Lockjaw Records are buzzing to launch their very own Lockjaw Coffee, created in collaboration with Hastings’ punk rock roastery, Sham City Roasters.
Lockjaw and Sham City have created a delicious full-city roast using ethically-sourced being from La Lominda Farm in the Farallones region of Colombia. The result is a delightful, medium-bodied brew with hints of almond and citrus, ideal for coffee nerds and novices alike.
If that’s not enough to kick-start your day, Lockjaw and Sham City have compiled a one-off digital compilation, available exclusively to those who buy their Lockjaw Coffee. The compilation features Lockjaw Records and Hastings favourites, including Adrenalized, Not On Tour, Fair Do’s, Burnt Tapes, Matilda’s Scoundrels and many more.
Lockjaw Records are strong believers in the spirit of collaboration, and in supporting other small, independents businesses. As a crew of coffee snobs, they’re also extremely excited to be working with Sham City on this limited roast.
“I’m super excited to be working with a label like Lockjaw for this collab. I love to work with other DIY businesses that are doing interesting things independently of the mainstream; Lockjaw totally embodies that. Coffee and punk have always gone hand in hand, and music undoubtedly inspired me to start my business, so it’s great to be a part of this project twinning the two.”
Dave Cullern, Sham City Roasters
Sham City Roasters is a specialist coffee roastery based in Hastings, UK, where they serve up delicious filter-coffee alongside vegan/vegetarian lunches, cakes and donuts. Sham City has a strong connection to the DIY punk scene, working with a number of bands and artists over the years, as well as collaborating with other punk-run small businesses.
Online offer: Get 15% discount on all Lockjaw Records Merch (t-shirts, sunglasses and toothbrushes!) with every purchase of Lockjaw Coffee.
Lockjaw Coffee is a medium-bodied city roast with hints of citrus lemon and almond. The Rainforest Certified beans used are grown without pesticides, fungicides or herbicides at La Lomida Farm, which also dedicates 40% of its land as a forest reserve and sanctuary to local fauna.
The care and attention Sham City Roasters pay to every area of the roasting/blending process allows them to create a coffee unlike any you have tasted before; providing brighter flavours, better quality and a much finer cup of coffee.
Lockjaw Coffee Compilation:
Wolfrik – Burnt Tapes – Haest Fair Do’s – The Affect Heuristic Matilda’s Scoundrels – Wild Tales Adrenalized – Not On Tour Misgivings – Punka – Bash Brothers Coral Springs – Edward in Venice Simon Wells & Jens Jensen – SKIV Fullcount – Maid of Ace Goodbye Blue Monday – Stanis Midwich Cuckoos – Butane Regulators Money Left To Burn – Drones Rebuke – The Barracks Laughing In The Face Of – Brightr Jason Stirling & The Blue Moon Band
After couple of weeks, another great punkrock show happened in Klub Prostor Cezam in our hometown. None other than punkrock legends Atheist Rap from Novi Sad, Serbia visited us to celebrate their 30th birthday with a special set. They were supported by Fajrunt from Varaždin.
When I came to the yard in front of the club around eight in the evening, the situation didn´t look promising. The soundchecks were just over and there were only couple of people from the bands and the people involved with the jobs in and around the club and I was hoping that the people will come to the show although it is Friday and not Saturday night. Fortunately, people started to arrive and do all the punkrock folklore in front of the gig, like drinking, chatting happily and some of them were already happy and singing hahaha. The gig started right on time as scheduled at 22 hrs Fajrunt started their set in front of the empty club, but in two or three songs, Prostor filled with enough people to cheer and sing along with this excellent melodic punkrock trio from Varaždin.
Fajrunt played their set made of songs from both of their studio albums, and they sounded powerful and energetic delivering their version of melodic punkrock, sometimes fast, sometimes more emotive and slower coupled with great dual vocals provided by guitarist Mimi and the bass player Vujec. Besides their stuff, Fajrunt played a couple of covers by Mikrofonija and Kud Idijoti. I consider myself a great fan of this band and I really enjoy their gigs not matter how much times I saw them play live. The only thing their set lacked was the title song from the last album Predstava which is one of my favorites hehe, but that doesn´t matter, the show was great. Too bad many kids rather chose to stay in front and wait for the headliner.
