE ARTERIES - http://www.myspace.com/thearteries
These welsh punk rockers made heavy waves in 2009 with several vinyl releases and full lenth 'blood, sweat & beers' with some amazing catchy sing a long punk rock songs, with apperances at the legendary FEST in Florida and US tours under their belt be prepared to have your face melted!
FFO: A wilhelm scream, FatWreckChords bands & No Idea alike!

Entry only £4!
Cheap drink deals all night!
Host:
WrongWayRound Promotions
Type:
Music/arts - Concert
Network:
Global
Start Time:
Thursday, 11 February 2010 at 22:00
End Time:
Friday, 12 February 2010 at 03:00
Location:
UNIT , Southampton
Street:
St marys road
Town/City:
Southampton, United Kingdom

A LOSS FOR WORDS http://www.myspace.com/alossforwords) - Eight Years after forming in a basement in Boston, Massachusetts, A Loss For Words have enjoyed touring success stateside with Set Your Goals, New Found Glory, Four Year Strong and Energy among many others, along with various stints on the prestigious Vans Warped Tour.
AL4W have also released the album ‘The Kids Can’t Lose’ to critical acclaim and some surprising commercial success in both the United States and Japan. AL4W are now bringing their sound over to the UK for the first time, with a 15 date club tour in March 2010

ALL OR NOTHING http://www.myspace.com/allornothing) - After the departure of founding member Joe Warner at the end of 2008, All or Nothing have gone from strength to strength with former drummer Rich Murphy taking up the mantle of lead guitar and vocals and former Mike TV drummer Nick Reynolds becoming the band's fourth sticksman. 2009 saw UK tours with The Wonder Years, Chaos Days, Out of Sight, Broadway Calls and Not Advised, as well as a ten date headline tour of Russia and the release of 2 new split EP's (w/Chaos Days and The Wonder Years) which were both praised by critics and fans alike and put into rotation on Kerrang Radio. 2010 will see the band record their long awaited debut studio album and continue to tour constantly.

LYU http://www.myspace.com/lyurock - LYU are on 19/20 years old but have already toured the UK countless times, appeared in magazines such as Kerrang!, Rock Sound, and Metal Hammer, and received radio airplay on stations such as Kerrang Radio, and Radio 1.
And to end 2009 nicely, LYU’s song ‘Here in Line’ was a top independent seller on itunes UK in the third quarter of 2009, gaining them a spot on the itunes UK homepage for a day. LYU will be pushing forward in 2010, and will be a great addition to this tour.

Go Vegas http://www.myspace.com/govegas
These local southampton boys bring their own form of southcoast pop punk to the table with fast riffs and heartbreaking vocals, go to their page right now to download the new 5 track EP for free!!

;D

Host:
WrongWayRound Promotions
Type:
Music/arts - Performance
Network:
Global
Start Time:
Thursday, 04 March 2010 at 20:00
End Time:
Friday, 05 March 2010 at 03:00
Location:
UNIT Club , Southampton
Street:
St marys road
Town/City:
Southampton, United Kingdom

Now! thats what i call new videos 53..

OUR TIME DOWN HERE - SOUTHAMPTON RECORD RELEASE SHOW AT THE JOINERS


THE BRIGGS AT JOINERS

American Steel Exclusive Interview Part 2

WWR: In terms of record labels, do you think they are necessary any more?

Rory: I don't think they are necessary but it all depends on what your trying to do, we've discussed not dealing with labels any more, but we haven't had that time where we want to deal with all the stuff, for us its sort of laziness or convenience you know

John: its sort of just a nice home base for us now, record sales are going down every year, your on a label to make records and to make them available your not always on there to sell records any more some people still do, but it can serve as a nice home base where if someone wants to interview your band they can contact your label, and the label can then contact you its just a nice hub of communications, otherwise we'd have to take many many hours out of our personal lives but some bands do it, like the do-nots from Germany run their own label and do everything themselves, and the band is kind of all they do but we have always valued our sort of other stuff going on.

WWR: sure, also 'normal' people think that a band on fat wreck chords could stand to make a lot of money but don't realise you need to have normal jobs also..

John: Yes, but the only people who understand that are people in other bands or people who do shows, you know we don't just go home and go on vacation in Mexico, we go home and go back to work

Rory: Even the bands who do make a living doing it, the perception is so inflated because the bands who do make a living from it make such a modest living they might as well be school teachers

John: unless your like green day
Rory: yea unless you have a top 40 song your lucky to make a living off of it, so yea we have always worked.

