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(record review)The Bouncing Souls-Crucial Moments(Rise Records)

March 7, 2019 vladkraykulla Leave a comment

The Bouncing Souls are celebrating their 30th birthday this year with a celebratory tour that will take them to some places that they haven`t been earlier and also release their brand new six song e.p. with Rise Records and I listened and reviewed the new record for our zine.

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The New Jersey guys paved the way for many bands with their from the heart melodic punkrock with hardcore influences. The title song is just great piece of nostalgia and pride with video made with the collage of band video tapes from all the parts of their career, the song itself having totally contagious chorus. 1989 is fast hardcore miniature showing the always present hardcore rooted side of the band, short but sweet song. Favorite Everyhing is a typical Bouncing song, straightforward punk version of Bruce Springsteen, the feeling I often have when listening to this band. New New is rock n roll punk song with superb lyrics and fine tuned melodies for our listening pleasure. 4th Avenue is for me the best song on the record which I listened again and again being fast, energetic punk song with simple line, but great for giving you so much goosebumps. The last song, gentle Home takes us back in some happy place, puts smile upon our face and reminds us why we love this band so much!

10/10

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News, Various

TOUR NEWS! Bong Mountain / The Run Up / New Junk City / Laureate

March 7, 2019 vladkraykulla Leave a comment

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THE RUN UP EMBARK ON ANOTHER BIG EUROPEAN TOUR, BRINGING FRIENDS FROM US AND CANADA.

Bristol melodic punks The Run Up embark on another big European tour and are delighted to bring friends from across the pond:

Bong Mountain – Michigan, USA

Laureate – Montreal, CA

New Junk City – Atlanta, USA

It will be the first time for all three North American bands get a chance to tour Europe and its going to be one big party!

The Run Up are going to be seeing out the whole jaunt with their friends joining them at different stages of the tour which includes several festivals: Booze Cruise Bristol, Bearded Punk Fest, Booze Cruise (Hamburg) and Rock’n’Roll BBQ.

24/05/2019	UK	Bristol	Booze Cruise
25/05/2019	UK	Bristol	Booze Cruise
26/05/2019	UK	Bristol	Booze Cruise
27/05/2019	UK	London	New Cross Inn
28/05/2019	FR	Lianne	No Mans Land
29/05/2019	CH	Zurich	Hafenkneipe
30/05/2019	DE	Bochum	Rotunde
31/05/2019	DE	Cologne	Limes
01/06/2019	BEL	Antwerp	Bearded Punk Fest
02/06/2019	DE	Trier	Luckys Luke
03/06/2019	BEL	Namur	Petit Bitu
04/06/2019	DE	Achen	Musikbunker
05/06/2019	TBC	TBC	TBC
06/06/2019	DE	Hannover	Monster Records
07/06/2019	DE	Hamburg	Booze Cruise
08/06/2019	DE	Hamburg	Booze Cruise
09/06/2019	DE	Hamburg	Booze Cruise
10/06/2019	DE	Hamburg	Booze Cruise
11/06/2019	DE	Bielefeld	Potemkin Bar
12/06/2019	DE	Stuttgart	JaHu West
13/06/2019	DE	Freiburg	White Rabbit
14/06/2019	DE	Rodgau	OpenStage
15/06/2019	DE	Lennestadt	Rock’n’Roll BBQ
16/06/2019	TBC	TBC	TBC
17/06/2019	TBC	TBC	TBC
18/06/2019	AT	Vienna	Kramladen
19/06/2019	CZ	Prague	Café Na půl cesty
20/06/2019	DE	Berlin	Schokoladen
21/06/2019	DE	Monchengladbach	Kultube

Gig reports, Various

(gig report)Fakofbolan celebrated their 25th birthday in Unterhund!

March 3, 2019 vladkraykulla Leave a comment

Unterhund in Ormož, Slovenia was once again a place to be on a Saturday night. After recent Slapshot gig which was awesome, it was time for another punk legends to step on the stage of this beautiful club.

Fakofbolan are now legendary punk band from Pula, Croatia. When I was a kid growing up in a time of war and darkness in the early nineties, their songs helped me carry on through all that shit and we were singing those songs during every birthday party bash, we were all we had back then, no internet, only fanzines and letters and record/tape trading.

Now, Fakofbolan are celebrating 25 years in the scene, okay they had a pause of couple of years in between, but who cares? We were in Unterhund when they played there back in 2012.and I still remember that show with a smile on my face, so I was happy to go there again, being near our hometown and it was Saturday night.

When we arrived, there were quite a few people talking, joking and drinking in front of the club and inside. Time quickly passed in good company and the gig started around 11 pm. The band which opened the gig was Orkester Selotejp from Slovenia. Those guys played some version of ska/rock/punk and their set was long, but they just weren´t my cup of tea, but the people had fun and that´s what is most important.

Fakofbolan stepped on stage, checked their instruments and without too many talk started their set, 25 songs for the 25 years of band. Their set was made of songs from all of their releases, the last album from 2014.that doesn´t suit me so well and all of the oldies but goldies like Ulica, Da li znaš, Ostali smo, Neznani junaci…The people were dancing, singing along and having fun, Šapo and company from the band were happy and the gig was superb. I was so happy when they played old songs like Imamo Hrvatsku and Ropstvo je sloboda. The time passed by in a flash and the gig was over, so we went home a bit tired, but happy after another great punk gig. Cheers and many, many thanks to the people of Unterhund for doing such a fine job with promoting great gigs.