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News From 15/4/01.
 

Check out the following web-site on the late great Parka kings. http://parkakings.ellipse.to/index.html

US ska/punk band The Execeptions are working on a new CD. Recorded with brian bowie from gangster fun. It should be finished shortly.
dan from mu330 will be singing on a track. More news later.

PUNK O RAMA 6 will feature a unreleased tracks from groups like Pennywise, Descendants, NOFX, Pulley, and Millencolin. The compilation is due out this summer on Epitaph.

The Jamdown Records website has been re-launched. It features all the latest news, releases, uk gig guide and more.  Check out www.jamdownrecords.co.uk
The 4th JAMDOWN SKAPUNK ALLDAYER 4 takes place on SUNDAY 20th MAY 2001 - 1pm-11pm with
DOG TOFFEE, INTENSIFIED, LUBBY NUGGET, PAMA, 4FT FINGERS, LIGHTYEAR, CAPTAIN EVERYTHING, BOMBJACKS, 20 DEAD CAMELS, MORPH, COTTON WEARY  @ THE UNDERWORLD, CAMDEN TOWN, LONDON NW1(0207 482 1932)

Pama debut gigs announced Jamdowns head honcho Sean Flowerdew's new band pama have just confirmed their first UK shows- May- (20)London, Underworld @ Jamdowns skapunk alldayer, (31)London, ULU supporting King Prawn June- (7) Newbury, Genisis and (9) London, Underworld with very special guests tba
They play an eclectic blend of soul/ska/punk/breakbeat. They’re currently recording their debut album, which features guest appearances from members of- Steel Pulse, Madness, Big Boss Man, Intensified, Topcats plus Ernie McKone (Galliano & Paul Weller) and Fuzz Townshend (Bentley Rhythm Ace/Ranking Roger).

4FT FINGERS- are to be supporting THE DICKIES on their 10 date UK tour this June.
FAT JABBA have a new album out now, mixing upbeat cocktail of ska,hip hop,funk & latin- "HAIRY-ERRR THAN PLAN B" it's available directly from Jamdown Records mail-order priced £6.95 (including p&p)
JAMDOWN RECORDS,26A CRAVEN RD,NEWBURY,BERKS,RG14 5NE

News From 11/3/01.
New from Asian Man records is the new album from Swiss psychobilly influenced punk band The Peacocks. "Angel" is said to be the bands best album to date. Also out on AM records soon is a 4 track Rocksteady / Ska CD from Chris Murray and the long awaited live album from MU330.
Out before Summer will be new stuff from The Polysics, Lawrence Arms and the Chinkees. The Polysics electronic pop sound is similar to Devo and their album "Hey Bob, My Friend" will be out on CD and picture disc. The Lawrence Arms and the Chinkees are putting out a split CD, 5 songs from each band.
Later in the year will be the Asian Man video sampler and The Slapstick reunion video.

From punkbands.com
THE GET UP KIDS will be releasing a 23 song CD in early Fall. The collection will be called "Eudora" and contain every non-album track, 7", cover song and b-side the band has ever recorded. It will be a double CD with one CD being DVD documenting the bands history.

SAVES THE DAY will begin recording their long awaited follow up to the  extremely successful "Through Being Cool" record on March 17th in Los  Angeles, California. The as-yet-untitled album will be produced by Rob Schnapf (Foo Fighters, Elliot Smith, Guided By Voices) and be released on June 5th.

The scheduled release date for the new NO USE FOR A NAME record is May 25th. It will be an enhanced CD, and the record is said to come with a comic book as an added bonus.

News From 23/2/01.

From punkbands.com
NOFX just finished recording a new 7" similar to the old "F**k the Kids" 7". Its called "Surfer" and has 14 punk hits all crammed onto one 7". The sequel to F**k The Kids, has songs like: "Three Shits to the Wind", "Puke on Cops", "Totally F**ked", and the soon-to-be-classic, "Party Enema". The 7" will be released in April.

Atlanta based street punk label GMM Records has signed a worldwide distribution deal with Chicago’s VICTORY Records. The new relationship
kicks off with an anthology from the legendary Washington D.C. hardcore band Iron Cross, a new album from street punk legends The Templars and new label sampler ‘Skins ‘N Pinz Vol. II’.

ROCKET FROM THE CRYPT have plans to tour with labelmates THE GOTOHELLS from March throughout April and then they're off with The International Noise Conspiracy. The band is releasing their Vagrant Records debut entitled "Group Sounds" on March 6th.

RANCID have been busy putting together a film and video footage of them and will be released in DVD too. Will be released on Hell-Cat records.
 

News From 7/2/01.

According to Punkbands.com Emo band The Promise Ring are about to sign with epitaph after their successful US with Bad Religion last October.
Fat wreck chords have a new comp out in March. "Live Fat, Die Young" features  unreleased songs from No Use For A Name's "Let Me Down", NOFX's "San Francisco Fat", Lagwagon's "Alison's  Disease", plus loads more.

Jamdown records now has a monthly ska/punk night at Camden Underworld in London. The 2nd ska/punk all dayer sees CAFFEINE, INTENSIFIED, MOUTHWASH, 4FT FINGERS, FAT JABBA, THE SPLITTERS, JESSE JAMES,REBELATION, BRODIE and THE CHEAPSKATES all playing between 2pm-11pm. Cost £8.50 adv.
Jamdown has two new releases out on the 26th FEBRUARY 2001.   4FT FINGERS - "At your convenience " skatepunk from Cheltenham and a ska/pop album from Fat Jabba.
 

News from 9/1/01.

Keith Danek has quit Hot Stove Jimmy. No reason was given for his depature but the band are said to have respected his decision and wished him well for the future. This now leads the ska-core band with just one guitarist.