WWR: Some of your lyrics seem very personal, is this the way you feel you can send your message out to other bands and so forth by listening to the records as opposed to bitching on the internet on some forum or blog?

Rory: definitely
John: sure I can see what your getting at, we are one of the more private bands that I can think of. A lot of bands are every other day blog update or video update and all over the internet and reveal every detail of their personal lives and we have a layer of...it sounds hard to say but I think we let our music speak for ourselves and let the music be what we are saying. We reluctantly do the self promotion thing, a lot of bands love it they cant wait to update their Myspace page and that's fine that's great and maybe it would be to our benefit to do that more but none us really enjoy that. We don't set out to be private but we just are a lot more private people than people generally are.

WWR: Are there any songs from the last two albums which have a favourite subject?

Rory: not a favourite subject necessarily but for me its sort of it comes out whether its political or personal I don't really sit and think I am going to write a song about this or this album should be like this I just let it come out, for me my favourite songs on our record are the ones we are playing at the moment because its fun to perform those songs, once they're written they get passed to the venting process before I bring them in to show the band, you know I feel on the newest record that the lyrics are simplistic and sometimes a little too tongue in cheek but im not afraid of being almost silly since I feel we have such a large catalogue that its neither here or there so its never representative of our work in one way we can get away with a little low brow.

WWR: anything in terms of future releases?

Rory: I think FAT are releasing some demo's aren't they?
John: who?
Rory: FAT

John : ow cool, laughs* ha I usually find out what we are doing from the internet, nothing major we haven't done much U.S touring on this record. There might be a few digital releases of old 7 inches that weren't available and maybe an under the influence split with the gaslight anthem where we both cover songs we like.

Huge thanks to American Steel, Ed the Duck & Wiebke at FAT for the interview
American Steel – 'Dear friends and gentle hearts' is Available now on fatwreckchords

Hostage life - Free Album! but yet just broke up.. :(

So the Canadian punk rockers Hostage Life have called it a day but they left a nice free album for download behind you can get that here
and read about why its free below...


CENTRE OF THE UNIVERSE
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You can download our new album, Centre of the Universe, for FREE on September 30th at 12am. You can get it right here on our MySpace page.* Why are we giving the album away for free? Several reasons:
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1. I steal music. You steal music. We all steal music. That’s how things work these days. Providing you with a free digital download prevents this from happening.
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2. Pressing CDs hasn’t really helped us financially. We sold quite a few CD copies of Walking Papers but are still in debt to our old record label. The current structure of the music industry is not artist friendly, and we have all but abandoned the notion that we could subsist as a band on album sales alone. Some artists and groups are able to do it, but Hostage Life is not one of them. As a result, it makes more sense to just give the shit away and hope that people will like it enough to come see us live and help us out that way.
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3. Let’s not bullshit ourselves…any CD we press is eventually going to end up in a landfill where it will take decades, if not centuries to biodegrade (if it ever does). The last thing this planet needs is more disposable Hostage Life merchandise that nobody wants.
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Considering the above statements, however, it does seem kind of fucked that we will also be offering Centre of the Universe as a 12 inch record. The vinyl version will NOT be available on September 30th, but on that day you will be able to pre-order it from juiceboxdotcom.com. It can be purchased in November. To sweeten the deal, the vinyl version of the album will contain a bonus 7inch which will include 2 previously unreleased tracks – a song called Armageddon Jane, and our cover of Tappa Zukie’s M.P.L.A.
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Our first scheduled show after the digital release will be in Gainesville, Florida as part of The Fest 8 (Oct.30th – Nov.1st). Stay tuned for our set date, time and venue. Very exciting.
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I’ll be launching a blog when the album is made available which will contain essays pertaining to each song. Those of you that have a distaste for pseudo-intellectual wanking may wish to avoid it. But while we’re on the topic of pretentious lyricists, I’ll explain the concept behind the album. A couple years ago I was reading the 16th issue of Chris Ware’s brilliant comic, The Acme Novelty Library. In it, the semi-autobiographical character of Mr. Ware explains to the story’s protagonist W.K. Brown (loosely based on the sci-fi writer of the same name) that his depression and sense of disconnection is a result of the westerner’s predilection towards viewing himself as the protagonist. In short, we feel so dissatisfied with our lives because we feel that we are the entire reason that everything around is occurring. If life is one big story, we’re supposed to be the heroes. It’s a pretty arrogant worldview, but one that is indicative of our species as a whole. From Ptolemy’s 2000 year-old geocentric model of the universe** to the three most popular and successful religions of our day, we tend to see ourselves as the centre of everything. We think that we are made in the image of gods, and are thus part of some kind of divine lineage; somehow more than just hominids that learned to spell, drive, and write shitty poetry; somehow separate and superior to the rest of the natural world. We believe, or rather, a great deal of us believe that we are immortal and will be whisked off to paradise when our last synapse fires and our bowels empty into our pants. It is the oldest con we know. We have bought into it for as long as we have been asking questions about ourselves and our world and accepting easy answers. But enough about that. I have rambled for too long.
Sept. 30th.
Have our album.
It is our pleasure.
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xo
Colin

