So we've been having a lovely time in Japan and missed out on spreading some of the wonderful punk rock news that was announced whilst we were away, so here's a brief update in case you missed some things too.
First of all, this Saturday at the New Cross Inn the fourth instalment of Might As Well Fest is happening. The festival is put together by Disconnect Disconnect Records and Speaking Tongues and raises money for The Rainbow Trust. The Bar Stool Preachers are headlining the festival this year and are backed by a superb line-up of bands, featuring The Capitalist Kids, Thousand Oak, Aerial Salad, The Capital, Eat Dirt, Modern Shakes, Laserchrist and Tom Aylott. Get tickets here.
Next up is the news from Manchester Punk Festival. MPF is returning for its fifth year next year, Friday 19th to Sunday 21st of April, and is looking bigger and better than ever. Super early bird and early bird tickets sold out incredibly fast. I might be right in saying that both sets went before any bands were announced which is crazy! There are still some standard priced tickets available for £60. I can't imagine that these are going to be available for long though so don't sleep on getting your ticket. MPF also announced their first wave of bands for 2019. So far they've announced Dead To Me, Doom, King Prawn, Faintest Idea, The Arteries, Consumed, Press Club, Not On Tour, Arms Aloft, The Infested, The Winter Passing, Janus Stark, Call Me Malcolm, The Human Project, Grand Collapse, Joe McMahon & The Dockineers, Youth Avoiders, Woahnows, Svalbard, March, Sam Russo, Kermes, Eat Dirt, Follow Your Dreams, Jodie Faster, Well Wisher, Jenkem, Slumb Party, Joe Tilston & The Embers Band, Screech Bats, Incisions, Wolfrik, Grafteoke, Jake Martin, Tim Loud Full Band, Poisonous C*nt, Mean Caesar and Sallows. With 130 bands promised for the festival I'm looking forward to seeing what other surprises the MPF collective have in store for us. You can buy tickets and keep up to date with Manchester Punk Festival here.
Speaking of exciting things happening in Manchester. Our buddy Sarah, creator of the excellent Shout Louder webzine, is throwing an all dayer in February to celebrate her 30th birthday. Taking place at Gullivers, it has a stacked line-up featuring Faintest Idea, Fair Do's, Nosebleed, PMX, Aerial Salad, The Human Project, The Burnt Tapes, Goodbye Blue Monday and Follow Your Dreams. A crazy line-up – buy your tickets here. Shout Louder has recently started an excellent series looking at mental health titled #Mentally Sound that is essential reading, do so here.
Finally, in some news that actually made me do a little jump of excitement in our hotel room in Japan, Rehasher are doing a UK and Europe tour for the first time in November including a stop at the New Cross Inn in South London for Be Sharp Promotions. For those who don't know, Rehasher are the skate punk side project of Roger Lima, bassist and co-vocalist of ska punk legends Less Than Jake – and they are amazing. I was lucky enough to catch them live a few years ago in Florida and was flabbergasted by how good they were. I can't wait to see them again. And if that isn't exciting enough, UK pop punk heroes Eat Defeat will be on tour with them. Brilliant. Like Rehasher here to keep up to date with the tour.
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