Be Sharp Promotions (London), El Topo Bookings (Belgium) and Fishlock Promotions (Bristol) have teamed up to start a brand new festival to be held at South London’s New Cross Inn called Level Up Fest. So far Level Up Festival has announced 6 bands including their headliners, Big D and the Kids Table, King Prawn and […]
It’s easy to look at ska-punk, particularly skacore as a dead genre, with its peak in the early 00’s and many of the more recent successes have split up in the last couple of years (Anti-Vigilante, Random Hand and Beat the Red Light amongst others). If this EP proves anything it’s that interesting releases can still […]
Do you care about ska-punk and the liberation of Pokemon everywhere? This EP by Bristol’s Pokemon Liberation Army might be for you. TM101 by Pokemon Liberation Army
Kings Lynn’s street punk/ska band Faintest Idea have announced their first album since 2012’s ‘The Voice of Treason’. Out on April 1st, ‘Increasing the Minimum Rage’ promises to continue to take the Faintest Idea sound further by utilising their line up changes of the last few years. The album will be released on the incredible TNS Records […]
Having recently released their first album for five years, Public Disorder: Act 1, it’s time for Seeing Your Scene to catch up with Leeds’ punk/ska/rave nutters China Shop Bull to reflect on their 2015. You recently did a 10 date UK tour… How did it go? We toured with a Czech ska band called Chaska and as it […]
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After hitting the road and playing hard for 12 years, Random Hand just about reached the top of the UK ska-punk scene and decided that it’s also the time to go on a hiatus but not allowing themselves to just fade away the band decided to release their forth full-length at the same time of […]
The mighty genre-mashers Will Tun & The Wasters are raring to release their brand new album ‘The Anachronist’s Cookbook’ this Friday (September 25th) via Riot Ska Records (UK) and Plan-It-X Records (US). Never the band to disappoint when it comes to music videos, this time they collaborated with award-winning animator Tim Wheatley to bring a fantastic visual […]
We caught up with the smelliest band in the country, Reading’s skacore noise-makers Rail-27, ahead of their “Stinking Up and Down the Nation” mini-tour which starts this weekend, including a Seeing Your Scene show in Bristol at The Chelsea Inn on Saturday 22nd. What can people expect from your upcoming mini-tour? Eye watering odour, ear-bleeding […]
Having slaved away recording their much awaited debut full-length in Bristol over the last few months, Will Tun & the Wasters are ready to unleash it before the end of summer. Already they have signed with the excellent Riot Ska Records to release the album, The Anachronist’s Cookbook within the UK, the band are now delighted to announce that it […]