The Lawrence Arms - Buttsweat and Tears (Fat Wreck 2009) - Released October 26th

It’s been three years since The Lawrence Arms last fave us some fresh material and after 10 years as a band rumours/fears began to emerge that “Oh! Calcutta!” may well be the bands last release. Thankfully we we’re wrong. Recorded in three says, limited to vinyl and digital download the EP boasts artwork and title that the band original planned for an their debut 7”.
Buttsweat and Tears is probably the release of the year for me. As record it flows perfectly, every song as good as the last, a quality rarely seen in an EP. I had fears that this would sound very similar to The Falcon, and wouldn’t have that certain something that previously Lawrence Arms releases do. Again, I was wrong.

The EP kicks off with “Spin Shining Shit”, a song that more or less defines the band, gruff fast paced punk rock with a clean break down towards the end. Next up is “The Slowest Drink In The Saddest Bar On The Snowiest Day In The Greatest City”, a song sung solely by Chris which came as a nice surprise as the alternating songs formula was abandoned on their last CD for duel vocals throughout. As all of Chris’ songs this track walks you through a story and is probably the best song on the record.
Side two kicks off with “Them Angels Been Talkin’” which is a wonderful example of how both the singers voices work perfectly together awesomely wrote verses strung together with a fists-in-the-air chorus leaves me thinking that this record couldn’t get any better. The vinyl ends with my favourite track. “The Redness in The West” shows us a new style of song writing that the Lawrence Arms hadn’t really approached before. The song starts off as a folky number with a surprise bar of distortion, and ends as a beautiful slice of Punk Rock.

The digital release of Buttsweat and Tears offers a bonus track that plays in-between tracks 3 & 4. “Demons” sounds more or less how I expect the entire EP to sound, like The Falcon, same vocals and guitar style we’re used to but with added ska. Lyrically this EP is perfect, every word flows and every phrase seems crucial. They don’t use words because they rhyme. All in all a very impressive release from what I consider to be one of the most original and exciting punk rock bands around, but what the fuck do I know?

Review by Paul Edwards

American Steel - Exclusive Interview Part One

AMERICAN STEEL EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW – LONDON – Part 1
BY Ricky Bates

So we are here with ..

John: I play bass

Rory : I play guitar and sing

WWR: So you guys have never been to the UK as American steel only as communique why is that?

Rory: we reformed about 2 years ago and before that we never really had the opportunity and were always so busy touring the states, i don't know how much of it wasn't crossing our minds also how viable it was to us, we've been meaning to get here for a long time so when we got offered this tour with all American rejects we were like lets do it! Lets finally get over to England.

WWR: because you came to Germany round 6 months ago but only there?

John: yea it was with the German band the Donots

Rory: we thought about the logistics of definitely doing the UK then but when we broke it all down it worked out the same cost to do the UK from Germany as it would be to do it from the U.S , so lets just to it again later for proper.

WWR: so was the AAR thing planned or?

Rory: yea it came together pretty quickly about a month ago

John: they'd been planning their tour for a long time but hadn't figured who they wanted for support, they do extremely well here and most the shows are sold out before they even announce support since there under no pressure to choose support we only found out about 6 weeks ago that we could!

WWR: so have you been going down well on those shows?

John: yea we are fast and sing loud so kids were moving around a little

WWR: so based on the scene you come from is it not a controversial thing to say we going to tour with AAR?

Rory: yea well we've been on tour with major label bands before so you know,I don't think we've ever got any grief about it, we don't really give a shit about what other bands do, its not like were out killing kittens or something, however bands want to run their careers they can it comes down to personal opportunity's.

John: we wern't going to lose our chance just to come over here , sure some people are like I dont like that band so im not going to go see the support, I understand that I wouldnt usually go to a huge show just to see the support with a shorter set too, it might be harder for them to justify but at the same time we cant really come over here on our own for the first time.
Maybe now we can having done this tour, we couldn't just jump on a plane over here and hoped people showed up.

