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2012-01-16T17:55:00.000-08:00

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Teenage Bottlerocket & the Flatliners are coming to play on the same night!

2011-08-17T09:24:00.000-07:00

Its true we like to make shows as fun as possible for as cheap as possible but this really takes the biscuit

TICKETS are available right now from www.joinerslive.co.uk

Dead To Me Interview & live footage

2011-07-20T17:25:00.000-07:00

So one of my favourite records of recent years has to be DEAD TO ME'S 'African Elephants' the perfect blend of punk rock and ska and a lot of heart!
I recently caught up with guys at this years GROEZROCK festival to see what had been happening over the last 5 years since they last toured the UK and also snapped some footage from their live set, both can be seen below. enjoy!
RickWWR

'A Common Ground' - Video documentary

2011-07-14T15:17:00.000-07:00

So a few years back i had the pleasure of attending the FEST in florida FEST 6 as it were, my favourite venue at the whole thing was the COMMON GROUNDS it recently closed down as a music venue and i thought id post this short for everyone to see how cool it was!

Common Grounds was the heart of the Gainesville Music Community for 15 years. It closed its doors on June 26, 2011. This mini-documentary was created to provide a snapshot of the legendary life of this music venue.
Filmed and edited by Eric Atria
Eternal Thanks to Nigel, Jason, and everyone at Common Grounds!!

Title Fight Live Videos

2011-07-11T17:23:00.001-07:00

So we recently had the guys in TITLE FIGHT come to play at the Southampton Joiners, whilst trying to do lights at the same time with one hand i also managed to snap these two videos, i hope you enjoy.
:D

Teenage BottleRocket Review

2011-06-17T17:09:00.000-07:00

Teenage Bottlerocket - Mutilate Me

(Fat Wreck Chords 2011)

Mutilate Me is the new EP from Teenage Bottlerocket, a pop punk band from Wyoming who have recently been described as the only redeeming feature of Descendents’ recent London show. TBR offer a brand of pop-punk from the past. Their resemblance to The Ramones, Screeching Weasel and The Riverdales is utterly undeniable. This little EP is the perfect introduction into the band; the two original songs on the record really represent what the band is about, snotty singing with hooked filled riffs holding together three chord wonders that make it impossible not to tap your feet to.

Despite its horror punk connotations it’s actually a really good little EP. Spanning less than six minutes, it’s over almost as soon as it starts but commands a few replays. The opening track “Mutilate Me” is as catchy as you’d expect but has the staying power that makes you wish it was part of an album rather than a ridiculously short EP. “Punk Rock House of Horrors” is everything I love about Teenage Bottlerocket; almost falsetto high vocals, fast and hook driven, it’s definitely the favourite of the three songs. The third any final track of Mutilate Me is a cover of Henchman by Bad Religion. It seems that Teenage Bottlerocket have managed the almost impossible task of making a fast Bad Religion song even faster than the original.

All in all this a great EP and well worth a listen, but it doesn’t live up for the band’s latest and greatest full length “They Came From The Shadows”.

TEENAGE BOTTLEROCKET PLAY AN INTIMATE (150 PEOPLE) WARM UP SHOW FOR THE READING FESTIVAL ON FRIDAY 26TH AUGUST AT UNIT CLUB SOUTHAMPTON, TICKETS ARE AVAILABLE NOW FROM HERE
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Its Here! WWR Podcast! Exclusive NOFX Interview!

2011-06-15T12:57:00.000-07:00

So we finally have brought back a audio show, just as we started 5 and half years ago on radio we are now available as a lovely DIY Podcast!
You can listen below on the player : D
WrongWayRound Podcast
From the humans that brought you the Wrongwayround punk radio show all those years back sees the return of the show in a new format!
Episode one contains PunkRock topics + Music from the likes of Rocco Lampones, Solutions, Cynics, Radicus & More!
Not to mention an WORLD EXCLUSIVE Interview/CHAT with punk rock Legends NOFX!
You can Stream the podcast directly from our blogspot
Or download from HERE

View us in ITunes HERE

Frank Turner & Jeff Rowe

2011-06-05T18:55:00.001-07:00

Two blinding acoustic song writers im sure you already know one at least! Frank Turners new album 'England keep me bones' is released tomorrow go pick it up! in the meantime you can check out this rare performance of 'better half' i snapped at his show last week on the last date of his tour with Franz Nicolay & Ben Marwood.
Jeff Rowe is currently on tour throughout Europe go find him! :)
Stream the brand new album here:

Jeff Rowe has a brand new ep also check out the stream here

This weeks show + No Trigger Interview part 2

2011-05-23T16:05:00.000-07:00

Joining at this months punkrockfriday at Unit Club southampton will be none other than Jeff Rowe, the show is now combined with another legend who was playing in the area none other than Jonah Matranga from FAR! Tickets are a mind blowing £4 for the whole night including entry to the clubnight until 3am! ;D

FB EVENT : HERE

In other news the 2nd part of our NO TRIGGER interview can be seen below!

CrashDoubt Festival - Lincoln - Videos!

2011-05-18T17:25:00.000-07:00

So we are back from the hetic messy punkrock filled weekend in the north! il be posting my thoughts on the festival soon along with more video but for now check out a couple of cool vids below!

Groezrock 2011 Coverage Begins Here...

2011-05-08T17:36:00.000-07:00

So the ball is starting to roll for our coverage of this years awesome Groezrock festival in Meerhout, Belgium. First up is a cool interview and some live footage with the always amazing NO TRIGGER who played a blinding set at the festival, check out both the videos below..

Forgetters Video - Live in London

2011-05-05T18:00:00.000-07:00

So this weekend i had the pleasure of going to visit one of the most important figures in recent punkrock history play in his new band 'Forgetters' i took a video of an upcoming song 'im not immune' they played at the amazing clubnight 'everything sucks'
they are currently on tour throughout europe go find them!

New Epic Social Distortion Video for 'Machine Gun Blues'

2011-05-05T17:41:00.000-07:00

Social Distortion have premiered a breathtaking new short film, an extended music video for the track “Machine Gun Blues” with a red carpet premiere event & live set in Hollywood last week. The band are currently preparing for a full European tour this summer, which stops in London for a performance at the Shepherds Bush Empire on July 7th.

The short film for “Machine Gun Blues” starts in 1934 Los Angeles as Mike Ness and his “Blood and Sorrow” crew of gangsters knock off a bank, only to realize the feds are hot on their trail. Shot at the famous Union Station in downtown LA and surrounding areas, the gang is chased through rolling, dusty roads to their hideout for an explosive showdown. Watch the video here.
Following the release of the band’s critically acclaimed seventh album, ‘Hard Times and Nursery Rhymes’, Social Distortion are ready for a busy summer schedule of festivals and European shows. Be sure to catch the band in London this July for what is to be a special one-off UK headline show.

Groezrock done and dusted!

2011-04-25T06:53:00.001-07:00

Hello what a weekend we have returned home from! sunshine, monsoon showers and of course some beer and a whole lot of punkrock! We shall be uploading some exclusive interviews and footage of bands from over the weekend real soon!
Expect great stuff from No Trigger, Dead To Me, Descendents and a world exclusive from NOFX!

Groezrock 20th year is go!....Now!

2011-04-20T12:22:00.000-07:00

Thats right we leave for the festival in the early hours of the morning and we cant wait to check out some amazing bands and swell on some amazing beer and waffles!
On our return you can expect some amazing interviews and exclusive video footage so stay tuned!
There are still tickets available over at the groezrock website HERE
So if you have the weekend off get over to belgium! you can keep right up to date with us or groezrock direct on both our twitters HERE & HERE

If you missed out on our coverage last year check out our mini video doc 'into the groezrock' below...

Such Gold - Sycamore Video!

2011-04-12T16:13:00.000-07:00

So a few months back we did a last minute show for these guys, they are bloody awesome if you love melodic hardcore like no trigger then this is your cup of tea! Check out Such Gold new video below from Chasing Safety! Youl even spot several apperances from our own gig friendly banner! :D
Check out their music directly HERE

Frank Turner video

2011-04-06T17:39:00.001-07:00

Now this man came and played for us a few years back but since then he has made worldwide waves, he had this video short made about him and i thought it was just so good id share it! Frank has a brand new album due in june titled 'england keep my bones' the artwork was also done by the good man Tom of the band The Ghost of a thousand!

More WWR Shows Announced! Iron Chic!

2011-04-06T17:18:00.000-07:00

So we are moving swiftly through 2011 on our punkrock steam train! to keep up to date with goings on make sure you are a member of our facebook group HERE

We have some great shows in the wings! we are particularly excited about the awesome IRON CHIC coming to town! tickets are on sale now and deets are below!

see you down the front!

WrongWayRound Presents
****** IRON CHIC *******

Tuesday 17th May
Unit Club Southampton
...Doors 7.00pm
Ticket £6.50 advance
14+

This show is going to rule ass! ticket info available soon in the meantime spread the love all over the internet!

Get your tickets here!

Iron Chic (USA) - http://ironchic.bandcamp.com/album/not-like-this
Easily one of the best punkrock bands to reach your ears in recent years! Their music is free and awesome!
Featuring members of Latterman & Small Arms Dealer they really are a supergroup from across the pond playing their very 1st UK shows!

You Me And The Atom Bomb - http://www.myspace.com/youmeandtheatombomb
Hailing from portsmouth the best skatepunk band in the south are coming out of hiding for a rare apperance with some new songs in tow plus the classics no doubt!

Pacer - http://www.myspace.com/wearepacer
Punkrock your bloody socks off! amazing shouty fun from the ashes of THE STEAL & on chunksaah records to boot! get their newest stuff for free right here http://www.iknowdavehouse.co.uk/pacer
learn it and come sing along! :D

Caves - http://caves.bandcamp.com/
Bristol way DIY to the bone punkrock, female fronted and backed hard last seen in southampton at WTFest 2, catchy and essential!

Marwood - http://www.myspace.com/marwooduk
Hometown boys have just recorded a brand new ep at the ranch and it sounds delicious a grand opener for such an event!

New Groezrock Updates! :D

2011-04-06T17:12:00.000-07:00

GROEZROCK celebrates its 20th birthday with a compilation album: GROEZROCK blows its twentieth candle! What started with the Dinky Toys in 1992 has grown into one of the biggest alternative festivals of Europe. To this day, Groezrock still stands for two days of the best punk and hardcore the world has to offer - just like it has these past 20 years. The compilation record GROEZROCK - 20 TRACKS OF MAYHEM is the perfect reflection of this; the album consists of a unique collection of many of the musical highlights that have graced the stage of the festival over the last 20 years. 20 TRACKS OF MAYHEM will be on sale exclusively at the GROEZROCK festival (22/23th of April) and is limited to 500 copies. A true collector’s item!

This compilation is the work of KIM MANDIAU, senior year student of music management at PHL-MUSIC. The album will be released on THANKS BUT NO THANKS RECORDS (BE) and consists of the following tracks:

01. No Cigar – Millencolin
02. Remedy – Hot Water Music
03. Suits And Ladders – NOFX
04. Take The Night Off – Sick Of It All
05. Wake The Dead – Comeback Kid
06. True Believers – Bouncing Souls
07. Drunken Lullabies - Flogging Molly
08. American Hearts – Blacklist Royals
09. Cute Without The “E” (Cut From The Team) – Taking Back Sunday
10. The Speakers – Cornflames
11. Skate Or Die – Teenage Bottlerocket
12. 911 For Peace – Anti-Flag
13. Requiem – Boy Sets Fire
14. Bleeding – Ignite
15. I’m Your Opposite Number – Strike Anywhere
16. Keepers Of The Faith – Terror
17. I Live In Hell – Dear Landlord
18. Summon Monsters – Less Than Jake
19. Master Celebrator – No Fun At All
20. Wake Up – Story Of The Year

Orders can be placed via www.thanksbutnothanksrecords.com. For more information, please visit www.groezrock.be or mail us at info@thanksbutnothanksrecords.com.