Atheist Rap from Novi Sad, Serbia, started their set right on time about 11 in the evening providing almost two hours of happiness for all the fans who came there. Much respect to the band for keeping it alive and true for 30 years and being really nice and down to earth fellows who are always fun to see and listen to playing live. From the first song the madness in front of the stage started, with kids being all over the place, singing along with the band, dancing, pogoing, stagediving and the band really appreciated and gave their best back to the kids and everyone had smiles of joy on their faces. Last time I saw Atheist Rap was in 2017.here in our town headlining 3FF open air festival and since then they are back to having one guitar player with Radule delivering all the guitar work. This time their set included all the well known hits from the past, also some crowd favorites that were not played live for a long time, also couple of songs from their still actual last studio album, so none of the kids in the crowd can not say that they are dissatisfied with the setlist hehe. After the gig the party continued long in the night.
This was a warm up for 3FF 2019.edition and I am looking forward to this year´s festival edition, so stay tuned on this page for more news regarding that in the coming weeks!
Ryker´s are one of my favorite European hardcore bands since I was a kid growing up in the 1990-ies. They are back with the new record and here is what Chris told us for our zine.
Photocredit Sonja Leonhard photography
YOU HAVE A NEW RECORD COMING OUT. TELL ME SOMETHING ABOUT THE NEW ONE, HOW WAS THE WRITING AND THE RECORDING PROCESS, WHAT LABEL IS RELEASING THE RECORD, WHAT ARE YOUR EXPECTATIONS? WHERE CAN WE BUY THE RECORD?
Chris: We recorded – as always – with Andy Classen at Stage One Studio… He really knows what we want – so that’s the perfect choice. We wrote the songs between 2016-18 so there was definitely some progress in the songs. Unfortunately we were banned from our rehearsal room for about a year due to safety reasons… otherwise I think the album would be out already. Anyway, it will be released by our friends´ label Beatdown Hardware and should be available everywhere… if not contact your record dealer to order you a copy or get it directly from http://www.bdhw-shop.com.
DO YOU THINK YOU WENT MORE MELODIC WITH THE NEW MATERIAL APART FROM THE CLASSIC RYKER´S MATERIAL? ARE THE SONGS SOMEHOW MORE CATCHY AND AT THE SAME TIME YOU RETAINED YOUR CLASSIC MORE AGGRESSIVE HARDCORE SOUND?
Yeah, I think we added some more catchy tunes… but also added a lot of rawness and brutal guitar sounds too. The bass is also more present – which was always a trademark. We were always open to all kinds of underground music… punk, hardcore, metal, oi! Whatever… I think the album totally represents RYKER’S 2019!
IS THERE GOING TO BE A TOUR PROMOTING THE NEW RECORD? SUMMER FESTIVALS ONLY OR THE LONGER FULL TOUR MAYBE?
We will see… we have about 15 shows scheduled already… festivals and club shows. I think we won’t do a 4-6 weeks tour… but I have no problem with spending my weekends on the road. If you wanna book us feel free to contact our friend Ute at MAD-Tourbooking!
I DON´T THINK YOU EVER PLAYED IN CROATIA. YOU PLAYED THIS BALKANS REGION, WHAT ARE YOUR MEMORIES OF THAT GIGS?
We played Sofia – that was a great show!!! I can really tell we would love to play Croatia ’cause I know we have a lot of friends down there… so book us! We are coming!
IN THE 90-IES WHEN I WAS A KID, WE LOVED KASSEL CREW HARDCORE SOUND AND YOU GUYS WERE SOMEHOW, HOW SHOULD I SAY, ROLE MODEL FOR OUR CREW BACK IN THE EARLY DAYS TO START BANDS, DO ZINES AND PUT THE SCENE TOGETHER IN OUR HOMETOWN. HOW MUCH IS LEFT NOWADAYS OF KASSEL HARDCORE FAMILY? HOW IS THE SCENE THERE?