Soul, reggae & ska band The Adjusters have finished recording their new full length "Otis Redding will save America", the band are currently looking for a label after the collapse of moon usa.

Vagrant Records have announced that DASHBOARD CONFESSIONAL and Milwaukee's HEY MERCEDES are the newest  members to the label's Roster. Dashboard Confessional will have a new EP out in April and will be on tour with  Face To Face, H20 and Snapcasein February.  Hey Mercedes will have a full lenth out later in the year.

For some classy Northern soul check out the Night Owl Club web-site www.nightowlclub.com this site has won loads of awards and now has a weekly Northen soul show at 1225hrs UK time every sunday.

PENNYWISE are going back into the studios in February to start work on a new album. No release date or track details have been given for the LP which will be their newest studio effort since 1999's Straight Ahead.
 

Europe's DECONSTRUCTION TOUR is being planned for this summer NOFX, Lagwagon, Less Than Jake, Millencolin, Pennywise and Blink 182 have all are all names mentioned, the first details should come out soon as the tour is due to start late spring time.

News from 8/1/01.

Weezer are in the second week of recording their new album. Apparently record Executives weren't overly happy with the songs they heard when they popped into the studios last week, but the band are said to be determined to carry on geting the sound they want rather than what Geffen want.
Anyway here's the tracks they're hoping to lay down, some will be on the album the others will probably make b-sides.
Gimmie some love, homely, island in the sun, starlight, o girlfriend, my best friends are gone, crab, if you want it, inside a smile, knock-down drag-out, don't let go, cryin' and lonely, break up, hash pipe, o lisa, teenage victory song, sugar booger, no more disappointments and always.
No release date has been set yet, but after the recordings finished the band play 20 dates in the US. Support comes from the Get up kids and ozma. The 2 support acts were chosen by visitors to Weezers web-site.

The much talked about Weezer Tribute Album  Entited "Rock music" hopefully will be out late February it'll be released on Dead Droid
Records. Here's the unconfirmed tracklisting so far:
         1. Juliana Theory - In the garage
         2. A New Found Glory - Why bother
         3. Affinity - My Name is Jonas
         4. Glasseater - Holiday
         5. Destro - Susanna
         6. Mycomplex - Tired of sex
         7. Piebald - No one else
         8. Hot Water Music - ?
         9. Grade - only in dreams
         10. Midtown - ?
         11. Reggie And The Full Effect - Pink Triangle
         12. Further Seems Forever - Say it ain't so
         13. The Casket Lottery - Across the Sea
         14. Dashboard confessional - jamie

Can't wait to hear the Reggie and Full effect track, a couple of bands, Midtown and Hot Water Music haven't recorded their tracks yet, so I don't whether the release will get put back. Talking about Hot Water Music, the punk band have just signed to Epitaph, so hopefully they should now get some more exposure.

News from 1/1/01.

Unconfirmed rumours are about that Detriot ska/mod/punk band Telegraph are to call it quits this year. Apparently it was announced at their after Christmas show on 26/12/00.

Forthcoming Jump Up! Records releases : Spunge "room for abuse", The Israelites "roots", The Vessels "coming home", Dub Street Rockers "Thunder dub", The Phobes "The beginning or the end" and albums buy the steady ups and Go Jimmy Go, the latter of which has been touring with Deals Gone Bad.  Coming Soon on the reviews page. CD reviews of Smash your Radio Vol 2, Telegraph "switched on", Eclectics & friends and the porters.

News from 28/12/00.

Moon Ska Europe have confirmed that they will continue trading, even though their USA counterparts have folded. The European label is a seprerate entity and the closure of Moon USA has no bearing on the UK based label. Moon Ska Europe will put out compiliations from Buck-o-nine and the Bosstones Taang era in 2001.

Robb from the Ska/punk outfit Uncle Brian has quit the band. Guitarist Robb, who earlier in the year broke his collar bone in a accident outside a gig venue, has left to start his own band. Uncle Brian still played on the Moon Ska rising reunion tour with Col From Lubby Nugget playing on guitar. Check out www.theunclebrian.co.uk for more news and find out how you can become the bands new guitar player.

News from 22/12/00.

The Rumours have been officially confirmed and Moon Ska records is to close. Bucket has decided just to concentrate on playing with the Toasters.  The US label that started out in 1983 has put out material by most of the top ska bands - The Slackers, Bad Manners, Ednas Goldfish, Skoidats, Pietasters and many more. Bucket Explains on the Moon web-site : .. as popularity waxed, so also has it waned, and with an a tide of a proportion that none could have foreseen. The spotlight, for whatever reason we might speculate, has moved on. Fans and even bands have surged off to the next   trend of the week. Regrettably insufficient support now remains to preserve the status quo. Against this backdrop I have decided to close the doors at Moon Records and concentrate on my own band, The Toasters..

From Punkbands.com -The Get Up Kids have officially announced that they will be doing 20 dates in the US with Weezer in February and March. The tour will be sponsored by Yahoo. The band will also be rocking out opening up for Green Day in January for two weeks. As for Get Up Kids related info, Reggie and the Full Effect will be re-releasing material on Second Nature Records. All the old Reggie cassettes that got circulated when the band started are now going to be re-released on Second Nature and will be called "Cassette Only" and might actually only come out on cassette to be true to the original. Get Up Kids frontman, Matt Pryor, has been playing some solo acoustic shows as The New Amsterdams and plans to do a brief stint on the east coast in February playing all acoustic sets with Hot Rod Circuit and Dashboard Confessional. The Get Up Kids are also now getting into the swing of writing songs for their new album which should be out next fall on Vagrant Records.