Free Beer: To celebrate our 20th anniversary edition we're going back to the punk roots. On this occasion GROEZROCK will be serving ice cold beers and other refreshments for only 1,66 Euro. OK it's not exactly 100% free but it's coming close isn't it? Cheers!

Anberlin, Out: They decided to tour with 30STM in the USA

Sick Of It All, In: That’s right, on April 22nd, Sick Of It All is taking over GROEZROCK's mainstage for a massive show in celebration of their 25th anniversary!

MacBeth Stage: The past 4 weeks everyone could vote for their favourites on the MacBeth Killer Contest. 14 bands out of the 600 entries made it to the Macbeth Talent Stage.
You Ate My Dog (Swe), Chemical Vocation (Swe), 4AM Program (B), I Spy Strangers (UK), The Smoking Hearts (UK), Sinclear (Ita), Until The Last (Fra), The Famous Class (UK), ASTPAI (Aus), Attack! Attack! (UK), Admiral's Arms (Fra, Rock One Mag), the Paceshifters (NL, Oor Mag), Vera Cruz (Fra) will be the opening act on Friday and When Hope Escapes (B) does the same on Saturday. They won through LimboLink.

World Record: Air Guitar Belgium goes into partnership with JÄGERMEISTER to break the World’s record for the largest Air Guitar ensemble playing together (The current record is 1883 participants in Australia.) To participate, you just have to register on WORLD RECORD AIR GUITAR . You may also register directly on site, at the JÄGERMEISTER stand, as soon as the festival will be opened.

The first 3000 persons registering, will get the opportunity to buy the wonderful, specially designed T-Shirt for this event for only 1 euro. The attempt will be planned in the evening of April 23rd, just before Dropkick Murphys' set at the main stage

The Line Up: The most important THING for this festival, the incredibable line up: 66 bands on 3 stages for 2 days long:

TICKET SALES :

Friday : 70 euro / Entrance : 80 euro

Saturday : 70 euro / Entrance : 80 euro

Combi : 110 euro / Entrance : 125 euro

Camping : 15 euro (camping tickets are not sold separately)

info: www.groezrock.be - www.groezrock.de

tickets: www.groezrock.be/tickets

Crash Doubt Fest - lincoln, UK

2011-03-24T05:26:00.000-07:00

Hello! its sunny outside and what better way to get boozy than with an exceptional lineup somewhere east in the UK.
Thats right our good dudes up in Lincoln are putting on a insane weekend of punkrock, Tickets go on sale tonight at £15 per day! we hear its a small venue so tickets are limited and the lineup is below.. for more info on this fest head right HERE

Groezrock 2011 more details tickets still on sale!

2011-03-17T17:04:00.000-07:00

So the greatest punkrock festival to grace european land in sometime is in full flow and force and creeping up very fast!
They have just posted the setimes and schedule for both days of the event so get your i-diarys at the ready and prepare to run between stages!
To make the weekend even more fun the organisers have lowered the beer price to only 1.66 Euro simply amazing! On top of that as always some awesome FMX has been thrown into the mix, do not miss out on this awesome event, meerhout belgium is the place to be this easter!

For more info on the event head HERE

T Shirt Launch Night! Free Show!

2011-03-02T17:15:00.000-08:00

WrongWayRound Presents...
'T -Shirt Launch Extravaganza'
Friday March 11th @ Unit Club
*FREE ENTRY BEFORE 10PM!*
Doors 9pm - 3am
...18+
£3 Students £4 Otherwise

Over the years WWR has been providing Southampton with some of the best punkrock shows the world has to offer, you can finally own a piece of WWR history right on your chest!

Come celebrate a lifestyle of punkrock ,booze and fun times!
We have finally got round to printing our special hand designed awesome tshirts and we want to have a knees up to celebrate!

We will be giving out free cakes! and you can also of course pick up your own WWR shirt we have only 15 boys & 15 girls to go round!

**********Playing Live on the Night!***********

The Don Ramos Players - http://www.myspace.com/thedonramosplayers
South Coast Gruff Heroes full of banter and punkrock songs to wave your stick at, always bringing the party..

Fenside - http://www.myspace.com/fenside
Local pompey boys made up of various local legends and first show for us! , FFO : Consumed, Propagandhi

The Rocco Lampones - http://www.myspace.com/theroccolampones
Bastinstoke born and bred, these guys may just be the UK's answer to None More Black?

We will also be spinning the very best in punkrock tunes through til midnight!

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DRINKS OFFERS - ALL NIGHT!
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★ 2-4-1 Pints (while stocks last)
★ 2-4-1 Tequilas 'til 11pm
★ Bottles of Carling £1.50
★ Double Corkies & mixer £2.00
★ Double Rum & mixer £2.50
★ Double Vodka & mixer £3.00

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ROCKTAILS!
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★ 'The Cliff' - oj/cranberry/lemonade £3
★ 'Motley Brew' - VK ice/lager £4.50
★ 'Strawberry Fields' - strawberry cider/vodka/lemonade £5
★ 'UB Thirsty' - cherry VK/blueberry corkies/lemonade £5
★ 'Yellow Submarine' - tropical VK/oj/cola cube corkies £5
★ 'Slayer' - VK ice/rum/vodka/coke

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New! Living With Lions!

2011-03-02T16:56:00.000-08:00

So one of Canada's greatest punkrock bands Living with Lions are launching their new album in may called 'Holy Shit' they have put a brand new songs up for streaming right here, go check it out!

Track Listing:
1. Pieces
2. Regret Song
3. In Your Light
4. Honesty, Honestly
5. Whatever You Want
6. Maple Drive Is Still Alive
7. Wake Up
8. Matthew's Anthem
9. Rough Around The Edges
10. When We Were Young

Thats Not all, recently i found some 'lost' interviews on my pc one of which with the guys themselves from a few years back, this has never been seen, read or heard so check it out!

Living With lions Interview - Toronto Canada

WWR: so we are here at the Opera house Toronto, I just got here I saw the CN tower in the car on the way

LVL: its a beautiful building

WWR: ha awesome, okay so you guys want to introduce yourself and tell us what you do in the band apart from smoke?

LVL: ha yes im chase I play guitar , im Shane and i play bass

WWR: So your on tour right now with a Wilhelm scream hows it going?

LVL: its amazing you know its a Wilhelm scream we don't know what else to say we watch them from the side of the stage every night and our jaws drop. We feel so privileged to do this tour and its just been a party basically!

WWR: can you keep up with their drinking habits?

LVL: sure we hit it hard every night with them especially nuno, we can keep up!

WWR: so how did you guys form as a band?

LVL: Pretty much like 3 of us moved from a small town in Alberta, then we came up to Vancouver after we graduated. we pretty much knew nobody but we were like fuck Alberta this sucks. Alberta like the most red neck providence in Canada
there'ss cowboys and all that shit, so we were inVancouverr and we just sat around and did nothing and wetriedd to meet people and they just blew us off cause of where we are from, so we started going to shows andII met chase at a showII think it was daggermouth and final fight, we traded numbers then we would see each other down at the bar and he would bum smokes off me all night soIi thought cool maybell have a friend ifIi give him cigarettes all night

Chase: for the record he has never been my friend, ha

So they were in a band called Drakes and they had just broke up, their singer came and moved in with us so chase would come over and party and we started hanging out in the basement jamming and shit so that's how it started we just ended up living together and having party's

WWR: cool, so how was it progressing from the 1st EP to the album 'make your mark' ?

LVL: I dunno it was weird like we were saying we were just jamming in our basement we weren't trying to start a band at all, just hanging out and writing stuff we loved and emulating our influences in a way. so when we wrote the EP that was those songs it wasn't like ow we are going to write like this, it was just like off the cuff random shit. So when we went to do this CD we had already signed to a record label and been touring we were a band at that point so it was a completely different scenario we had to actually focus and write songs and it wasn't and random but it was cool we learnt a different aspect and learnt how to play in a different way and it worked out for the better, it was stressful we only had a couple months to write it since we were too busy drinking beer being idiots and watching TV, but it worked out in the end!

WWR: So at which point did you take the band seriously?

LVL: our friends daggermouth invited us on tour so we was like yea we might as well go play some shows and it was fun, nice burp!

WWR: thanks, Canadian drinks are really full of gas! i've been drinking a lot of molson

LVL: the next morning is the worse, yea they had to close off the toilet in the venue cause of my stench before anyway so we went on tour with daggermouth and decided we are a band.

WWR: do you high Prospects for the band?

LVL: we just want to tour really, if we had the means to be on the road 12 months of the year then we would be doing it, that's all we want to do cause we all work like shitty jobs when we get home at warehouses and construction or whatever , so the only thing we want to do is to play in a band and be on tour that's our life goal, Chase: yea cause its fun we get to stink up bathrooms and play shows, yea so its pretty much doing everything you love and doing it for a living.
We want to come do the UK soon

WWR: yea it seems your getting a good fan base already!

WWR: so what do you think of the scene in Canada right now? you've got attack in black, flatiners and of course your favourite band sum 41!

LVL: favourite band ever! I don't know if you've seen it but they've got dmx in their video! and that shit is big timee, they use to be a rad band and then they got dmx to ride in on their video on a quadIi mean how the fuck do you get that to happen?
I think the Canadian scene is getting really good, I think we have toured Canada so much at this point that all we want to do is tour other places and its been amazing but we want to do the UK, Japan and Australia and see other places.
I think the scenes getting strong, it had a little bit too much red hair and screaming then singing in songs but I have high hopes for it now.
Its definitely getting better I mean we have Propagandhi, those guys are amazing.
the thing is down in the states the kids catch on to things a lot quicker than here, so if some thingss cool there then 4 years later it will drift up here,that why screamos still big up here but dead in the states. we did our 2nd tour on the west coast and we did house shows and stuff and seeing 15 year old kids wearing minor threat t shirts is amazing, if we stopped a 15 year old now in Canada and asked them who minor threat were they wouldn't have a fucking clue, we have done tours with covers like face to face and saves the day but in Canada they are like what the fuck is that?
So touring Canada is fun but kids in the states get it more, it seems even the UK has a stronger scene since we hear from more people in the UK then we do in Canada, so you know the state of California has a bigger population then the whole of Canada

WWR: so make your mark a lot of its about touring and having fun, was it fun to record?

LVL: yea well matt wrote a lot of the lyrics while we were away, we actually flew here to Toronto to do the album and that point the CD was written except lyrics for the songs, so we were staying in a house so it was kinda like being on tour.
I think it gave matt more free reign with stuff and he wasn't focusing on certain problems or any issues he had in his life so when he's writing out the lyrics he's saying we are free and doing what we love. we wrote these songs about all kinds of stuff they weren't depressing at all , songs about tour time and the odd song about a girl or some shit you cant get away from it.
So we were locked in this house with one floor and three feet of snow on all sides and we are all freezing since we are from Vancouver and no one wanted to go outside so matt would write and it was like living at home again, we were there for a month and had no vehicle or means of getting anywhere, so we would hang out and play video games and watch porno.

WWR: so did you do the actual recording yourselves or?

LVL: no we would go out to a bunch of suburbs to do certain recordings of drums , bass or whatever so we would be in the studio in the day and nights at home, it was rad since it was so slack since we weren't in there recording everyday for 20 hours, where as on the up we did it at night since we were all working at the same time so we would do 12- 4am then go to work the next day.

Guy walks past ruined

LVL: that's Costa from boys night out, we named the song after that guy he pisses all over bars and other such antics, we call him the dirty Portuguese cause he stinks all the time.

WWR: so hear anything good lately?

LVL: yes, i've been listening to the hold steady! being in a punk band you always listen to the same CD's so I ask my friends what they listen to so they are my stand out band they are amazing.
Chase: im big into Millencolin right now, I rediscovered that band. and of course jawbreaker is always on rotation with me, we've been listening to a lot ISHC on this tour its really funny 'never forget, never forget!'