WWR: so dear friends and gentle hearts, how did this experience differ from all the other albums you've recorded, working with a producer etc?

Rory: no, well we do our own records, the last two at least, our guitar player Ryan kind of owns a recording studio back at home and he records us, so the last two records were pretty similar the way we went about it, its all pretty laid back we have time to be mellow and the songs are always pretty well worked out and things.

WWR: So you have a complete DIY set-up in terms of having complete control of everything that's going on the record, is that good thing to have?

Rory: yea that's the way we want to do it, we were joking with somebody how people misunderstand how bands work , some kid was giving us grief about not being DUI – DIY..

John: laughs

Rory: we are quite DUI my friend! No so we were like dude we record at own studio we do all the stuff ourselves and our guitarist even builds our own amplifiers! Could we do any more? Should we manufacture the CD's as well?

John: vinyl press?

WWR: so do you write before you go into record then?

Rory: yea 90 per cent

John: yea Rory really prolific not prolific in the sense ow I have some riffs but having 20 complete songs, maybe not every part of every song but complete with vocals which I think is really rare, when you see documentaries of bands in the studio there's always some guy sitting there uninspired and unable to write anything and then days stretch into weeks.. our songs are pretty much done when we go into the studio, some bands I think need a producer to get them to finish their songs, which is a completely foreign idea to us! We usually have to many songs and cut a few while were recording but with some bands all they can do is squeeze out 10 or 11 songs for a record.

Rory: Also the chemistry between us all, we've been together so long that when I come in we are just a real tight band as far as putting them together, when were in the rehearsal space before the record l show up with all the songs but its still matter of getting them all together and playing them correctly, we'll do two a day or one a hour we'll do it really fast nowadays.

WWR: Having all the time off from American steel do you feel you had time to reflect on the music scene? Then coming back from communique was it hard to adapt being back as AS?

Rory: no I don't think it was, if anything I think we might be more oblivious now more than ever of what other bands are doing.

WWR: It does feel like that actually when you listen to the music as if you shut out everything else and just become your own band

Rory: hopefully!

WWR: Tours! How have they since you've been back? Do you think having the time off helped build up your fan base?

Rory: I think it did, I don't know what the net result was as far as like numerical value, I think we lost some along the way too but there's definitely people since we've been back saying its so great that your back I got into you a year to two after you stopped playing so there's a lot of that!
Our first tour back we were on the road with the Lawrence arms we just kind of hopped on a bus together and did it it was kind of funny because we were both at the same stage of things where we are very selective about when we tour and very deliberate about how we put our records, were not really pressured to rush by anybody.

John: and then meant we could book our own club shows around the country, that helped both our bands and bands like us, we had nice weather and enough people to justify having a bus, having four bands on one bus so it made sense and was cheaper.

Rory: we were being environmental!

John: yea we were being totally green, hanging things out the windows, HA

WWR: What do you think about the punk rock scene at the moment in terms of who's doing what? Do you think there too much hype behind certain bands which might eventually kill them off?

Rory: I don't know, I think every band should just do what they feel comfortable doing, that doesn't stop me from having my opinion about what their doing I don't really begrudge anyone for changing gears, just do whatever you want to do, I don't think any one band owes it to anyone unless they somehow made a promise to them, which has happened a few times but even then I don't think you owe it to them, people change their minds

John: its not a written promise, ha ha

John: I think if your supporting huge tours that's a lot different then headlining that huge tour, that's when bands have to really put on the brakes sometimes, when they somehow become that band that can suddenly fill a stadium and then its like what do you do? Were obviously not that band but we know a few bands that have gone from playing bars to arenas, you start getting all these different offers.. again were talking from the outside since we aren't that band, we don't have enough of a single sound that people can latch on to and be 'that' band, but a lot of bands we are friends with can fill 1 to 5 thousand person venues, such as alkaline trio or the gaslight anthem and now hot water music.

One of the best live british bands ive ever seen! The Ghost Of A Thousand!