Link 80 : Adam P has been kicked out of the ska/punk group. According to Trumpet player Aaron the band were unable to carrying on working with him. Bass Player Adam P was one of the few original member left in the band, but Aaron and the rest of the crew have vowed to carry on under the Link 80 banner and have been writing songs for a new album since their return from Japan.
 

Hellcat Records-New Releases 2001: Here's the short list (so far) for upcoming releases for the new year;
Mouthwash - "1000 Dreams" January 23,
Dropkick Murphys - "Sing Loud, Sing Proud" February 6,
The Slackers  - "Wasted Days" Feb.20,
The U.S. Bombs - "Back At The Laundromat" March 20
Lars Frederiksen And The Bastards -March 20,
King Django - "Reason" April 24.
 Plus  new releases from Leftover Crack, F-Minus, The Distillers and Tiger Army later in the year.
The Slackers look set to return to Europe between March 28th to May 3rd .

Hot Stove Jimmy are in the studio recording material for a new CD. No release date as of yet. The Chicago bands last album "Theme For A Major Hit" is now available on vinyl. Check out www.hotstovejimmy.com for more details..

First Grade Crush are well on their way to saving enough money to record a new album.
Bret, from Hot Stove Jimmy, is being kind enough to let the band "work off" (!!!) what they can't  immediately afford The recording is set to start in January.
The new songs are as follows:  Esther, Sleepyhead, This Mess,  PIAB,  Leave Strong,  Whitetailed,  Group Therapy,  Born Into Sweats
 a few new, unnamed songs AND some new songs nobody's heard yet.
The CD should be out in the spring on Jump Up, unless the unforeseeable happens.

Tentative Big D & The Kids table dates

February 21st Underworld London,
February 22nd Victoria Inn Derby,
February 23rd Red Rose Theatre Rugeley,
February 24th 13th Note Glasgow,
February 25th Trillians Newcastle,
February 26th T.J's Newport,
February 27th JoinersSouthampton, UK
February 28th Free Butt Brighton,
March 23rd - Redditch , Liberal Club - With Lubby Nugget
March 24th - Darlington, Tap and Spile - With Lubby Nugget
March 25th - TBC -  With Lubby Nugget

In other unconfirmed news, Lightyear has had to pull out of the Mustard Plug tour and will be replaced by Midlands band ASW.

Alkaline Trio have now finished recording their new album it'll be out in feb-march on vagrant. The band recorded 15 songs, 12 of which will be on the new full-length; 2 will be on a LookOut! single and another 1 for a benefit CD.
Here's the list of all 15.
1. Hell Yes 2. Private I   3. Take Lots with Alcohol    4. Standard Break from Life 5. Stupid Kid
 6. Dead End Road  7. Bloodied Up 8. Armageddon 9. Another Innocent Girl 10.You're Dead
11.I'm Dying Tomorrow 12.Trucks and Trains 13.Steamer Trunk 14.Mr. Chainsaw 15.Crawl.
The Chicago band now  have a three way split single out with Dismemberment Plan and Promise Alkaline Trio's song is an acoustic version of Snake Oil Tanker.

Capdown have a 3 way split out now on Household Name records, the skacore band cover Southport's "Green" whilst Southport return the favour with a cover of cousin cleotis.
Hard Skin put some festive spirit into the 7" with "santa was a skinhead".
 

News from 19/11/00.

Check out the gigs page for the latest tour news.

The Toasters will return to Europe in late January 2001 to headline a tour with  King Prawn. Zen Baseballbat will also play on the bill.

Moon ska will have a new sampler out soon entitled "Moon Ska Europe" at a low price it features 20 tracks from Moonies that appear on the label like The Toasters, Less Than Jake, Laurel Aitken &  Skatalites. The album even includes tracks from Buck-O-Nine and Mighty Mighty Bosstones who’s  compilation albums of early material will be out early next year.

Also out in November is the [Spunge] "Pedigree Chump" Digipak complete with full colour  poster, picture disc CD and booklet.
Less Than Jake's "Pez Collection" gets a limited edition run in a slipcase complete  with poster and picture disc

 The Skoidats new album "A Cure For Whatever Ales You" complete with bonus video enhanced track "Last Night" and
 Edna’s Goldfish new album "Dawn Of Enlightenment" also complete with a video enhanced track "Veronica Sawyer" will be
 out in mid December.

 The Moon Ska video comp "Howling At The Moon" featuring top pucka promo videos from the likes of The Toasters, Edna’s
 Goldfish, Skoidats, Buck-O-Nine, Mighty Mighty Bosstones will be available in January 2001. Also included on this `must
 have’ video gem is Zen Baseballbat’s brand new video "Brown Cows Of Elocution".

News from 14/11/00.

King Prawn are doing a few more UK dates in December, 3 of them supporting fishbone.

07/12/00      The Varsity                 Wolverhampton
08/12/00      The Pitz                        Milton Keynes
09/12/00      The Forum                   Tunbridge Wells
10/12/00       TBC  + Fishbone
11/12/00        Rock City                     Nottingham + Fishbone
12/12/00       The Electric Ballroom London + Fishbone
13/12/00       The Rigger                    Newcastle-Under-Lyne
15/12/00       Joseph Wells                Leeds
16/12/00       Esquires                        Bedford
17/12/00       Metropolitan Lounge   Peterborough
19/12/00       The Peel                        Kingston
20/12/00      Wedgewood Rooms      Portsmouth

Ex Slaptick boys The  Lawrence Arms tour Europe for the next 2 months, heres the dates. The Asian Man band are supported by Servo.