WWR: okay that's all, want to add anything?

LVL: yes hopefully everyone in Europe we will see you soon! especially the UK, we're sick of Canada! thanks for the interview and I want to eat some fish and chips! how much is beer in London?

WWR: about £3.50/4 a pint

LVL: wow, do you think theyl take our Canadian money in the UK? I want the queen to knight me!

The End

Shirts 4 Sale!

2011-02-10T17:04:00.000-08:00

Well kind of..so after many years of umming and aaaing and being broke we have finally printed some wrongwayround shirts! we will be selling a few for the public and fans at our tshirt launch come march 11th at Unit nightclub in Southampton, theyl be cheap beer and bands in hand also, more details to follow in the coming weeks!
The kind folk at Get A Grip Studio in the midlands did all the handy printing work so many thanks to them!
We have mens and ladies available to a very limited number so dont miss out on these special hand drawn awesome shirts!
:D

There is 10 tickets left for our next show with Senses Fail..

2011-02-10T17:02:00.000-08:00

WrongwayRound & Advance Promotions Present...

*****SENSES FAIL*****

Friday 18th Feb
The Joiners Southampton
Doors 7.30pm
Tickets £10 in Adv
14+

Senses Fail (USA) - http://www.myspace.com/sensesfail
Legends! Tiny Venue! Have released some great records over the years on Vagrant and drive thru records and toured with the likes of the used, my chemical romance, alkaline trio & more!

Plus amazing support from

Man Overboard (USA) - http://www.myspace.com/manoverboard

The JCQ - http://www.myspace.com/thejcq

The Valiant - http://www.myspace.com/thevaliantband

Tickets on sale NOW
http://www.seetickets.com/
http://www.joinerslive.co.uk/

The Next Big Thing?

2011-02-10T17:01:00.001-08:00

Arteries live video! :D

2011-02-09T17:25:00.001-08:00

So recently i had a day off work so i made this by the awesome dudes in the arteries..ENJOY!

Epitaph have huge budgets for videos these days..OWTH New Video!

2011-02-09T17:24:00.001-08:00

Off With Their Heads - "Clear The Air"

Off With Their Heads | Myspace Music Videos

Franz Nicolay Photos!

2011-01-24T14:38:00.000-08:00

So recently we had our first show of the year and what a great night of ace live music it was! Franz Nicolay, Jack Terricloth, Dave Hause & Chas Lightyear kept everyone smiling all night! Check out the photos below courtsey of our good friend Benj at Live & Loud Photography

Tigers Jaw Southampton Video

2011-01-14T11:32:00.000-08:00

So the cool Humans in Tigers Jaw recently stopped off for a show in southampton at the joiners, i took a little video check it out below and go check out their new full length record 'two worlds'

Gabels got a Mullet?

2011-01-14T11:17:00.001-08:00

So theres plenty of video makers out these days but one ive recently come accross is Nervous Energies they have some great footage available at their youtube account or site including some of our favs Against Me! & Lemuria

Hit them up here: Nervous Energies

Top Tens of 2010....

2011-01-14T11:03:00.001-08:00

Yes we are a bit late on this but we thought we would share some of our favourite records of 2010 with you..

Ross Shroff

1. You Me And Everyone We Know - Some Things Don't Wash Out
2. Man Overboard - Real Talk
3. The Menzingers - Chamberlain Waits
4. End Of A Year - You Are Beneath Me
5. Transit - Keep This To Yourself
6. The Flatliners - Cavalcade
7. The Arteries - Dead Sea
8. Iron Chic - Not Like This
9. Frightened Rabbit - The Winter Of Mixed Drinks
10. Heartsounds - Until We Surrender
EP. Handguns - Anywhere But Home

Happy New Year! Onwards New Shows Announced!

2011-01-06T04:33:00.000-08:00

Hello, we would like to wish everyone who reads the blog a very merry new year, we have some great plans on the horizon for this coming year and we have a very special way to kick things off also!

A great small show featuring some amazing musicians from the world of punk rock!

Wrongwayround presents...
A quiet night out with Franz Nicolay
Venue - Hamptons bar
Tuesday 18th January
Doors 7.30pm
...
Tickets £5.50 ADV from here
http://wwrpunk.bigcartel.com/

This will be a very special show , Its the Last show of the tour and we are looking to kick off the new year with a bang so come be part of something special! :D

FRANZ NICOLAY ( HOLD STEADY / WIFS / AGAINST ME!)
http://www.myspace.com/franznicolay
The almighty man of many bands and instruments is stepping foot in southampton to let loose some of his greatest tunes.
Check out a full stream of his album here http://www.punknews.org/bands/franznicolay
FFO : hold steady, chuck ragan, sundowner

Dave Hause ( The Loved Ones)
http://www.myspace.com/davehause
You may just know this man from a little awesome bands called THE LOVED ONES he is due to release his own solo record very soon and you can expect the hits from said awesome pop punk rock band

Jack Terricloth ( World Inferno Friendship Society)
http://www.myspace.com/worldinferno
The Frontman from the crazy dudes at world inferno, expect some spoken word as well as some cracker from the bands back catalouge

Chas Palmer Williams ( Lightyear )
The lightyear frontman played a cracking set for our 5th birthday so we have invited him back for more great tunes and banter, check out his brand new EP here
http://chas.bandcamp.com/

Thanks! & Next show - ing!

2010-12-01T06:34:00.000-08:00

So we all had an amazing time over the month of november indulging in the very best the punkrock has to offer from the states and the UK, my personal HUGE thanks to all the bands for playing and people for coming down and having fun with us!
Also a very special thanks to FAT WRECK CHORDS & SIDEONEDUMMY for donating to the punkrock raffle we raised around £50 for the Disaster in Pakistan which is great! :D

Heres a clip from the last show with THE RIOT BEFORE

To see the year out and until we come back from our hiatus we are having a knees up christmas style with the great dudes in CRAZY ARM
The Facebook event is HERE for full deets!

Groezrock 2011! :D

2010-11-29T08:58:00.000-08:00

Ow yes, if you havent been in jail or early hibernation then youl know that the 1st sets of names have appeared for argubably the best punkrock festival in the world known as 'GROEZROCK' this year is the 20th anniversary and we can not wait! if these two images arent enough to excite you then i really dont know what is!
Stay tuned for ticket information!

We are half way through our birthday!

2010-11-15T17:55:00.000-08:00

AND its been amazing! we have had two great shows and two great raffles! heres a couple of videos to check out of highlights and such, once again huge thanks to FATWRECKCHORDS & SIDEONEDUMMY for donating to the punkrock raffle we have raised around £30 so far for the disaster in Pakistan, the next show is this weds night at the Soul Cellar in Southampton!
Tickets only £4 on the door! 7.30pm start! :)

PUNK ROCK FRIDAY WITH THE MENZINGERS!

BOMB THE MUSIC INDUSTRY!

Chuck Ragan Interview Part 2

2010-11-15T17:48:00.000-08:00

In this part, chuck talks about topics in his song and the new HOT WATER MUSIC record, check it out!

WWR: A lot of the older bands I talk to such as yourself, lagwagon, NUFAN etc, I always pose the question do you still actively follow the punk rock scene? And where do you think its gone in the last 5 years since its died down a lot in England especially!

CR: Yea I always feel like i'm completely saturated with music and sometimes a little over saturated to me I feel punk rock to me has always been more of an ethic rather than a style or a fad or even a genre, punk rock to me when I learnt about it 24 years ago was a completely different thing to what it is nowadays, it has some of the same elements but it was more frowned upon more than anything else.
You weren't accepted at school, we just weren't you know the punks , the skateboarders we were the ones that were always hassled, it was cool to us but it wasn't cool to anybody else ha!
Over the years as i've grown older i've believed a lot of those ethics are still there with some people, and some of those people who I believe still hold those ethics may not be considered from a outside perspective punk rock people at all! Some of the most punk rock people I know are more farmers and ranchers, its more about this DIY ethic of knowing how to grow their own food and knowing how to hunt and fish and live off of the land and be completely self sufficient. Growing up when I learnt about punk rock it was more about rebelling against the norm, rebelling against society, church and school and all the rules, and I was this 12/13 year old kid that happened to know everything in the world! So for me the best part about it one way or another there will always be an underground and they'll always be that undeniable ethic of doing things yourself and maintaining and sustaining on your own.

WWR: When you play live you tend to have a lot of stories behind your songs, I love this because its educational and its not just a song, where do these tend to come from? Books? Family? Friends?

CR : All of the above really, i've just always felt like song writing for me is something that I always more or less have to do rather than a choice, I say that meaning its like therapy to me its more or less like someone keeping a journal or a diary its something I need to do to get it off my chest, I do it for that first and foremost and I love releasing records.
I love to make these journals and diary's into a song and get them out and I feel like when I put them on a record and I them 'out' away from me its almost like i'm able to step forward with my own life and choice.

WWR: So essentially your records are history books?

CR: Absolutely , as far as where the stories come from think about what effects you everyday from the moment you wake up to the moment you go to bed, all these people that you see, the positive things, the negative things just everything you've faced throughout the day just like day to day life.
With your family, job and society to me i've always felt that if something, anything effects you in an extremely positive or negative way most likely for me its worth getting it off my chest and telling a story about it.

WWR: Last question, what's going on with hot water music at the moment? I know you've done random shows, but George is playing for against me etc is there plans to record?

CR : yea we are actually writing a new record, so that's kind of new and its fun and the best part about it for us is that its like the beginning again.
We don't have any contracts no label , we have no managers no one telling us when and where, even though we have always done a good job in doing what the hell we want to, ha! But still it feels like we are not expected to do anything and it definitely got to that point when your this band and your going and you put out a record and you tour on it and you let everybody know yea we are going back in the studio, everybody's waiting for the next record and the next tour and there's that pressure there and for us.
The main focus now is just to write new songs and when it feels right and ready to record we will do it , and when we feel like getting a label we will do it.

WWR: do you feel records come out better without the pressure and having no time limits?

CR : yea if we just relax and we do exactly what we want to do it'l come out great, and if it doesn't at least it will sound good to us aha! No one else may like it but as long as your happy that's fine! Ha ha!

WWR : Ha! OK Chuck huge thanks for your time and we shall see you soon

CR : My pleasure I appreciate it!

Exclusive Chuck Ragan Interview part 1

2010-11-04T09:11:00.000-07:00

So This past week we had the pleasure of sharing a drink with gruff punk rock legend, Chuck Ragan. He is currently on tour in europe supporting The Gaslight Anthem so make sure you get out to a show!

CHUCK RAGAN INTERVIEW

WWR : So we are here with the man himself MR Chuck Ragan, how are you today sir?

CR: Very well, thanks for having me!

WWR : il crack straight into the questions/chat

CR: Sure fire away

WWR : So right now your on tour with the gaslight anthem and a few months ago were with frank turner, do you find these shorts of tours beneficial as your playing to a different crowd every night compared to your own shows and in America?

CR : Sure, always. I think that's the case for any artist or band doing support slots, that's the key that's what your trying to do, to have a chance and opportunity to share your music with a audience who have no idea who you are, don't care who you are and just to get out there and have that chance to put your music out there.
Whether they like it or not that is a whole other story, some people care about that some people don't, for me I respect the fact that my musics not for everybody and I have always felt that way, if people get something from it that's wonderful, if they don't that's fine also there's plenty of other artists out there!
We feel really blessed to have the opportunity's we have over here, the UK has always been wonderful for us from hot water music to the solo stuff, we've got a lot of really great friends over here, nowadays we come to different towns and see friends and feel comfortable and familiar, we feel really lucky you know.

WWR : Is this your first time in Southampton? I know you played with hot water music years ago in a youth centre, do you remember that at all?

CR : Ha! yea vaguely, I thought I had played at this venue at some point, it looks really familiar, but im not sure when.

WWR: Would you say its fair to say that you as Chuck Ragan is a follow on from Rumbleseat after that became defunct?