These lads having certainly been making some waves on the punk rock scene in the last year in the UK they have a new video for their new single ' Knees, Toes, Teeth' which is set for release november 2nd! so go grab yourself a copy! You can watch the exclusive video from the guys at Sitcom Soldiers here:
Knees, Toes, Teeth


Be sure to catch them on tour soon with an epic line up at the following places!
EASTPAK ANTIDOTE LIVE DATES (w/ Alexisonfire, Anti-Flag and Four Years Strong) –

7 Oct 2009 JUNCTION: Cambridge
8 Oct 2009 UEA: Norwich
9 Oct 2009 ACADEMY: Oxford
10 Oct 2009 ROCK CITY: Nottingham
11 Oct 2009 ANSON ROOMS: Bristol
13 Oct 2009 CONCORDE 2 Brighton
14 Oct 2009 HMV FORUM: London
16 Oct 2009 ABC:Glasgow
17 Oct 2009 UNIVERSITY: Leeds
18 Oct 2009 ACADEMY: Manchester
20 Oct 2009 ACADEMY: Birmingham
21 Oct 2009 PYRAMID CENTRE:P’mouth

New videos! WTFest & The Steal last ever show!

So all the good ones break up and the shit ones stay together so the story goes..
THE STEAL one of the most energetic postive punk rock acts in the modern music world have called it a day.. i was on hand at a very special last show with none other than Paint It Black, heres some footage go buy a Steal record..


Here's a few videos from WTFEST earlier this month in Southampton, enjoy!

WTFest is over until next year!

So our 1st WTFest was a huge success id like to thank every band and single person involved in the whole event it was so much fun!

Heres a few photos from the gigs theyl be video footage to follow!

WTFest! 2 WEEKS TIME! DEAD SWANS TICS ON SALE NOW!

So the mighty WTFest takes over southampton for 5 days starting wednesday september 2nd with The Flatliners, tickets are still available for all show at the joiners webpage
But! to get your hands on a very intimate show with bridge nines's DEAD SWANS , tickets have just been made available limited to 50 tickets in advance and you can grab those right here..

As for the fest itself very limited numbers of especially designed prints from our good friend Johnfold will be available at everyshow see above for the photo.

With a line up boasting some of the greatest punk rock acts the world over be sure not to miss out on anyone including , A WILHELM SCREAM, BROADWAY CALLS , POLAR BEAR CLUB, COBRA SKULLS + MORE..

For more info on the event check the facebook group right here and get involved!

Whats more you can download the free WTFEST comp parts one and two right here and here..
With a tracklisting featuring the majority of bands partaking in the WTFest!

See y'all soon!

NO IDEA RECORDS! More free music! yessss?

No Idea Records and Distro have released the second installment of their Pretend Record series. The absolutely free downloadable comp features some sneak peaks on future No Idea Records releases from the likes of Gatorface, Assholeparade, FIYA, Tubers, and Worn in Red as well as some of the new and upcoming releases from various labels that No Idea Records exclusively distributes.

No Idea Overlord Var had this to say about Pretend Record #2:

“Welcome away from Volume Two of our SUMMERTIME WATERMELON festival of DOWNLOAD MANIA!! Limited edition and first-come, first served (shoes and shirt optional)... Nothing to trade, nothing to sell, in fact it's all a big PRETEND RECORD!! You can't watch it spin, you can't hand number it, you can't auction it. "Well, heck, what CAN you do with it?" You may LISTEN to it. With your ear bones!”

CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD!

V/A - Pretend Record #2 Track Listing:

GATORFACE "The Cleaner" (From "Wasted Monuments" on NO IDEA)
ASSHOLEPARADE "Big Death" (From "Welcome Fucking Home" on NO IDEA)
THE DOPAMINES "October 24th" (From THE COPYRIGHTS split on IT'S ALIVE)
WORN IN RED "Piled Like Bricks" (From "In the Offing" on NO IDEA)
FIYA "King" (From "Magic Words" on NO IDEA)
THE BANANAS "Radio Action" (From "New Animals" on RECESS)
PSYCHED TO DIE "Conditioned to Fail" (From "Year One" on DIRTNAP)
DEAR LANDLORD "Heartbroken Handshakes" (From "Dream Homes" first-press LP on NO IDEA)
TUBERS "Pale Sunbather" (From "Anachronous" on NO IDEA / BAKERY OUTLET / ECHO CANYON)
HELLO SHITTY PEOPLE "The Doppelganger of Chris Elliott" (From "Hello Shitty People" on 1-2-3-4 GO!)
SHANG-A-LANG "Best Intentions" (From "Sad Magic" on FAST CROWD)
WHISKEY TRENCH "Break Me Down" (From "Television" on KISS OF DEATH)
CITY OF SHIPS "March of the Slaves" (From "Look What God Did to Us" on SOUND STUDY)
STREET EATERS "Useless Eyes" (From "We See Monsters" on BAKERY OUTLET)
P.S. ELIOT "Augustus" (From "Introverted Romance in Our Troubled Minds" on SALINAS)

Crucial Links:
http://www.noidearecords.com
http://www.noidearecords.com/bands/releases/va-pretendrecord2/

FEST 8! The ball is on the roll..