         NOVEMBER
         Europe
         15th UK Southampton Joiners
         16th UK Nottingham Old Angel
        17th
         18th UK Canterbury Cardinals Cap, (tentative)
         19th UK Derby Victoria Inn
         20th - 23rd open
         24th CH Winterthur Gaswerk
         25th CH Zurich Sansibar
        26th
         27th A. Vienna venue tbc
         28th SL. Ljubljana Metelkova
         29th CZ. Prague 007
         30th G. Berlin Wild At Heart

         DECEMBER
         Europe
         1st G. Lehrte Juz Arpke
         2nd
         3rd G. Paderborn Limericks
         4th - 7th open
         8th UK Brighton Free Butt
         9th UK Portsmouth Horseshoe
         10th UK Birmingham Foundry
         11th UK Sheffield Corporation
         12th UK Hull Adelphi
         13th UK Leeds Packhorse
         14th UK
         15th UK Harlow Square
         16th UK London Underworld
         17th UK Exeter Phoenix

News from punkbands.com

ALKALINE TRIO have recently finished up recording their new album  which will be out sometime in February/March 2001 on Vagrant Records. They recorded 15 songs. 12 of which will be on the new album, 2 will be on a Lookout! single and 1 for a compilation.

Punk-Ska bands GOLDFINGER, LESS THAN JAKE, HOMEGROWN and the MIGHTY MIGHTY BOSSTONES among others, are being featured on a Christmas  compilation called "Sleighed: The other side of Christmas". This should be the perfect gift to give someone you really love (yourself?) for Christmas.

The news appeared on the 5th of November 2000.

Lubby Nugget will be playing a few UK dates towards the end of the year as a warm up to their January 2001 UK tour with Mustard plug.

December             5th - 10th December - Moon Ska tour 5 bands again
                              Sunday 17th - Llandudno, West Shore Social Club - Support with The Selecter
January
                           Tuesday 16th - Newport, TJ's with Reel Big Fish, Shootin Goon and Kensia
                           Friday 19th - Sheffield Corporation with Mustard Plug
                           Tuesday 23rd - Derby, Victoria Inn with Mustard Plug
                            Sunday 28th - London, Underworld with Mustard Plug, The Tone, The  Propagumbhis
 In February the band will play with Reel Big Fish and Capdown on  Sunday the 11th at London, Scala.
 

The new issue of Finnish ska/reggae/punk zine Banana is now out. The third issue features reggae 7" reviews, playlists, an interview with Jussi Kummala of Fist season, a review of the 2-tone revue and loads of other reviews and local scene news.
For more info write to Janne Lepisto, puutarhakatu 46 E 37, 20100 Turku, Finland.

The Splitters have a few more shows lined up to help promote their new album "International smugllers". On the 11th November they play with Smoke like a fish at the shed in Leicester, then on the 18th they play Marr's Bar in Worcester, the 25/11 they play norwich's Fat Pauly's and on the 26th they play the Lord Nelson in Burnham Market.
The Hinckley band have just finished a short tour of Scotland and Belgium.

Celebrate the year 2001 a day early on Saturday 30th December as Bad Manners plus The Riffs -come together for the  'Mother' of all parties. Pants will swing at THE RAYNERS HOTEL, RAYNERS LANE (NEAR HARROW),  MIDDLESEX.  INFO/TICKETS:-020 8866 1666 OR rayners@rockinat.co.uk
The Riffs  now have their website back up and working so check out theriffs.co.uk and download "the road has burnt my mouth" mp3.
The band are currently writing material for a new album. Tracks that Dave and Andy wrote for a Channel 4 documentary earlier this year are being fine tuned, along with some new numbers.

Big D and the Kids Table look set to tour Europe in Febuary and March of next year, no news on exact dates or venues yet but keep checking back for updates.

The news appeared on the 15th of October 2000.

The UK's best ska'rdcore band CapDown return to the UK after a successful trip to Europe.
So here's the dates!
Oct 21st Worcester Marrs Bar,  22nd London Underworld w/ CHIXDIGGIT
 24th Peterborough The Park,  25th Redditch Liberal Club  26th Luton Venue
 27- 29th 4 dates in Ireland
 30th North Wales / Liverpool ( if they can get a show)
 31st Stoke Rigger

 Nov
 1st Norwich Fat Paulys,  2nd Cambridge Portland Arms  3rd Chelmsford Army Navy, 4th Bedford Esquires
 9th Hereford Tracks, 10th Bridgend Football Club  15th Southampton Joiners,  16th Cheltenham Bransons
 17th Hitchin Club 85, 18th Hull Adelphi  22nd Derby Victoria Inn,

 Dec
 13th Nottingham Old Angel, 14th Manchester Witchwood w/ UK SUBS
 15th Harlow Square, 16th London Underworld w/ HARD SKIN, SOUTHPORT, LAWRENCE  ARMS, SERVO, THE GRISWALDS
 21st Hartlepool Studio , 22nd Aylesbury Hop Pole
 

HELLCAT NEWS : London Punks Mouthwash will have their debut album "1000 dreams" out in January 2001. "Sing loud, sing proud"
by Boston's Dropkick Murphys will be released at the end of January, its the bands 4th Hellcat release after this years  "early years"
CD was released on the label. The slackers follow up their live album with a brand new studio album "wasted days", out in February 2001.
The NYC ska crew certainly don't waste any days as this will be their 5th album in 6 years.
The US bombs will start work on their next studio release soon. Vocalist Duane Peters has been touring with his band the huns for the majority of 2000.

Leftover crack, featuring ex-choking Victim members will release "shoot the kids at school" in early Jan 2001, the band were featured on hellcat's sampler "give em the boot2". The band have put out a 7" entitled "Rock the 40oz" on Bankshot records.

There's still no official date or further news on the hellcat video, but some clips of Choking victim and The US bombs appear on
the Epitaph/Burning heart/hellcat video sampler "Punxploitation", it features 15 videos from Pennywise, Dropkick murphys, Millencolin,
get up kids, Liberator and the bouncing souls to name a few.