CR : Yea sure, somewhat but I was playing that sort of music before Chris and I ever started Rumbleseat, the stuff that im doing now isn't that far of a stretch from music ive been writing and playing for past 17, 18 years. I just never put as much focus on it as hot water music was always the main focus and not as many people cared ( laughs ).
So this music for me has been something ever since we (hot water music) took our indefinite hiatus some years back, I never stopped writing and one day my wife said hey you should be recording some of this stuff and I said alright! Then sideonedummy wanted to put some records out, so I stopped building houses and put more attention into writing and playing music , but yea ( rumbleseat) is some what similar I've somewhat progressed or least I hope so! Ha if not im doing something wrong ( laughs )

WWR : So your doing this split with Brian ( gaslight anthem ) is it going to be full band or is it back to bare bones for you?

CR : Yea its not even much of a split we are doing a full length record, so far we've just been writing songs on our own and sending them back and forth and singing on each others songs and playing on each others songs, the game plan is to try and record some stuff on this tour we will see what happens and if we are able and have time we will write together which will be wonderful, he is a brilliant brilliant song writer, I love his fire and his energy he's a good fella all round.

WWR : Do you feel you have some years more experience when it comes to writing?

CR : To be honest I don't look at it that way at all, its all relative in time. These boys have been trucking so hard in the past 5, 6 years especially you know they've seen and done more than most bands will ever do in a lifetime.

WWR : Do you think the revival tour will ever come to the UK?

CR : Absolutely! Yeah, we attempted to put one together last year, but we got sidetracked because of all our other schedules. Its been tough because my wife and I basically co ordinate that whole tour and we have a little help from some friends here and there, for the most part my wife and I make the schedule and the decisions but just doing that and the solo stuff and balancing simple everyday home life and now hot water music is doing more stuff, its quite a juggling act.
We've been really excited to bring it over here, im not sure exactly when were going to be doing it but we are planning it for 2011 as far as what month im not sure right now, we are getting ready to lock in the US dates and the Australian dates and once that's locked in we will have a idea, we will do the UK, Europe then Canada then just repeat the cycle

WWR : With Ben Nichols and Tim Barry as well?

CR: Possibly ( smiles ) we will see what happens! I can tell you , you wont be disappointed. A lot of the people that are good friends and artists i've never played with have shown interest in the tour, I mean if its half the tour that it seems like its going to be it will be amazing.

WWR : When you first sat down to record the 'blueprint sessions' did you ever plan to tour worldwide and release as much as you have?

CR : No I didn't, I wasn't thinking about touring at the time. I didn't want to tour at all. I was actually trying to get away from touring and my wife and I were actually planning on starting a custom home building business just on my own as a independent contractor & builder and then the music started doing better and we were able to get out.
Before I was making more money at home with my trade and then I would have to lose money to go play some music which was always fine and then it started getting a little better where we could make ends meet but the last thing I wanted to do was to get back into the machine of it all , the only thing that kind of rectified it for me you could say was that I was doing it solo and my wife and I could make the schedule and we were making our own rules and dictating our life.
It was a completely different feeling than being in a band because hot water music just got to this point where it was wonderful, we had great times and great shows and everything but definitely after a while we had the label and managers and all these people on payroll and all this going on, then you don't dictate your own schedule any more your just a piece of the puzzle.
There's pros and cons to it, its wonderful because you have this big family kind of thing but at the same time personal space disappears, personal agenda disappears, you miss birthdays and funerals and births and anniversary's you name it, its just extremely taxing.
So it was different then when I kicked it off again in my own way, but I had no idea we would have done as much as we have.

WWR : I remember the first time you came over you played by yourself, was there a point you decided to go full band?
No not necessarily I still play by myself quite a bit, tonight its just Jon Gaunt and I. The Cool thing about it in a non selfish way but kind of a selfish way (laughs) is having the control of being able to say i'm going to do this show by myself or get just John or get a whole bunch of people and just go for it. Its just nice to be able to have those options to me it feels more creative and free all round.

New Smoke Or Fire Song!

2010-10-20T18:37:00.001-07:00

Fat Wreck Chords 'Smoke Or Fire' have a brand new song aswell as a brand new drummer in tow, they are set to release the immensley anticipated new album 'the speakeasy' on November 9th and if its anywhere near as good as 'this sinking ship' then hold on to your socks!

You can download the brand new track 'neon light' here for free! :)

Brand new SUNDOWNER Video

2010-10-19T17:50:00.000-07:00

As the headline reads.. check it out also if you havent already check out the latest full length ' we chase the waves' head over to the sundowner myspace for songs

I am going to RIOT FEST next year i swear..

2010-10-11T17:53:00.001-07:00

So the awesome RIOT FEST was is in CHICAGO this weekend, alt press filmed 2 rad videos of which im reposting here, which also happen to be two of my favourite releases of this year..

SUNDOWNER

FLATLINERS

Extras Birthday show details...

2010-10-10T17:00:00.000-07:00

THE RIOT BEFORE SHOW ONLY HAS 50 TICKETS AVAILABLE! its in a tiny room, probably the smallest place youl ever see them!
the lineup is as follows...

Venue: The Soul cellar basement
Date: Weds 24th November
Doors : 7.30pm
Tickets: £6

THE RIOT BEFORE - http://www.myspace.com/theriotbefore
These guys are one of my favourite bands in recent years and have shared the stage with bands we all love, take a listen learn the songs they are top! from paper & plastick records recently toured with a wilhelm scream to name a few. One of the gaslight anthems FAVS!

APOLOGIES, I HAVE NONE -
http://www.myspace.com/apologiesihavenone
A sincere welcoming bunch of humans right here, who play strike chord awesome sing a long songs and have shared the staged with the cream of the punkrock ladder make sure you dont miss ur chance to see them back in their 'roots' surroundings, this will be MEGA!

BREAK THE HABIT (LAST SHOW) - http://www.myspace.com/wearebreakthehabit
These guys are from Brighton and have been close friends over the years basically they are influenced by so many awesome bands which in return makes them awesome too! sadly this will be their last ever show in Southampton so head to their myspace now since you can download everything theyve ever recorded for free! R.I.P

CYNICS - http://www.myspace.com/ihatecynics
This boy grew up fast and tall, i remember the days of giles sipping fosters outside venues in london before shows and talking shit, BUT now hes a man and he has some stories to tell, hes been playing shows with some of his idols lately ( paint it black, off with their heads ) so you should come listen to what he has to say!

Tickets
are £6 and will be available monday (il post the link in this thread) ,
the price includes a clubnight afterwards, Drinks are super cheap from
9pm ranging from 90p to £3, before then £2 beer
so get down and make this a show to remember!

This will be the last show of our birthday celebrations and also the last show we do as wrongwayround for a little while, i wont go in to reasons why here on facebook since thats so throwaway, but il probably say a little something at each show, but never the less please do come down and show some love and support for ...this show its going to be a special one! :D

Our 5th birthday!

2010-10-04T18:00:00.000-07:00

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

Southampton independent promoters WrongWayRound are having their 5th
birthday as a 'being' come November, everything from the radio show to the
zine to the promotion over the years!

To celebrate we are having a
...show every week! :D

We will be having a huge punkrock raffle at every
show giving away goodies from labels we have worked with over the past 5
years all proceeds will be going to the disaster in Pakistan.

Headliners
for the shows are BOMB THE MUSIC INDUSTRY (7th), THE MENZINGERS (12th),
COUNTERPUNCH (17th) & THE RIOT BEFORE (24th) a cheaper duel ticket
is available for only £11 which gains you entry to both UNIT Club shows
plus one other of your choosing!

Tickets available from joinerslive.co.uk or pay on the door for the others!

Jeff Rowe Video

2010-10-04T17:52:00.000-07:00

So last week i had the pleasure of meeting and seeing play the great jeff rowe, he is a upcoming acoustic man hailing from the states, if your a fan of music like chuck ragan, jon snodgrass, frank turner and such then you would very much enjoy his music.

Go check out his stream of 'Barstool Conversations' right here

Groezrock Part 4

2010-09-28T16:27:00.000-07:00

So this is it, all the footage i pretty much had edited and in this part are some 'outtakes' or more so 'leftovers' but i wanted everything to be up anyway!
Thanks again to Groezrock for letting us film, we cant wait to head back for the 20th birthday next year! make sure you keep your eyes peeled at www.groezrock.be for the 1st announced bands sometime soon!

Groezrock Documentary

2010-09-27T17:15:00.000-07:00

So a while back we posted the 1st 2 parts of the 'into the groezrock' documentary of sorts, ive had major computer issues but the 3rd part is finally online and can be viewed below!

Major Industry Stuff - Buy In!..

2010-09-22T10:53:00.000-07:00

Sometimes i feel bad for the state of the music industry but then other times i dont since they way they 'market' their artists is usually pretty cutthroat and pathetic, 3 cheers for independent labels...

On a Clear Day You Can See Manhattan by Blake Schwarzenbach

2010-09-20T16:40:00.000-07:00

THIS IS SIMPLY A REPOST FROM THE FORGETTERS OWN BLOG, THEY HAVE A FULL ALBUM / DOUBLE 7 INCH OUT THIS WEEK - THE FORGETTERS ARE FRONTED BY ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT FRONTMEN IN PUNK ROCKS RECENT HISTORY THE VOCALIST OF SUCH BANDS AS JAWBREAKER & JETS TO BRAZIL