Well, thank you!!! That means a lot to us. We just recently played a sold out show in our home club AKKU and had people from all over coming it. That was great to see… a lot of sweat and bruises but everything went with a smile. So yeah, the scene is still alive also with new bands like SIC BOY and a lot more. Yeah, I still run into my old buddies from the crew all the time and we are hanging out… Hardcore for life! But it isn’t as crazy as it used to be. Also because of some stupid laws… when we played our ‘final’ show in Kassel – we packed that place with about 800 kids… nowadays we they are only allowed to let 346 (something like that) people in… still we were letting in a 50 more… but you know – stupid rules.
I KNOW YOU HAVE BEEN ASKED THIS QUESTION BEFORE, BUT I MUST ASK IT NONETHELESS. IS THIS LINE UP OF THE BAND THE BEST ONE YOU HAD? OBVIOUSLY YOU TOOK SOME SHIT FROM THE SO CALLED FANS WHEN YOU CHANGED THE LINE UP. DID IT HURT YOU OR JUST MADE YOU STRONGER IN YOUR RESOLVE TO CARRY ON?
That’s actually a good question. Fuck yes, it made me – it made the band – much stronger.
Every RYKER’S l ine up was great for the time being. For the most part we had a great
time so every single line up made sense. But I feel like I’m carrying the torch… and keep that fire burning. And I feel more than comfortable with the current line-up. We are friends, hanging out together and traveling the world playing some hard tunes. Life´s good.
DO YOU GUYS LIVE OFF THE MUSIC OR YOU HAVE YOUR DAILY JOBS?
Well there is no way (for us) to make a living out of this music. So we all have regular jobs… BUT this gives us the freedom and creativity to do want we want to do. We are not depending on record sales. We are a 100% true…
MANY PEOPLE IN CROATIA THINK THAT GERMANY IS PROMISED LAND, HEAVENLY LAND AND GO THERE TO WORK AND BASICALLY SURVIVE, DO YOU THINK THAT GERMANY IS THE LAND OF HONEY AND MILK, HOW IS LIFE IN GERMANY IN GENERAL?
Hmmm, well I can say, that generally speaking-we can’t complain at all. We got health insurance and you are not starving to death. But of course, it is like everywhere else in the world the rich are getting richer while the poor are getting poorer. It can not be that a manager earns 200 times the money that a ‘normal’ employee does… Is the manager really working 200 times more or harder?!… hell no! So that’s fucked up.
I think my opinion and thought on this would be too much for one interview – but I’m also wondering how someone defines ‘the promised land’. I´ve been to many, many countries being considered poor – but to me it seemed like people are enjoying life a little bit more there.. what is success? Money?? A brand new car?? Or having a family and good friendsand a good time??
BACK TO THE NEW RECORD. WHICH ARE YOUR FAVORITE SONGS ON THE NEW ONE, I KNOW IT IS HARD, BUT YOU GUYS HAVE YOUR FAVORITES, CAN YOU WALK US THROUGH THEMATICALLY TRACK BY TRACK?
I love Let’s Ruin The Scene – I really dig the lyrics ’cause they are so sarcastic and the trumpet is epic!
Cast In Stone is an important song for me – as it is super-personal.
Sightseeing is all based on true stories about me making friends in NYC – and yes, I say it all the time – it’s more than just inspired by a band called Adrenalin O.D.
The new version of Cold Lost Sick gives me goosebumps (Kid D loves that song).
Collateral Damage – man, we have Matt Henderson playing a freaking great solo on this one… and we are having Roger Miret singing with us on Dead End Street – if you would have told me that when I was a kid..
Well, the list goes on… I really like all the songs on the record. That’s why they are on the record… no fillers.
THIS IS IT FOR THE FIRST TIME. NOW, CLASSIC ZINE QUESTION, IS THERE SOMETHING THAT YOU WOULD LIKE TO SAY AND I DIDN´T ASK YOU, ANY SHOUT OUTS OR SOMETHING! THANKS FOR TAKING TIME TO TALK WITH US.
Well first of all thank you for doing an interview with us and supporting us. We would love to come to Croatia anytime!!
Cheers and shout outs to everybody involved in that new record, to everyone who have supported us through all these years… and cheers to my old pal Krmpa and our friends in Deafness By Noise… let’s do a show!!!
KRAYKULLA-WEBZINE 