Asian Man news. Fishbone's Angelo Moore has put out a spoken word and poetry CD and Video on Mike Park's Label, also out are
new 7"ers from Astopop3 and Potshot, who also have their 3rd album out "Freedom and responsibility". also out is a 6 track promo
from chris Murray. Coming soon are live MU330 and Skankin Pickle albums and a new Pushover release.

Andy from UK ska band The Riffs recently check out the site and informed us that the bands website isn't quite up to full strenghth
yet, but if you check out www.theriffs.co.uk and go to the message board you can stay up to date with all the bands gigs and news.
Andy also gave us his insight into the Morecambe Ska fest click here to check it out.
Also congratulations to Aiden from the band who became a father recently.

Leicester / Hinckley Ska crew the Splitters have released their sophomore album "International Smugglers", there are at least 8 ska classics on the CD so check out the full review in the CD reviews section or even better buy the Cd and visit www.splitters.co.uk

The third edition of Irelands best ska zine Ska Patrol is now out, with stuff on The Gangsters, Too hot, the hotknives, loads of news and brief reviews plus Joe's review of the Morecambe ska festival including tales of his drinking and hangovers.
write to : ska patrol, c/o 4 swansnest ave, Kilbarrack, Dublin 5, Rep of Ireland.

News from www.punkbands.com

The IMPOSSIBLES have plans to do selected dates throughout the fall and spring time, as they are working on some new songs and will soon have an exclusive MP3 available on their official website. The band is hoping to release an EP next summer on FUELED BY RAMEN, and hopefully a tour with The Hippos in early 2001.

As of October 2nd, 2000, Justin Poyser of HOME GROWN has stepped off the  stage and quit the band due to personal differences. Despite the
unfortunate luck of band members leaving, Home Grown will continue on  playing as a three piece...Green Day and Alkaline Trio can do it?

The following news was posted 6/10/00.

Three of the UK top ska and punk zines put out there latest issues this week. Mad Not Mad #7 (4 Mountmorres Close, Over hulton, Bolton, Greater Manchester, BL5 1HT, England)  is now available for £2 There's 72 A4 pages with a 3 part Morecambe ska fast review, Interview with Cathal Smyth, fat Jabba, Too hot and loads of CD and zine reviews and gig dates.

The 14th issue of Pulped (STP MAIL ORDER, PO BOX 12, LOCKERBIE, DG11 3BW, SCOTLAND) is now out with a free album from the Derita sisters - the US male '77 punk act knock out 20 tunes on the free CD, some of which are pretty catchy, including "clash reunion" about the possiblity of the London punk band reforming "Its too late their fat and old, Terry Chimes is on the dole, there'll never be a Clash reunion",  The disc also has a interactive CD ROM section with Derita sisters lyrics and very funny sound clips. The street newspaper has interviews with spunge and Capdown (finally getting the recognition they deserve) as well as news and cheap CD's for subscribers. (Epiaph/Burning Heart/Hellcat stuff for £7.50)
Its a tenner for 6 issues, check out www.pulped.com for more info.

Do the dog Skazine (26a Craven Road, Newbury, Berkshire, RG14 5NE, England) keeps you up to date will all the ska news from the UK, Europe and the US. News and tour dates of the likes of Less than jake, Spunge, Uncle Brian, Peacocks, Kingpins, and Intensified as well as four CD's for £20 from the likes of the Splitters, Telegraph, The stand, Stubborn all stars and many more.
Subscription is £5 (sterling) or 50 French Francs or $10 (US) for four issues and a free CD single of either Crooked Beat or capone & the bullets.
 

The following news was posted 16/9/00.

Spunge tour dates. PLEASE NOTE : Telegraph will not now be playing on this tour,  all support will come from Teenage Frames.
* denotes all ages show.

OCTOBER
 Mon 23rd - XL's Nightclub, Birmingham      Tue 24th - Mr Smiths, Bournemouth      Wed 25th - The Underworld, London*
      Thu 26th - White Horse, High Wycombe      Fri 27th - The Rigger, Stoke      Sat 28th - Esquires, Bedford*
      Sun 29th - Metropolis Lounge, Peterborough*       Mon 30th - Guild Hall, Gloucester

NOVEMBER
     Wed 1st - Trillians, Newcastle       Thu 2nd - The Lemon Tree, Aberdeen       Fri 3rd - King Tuts, Glasgow
      Sat 4th - The Attic, Edinburgh*       Sun 5th - The Adelphi, Preston      Mon 6th - The Other Side, Sheffield
      Tue 7th - The Roadhouse, Manchester       Wed 8th - Roadmenders, Northampton      Thu 9th - The Peel, Kingston
      Fri 10th - The Square, Harlow*       Sat 11th - Fat Pauly's, Norwich*       Mon 13th - Victoria Inn, Swindon
      Tue 14th - Rock Café 2000, Stourbridge      Wed 15th - The Jailhouse, Hereford       Thu 16th - The Charlotte, Leicester*
      Fri 17th - Rio's, Bradford       Sat 18th - The Studio, Hartlepool       Mon 20th - Army & Navy Club, Chelmsford
      Tue 21st - Fleece & Firkin, Bristol*       Wed 22nd - Gonzo's, Worcester       Thu 23rd - Clwb Ifor Bach, Cardiff
      Fri 24th - The Forum, Tunbridge Wells*       Sat 25th - Rock City, Nottingham       Sun 26th - Wedgwood Rooms, Portsmouth*
      Tue 28th - Charly's, Torquay       Wed 29th - Cavern Club, Exeter       Thu 30th - The Street, Plymouth

DECEMBER
      Fri 1st - Woughton Centre, Milton Keynes*       Sat 2nd - The Wheatsheaf, Oxford       Sun 3rd - Beachcomber, Cleethorpes*
      Mon 4th - The Lincoln Imp, Scunthorpe      Tue 5th - Boat Race, Cambridge       Wed 6th - Secrets, Romford
      Thu 7th - The Pavilion, Brighton*       Fri 8th - Red Rose Theatre, Rugeley*       Sat 9th - Bransons, Cheltenham

Uncle Brian will be off the road for a while as guitarist Robb was invloved in a car accident outside the gig in Portsmouth where King Prawn were playing. Robb has a broken collarbone and leg injuries. The band have cancelled all forthcoming shows and will continue to write new material until Robb's back.