It is the eve of 9/11 in New York, the bat signal has been launched into the sky at Ground Zero, reminding us all to feel bad for some more time, to haunt us with the question, "Is anyone actually going to turn up?" It is an appropriately lonely beacon, catching you unawares as you round a corner at dusk, mired as you might be in your own evening concerns. Suddenly there it is: the twin columns of light silently blasting upwards into the void without words. If I may attempt an approximation of a not uncommon response to such a thing: (1) Surprise (“Ah, here it is again!”); (2) Self-examination (“Does this inspire any kind of feeling in me? It’s pretty, but quite divorced from reality”); (3) Needling guilt (“Have I changed as much as I could in the last decade?”); (4) Simmering resentment (“Don’t tell me how or when to feel”); (5) Wariness (“Here comes the punditry and the day of angry flags”); (6) Resignation (“We are lost; we can’t even handle sadness adequately.”)
Now look, I would actually prefer the soft jolt of this nighttime beacon to all the tearful, vengeful talking that will ensue – it actually seems commensurate with the events themselves: no words, seen from afar, it just happens and demands some kind of reflection, and ultimately it leaves us searching and feeling adrift. Unfortunately, and I think this is because we are an impressionable and deliberate people, the opening that such a spectral image provides is going to be immediately filled in with a variety of narratives. We will be told to be unwavering, to dig our heels in and find our mettle, to never forget; and we will congratulate ourselves on the enormity of the event that we have withstood – in a manner that I suspect has been found rightly offensive to the many people and students of history who know that “thousands dead” is an almost daily occurrence throughout the world. That fact doesn’t need to diminish anything. In fact if anything it ought to be (to borrow from current discourse) a kind of “message force multiplier”: We are a part of this vulnerable world. Or, perhaps, we were, for a moment, before wrenching ourselves apart from it and asserting our role as the standard-bearer for law and conduct. But this has been said before and need not be repeated here at much length – that we squandered an enormous amount of good will and collective empathy by lashing out in every direction at things deemed un-American. What concerns me now is that, over the course of the last decade, this battle has been brought home with laser-like intensity. Foreign policy has become domestic policy. The enemy is no longer out there; the enemy is in our midst, among us, laying eggs and taking root.
What distinguishes this September in New York from all the others is the sudden outcry against the proposed Islamic Community Center in our city’s downtown. This was not an issue when it was proposed and it is a project that has the approval of the mayor and the downtown community, to say nothing of the genuine interest it has sparked in many around the world. Again the world is watching and praying for something resembling common sense and basic humanism in America; something that says we don’t hate you or consider you to be a lesser form of citizen. Think of Obama’s June 2009 speech in Cairo – think whatever you will of it – at the very least it promised equanimity and acknowledgment of Islam as a legitimate social and spiritual entity in the world and in this country, specifically. No more, but no less, than Christianity or Judaism or Hinduism or Buddhism. Think, then, of all the arguments for bringing democracy and freedom to Iraq and Afghanistan – think what you will of them – they were the best possible outcome that Afghans and Iraqis might hope for as a result of foreign occupation. If we can hold these things in mind then the message of censuring this project becomes patently offensive: We will seize and upend your country for your right to make your own decisions – as partners in peace – but we will not countenance a social center for your community in our midst. (And let us put to rest the hyperbolic notion that this is either at the center of Ground Zero or a simple mosque. This is a community center in the neighborhood that happens to have a huge need for development, in a very closely compacted city, with a significant population of Muslims and other people who would be interested to visit it.)
Yet perhaps we could go even further than this by assuming the argument of the project’s opponents. It is indeed close to Ground Zero, a site where the so-called two disparate worlds of East and West were brought together in a horrific, unsparing moment. And now here is a distinguished figure from the Islamic world, Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, who has repeatedly condemned the September 11th attacks as a violent aberration of, and not representative of, Islam, proposing a center for understanding and outreach in an area still visibly unhealed from the event. People rush in to fill holes. Here is a modest proposal to occupy a small amount of space in an area that has been consumed by ignorance. So, we might ask, “Why shouldn’t we want such a resource in downtown New York?” Arguably it will hold answers for many of the questions that may linger about the attacks, but more importantly it will provide a place of growth and empowerment for a community that is as legitimate and entitled as any other in our country. Does one stop a “clash of civilizations” by refusing any dialogue between the two? Imagine the message of disappointment and resentment such a refusal would send to the Arab world. Or, put another way, would you rather have a library, pool, 9/11 memorial, contemplative space and day care in downtown New York or would you rather have a Burlington Coat Factory (or a Staples or a Starbucks)?
I know that when people are critical of memorial holidays it can come off as churlish and arch, and I don't want to be that anymore; I don’t want to be part of the culture of complaint, the whinging left that can never be happy unless it is battling upwards against nefarious superpowers. So I would suggest this: let us be sad for once and re-affirm our commitment to being alive while we can. Again, I know it is unpretty to conceive of tragedy as opportunity, but I am afraid that such a determination was made almost at the moment of impact (arguably well before impact, if anyone bothers to read the minutes of the cabinet meetings in Washington.) So again we are confronted with an opportunity. What stories about ourselves do we want to believe and put forth historically? What do we want to remember someday and what will make us wince? Do we want to be remembered for unconditionally defending freedom or for defensive incarceration and exclusion? I think very few people in this country can honestly look back over the past decade and feel a sense of pride – the ransacking of the public trust and the plundering of foreign soil is simply too transparent, too vast to go undocumented. But because we are a plucky sort – and this is what the rest of the world finds maddening and lamentable but also terribly endearing about us – we can begin as if we were free. We can forget some of the terrible, cynical decisions we have made and remember the truth that is self-evident to anyone who sits seriously with the idea of an indivisible human community: to do to any other only what we would do for ourselves, an idea that is held in common between all national constitutions and books of prayer.

WTFest 2 Photos!

2010-09-19T16:08:00.000-07:00

WTFest Merch!

2010-09-19T16:03:00.000-07:00

So Over the Weekend we manage to scrape together enough money to get some shirts and trucker hats done!
Well because we are blessed by some form of punkrock god we actually won 50 shirts from the amazing folks at get a grip studio and was chosen by the honcho himself mr paul punktastic.com to win the actual competition so HUGE thanks to both parties for providing us with these ace shirts!

We do still have very limited shirts and hats left we will get those online this week!

Some WTFest 2 Video Highlights

2010-09-14T14:05:00.000-07:00

Hey guys! Theres a bunch of videos floating around on youtube from the fest, ive uploaded some also please excuse quality and sound on some as they are just shot on handhelds or phones!

Crazy Arm

Drawings

Defier

WTFEST 2 IS DONE!

2010-09-08T17:34:00.000-07:00

WOW! what a weekened so much awesomeness, mega huge thanks to all the venues, 30+ bands and everyone for showing up and having a rocking time with us!

Theres some pictures floating around and also videos from the whole weekend right here
at this link

Theres some WTFEST merch left over we will be getting that up online very soon for those whom missed out on it!

WTFEST PART DEUX!

2010-08-13T08:30:00.001-07:00

This years WTFest entitled 'WTFest Part Deux' will be taking place again in Southampton from September 3rd through to the 5th with shows at The Joiners, UNIT & Soul Cellar as well as free shows throughout town! Let the mayhem ensue!

To keep in the know about shows and sets please follow the official Fest twitter at www.twitter.com/wtfesst

THURSDAY 2ND SEPT - OFFICIAL WTFEST WARM UP SHOW - UNIT - 10PM -3AM £4

NEW RIOT
SOLUTIONS
FENSIDE
THE FAUX

FRIDAY SEPT 3RD - JOINERS - 6.30PM - £8

THE GHOST OF A THOUSAND
THE PLIGHT
THE ARTERIES
THE CUT UPS
PACER
FAMOUS GREY

SINGLE TICKETS:http://www.joinerslive.co.uk/product.php?xProd=665&jssCart=8d317671213e98241f78c6f66ed3d317

WEEKEND TICKET! ONLY 45 LEFT!
http://www.joinerslive.co.uk/product.php?xProd=729&xSec=1&jssCart=0f789af77452d2d55b7335cb6eb5a950

SATURDAY SEPT 4TH - OXFAM MUSIC - FREE SHOW - 4.30-6.30PM

KIDS CAN'T FLY
BURN THE FLEET
DRAWINGS (MATT REYNOLDS)
LION AND THE WOLF

LATER THAT NIGHT...

THE JOINERS - 7.00PM
BLACKLISTED
ATTACK! VIPERS!
DEFIER
FINAL ROUND! FIGHT!
TEAR YOURSELF APART

TICKETS: http://www.joinerslive.co.uk/product.php?xProd=608

Sunday September 5th

MATINEE SHOW 3PM - SOUL CELLAR
£2.50
SPECIAL GUESTS
FROM PLAN TO PROGRESS
COMPANY L

A two-staged show at the UNIT Club and sees the following bands play:

6PM DOORS! £6
THERE ARE ONLY 100 SINGLE TICKETS AVAILABLE FOR THIS SHOW SO DONT MISS OUT!

STAGE UN :
THE SKINTS
SPECIAL GUESTS
APOLOGIES, I HAVE NONE
SPECIAL GUESTS
THE AMISTAD
MASH ATTACK
CAVES
MEGA GAMES

STAGE DEUX:
MIDDLE BAR - ACOUSTIC ROOM
CHAS WILLIAMS OF LIGHTYEAR!
LIVERS & LUNGS
CYNICS

TICKETS: http://www.joinerslive.co.uk/product.php?xProd=681&xSec=1

Single tickets for this shows are available from www.joinerslive.co.uk last years sold out so make sure your on the ball!

We will also be issuing a weekend ticket for all shows at £17! only available online and in advance! this will gain you access to ALL of WTFest 2!

Thank you and happy festing! :D

WTFest Part Deux

2010-06-25T11:53:00.000-07:00

So recently we have announced this years WTFest!? and we couldnt be more stoked and excited for whats in store!

The 1st show has been announced featuring some of the greatest punk rock bands from all over the UK..

FRIDAY THE 3RD OF SEPTEMBER
SOUTHAMPTON JOINERS
DOORS 6.30PM

THE GHOST OF A THOUSAND
THE PLIGHT
THE ARTERIES
THE CUT UPS
PACER
FAMOUS GREY

Tickets are available here!

Into the Groezrock video doc!

2010-06-25T11:49:00.000-07:00

hello sorry for the servere lack of updates i find it hard to keep up with this thing!
either way the first two parts of the 'into the groezrock' feature are now up for viewing with some great bands in tow check them out below!
PART 1

PART 2

We are back from Groezrock 2010!

2010-05-09T18:44:00.000-07:00

Last weekend we hit up the 19th annual Groezrock festival in Meerhout, Belgium.
We got some great Interviews and photos and a slew of exclusive video content coming soon!

Huge thanks to everyone at Groezrock 2010, especially Hans, Thomas & Christophe!

In the meantime enjoy the first of our posts with The Swellers!

Off With Their heads New album / Video

2010-05-09T18:42:00.000-07:00

It was during Off With Their Heads’ 2009 tour with Against Me when the band got the call from Epitaph’s owner/president Brett Gurewitz saying that he was a fan of the band.

“Off With Their Heads might be the best punk band going right now, Epitaph needs them; music needs them,” says Gurewitz.

“I remember the first time I'd heard of Epitaph,” Young adds. “It was when I was in junior high and Rancid had just released Let’s Go. I saw the video, and immediately went and bought the record. I got into the compilations, and that started me on the road to finding all these great aggressive catchy punk bands. Living in a small farm town, I had never been exposed to this kind of music before, and from there I learned about punk. I guess you could say Epitaph was my gateway into everything that I would wind up becoming. For that reason alone, I am ecstatic to be a part of one of the biggest influences on my life.”

Off With Their Heads are well on their way to carving out their own punk rock story with their modern take on vintage punk fueled anthems. As the band begins the next chapter of their career they took the time to record their best album to date.

Produced by Off With Their Heads and Jacques Wait at the Terrarium in Minneapolis, In Desolation is 34 minutes of non-stop gut wrenching honesty. Singer Ryan Young’s candid lyrics about life’s misadventures, stress, drugs, love, death and everything between add a raw surly edge to the band’s full-throttle music.

“This record is kind of a collective mix of all the styles we've done in the past,” Young explains. “Everything from aggression to sappy bullshit, because that’s who I am! This is going to be the record for people who like the whole spectrum of what we do.”

From its first track, “Drive,” a petal-to-the-metal opener about Young’s incessant habit of over thinking things and becoming his own worst critic, to the harsh reality of OD’ing on the sobering yet rowdy song “Trying to Breath” and the explosive middle-finger-in-the-air sing along “Their Own Medicine,”
In Desolation is authentic punk rock to its core from a working band who lives and breathes it every day.

When it comes to touring virtually year round it isn’t a choice as much as it’s a lifestyle for Off With Their Heads, and after years on the road the band has finally taken a brief break.

“Until the record comes out in June, we won’t be doing any shows,” says Young. “That’s the longest stretch in almost two years that we haven’t been on the road. People ask us how it feels to finally get to relax. I'm fucking bored. The other guys are bored. We want to get back out. Not to further our band, but just because we love doing it and are used to it. The title In Desolation comes from a lyric in the song “ZZYZX” on the record. I chose that because after years constantly on the road, being 100 percent by myself sounded pretty rad.”

In June Off With Their Heads will once again pack the RV and head out on another indefinite tour strapped with one of the year’s most engaging punk rock records and the sheer will to keep the wheels turning.

New Polar Bear Club Video & UK Tour!

2010-04-28T06:41:00.000-07:00

So if you dont know these melodic punk rockers yet then which boulder have you been tanning under?
The Polar Bear Club boys return to the UK this August with a string of dates so make sure to get out to one as they are far more intimate shows than the last tour!
Whats more they have a brand new video for 'Living Saints' from their latest release 'Chasing Hamburg' available now on Bridge Nine records!

POLAR BEAR CLUB TOUR UK
8 August KENT (UK) HEVY MUSIC FESTIVAL PORT LYMPNE WILD ANIMAL PARK
09-Aug BRISTOL CROFT
10-Aug LEICESTER FIREBUG
11-Aug SOUTHAMPTON JOINERS - TICKETS HERE FOR THIS SHOW
12-Aug SHEFFIELD CORPORATION
13-Aug OSLO GARAGE OYA NIGHT
14 Aug go check out our friends Adam O playing London upstairs at the garage!