The folks at No Idea Records and Southern Lovin’ PR have announced the confirmation of Snuff for an exclusive U.S. performance during THE FEST 8, October 30th-November 1st in Gainesville, Florida. Singer/Drummer Duncan Redmonds will also be performing acoustic at some point that weekend.

The current line-up of the band is that of the 1997 'Tweet Tweet My Lovely' era - Duncan Redmonds on drums/vocals, Loz Wong on guitar, Lee Erinmez on bass, Dave Redmonds on trombone and Lee 'The Mod' Murphy on hammond.

THE FEST 8 have also confirmed a few more bands alongside Snuff. Solo performaces from Jon Snodgrass and Chad Price of Drag the River, Ben Lovett (Chris Wollard and the Ship Thieves/ Heavens, Laura Stevenson and the Cans, Lauris Vidal, Damion Suomi, Ready the Jet, and Ghost Knife. The latter features Ben Snakepit and Chris Pfeffer from J Church with Mike Wiebe of The Riverboar Gamblers/High Tension Wires.

THE FEST 8 previously announced a diverse lineup of 200+ confirmed bands featuring the likes of 7 Seconds, Less Than Jake, Dillinger Four, Youth Brigade, Samiam, Dead to Me, Strike Anywhere, Fleshies, Torche, Radon, Kylesa, Tim Barry, Bomb the Music Industry, A Wilhelm Scream, Drag the River, Lemuria, Off With Their Heads, This Bike is a Pipe Bomb, The Methadones, Iron Lung, Coalesce, Chris Wollard and the Ship Thieves, Bridge & Tunnel, and special reunions from Gunmoll, King Friday, The Thumbs, The Ghost, Clairmel, and Hair Beard Combo.

THE FEST 8 promises more confirmations in the weeks to come as they finish up going through band applications.
THE FEST 8 have also posted the promotional poster for THE FEST 8 designed by Horsebites/The Black Axe.
FEST 8 weekend passes are $60 in advance and $80 weekend of. Passes get you into all the official showcases (9 stages) over the Halloween Weekend (October 30th, October 31st, and November 1st) in Gainesville, Fl.

You can purchase FEST 8 passes on the official FEST 8 website.

You can also steal a web banner to help spread the word of THE FEST 8 here.

Crucial links:
http://www.thefestfl.com
http://www.noidearecords.com
http://www.southernlovin.com
http://www.myspace.com/snuffbanduk
http://www.thefestfl.com/fest8banner/

Against me! - The Original Cowboy - Review

Against Me! – The Original Cowboy (Fat Wreck – 2009)
First things first, I did lose a lot of faith in this band when I heard New Wave, and even more when I found out they had parted ways with their beloved drummer, Warren Oakes. However I thought maybe, just maybe there was light at the end of the tunnel when I found out Fat Wreck would be releasing the demos from their second full length “The Eternal Cowboy”.

Upon first listening to the record, which is little over 20 minutes long, and features 2 songs that have already been released on a 7” single some years ago I began to feel a little ripped off. The thing that lets this “album” down the most is the fact the track order doesn’t work. The demo versions of the songs aren’t as different or alternative as you’d hope or expect from an officially released demo album. The songs that are different (Unsubstantiated Rumors… and Sink Florida Sink) are the 2 alternative takes that have already been released.

Unfortunately all in all, there’s little good to say about this release. It kind of seems a little pointless. So my faith in Against Me! Has not been restored. It’s not a bad album, it’s just an album I’ve already heard before, in better quality, with a better track order.

Review By Paul Edwards

WTFesssssst! Sept 2nd - 6th - Southampton!

So finally we have announced the WTFest! this a is kind of a mini festival celebrating punk rock and DIY culture within our little city of Southampton! We have some amazing acts lined up over the 5 days some paid and some free so there is no excuses for not showing up!

It'll be running at various locations around Southampton, with secret free shows in record stores and people's houses alongside a bunch of proper paid gigs at the Joiners Arms. If you want to know where the secret shows are going to be, start following on Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/wtfesst. You'll be given about four hours notice, so keep yer iPhone handy, or whatever it is you do with Twitter.