Less Than Jake will release their third full length album on October 23rd in the UK on the Golf Label (Fat Wreck in the US) entitled "Borders And Boundaries"
Tracks are:  1. Magnetic North,  2. Kehoe, 3. Suburban Myth, 4 Look What Happened (The Last Time), 5. Hell Looks Alot Like La, 6. Mt Chevy Celebrity, 7. Gainsville Rock City, 8. Malt Liquor Tastes Better When You've Got Problems,  9. Bad Scene and a Basement Show, 10. Is This Thing On?, 11. Pete Jackson Is Getting Married, 12. 1989, 13. Last Hour of the Last Day of Work, 14. Bigger Picture 15. Faction.
A single "Look What Happened (The Last Time)" will be released from the album on October 9th with two unreleased live tracks.

Following their European tour SLOW GHERKIN  (on Asian Man in the US) will release an albumon the Golf label on September 25th called Roman Holiday.
 The album is a kind of best of and  will feature 5 unreleased and  exclusive tracks. Track listing is.....
How now, lowbrow, In love with movie stars, Another in your life, Good Advice, Left Behind,TurnedOff, Tapdancing, Get Some More, Shed Some Skin, Condor, ZKIII, Salsipuedes.

 Moe King Prawn UK tour dates (support from Zen Baseball Bat) :
21/09/00  The Arts Centre       Colchester
22/09/00        Westend Centre      Aldershot
23/09/00        Fat Pauly's               Norwich
24/09/00        Bullingdon Arms       Oxford
28/09/00        Clwb Ifor Bach         Cardiff
29/09/00        Bransons                 Cheltenham
30/09/00        Arts Centre               Salisbury
01/10/00        The Cartoon            Croyden

The following news was posted 20/8/00. (Courstesy of Punkbands.com)

The long awiated G-men album should be out soon on North Sea Recordings. (PO Box 654, Newcatle, NE99 4WA) I've heard three tracks from the album and i can this stuff smokes! Cool 2-tone style ska on an 80's tip with Eastern sounding horns!
The track "Freedom train" has an excellent horn part and loks likely to be the stand out track whne the 10 track album is released.

ALKALINE TRIO have plans to release their Vagrant debut in early 2001. For now they will be touring and working on some new
material. They are currently playing with Saves the day & A new found Glory on the Face to face tour in the US.

BUCK-O-NINE are releasing a "Live" album on their own label,  Offramp Records. Slotted for release on Aug.29th.  The sk-core band were dropped from TVT records earlier this year. Check out http://www.offramprecords.com for more details.

According to their website, the DROPKICK MURPHYS have pushed their next  LP "Sing Loud, Sing Proud" back until January 23, 2001
 

The following news was posted 11/8/00.

Leicester sub ska crew The Splitters have annouced a few more tour dates prior to the release of their second album "International Smugglers".
The band play the Venue Bar Theatre on Seven East Street in Leicester on Saturday the 26th of August, Red stripe, Hy.dro.pon.ics, Genghis Hi Fi and mad aardawak complete the bill.
27/8/00 - The Hollycroft Park Festival in Hinckley.
1/9/00 - The Spreadeagle, Leicester. With The Pokers in tow.
15/9/00-17/9/00 Belgium.
21/9/00 Raffles Wine Bar, Derby.
29/9/00 Y Theatre, Leicester.
30/9/00 Central Club, Hinckley.

AFI will be joining Rancid on this Winter's USA tour and the Distillers will be in tow. NOFX will be releasing the "Bottles to the Ground" ep on 21st November, the ep was sent out as a promo earlier in the year.
 

The following news was posted 24/7/00.

The Ska Patrol radio shows goes from strength to strength as Near FM have not only allowed JB to carry on doing the show but extended it from one hour a week to 2 hours. Its a must for Dublin ska fans, so check out 101.6 FM on Monday nights or write to Ska Patrol @ Ska-Line, 4 Swansnest Ave, Kilbarrack, Dublin 5, Ireland.

Black Pearl records are continuing to release a load of great 7"ers. Out at the moment are 2 from Intensified "Fat Cat & "Glamour Girls". La Thorpe Brass "I don't know you", Adjusters "Rebel Jam" and two wicked singles from the Version City studios King Django's "Wayfayers prayer" backed with "no trial" and Rocker T's "By your side", with a dub version of "one more time" on the b-side.
To get these singles write to Black Pearl Records @ PO BOX 200913, 56009 Koblenz, Germany. Or Email Blackpearlrec@gmx.de

Another place to get some of these Black Pearl releases plus loads of other top Traditional ska, 2-Tone, British, European & US third wave ska, Reggae, Streetpunk and Northern Soul at reasonable prices is the Ska Shack. Get the latest catalogue to order stuff like the new Link 80, ex-cathedra, Intensified and Dr. Ring Ding albums or Hepcat's hard to find "Scientific" CD. Write to the Ska Shack, PO Box 186, Ramsgate, kent, CT11 7GH.