Polar Bear Club's first video off of the 2009 release Chasing Hamburg has been unveiled for the first time on MySpace Music today! Directed by Thomas Colella, the video for "Living Saints" is a conceptual piece in the same vein as Peter Gabriel's 1986 "Sledgehammer" video phenomenon. Complete with animation, never-before-seen visual effects, and one of the best singles of the year, it's safe to say Polar Bear Club and Colella have created a video unlike anything expected, and we know you'll be pleasantly surprised. The video premiere for "Living Saints" is live on MySpace right now! See the video below..

Living Saints

Polar Bear Club | MySpace Music Videos
Since the release of Chasing Hamburg, Polar Bear Club has been keeping busy showcasing new material live all over the world. Today, Polar Bear Club is pleased to announce a headlining summer tour with support from Moving Mountains, label-mates Lemuria, and Living With Lions. The tour starts June 10th in New York and takes Polar Bear Club across the nation to California in just two short weeks. With not a day to spare, the guys of Polar Bear Club will join up with Warped Tour on June 24th in San Diego and continue trekking across the states until the middle of July. Polar Bear Club's summer tour plans and venue information can be found below. Be sure to keep your eyes and ears peeled for more news to come surrounding the band that has The Punk Site boldly stating, 'If this is the future of punk rock, we're in good hands."

Bridge & Tunnel and Young Livers UK Tour!

2010-04-12T16:36:00.000-07:00

So these two great bands are hitting the UK very very soon, make sure you get out and see them at a show, they are also making a stop at Wrongwayround in Southampton at Goblets Bar on Tuesday April 20th! check out the promo video below..

Thats not all! punknews is also streaming bridge and tunnels new EP right here

For Young Livers you can check a stream of their brand new full lenght via Rock Sound right here and check their brand new music video below...

:D

Final Flatliners video plus new album stream!

2010-04-12T16:33:00.001-07:00

So heres the final video of the flatliners working on their cracking new full length 'CAVALCADE' which you can also stream for free right here. The guys will be touring the UK this june so be sure to keep your eyes peeled for the dates!

Flatliners Studio Video Deux

2010-04-03T09:04:00.000-07:00

Exactly what the headline says, taken from those dudes at punknews.org go have a looksee..enjoy!

The Flatliners - The Making of "Cavalcade" (Part 2) from Punknews.org on Vimeo.

GROEZROCK 2010! its almost time!

2010-04-01T06:20:00.000-07:00

So the greatest punkrock festival in the world ( as voted on by users of fatwreck.com) returns once again to meerhout in belgium!
To make sure your part of the amazing line up and having a jolly time then dont hesitate to grab your tickets now!
Of course as well as the legendary bands on the bill there will be as per usual the greatest merchandise section and distro known to mankind! so make sure you pay a visit and pick up some records!
Go here for full information regarding the festival and everything you need to know!

In the meantime check out one of the greatest interviews we had the pleasure of partaking in at Groezrock 2008 with none other than HOT WATER MUSIC!

The Flatliners - New album! New video!

2010-03-30T11:37:00.000-07:00

So our old pals in THE FLATLINERS are soon to be releasing what is a cracker of a brand new album!
The good dudes at punknews are bringing out some videos this week of footage of them recording said album ' Cavalcade' check out the footage below and also you can get a free song from the brand new album right here for free!:

The Flatliners - The Making of "Cavalcade" (Part 1) from Punknews.org on Vimeo.

Dont Touch My Cobra like that!

2010-03-21T18:25:00.000-07:00

Hello, welcome back..
This week the amazing COBRA SKULLS From Chicagos Red Scare records released a brand new video from their last top notch album 'american rubicon'
Check out the below and the Cobra Skulls are due to hit the UK at the may for a week or so, so keep an eye for dates and make sure you catch them on the road!

Cheap Girls new video!

2010-03-15T18:36:00.000-07:00

So if you dont know this band by now i suggest you literally go here right now and download there first album for free!

But they have a newer album from the great guys at paper + plastic records, 'my roaring 20's' and you can check out there brand new video right here below..enjoy :)

Joey cape and The Skints show - Awesome!

2010-03-13T10:29:00.001-08:00

So we had two ace shows this week! Huge thanks to our new friends in The Skints and of course Joey Cape , Tony Sly & the friendliest musician in history Mr Jon Snodgrass.

Our next show is the lawrence arms on the 23rd March so be there!
Heres a video from The joey cape show, The song is from Tony Sly's New solo album '12 song program' you can check that out here

The Skints @ UNIT Club Southampton

New WWR banner

2010-03-07T13:31:00.000-08:00

So one man who is a Pure genius has been working with us for some time making sick posters and banners etc, those of you who attended the infamous 'WTFest' would have seen his banner on the stage at joiners..
Today we present a brand new banner for all upcoming shows..
To catch you first glimpse at this bad boy then get your ass down to The Joiners this coming weds for the Joey Cape show.
Huge thanks and credit goes to Tim Dutton for this piece of awesomeness!
You can Follow all his art based stuff on his twitter here

New blogish, New shows -ish?

2010-03-07T13:16:00.000-08:00

Hello so i decided to scrap the AOVMTV blog it will still be there but no longer be updated..
So bookmark this page to keep in the know with all things WRONGWAYROUND!
Heres a few upcoming shows we have so check them out and join the facebook group here to be the first in the know!

Joey Cape, Tony Sly & Jon Snodgrass!

The Skints , Liabilities & The Junk

Wrongwayround Presents..
Thursday March 11th - Free entry with a Joey Cape ticket stub!
The Skints! @ UNIT Club Southampton
18+
Entry £4 with clubnight until 3am!

Contender for Ska Punk show of the year!

The Skints - http://www.myspace.com/theskintsuk
One of the UK's newest faces to the UK Ska/Punk scene, making waves on tour with bands such as the king blues, sonic boom six and many more!
Bringing there skank along dancing shoes to Southampton for their 1st headline show!
If you ever loved the likes of Capdown, farse, Five knuckle then be sure not to miss this! youl will be dissapointed!

FFO: The Slackers, RX Bandits, The Aggrolites

Plus Support from

THE LIABILITIES
http://www.myspace.com/theliabilitiesmusic
FFO: the clash, the filaments, operation ivy

THE JUNK
http://www.myspace.com/thejunkpunk
FFO: catch 22, mighty mighty bosstones, voodoo glow skulls

The Lawrence Arms!

See you at a show!

Razorcake Video doc!

2010-02-08T16:40:00.000-08:00

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!

2010-01-15T09:42:00.000-08:00

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..

2009-11-24T17:41:00.000-08:00

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

THE BRIGGS AT JOINERS

American Steel Exclusive Interview Part 2

2009-11-11T10:28:00.000-08:00

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.. :(

2009-11-04T13:16:00.000-08:00

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
............
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:
....
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.
....
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.
....
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.
....
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.
....
xo
Colin

2009-10-27T11:06:00.000-07:00

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

2009-10-26T11:49:00.000-07:00

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!

2009-10-01T08:49:00.000-07:00

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!

2009-09-29T17:33:00.000-07:00

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!

2009-09-15T17:15:00.000-07:00

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!

2009-08-20T07:07:00.000-07:00

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?

2009-08-20T07:05:00.000-07:00

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..

2009-08-09T12:39:00.000-07:00

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

2009-07-16T10:36:00.000-07:00

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!

2009-07-14T12:26:00.000-07:00

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**

2009-06-15T12:42:00.000-07:00

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!

2009-06-14T19:13:00.000-07:00

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!

2009-06-08T07:10:00.000-07:00

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

2009-05-19T12:37:00.000-07:00

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..

PunkRockFriday - Virgins & The Cut Ups

2009-05-14T08:13:00.000-07:00

So we had our 1st PRF this friday just gone..it went off with a bang and fun times were had all round!

I'd like to send a huge thanks to everyone that came and the bands that played and also the labels who have supported us by sending us some great stuff to giveaway to people..( sideonedummy, adeline & no idea/ Kiss of death records..)

The next one is june 12th also at UNIT Club in southampton with Dave House , Lemuria & A Broken Robot playing.... this is sure to try top the 1st one so get down there!

Heres Some photos from the night..

cheers

NEW BRUISES UK TOUR!

2009-05-14T07:25:00.000-07:00

If you dont know these guys i suggest you hit them up now and start learning some songs they are over for a rare UK tour in a few weeks!

Tampa, FL’s coffee-punk trolls New Bruises have emerged from hibernation and are preparing for the first steps in what they hope to be a very active year. Next week they’ll hit the fair shores of Europe for a three-week adventure throughout Germany, France, Netherlands, and the UK.

5/21 - Berlin, Germany @ Lokal
5/22 - Freiberg, Germany @ EAC
5/23 - Giessen, Germany @ AK44
5/24 - Wurzburg, Germany @ Immerhin
5/25 - Arezzo, Italy @ The Factory
5/26 - Vicenza, Italy @ Sabotagebar w/ Off With Their Heads
5/27 - Tubingen, Germany @ Epple Haus
5/28 - Heilbronn, Germany @ Mobilat
5/29 - Mannheim, Germany @ Juz
5/30 - Paris, France @ Le Pixe
5/31 - Kingston, England @ The Peel (K FEST 09!)
6/1 - Portsmouth, England @ The Fawcett Inn
6/2 - Exeter, England @ The Cavern
6/3 - Swansea, Wales @ Bar Sigma
6/4 - Birmingham, England @ The Island Bar
6/5 - Sheffield, England @ The Stockroom
6/6 - Leeds, England @ The Packhorse (afternoon show!)
6/6 - Manchester, England @ The Retro Bar (evening show!)
6/7 - Sunderland, England @ The White Room (afternoon BBQ show!)
6/8 - Dundee, Scotland @ Drouthy Neebors
6/9 - Hull, England @ The Lamp
6/10 - Cambridge, England @ The Portland Arms
6/11 - Southampton, England @ The King Alfred
6/12 - Arnhem, Netherlands @ Willemeen

To coincide with the European tour, they’ll be releasing a split 7” with Offshore Radio (Sunderland, UK, featuring members of The Dauntless Elite and The Mercury League). They split comes care of Germany’s Yo-Yo Records and features the artistic stylings of Richard Minino, better known as Horsebites Design.

New Bruises are also proud to announce the addition of Chris Murray on bass, formerly of The Gray AM.

Future plans include appearances at San Diego’s Awesome Fast 2 and Gainesville’s The Fest 8, as well as a soon-to-be-released split 7” with Houston’s O Pioneers as part of Vinyl Collective’s “Under The Influence” series, with New Bruises covering “Nu Bruises” by Superchunk and O Pioneers covering “American Hearts” by Piebald.

CRUCIAL LINKS:
http://www.myspace.com/newbruises
http://www.yoyorecords.de/
http://www.horsebitesdesign.com/
http://northparkawesomefast.com/
http://www.thefestfl.com
http://www.southernlovin.com
http://www.kissofdeathrecords.com

NOFX , Snuff & Flatliners Photos

2009-05-12T07:15:00.000-07:00

So last week we were in london for the 2nd night of London shows for NOFX , Snuff, The Flatliners & Pour Habit.

We managed to catch interviews with both flatliners & pour habit which will be up soon but for now check out these photos from our photographer Ben Walker..

Cheers!