Other tickets for shows are available via the links below:
There's a dual ticket offer going on for Polar Bear Club and the A Wilhelm Scream shows, so you get both shows for just a tenner. You can buy them direct from http://www.joinerslive.co.uk


The line-ups thus far are as follows:

September 2nd – The Joiners
THE FLATLINERS
MIKE TV
OK PILOT
MASH ATTACK

September 3rd – House show
For details keep your eyes on the twitter page..

September 4 – The Joiners
POLAR BEAR CLUB
BROADWAY CALLS
BURN THE FLEET
CALVINBALL
PLUS MORE TBA

September 5 – House Show & Acoustic acts during the day at a location TBA
OUR TIME DOWN HERE
PLUS VERY SPECIAL AMAZING GUESTS TBA

September 6 – The Joiners
A WILHELM SCREAM
YOU ME AND THE ATOM BOMB
PLUS MORE TBA

Exclusive Bayside Interview**

So we recently caught up with dark punk rockers Bayside in London who were over doing a few shows with New Found Glory.. here is a few highlights from our chat with lead vocalist Anthony.

WWR : So you've never done your own headline tour, do you want to?

B: Yea! We want to for sure the UK's always been a place where its taken us a while to gain traction and gain fans and really feeling confident in going to do that, but I definitely feel its getting closer and closer that's for sure

WWR : Why do you think that is?

B: I really don't know, its probably something political and something to do with being from the states and having a label from the states, you we are in a lot more press , magazines and TV and stuff and we are a lot bigger over there, for some reason in Australia we do really well for some reason we just clicked over there, I just don't know what it is over here..
You know when we got big in the states it took a while to get where we are now, it wasn't like a single launched us or anything it feels more real and passionate from the fans. So we are just building up something that's going to be genuine.

WWR : So SHUDDER released last year.. there were some more poppier moments on it I felt?

B: Yea! We wanted to be real simple in a good way, its definitely not a new direction, that's not what we sound like now its something we wanted to try and I feel like to be truly 'punk' doing something simple is almost like taking a stand you know what I mean?

WWR: Do you find that you have a really unique place in punk rock?

B: I mean musically were not the punkest band, we are loped in with NEW FOUND GLORY and ALKALINE TRIO, which is cool because we love those bands, but it think our attitude like lyrically or in interviews is a little more abrasive than bands we are associated with and I think that turns people off a little bit I think people aren't used to it, you know you not going to open Kerrang! And read about somebody in band giving an honest opinion about how something sucks and we do that!

WWR: so there's been some rumours about you guys possibly signing with alkaline trio's new label..?

B: Well we don't really know we have just finished our contract with VICTORY so we are free agents right now which is really exciting we haven't been unsigned for 6 years and it feels really nice, we are starting to write right now for our new record but we don't know who's going to put it out

WWR: Do you have a sound on that record yet?

B: Its going to be kinda like a WALKING WOUNDED sounding album, we want to make the heaviest album we've ever made you know, like with SHUDDER the concept was to make something quick and poppy and catchy and so this one will be more intricate and more solos and more orchestras and heavy!

WWR: Have you felt the impact of the 'digital revolution'?

B: Absolutely, there's good points and band points to it. We have felt the impact of both, the fact that we just played in Paris for the first time ever 2 days ago there were people singing along to our band you just have to thank the internet for that, I know there's not a lot of promotion for our band there , we aren't on TV there we have never been there before so that's the great benefit of it that people are going to hear about your band through the internet
So that's one side of it and so the other side is obviously you sell less records and with selling records then there is less money and its not just money in your pocket but its less money to do things!
There was a time when bands took an entire year to write a record, because they had the money to live of off or be in the studio for as long as they wanted and the equipment, so there's all those things but now its like you can only write for as long as you cant afford to go on tour, so there's an upside and a downside but I think the upside outweighs the downside. I think that anybody anywhere in the world can find a new band everyday is amazing! Its more important then money..

WWR: What bands can you recommend who we may not have heard of?

B: The Menzingers! They are unbelievable, they are on a label from Chicago called Red Scare Records with a whole bunch of awesome bands of that label.. Cobra Skulls and the Sidekicks , you know I feel like its really exciting, I hope you can tell just from me talking about it! Because this underground music thing this whole punk rock thing emo and hardcore has become so mainstream, I think things like fallout boy is great for what they do and they've opened a lot of doors for bands like us to be on MTV or the radio.
But then its all become so mainstream that there is all these copycats like Metro Station and Boys Like Girls so all these really shitty versions of something that was cool, so the whole underground has become so popular that there has to be a new underground developing under it and I think that's happening right now and its so exciting and I am so anxious to keep hearing all these cool bands, there's a lot of great bands about you've just got to look for them.
With Punk We all have taken this ride into the mainstream and have forgot about all this other stuff and so its cool there's a lot of good stuff out there!