There's a great night out to be had in Manchester on every 1st and 3rd Thursday of the month at the Granby. (86 Princess Street)
The "Souled on" plays the best soul, RnB, Reggae and Ska between 9pm and 2am. Happy hour (between 9-11) has beer at £1 a pint so get yourself down there.
The organisers are looking for ska/reggae, RnB bands to play there and they also want to video the bands in action, so any bands interested in playing should contact Jim Loughran on 0161 832 9626 or write to him at 26 Thomas Court, Manchester, M15 4JA.

Jamdown Records come back with 2 new releases and some shows planned. Bim Skala Bim's Universal album will be re-released. He Boston acts 9th album features 5 bonus live tracks. Also on Jamdown in the Shack 3 Transatlantic ska compilation. UK Vs US ska here with Topcats, Grimace, Dub Ska Liner, Spankboy and Ruby Throat are some of the bands representing the UK with Skinnerbox, Rocker T, Warsaw, Vic Rice, Bim Skala Bim, Stubborn all stars and OrangeTree representing the Yanks.
Jamdown promotion is presenting 3 live gigs at Camdem Underworld with Crunch making a comeback on 14/7/00 then on the 16th of July there's a London Ska-Punk all dayer with goober Patrol, Topcats, Capdown, Spankboy, Muttly, Southport, Xplosions, Fat Jabba, Route215, Grimace and Ye Wiles all playing.
The 11th august sees Spunge and Spankboy at the Underworld.
Jamdown hope to keep up their recent frenzy with new releases from Fat Jabba, spankboy, Warsaw and Topcats before the end of the year.  A UK tour to look out for is the Jump Up Vs Jamdown clash 2 Jamdown bands will play with OrangeTree and another Jump Up! band during August, more details to follow.
Jamdown Records : 26a Craven Road, Newbury, Berkshire, RG14 5NE.

Moon Ska Europe follow up the recent release of Less Than Jake's "Pez Collection" with Dave Barker & The Selecter combining for "The Kingston affair" album. The Skatalites Vs Laurel Aitken "Clash of the ska titans" CD is also out.
The European arm of the NYC label has also released the first of 5 albums from new UK ska acts. Ex-Cathedra who appeared at Morecambe have put out "Forced knowledge" and that will be followed by Zen Baseball Bat's "I am the champion concrete mixer", Uncle Brian's "Barbecue music", Shootin goon's "Splottside rocksteady" and Lubby nugget's "Subtle Crucial" album. The 5 bands have been on tour throughout July to promote their music.

If your not content with new breed of UK ska releases, then Moon are bringing out follow up albums from Edna's Goldfish "The elements transition". Easy Big Fella's "Tasty bits and spicy flicks" and The Skoidats "a cure for what ales you". Plus a new Moon Ska Europe sampler featuring LTJ, Toasters, Skatalites, Spunge, Edna's Goldfish, Zen Baseball bat and Uncle Brian.
There is also plans for a Moon video compilation with The Skoidats, Toasters, scoffaws and Lets Go Bowling amongst others.
Taking the European stable well over 50 releases is Spunge's limited edition digipack of the bands debut album "pedigree chump".

In Moon US news. The Porkers "Hot Dog daiquiri" from 1998 previously released on Sound system is coming out along with a new studio album from Critical Mass, the Bluebeats, The strangeways, The Toasters "Enemy of the state" CD and a new album from the Adjusters featuring new cuts plus remixes and live stuff.
 WWW.Moonskaeurope.com

Top moon ska act Edna's Goldfish have broken up the band said in a statement "sometimes its easier to just let things come to an end while you're on top then  to go down struggling.   Everyone is really happy with what we accomplished and what we've done over the past three years.  However we do feel that we are in a position to do so much more now.  We'd all like to try something new with our lives.

Hellcat Records has a string of new releases out now and in the near future. Following on from Tiger Army's self titled album is the US punk band the distillers. Sounding like Hole playing Rancid tunes their self titled album is a cool release. Out soon are Rancid new album entitled "Rancid". Not to be confused with their debut album on Epitaph which is not titled. Hepcat's new album "Push and shove" both of which should be featured in the next Ska-face as they're both released late July.

Out now is the new live album from the Slackers, the NYC crew knocked out some Rocksteady classics in a cafe in Holland, luckily the tape was rolling and caught it all for you on CD. 15 tracks - Sooner or later, married girl, do you know, Sarah, Mush one, I still love you, Soldier, Keep him away, Work song, feed my girl, face in the crowd, you don't know I, Pedophilia, runaway and The fried chicken song are the tracks on the release. The album goes some way to showing fans who haven't seen the band live what their missing as well as the charisma of Marq  Lyn and leadership of Vic Ruggerio.
Two more releases out on Hellcat are Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros (who earlier in the year toured with the Pietasters) album "The x ray style" and Dropkick Murphy's "Early years" album. Both are probably fairly hard to get hold of in the UK as they've both been released in Europe on different labels. The DKM's album was released with different tracks on Sidekick records.
Coming soon from Hellcat are albums from the Slackers and London punk act Mouthwash, who featured on "Give em the boot 2".

Leftover Crack, featuring ex-Choking Victim frontman The Stza (vocals/gtr) and bass player Alec, have also started recording their debut album for Hellcat Records in NYC with drummer Ara and other random musical guests. The album is entitled "Shoot the Kids at School" and follows the bands first release, a 7" entitled "Rock the 40oz" on BANKSHOT! The album should be out by the end of the year.

The Dropkick Murphy's have officially announced that guitarist Rick Barton, will no longer be touring with the
band. Rick is still considered a member of the band and will continue to write music with them but his recent marriage and responsibilities to his children have led to his decision. James Lynch, formerly of the Ducky Boys joined the band several months ago,  making the band a five piece. The Dropkicks have decided that the band definitely sounds better as a five piece with two guitars and decided not to go back to just one after Rick's departure. They have recently added Mark Orell on second guitar.

