Punktuation Magazine

03/10/2025

Last Friday saw the start of Undercover Festival 2025 - check out Ruth Rae's review, photos and videos of the first day an unforgettable event! Part two coming soon..

Popes of Chillitown / Subhumans / The Assassination Bureau / East Town Pirates / Codename Colin / Dakka Sk**ks / RAGE DC

A new location, a slightly different format, yet still the same warm welcome, plus of course their accustomed array of top bands and artists. There are music festivals, and then there is Undercover Festival - a place where those of us who love alternative music will always make new friends, while di...

02/10/2025

Rock N Roll Circus bring a spectacular festival of live music to the big top in several cities during the summer months 🎶🎵😎 Our photographer Phil Thorns wore out his shoe soles capturing as many bands as he could at the 4 day extravaganza in Sheffield - check out his reviews from each day, and give him a follow at: https://www.instagram.com/philthorns_photography for more great pix!

https://www.punktuationmag.com/rock-n-roll-circus-sheffields-greatest-show-on-earth-is-back-in-town-27th-31st-august-2025-part-1/

https://www.punktuationmag.com/rock-n-roll-circus-sheffields-greatest-show-on-earth-is-back-in-town-27th-31st-august-2025-part-2/

https://www.punktuationmag.com/rock-n-roll-circus-sheffields-greatest-show-on-earth-is-back-in-town-27th-31st-august-2025-part-3/

https://www.punktuationmag.com/rock-n-roll-circus-sheffields-greatest-show-on-earth-is-back-in-town-27th-31st-august-2025-part-4/

Sheffield’s Don Valley Bowl hosted The Rock N Roll Circus at the end of August - photographer Phil Thorns caught Jehnny Beth, Fat Dog,The Bug Club, So Good, Freak Slug,Viagra Boys and Queens Of The Stone Age on Day 1!

02/10/2025

Craving some quality skate-punk? It doesn’t get much better than OLD CHASE, who are about to release their ace third album ‘At The End Of All The Thrills’! Check out Hannah's review here:

From London and Brighton, Old Chase are a skate punk band who are releasing their third album ‘At The End Of All The Thrills’ on 3rd October 2025. Consisting of 11 short tracks, the longest is their last track ‘Endgame’, at 2 minutes 47 seconds. They may be brief, but each song has a lot of ...

02/10/2025

In their own words, Polly b Rose are an “unstable guitar duo making moody songs somehow”, and they’ve just released a superb debut album! Check out Nic Howden's review here:

Out of the ‘biz’ for some time, Polly b Rose don’t look back. Their debut energetic, exciting, wonderfully excess free album 'Moltencholia' is 10 songs in 35 minutes, and it’s amok with emotive rhythms.

02/10/2025

Liliths Army have a new single, ‘Cursed’, out next month, and of course, it’s excellent! Check out Hannah's preview and review here:

Following their album ‘Doll’, released on 28th March this year, Liliths Army are unleashing their next single ‘Cursed’ on 24th October 2025, via Criminal Records, with the music video fittingly being released at 10am on Halloween (31st October 2025). It’s one of my personal favourites from...

02/10/2025

Subhumans are always great live, and the anarcho-punk legends didn’t disappoint at Reading’s Facebar last week, playing a belter of a set to thrill fans old and new! Support came from Oxfod duo BarrelHaus 🎶🎵Check out Ian Ladlow’s review here:

With Subhumans iconic logo, rapid-fire, hard-hitting lyrics and breakneck speed, crunching guitars, the band still stands out as one of the best anarcho-punk bands to come out of the early 80s. Supported by BarrelHaus, an alt-rock duo from Oxford. The dual guitars and vocal sharing duties work well....

02/10/2025

Shake Some Acton returned to Harrow last Thursday with Japanese trio THE LET'S GO's plus The Baby Seals and Wipes in sterling support! Check out our review here:

The Let’s Go’s are pure musical joy. From the moment they kick off with the euphoric pop-punk rush of ‘In My Head’, the Japanese trio bounce around the stage with carefree abandon; they clearly love what they do, and it’s as if they can hardly believe that they’re so far from home and st...

02/10/2025

A contender for Gig Of The Year? Cash Pistache brought The Drowns to London last week, with Clobber and Everyone Lies in support, and it was beyond amazing! Check out our review here:

In terms of prime-quality blue collar punk n’ roll played with maximum passion, this takes us right back to seeing Social Distortion at the Astoria (RIP) twenty-odd years ago - it was a triumphant return for Mike Ness’s crew, and should he be looking to pass the torch to a new generation, The Dr...

19/09/2025

Just ONE WEEK to go until Undercover Festival opens its doors in South Essex! You can look forward to a tip-top line-up of bands, including several local artists! Weekend AND day tickets are still available here: https://undercoverfest.com/ All the information you'll need is here: https://www.facebook.com/events/1716440745843508/ Don't miss out, the weather is set to be fine, and the music and beer will flow!

Apologies for not tagging all the bands - FB won't let us.. but we'll certainly be covering everyone in our review of the festival for Punktuation Magazine!

19/09/2025

Ladies and gentlemen, meet Newcastle’s TV Death - one of our favourite new bands, and they deserve your love too! Check out our review of their ace debut album here:

In truth, to label TV Death as merely a garage rock group would be to do them a disservice; they also take influence from psychedelia, post-punk, and just about all things loud and feral. The end result makes for one hell of a debut album.

19/09/2025

One of the first major venues to embrace punk in the Netherlands, Paradiso Amsterdam recently held a celebration of its own punk history with bands old and new! Check out Herman De Tollenaere’s review of the evening here:

On 31st August 2025, Paradiso held a punk festival in its big hall. Journalist and DJ Oscar Smit launched a new expanded version of the first volume of his book series on punk in Paradiso. This volume is about proto-punk in 1976, and the explosion in 1977, after the S*x Pistols had played Paradiso.....

19/09/2025

Even London tube strikes can’t stop great rock n’ roll, and that’s exactly what Shake Some Acton brought us on 9th September, courtesy of Teo Wise Dealing With Damage and Johnny Moses and the Electric MoFos! Check out Alex's review here:

Teo Wise and his band have come all the way from Italy, and from the start, it’s clear that they’re having a ball, with the main man brandishing his Flying V guitar like some kind of rock n roll rifle. Self-described as ‘spaghetti rock n’ roll’, he blends elements of punk, rock n’ roll a...