Check out the audio below for more from Bayside on song writing, the music industry, touring life and more..

Huge thanks to Rey Rolden & Bayside

Interview By Ross Shroff
Words By Ricky Bates


Bayside's newest record SHUDDER is available now from Victory records

www.myspace.com/bayside
www.myspace.com/wrongwayroundradio

PRF # 2 SUCCESS!

So we had our 2nd PunkRockFriday brought to you by the Wrongwayround collective/crew at UNIT nightclub here in Southampton , UK.
On the bill for the night was A Broken Robot, Dave House & Lemuria from the USA!
All were amazing and some amazing tunes were spun until the early hours of the morning!
Look out for some exclusive Dave House acoustic videos right here soon, in the meantime heres a few clips from Lemuria's set..

Look Kids! Free Music from No Idea Records!

In a practically unfathomable maneuver of selfless generosity and technological wizardry, the No Idea Distro has launched the first in a series of downloadable compilations called the Pretend Record Series. The compilation was launched at approximately 5:07 PM on Friday, June 5, with word spreading faster than a cheetah fleeing from a blazing Kentucky wildfire. By 5:23 PM, the onslaught of bandwidth traffic on the No Idea server forced the entire office to abandon futile attempts at answering emails and proceed directly to Common Grounds’ 2-4-1 Happy Hour.

The compilation features a smorgasbord-sized sampling of new titles distributed proudly and exclusively by the No Idea Distro. Pretend Record features tracks from forthcoming No Idea Records releases such as Dear Landlord’s Dream Homes, No Friends’ S/T, and Speed Is Everything by The Bomb (who count former Naked Raygun singer Jeff Pezzati amongst their ranks), not to mention a handful of formerly vinyl-exclusive tracks from the likes of North Lincoln, Ringers, and Averkiou. The 15-song compilation is rounded out by close friends and closer fiends in the form of Dead Friends, Wormburner, Paul Baribeau & Ginger Alford, Screaming Females, and more, all of whom have piping hot new releases in consumable form available from the No Idea Conglomerate Corporation Empire.

No Idea Distro’s Kaiser Jennifer issued the following dispatch:

“Welcome back to Volume One of our SUMMERTIME WATER MOSH festival of DOWNLOAD MADNESS!! Limited edition and first-come, first served (shoes and shirt optional)... Nothing to trade, nothing to sell, in fact it's all a big PRETEND RECORD!! You can't watch it spin, you can't hand number it, you can't auction it. "Well, heck, what CAN you do with it?" You may LISTEN to it. With your ear bones!”

Track Listing:
1. DEAR LANDLORD "I Live in Hell" (NO IDEA)

2. THE BOMB "Spaceman" (NO IDEA)

3. SOMETHING FIERCE "Teenage Ruins" (DIRTNAP)

4. NORTH LINCOLN "This is Gonna Hurt" (NO IDEA)

5. PINK RAZORS "Geometric Park" (HOUSEPLANT / NO IDEA)

6. RINGERS "Canned Laughter" (1-2-3-4 GO!)

7. AVERKIOU "Wasted and High" (SOUND STUDY)

8. DEAD FRIENDS "Guh Guh" (PLAN-IT-X)

9. WORMBURNER "If Life is a Highway, Then I'm Totally Fucked" (SALINAS)

10. NO FRIENDS "Never Ending Fight" (NO IDEA)

11. HOT NEW MEXICANS "Self Loathing Fool" (FAST CROWD)

12. THE ARRIVALS "I'm Sorry For Saying I'm Sorry" (RECESS)

13. PAUL BARIBEAU and GINGER ALFORD "Thunder Road" (SELF-RELEASE)

14. LANDLORD "Skate Jam" (BAKERY OUTLET / HOUSEPLANT)

15. SCREAMING FEMALES "Buried In The Nude" (DON GIOVANNI)

DOWNLOAD IT HERE!!:
http://www.noidearecords.com/bands/releases/va-pretendrecord.php

New videos From Chillerton, Go Vegas & Chaos Days

Heres a few new videos, the Chillerton one is from the recent punk n bowl 2 event in london, which was a fun filled day with an amazing line up!
The other two are from a recent charity gig at the Students Union here in Southampton..