Senses Fail Interview

2009-05-05T15:05:00.000-07:00

Senses Fail Interview
Portsmouth Wedge – 19/4/09
Hannah Mahony for WWR
Key : H = Hannah, B = Buddy, JB = Jason Black

B: I’m having a great time
H: Despite being hungover?
B: Yes.
H: And wanting to cry?
B: I just wanna cry because I get like mentally retarded when I get hungover, and I just wanna be normal again (laughs).
JB: Are you really crying?
B: No. Because I was shoving my computer into my (pushes his apple mac into his head). Ok.
H: Ok. So, how are you?
B: Good.
H: You’ve only just arrived in the UK and you played Norwich last night, how was that?
B: Was good. It was um, weird. The show was good, but the kids were a little strange. They didn’t look like they had a good time.
H: No? Why?
B: I dunno!
H: Were they young kids or...
B: No they were medium kids. It was fun though it was fine, it was a good show, we hadn’t played there in 6 years are there was about 307 kids there so I was excited about that?
H: How do you think this tour will measure up to your past tours here?
B: We’ve done one other headlining tour here and it was really good, only it was really short it was only like 5 days. This one so far has been really good I mean tonight’s show is almost sold out, so that’s cool, that make’s me happy.
H: What’s your favourite city to perform in in the UK?
B: I don’t know, for some reason I really like Bristol. I don’t know why, I don’t know what it is. I kind of like the city.
H: I’ve never been there.
B: It’s a port town, there’s a lot of sailors and occasionally there’s Somali pirates. Who kidnap Americans and take them on their boat and the US Navy sails blow out their brains.
H: And then the captain gives himself up?
B: Yup!
H: Cool. But surely Portsmouth is a sailing town?
B: Yeah but I don’t see as many sailors around here.
H: Yeah that true.
B: Right?
H: You don’t many typical sailors.. What was playing Groezrock like?
B: It was.. we showed up and played so it felt like I was on acid or something, but it was fun. Yeah we had a great crowd and there was a bunch of our friends we hadn’t seen in a while so that was fun. The beer garden was ... interesting, it was good, I had a great time. I like that festival a lot.
H: Did you get to see many bands you liked?
B: I watched Thursday and they were awesome and that’s about it, I wasn’t really in the band watching mood. Just cos we just showed up that day and I was out of it.
H: You’re recording process is different from other bands, you record demos and then you go into the studio and..
B: Pretty much change the demos a little bit and then just record it, we come prepared into the studio because it works better.
H: Do you think you improve when you get into the studio, or from when you do the recordings first?
B: I’d say the demos first because you know what you’re doing and you write the song and it makes sense, you have more time to prepare. So that when you go to record it in the studio you just bang it out and it’s easier I think. It works better, it’s smoother.
H: And what was the recording process like for the new album, was it all smooth sailing?
B: No. It was intense ‘cos we didn’t do demos, we decided to right everything in the studios for the most part and that was a mess. . which turned out good, but was really stressful and I don’t wanna ever do it that way again.
H: How long did you spend in the studio?
B: 2 months.
H: Did you go in with any ideas?
B: Yeah, we had mainly 5 songs and everything we wrote in the studio was just intense.
H: What’s your opinion on the current state of the music scene?
B: You know it’s weird. There’s a lot of bands that suck, there’s a lot of bands that are good and there are a lot of people that like the bands that suck and unfortunately those people that like the bands that suck spend money on them to go to their shows so they become more popular therefore taking more fans that would come to our shows away from us which makes me diss them back and upset. But that’s a selfish view of the music industry from my point of view, there’s a lot of good shit though and there’s a lot of bad shit but that’s the way it’s always been.
H: Do you think that with the economic crisis is affecting the quality of music out at the moment?
B: I don’t know if it’s affecting the quality but it’s definitely affecting the amount of kids who go to shows because they just don’t have the money to blow.
H: Have you noticed a decline in people not being able to go to shows?
B: Yeah. Definitely.
H: Obviously you have that statement you made about Brokencyde. What do you think it is that attracts kids to Brokencyde if they’re so awful? Do you think the current generation of kids have lost a ]sense of good music because there’s nothing on there?
B: I think that’s one thing and I think two, it’s really easy to listen to, you don’t have to think about it. It’s just background, it’s just... i think.. honestly, I have no idea why people would listen to them. I don’t know, I couldn’t give you a legitimate reason why people would like them, I can’t.
H: How do you think Heath’s changed since he’s joined the band?
B: Ask Heath!
H: How do you think you’ve changed?
Heath: Uhh I dunno. How I’ve changed personally? Since when?
H: You joined.
B: Oh. I think I’m pretty much the same dude. Fun at parties?
H: More fun at parties?
Heath: Probably
B: You don’t party as much but when you do you go for it.
Heath: I go for it. I’ve always been kind of the dude. I don’t think I’ve changed much.
B: No I don’t think he drinks as much but when he does he drinks A LOT.
H: Do you see yourselves getting any bigger or smaller in the next foreseeable three years?
B: Um, I dunno. I mean if we had put out a shitty record then we’ll definitely get smaller. If we write a really really good record I think we could potentially get bigger, but probably won’t. I don’t really for see that in the future. I’d have to, do you have a magic 8 ball? Just (does a 8 ball shaking movement). I don’t know what mine would say. I mean it all depends on the record you put out, if it sucks it sucks and people don’t like you.
H: You’re pretty much packed up until August, other than taking a good rest afterwards, what you see yourselves doing?
B: I’ll probably go home and do jujitsu, its gunna be awesome because I haven’t been able to do jujitsu in almost two and a half months.
H: How long have you been doing that for?
B: Going on a year and a half, two years.
H: Are you gunna record anything new or go touring for a while?
B: We’re probably gunna go home and not talk to other until warped tour because we’ve all been around each other for two and half months.
JB: I’m not talking to you guys.
B: I’m gunna go to the beach, I’m gunna do jujitsu, I’m gunna work and my step fathers law office and my step brother’s gunna be home so I’m gunna see him. I’m pretty much just gunna hang out and wait until we go on warped tour.
H: Are you looking forward to Warped tour?
B: Yeah it’ll be fun, it’ll be fun.
H: Have you had a listen to the bands supporting you tonight?
B: No I have not, I have not listened to them.

Thanks to Senses Fail & Ian Cheek
www.myspace.com/sensesfail
www.sensesfail.com

SHOOK ONES!

2009-04-28T11:24:00.000-07:00

So This past sunday our promotion here in Southampton WrongwayRound Promotions put on another amazing showcase with Shook Ones from Seattle, USA. Also on the bill was Red tape Parade from Germany who were ace! As well as Chillerton, Our Time Down here and Immortal youth..

Heres a clip from the show...

Return from Groezrock 09'

2009-04-24T07:12:00.000-07:00

So we are back from the best festival in the land the mighty Groezrock, we had a jolly time catching some of the best punk rock bands which currently reside on our small planet.
Whilst out in belgium we managed to catch chats with CATCH 22, THE LIVING END, RISE AGAINST, THE VANDALS & THIS IS A STANDOFF.

To check out more info on the festival and pictures hit up http://www.groezrock.be

These will be appearing in some form over the coming weeks and months via this blog and our printed zine.
We would like to thank Groezrock for having us and cant wait for next year..

Wrongwayround Punk Zine issue one

2009-04-03T11:27:00.000-07:00

Is now out of print.. but due to technology you can now view this in full colour..

Open publication - Free publishing - More wrongwayround

ERM AWESOME...

Polar Bear Club Update

2009-03-21T10:01:00.000-07:00

Hello! so after the success of the show a few weeks ago we have an update for everyone!

theres some news on the new album from Polar Bear Club, a video and some epic photos we you all to see!

1st off heres what Jimmy from PBC had to say about the new album which will be out on bridge nine records sometime in 09'!

Jimmy : Yes! Its mostly written , we spent January writing it so were going home after this tour and then then we go out with Have Heart and then record in April, and so yea its mostly done but we gotta go home and tidy things up in our short time off, its interesting... its polar bear club definitely but there's some songs that are kind of like... I always thought polar bear club the music was kind of like this grey area between punk and hardcore and indie or whatever.

I always thought the songs were kind of in the middle and there is definitely songs like that on there, you know where its not knowing what style or what genre it is, but there's a couple songs where the hardcore songs are more hardcore and the punk rock songs get more punk rock, but there's still that grey iffy area, with some songs leaning on the outside, but its cool im really excited about it actually we've been working really hard on it, I just want to get those songs out there you know! Just it takes so long for the whole process to come together, I'm ready for people to know the songs!

Photos by Ben Walker...

Video By Ricky Bates

Polar Bear Club Preview

Groezrock 2009! April 17th + 18th

2009-03-16T19:56:00.000-07:00

So we are exactly a month away from the legendary groezrock festival in meerhout belguim, the line up is complete and the beer is ready to flow!
this will be our 5th year in attendence of such a great festival.
You can find all the details you need at www.groezrock.be concerning tickets and times..

or head straight to this link for a downloadable schedule..
http://www.groezrock.be/public/

Our latest issue of wrongwayroundpunk zine has a full review plus more on last years edition, to get your hands on the mag head over to the right for links to follow...

Broadway Calls - Interview

2009-03-10T12:38:00.000-07:00

Rick: First question. Tour of the UK, I know you guys have been here before for Give It A Name and stuff like that, how have the reactions been this time round?

BC: Uh It’s been good, I mean the last time we were touring with pop bands and this time we are too but it’s a little more our style so it’s a better crowd for us.
BC: There’s a few kids coming out that came before, but I mean Alkaline Trio, Cobra Starship, like the same kids, like even if they did like us they’re not guna pay, what £20 just to come see us. There have been a few kids that actually came out from the last tour.

R: You did a headline show at the Peel was that good?

Yeah that was the best show we did so far, that was the best in the UK so far, as far as atmosphere goes

R: Is it still beneficial for you guys to tour over here and not just for finance but also to get your names known?

Yeah I mean the tours that we’re doing, we’ve never done a tour that big in the states besides the Warped Tour, I mean this is like 1,000 kids every night, at least.

R: This venue is weird because it looks like it fits a lot more than it does when its only 1700 people. So give us a brief history about your band and why you formed?

Well we were in a hardcore band together called Countdown To Life, well we’ve been playing together since we were like 14 but then our first touring band was Countdown To Life and we started that when we were like 18, 19 and we did that for a few years but then our bass player and singer didn’t wanna tour any more and we had band payments to make and we still wanted to tour but we didn’t wanna start another band that sounded like that so we went this route because this is our favourite kind of music anyway. So we did that and we’ve been doing it since it kinda took over, it was supposed to be like, we were going to tour with this band when Countdown couldn’t but this kinda took over.

R: So labels, you guys have just signed to Side One Dummy, do you have a certain amount of releases that you have to bring out?

BC: It’s one with a few options. I mean pretty much if everyone’s happy we’ll keep producing them.

R: Side One Dummy has been snapping up a lot lately, obviously they have Gaslight and stuff like that. But Gaslight clearly aren’t guna stay on there for their next release they’ll go straight to a….

BC: Oh they will, they’re really happy with Side One, I mean they’ve had majors coming after them before Side One.

R: They’ve also just been announced to support Bruce Springsteen in Hyde Park. That’s just mental really.

BC: Is that like a big festival?

R: No it’s just Bruce Springsteen’s own show.

BC: Really?

R: Yeah it’s massive over here he plays like once every 5 years so he can do stuff like that. I think The Hold Steady are on there too so it should be pretty cool.

R. how much difference do you think labels actually make these days in terms of whether you were on Side One Dummy or Fat Wreck or Universal, how much do you really think it’s going to open up? Like will it make much difference from what you were on before?

BC: Yeah like just one example, Flogging Molly paved the way to get bands on Letterman and Conan, which Gaslight just did both of those so from that aspect like the press side they already have the connections with everyone like Rolling Stone and that so we’re guna get good press whether kids pick up on it, so that’s just one way.
BC: And some people, I guess like if a label is being really consistent with good releases then you’re guna wanna check on their new bands anyway, so like some kids might check us out just because we’re signed to Side One or just because we are on the same label as Gaslight or something like that.

R: Do you feel like it’s going to open up for a lot more tours, because like Kevin Lyman owns a part of it doesn’t he?

BC: Yeah, I mean we already did Warped Tour so that’s how we met up with Side One in the first place but yeah its going to open up a lot, everyone loves the guys at Side One, like they’re really good dudes.

