Liber Abaci, the new album from Bristol based anarcho-punk outfit: Atterkop. This album is a bit of an anomaly. There is so much ambition, so many ideas crammed in; it’s hard to get your head around. You can tell by listening a lot of heart and elbow-grease has gone into creating this impressive blend of […]
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Album Review: Captain Accident – Wake & Break
Wake and Break is the 3rd album from Captain Accident. Quietly confident with playful flair; this feels like a real step forward in terms of songwriting and production. Given the exceptional quality of this Cardiff based band’s preceding releases, this is high praise indeed. Instrumentation-wise, there is bright, uncluttered mix of clean sharp sounds. Muted […]
EP Review: Geistfight – Ruin or Worse
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 […]
News: Pokemon Liberation Army release debut EP
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
News: Faintest Idea announce new album ‘Increasing The Minimum Rage’
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 […]
Band Interview: China Shop Bull
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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Album Review: Random Hand – Hit Reset
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 […]
Fishlock Fridays #9 – A New Chapter for Will Tun & the Wasters
This weekend my very good friends Will Tun & the Wasters are releasing their debut album, the first full album they have made in their five years as a band, it’s certainly been a long time coming. Unfortunately at the same time of the album coming out, the lovely Will Tun has decided it’s time for […]
News: Will Tun & the Wasters release video for “The Otherside”
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 […]