In Asian Man Records news Mu330 and Link 80 will return to tour the UK in October after date in Europe with
 The Chinkees in may on the Misfits of ska Tour. Link80, Mike Park, Alkaline Trio, Honor system, Lawrence Arms, Venice Shoreline Chris and Mu330 have just finished touring the US as part of the Plea for Peace tour.
Link 80 left the tour before the end as Adam P's Grandfather was in hospital.
Slow Gherkin will also tour the UK in October/ November time.

Release wise Softball's Tenku album is out, as is the ska/punk of Big D 7 The kids table's "Good luck" release. Newer AM CD's are a quick follow up for the Lawrence arms with "Ghost Stories" and Honor System debut "Single File". Honor system feature ex members of the Broadways. Also out is Alkaline Trio's self titled release with feature all tracks off their first (Non AM) ep and two Asian Man ep's (of which "I lied my face off" is now out of stock").

Lawrence Arms (ex Slapstick/Broadways) are gearing up to do some extensive touring with Lanemeyer and have recently went into the studio to record 5 new songs that are going to be featured on a split CD with New Jersey's Shady View Terrace on Castaway Records. It will be released sometime in the Autumn. The band are also hoping to tour in Europe in January/February 2001.

Insane ska-core maniacs, Blue Meanies, have finally completed their major label debut, and expect the album as yet untitled to be out in September / October time. The band joined up with the US "plea for peace tour in June / July.

Jump Up records having putting out the CD's recently. Since the last issue the Chicago label has knocked out Dr Ring Ding and the senior allstars "Diggin up dirt version 1995-1999" album. (Released in Europe on Grover.)
Plus stuff from The Stand "point of view", Horace pinker "pop culture failure" and following up their debut in '99 is Orangetree with more ska/rock on their self title release.

The Eclectics 2nd album still hasn't been released yet but should be out soon. The band do have a ltd edition 7" out as well as the track "so long" out on "smash your radio 2" the new sampler from Jump up! 19 tracks which include The porters, Dr Manette, Inciters and Telegraph.
Telegraph's new album "Switched on" should be out about now the long awaited follow up to "The Skolars '93-96" album.
The Inciters style of northern soul is another top release on Jump Up. The San Francisco band knock out an exciting release for ska, soul and good music fans.

Two of Ska and Punks big guns returned to action in June. The Mighty Mighty Bosstones released "Pay attention" and NOFX still show other how punks done with "pump up the valuum".

Here's some dates that won't mean much unless your fans of Against All Authority. The US political ska/punksters hit Europe in September after touring the states with fellow Hopeless record act Dillinger four.
7/9/00 London, UK - Underworld
8/9/00 Harlow, UK - Square
9/9/00 Derby, UK - Victoria Inn
10/90/00 Birmingham, UK - Foundry
11/9/00 Manchester, UK - Star and Garter
12/9/00 Hull, UK - Adelphi
13/9/0 0 Sheffield, UK - Corporation

The Voodoo Glow Skulls have finished recording their latest effort, "Symbolic" and is due out September 12th. Brett Gurewitz produced it. Mark Atkins from  Guttermouth and Jim Heath from Reverend Horton Heat were recruited for special guest vocals and guitars on a few songs. The band recently had the song  "Left For Dead" in a Taco Bell commercial. (sell outs!)

Less Than Jake News! Baritone Sax man Derrin has left the band, departing after the recent European tour. The band went home and called a few people to audition a new saxophone player, and now Pete from Spring Heeled Jack has joined band.
Apparently the bands new release "Borders and Boundaries"  will be out late summer / Autumn time.
LTJ are trying to buy  their newest record so that they can distribute the record themselves because they are leaving Capitol.  Capitol wants a large amount of money for it, and who knows if the band will be able to pay for it.  Punkbands.com is reporting that  Less Than Jake have signed to Fat Wreck Cords, owned by NOFX member, Fat Mike.  Sources at Fat have apparently confirmed the
signing and the record would be out in September and distributed by Fat Wreck Cords.

Bombshell Rocks recording new album The Swedish band are in Studio right now putting the finishing touch on what will become their second album. Tentative album title is "Cityrats & Alleycats".  Most likely the record will be released on Epitaph as well as their Swedish label, Burning Heart.

Hopeless Records News:  Samiam just finished recording their new full length "Astray" which will be out on August 29th.  The Queers new record, "Beyond The Valley..." is out now. The band are on the road in the US playing with The Lillingtons and The Explosion.
Mustard Plug are back from a successful tour with Edna's Goldfish and Catch 22, and are now home writing new stuff for a new album.

US punk band H2O's recent signing with MCA Records  expect to have their major debut entitled "Go" out early next year.  The band were previously signed with epitaph.

Mad Caddies are back in the studio with hopes for a Winter release.  But if that's to far away check out their
new release "The Holiday has been cancelled" Ep which should be out now.

Pennywise will be releasing a live album. It will be titled  "Pennywise: Live At The Keyclub." It is reportedly going to be released sometime in October but nothing is certain yet.
The following is the confirmed track list, containing
16 songs Pennywise fans voted for: Wouldn't It Be Nice, Living For Today, Final Chapters, Unknown Road, Alien, Minor Threat, Homesick, Can't Believe It, Straight Ahead, Fight 'Till You Die, Same Old Story, Peaceful Day, Society, Perfect People, Pennywise, and Bro Hymn.

Mojo Records are scheduled to release the new Weston full length in September, a new Reel Big Fish full length next year, and currently have released original Reel Big Fish album  "Everything Sucks" with two extra tracks. The label will also put out  "The Solution To Heal The Bay" compilation featuring new and unreleased material from Blink 182, MxPx, Reel Big Fish and 24 other bands as well.