R: I think they’ve kind of overtaken Fat Wreck in terms of bigness now…

BC: Yeah and quality and everything about it, I mean Fat scaled down

R: They closed down their European office last year and now it’s a pain in the arse to get anything

…..

R: Right music and lyrics: What really influences you to write, because within your self-titled there’s a lot of positivity within the lyrics and it seems like you’re proud of where you’re from and you sing about it. Does where you’re from influence it a lot?

BC: Yeah there was on the last record for sure. It’s cool for the North-West for our style of music, there isn’t much of it, there’s The Thermals, they’re a good pop band from Portland but I mean there’s not a lot of pop-punk so it’s kind of cool to represent the North-West of the United States when we’re out travelling around because there’s a lot of indie rock and stuff from Portland, like Sub-Pop Records is from the area and it’s huge.

R: So do you feel that’s a definite influence where you’re from or is it deeper stuff that you tend to write about?

BC: Well it’s weird, like that record I guess when I go back and listen to it there are some positive things on the record, like Back To Oregon is my favourite love song written but there is also some dark stuff on that record but it’s just kind of towards the end of the songs it’s kinda about pulling through that so, that record is all about touring basically and like making new friends and missing friends at home and that’s what that record was all about and this next one I’m trying to write from other people’s points of view.

R: Ethics of punk rock: do you guys make your own t-shirts and stuff? Do you think it’s important to do things like that every now and again to stay grounded?

BC: Yeah there are a lot of bands we meet who don’t even know what their t-shirt design is guna be but I just think it’s important we still have every say in it like people will get a management company and let them take over and let their ideas go but we still, we know what’s going on with our band.

R: It’s definitely cheaper to produce.

BC: People are lazy too and I think it’s important for bands to keep doing things for themselves. And we’re really lucky because our management and booking agency both give us a lot of freedom, like we don’t have to book every show through our agent, she gets us big stuff and then we still do basement tours in the States. In the States 30 or 40% of our shows are in a basement or something like not in a club but yeah our booking agent let us book our own tours.

R: Your new release on Side One Dummy, have you started writing it or is it recorded, what’s going on?

BC: It’s like half written, this is like the first time we’ve ever done it where we’re writing more songs than what’s planning to be on the record, we’re just writing a tonne of stuff so we have like 12 songs and probably only half maybe will make it onto there and as soon as we get home we will keep writing until we get into the studio.
BC: We’re working with Bill Stevenson.

R: Oh awesome. Everyone’s working with him at the moment, A Wilhelm Scream etc. It’s either Bill Stevenson or Ted Hutt that everybody’s working with.

BC: That’s actually who Side One wanted to go with. We were going to do it with the same guy that did the last record but then Side One said they wanted a big name on it and said who’s your dream and we were like Bill Stevenson.

R: What are your plans when you get home because on your tour dates you play this show then two Koko dates and then it’s dead is that recording time?

BC: We’re supposed to go in March 10th that’s like if we feel we’re ready to go in. If not we might be recording in August because we want to work with Bill Stevenson and he has like A Wilhelm Scream, Alkaline Trio, Flobots all right after us so he’s booked up until August. After that we have some tour ideas that aren’t confirmed but it’ll keep us busy towards July.

R: You need to go on one of those mega tours they seem to do in America but never over here like Alkaline Trio, Rise Against, Bayside, we never get tours like that.

BC: Yeah that tour was a big deal. We would love to be part of something like that.

R: Do you think if you had like a lot more resources, for example, Linkin Park or even New Found Glory I know on Warped Tour they have a huge bus with a studio in the back of it, do you think you would end up recording 40 tracks over that summer?

BC: We might say that but I think once we got to it like we would probably record maybe 2 or 3. It’s hard to focus when we’re on the road like the plan, like Side One didn’t want us to do this tour but we can’t say no to Alkaline Trio.

R: Why did they not want you to do this tour?

BC: They wanted us to focus on the record. And we were like oh we’ll go over, we’ll write songs whilst we’re in Europe but…We’ve only been here once before so we were like, we need to get over there with a band we actually like.
…..
R: Dream tours and favourite records?

BC: We’re almost on our dream tour, like this is definitely a dream come true to tour with Alkaline Trio. Like we’ve loved them for years and they’re awesome guys and their crew is awesome. Dream tour like the new Green Day album is coming out so maybe a Green Day show.

R: You guys make a lot of videos don’t you? You’ve just done one for Back To Oregon.

BC: Yeah a friend made one for Suffer The Kids a long time ago. I don’t think we’re happy with any of them, I’m personally not happy with them, like the one for Call It Off was supposed to be a normal show but when we got there it was too much. We could have had a friend bring a couple of hand cameras and we could have done a better video I think.

R: Do you get involved in the creative process?

BC: We made sure it was there and they kept trying to move it but it was a town that we loved and love all the kids there and we made sure it was there and it was our idea to do a performance but when it came down to it they had some lights and smoke, it was really lame. We had as much say as we could but it didn’t turn out the way we wanted it to. Back To Oregon we hated that as well.

R: Is that because they link literally everything you say with the video?

BC: Yeah the process of that one was horrible. Like the guys came up they didn’t have anything planned out, we changed locations like 3 times and they wanted us to do acting like really cheesy parts, they wanted us to have these girls come up with an 8 by 10 of some famous dude that might look like Ty or something and they ask him to sign it and then they find out it’s not him.
BC: And it’s total like, the dudes from San Diego and wanted us to be Blink 182 and we were like we’re not that kinda band. We might sound like Blink but we’re not guna talk about poop and wieners, hopefully the next videos will be much better. We have a friend in Portland that I want to work with so we’ll hopefully try that.

R: Do you think it’s important to do a video when it’s mostly for the internet now, because MTV never shows anything.

BC: I mean like if it was like 1994-95 when we had a shot to be on MTV like Green Day but now it’s nothing. But over here compared to the States there’s a lot more videos on TV.
BC: Just the other day we saw that new Glassvegas video and it was awesome and super creepy and end of the world stuff happening and it was like this is rad and you don’t see this happening in the states, it would maybe be on at 3 in the morning maybe.

R: The last question is a big question. Where do you think the music industry is going with everyone downloading everything for free, bands only make money off of merch, Paramore are doing a 360 deal, where do you think it’s going, what’s going to happen? It’s coming to a crucial point with iTunes saying its DRM-free so you can share all your music so surely they’re making it worse.

BC: It sucks, making records certainly isn’t getting any cheaper. So like to not be able to re-coup with record sales is lame because that’s the only way bands can make money. This is the only way we’ve ever made any money is from touring and selling merch and so that’s fine with me and I can’t be a hypocrite I steal music, I download music.
BC: It’s too bad that the industry let technology overpass it, like it didn’t know what to do it didn’t know the internet was going to ruin it but at the same time I think it’s cool because it’s easier to find music, the economy sucks anyway kids can’t buy records so as long as they keep coming to shows it’s fine with me.
BC: It seems to really only affect the major labels like their bands but they don’t need $500,000 to do a record they need like $20,000. That’s their fault they made that happen spending $300,000 on a video. It’s not downloading it’s giving away all this money and now they have to take it out of touring sales, which is really shitty like you said that’s the only way they’re going to make money. Paramore are probably spending I don’t know how much on a record and videos and I doubt they’re going to recoup no matter how much they sell so like they’re making it from touring as well.

R: Within that question there are kinda like two tail ends of punk rock at the moment. You’ve got Warped Tour and Fest in Florida. So with Fest you’ve got Var who’s doing this stuff with No Idea, he’s doing it all completely independently and all these bands completely respect that they all go to Florida for 3 or 4 days and everyone has a really great time. Nobody gets paid an immense amount, kids go there and it’s never going to be bigger than it is because they can’t because of the size of the venues. And so then there’s Warped Tour and all the sponsorship and all of that.

BC: We did both but the Fest was the best weekend. Warped Tour is really hard and it’s like a tough call because it can be fun at night time to like hang out with people and meet new friends and we met all the Side One guys because of Warped Tour but like, there was The Bronx, Against Me!, The Briggs there were good bands on there but like the Fest was exactly what we want, it’s perfect, it’s just perfect.
BC: I think Warped Tour is like an introduction tour, it’s like a big con and then the Fest is for people that love this band. They’re just separate things, they’re both good.

R: I went to Fest 6 and I was absolutely amazed by how welcoming everybody was. It’s like one big family thing.

BC: Warped Tour the people behind it are the best people but they’re getting in shitty bands that pay the bills and you have to do that else Warped Tour wouldn’t exist but I’m sure some of the people would love the Fest as well, they’re just old punk rock people. And you can tell like, if you’re behind the scenes the punk bands are the ones that get the most respect from people that are putting on the Warped Tour they get favoured for sure, like Pennywise, The Bronx. Like everyone was friends, it’s like a lot of cliques on the warped tour, all the pop kids hang out, all the Christian guys hang out.

BC: We started going in 1997, I think it started in 1996. I mean like we saw The Descendents, Blink 182, it was awesome, I’ve gone pretty much every year unless we’re on tour and then this last summer was the first time we’ve ever played it. We never even did like local stages we just went every year, it can be rad but this last year there wasn’t as many good bands as I would’ve liked but this coming year there are loads of good bands, Less Than Jake, NoFX, Bad Religion.

R: Are you with agreement with Brendan that it’s shutting down small clubs in America because the Warped Tour takes away shows from their towns?

BC: Kind of, but it seems like if they’re going to continue in the way they’re going it’s not even going to affect punk rock because it’s not a punk tour. I mean it could affect small clubs but I doubt it if bands steer clear of it or don’t get invited to play.
BC: I think he had a good point, I think there’s always going to be a surviving underground scene if there’s a Warped Tour or not. Like Fest could be a successful tour if they grabbed a handful of bands and did it but it’s perfect the way it is, but I’m glad it’s not a tour actually.

Interview by Ricky Bates
Photos by Ben Walker
Words by Rosie Allen

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www.sideonedummyrecords.com

Huge thanks to : BROADWAY CALLS, CHUCK DALEY & LIZ SWAIN @ ADELINE

The Loved Ones - Distractions _ Review

2009-03-03T08:26:00.000-08:00

The Loved Ones - Distractions- FatWreckChords

For me, The Loved Ones have been one of the best bands in punk rock over the past few years. After a great debut album of pop punk rock gems in 'Keep Your Heart', the band mixed it up a bit with a hint of country influence on the outstanding 'Build and Burn'. 'Distractions' is a 6 song EP which is half original material and half covers, to buy over the fans until the next full length due later in the year.

The first 3 songs on this release are all belters, and have the big catchy choruses and energy which The Loved Ones are known for, 'Spy Diddley' being a Keep Your Heart outtake is particularly fast and in your face, but with a great sense of melody. To be honest, I dont really know the cover songs so not really sure whether they are good interpretations, but if you're a fan of The Boss (Johnny 99), Billy Bragg (Lovers Town Revisited), or Joe Strummer and The Mescaleros (Coma Girl), you may well love these covers, as The Loved Ones add their special twist to the songs and give this release something a little bit different.

These covers are all generally a little more chilled out than the originals, and
whereas i'd like to have heard an EP full of original material, Distractions shows a great mix of The Loved Ones trademark sound and some of their influences.

John Allen

Yo its the motherHubbing Steal!

2009-02-25T17:51:00.000-08:00

So recently we had a show with The Steal here at wrongwayround promotions, BRIGHT GREY was their last album which came out a little while ago, i assure you its one of the best hardcore albums in a whole while....
go check them out here
www.myspace.com/thesteal

I cut together this today from the show also, enjoy. rick.

FAKE PROBLEMS! NEW ALBUM & VIDEO

2009-02-16T10:43:00.000-08:00

Hello, so recently our good dudes in fake problems have released a new album called 'its great to be alive' trust me its awesome its very rock and roll and available now!
i suggest you buy it from sideonedummy themselves as they have great cd+tshirt packages for very cheap!

heres the new video for the single ' the dream team rumble in the jungle'

thank you.