![Syd.31: The Last Punks On Earth [Album Review]](http://oftr.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/syd31-1-520x250.png)
The year is 2074. The Terminators finally unravel their hellishly convoluted timeline and defeat John Conners and his rag-tag brigade of anti-Skynet warriors along with the last of the human race. The weather world-wide is…
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Music writer with a strong love of pretty much any form of ska, punk, psychobilly, and quirky novelty songs. Long standing contributor to Scootering magazine, with a long history of pushing small bands on independent labels, occasionally with embarrassing results - let me know if it's an almost sold out 100 copy pressing please!
Record collector since 1978 (not a typo, sadly) he has more favourite records than you can imagine, but always hopes there will be another one along this week.
![The Regrettes: Follow Your Feelings Fool [Album Review]](http://oftr.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/12799420_1009970509070386_8385056527682028137_n-520x250.jpg)
The Regrettes: Follow Your Feelings Fool [Album Review]
Just when you start to despair about the state of young bands coming through, the lack of imagination, the constant feeding on what their immediate peers in their musical circle are doing, and the lack…
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Magnificent Seven: The Good, The Bad And The Drunk [EP Review]
York’s latest and greatest (OK – only?) ska-punk band hit the ground running with their debut release, with seven absolute scorchers kicking their way out of your speakers and into your feet. It’s rare that…
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Riskee & The Ridicule: Blame Culture [Album Review]
A band currently bubbling away on the underground, Riskee & The Ridicules’ ‘Blame Culture’ has everything that sums up the current punk scene. Musically tight, lyrically intelligent with a clever humour running throughout, they’re a…
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Surfin’ Wombatz: Dr Sathan’s House Of Terror [Album Review]
Many, many years ago – when Psychobilly had just emerged from its true infancy -a band from Ipswich burst onto the scene with their debut release ‘Lager Loutz’. Their crazed blend of rockabilly, punk and…
Read More![Action Time Vision: A Story Of Independent UK Punk 1976 – 1979 [Album Review]](http://oftr.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/damned_film_still-520x250.jpg)
Action Time Vision: A Story Of Independent UK Punk 1976 – 1979 [Album Review]
Subtitled ‘A History Of UK Independent Punk, 1976-1979’, this is quite possibly the best collection of the roots of the British Punk scene ever compiled. All the big names are here, from the first UK…
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The Zipheads: Z2 Rampage [Album Review]
I’m quite partial to a bit of Psychobilly. I’m also pretty keen on bands who stretch the boundaries of a genre to see how far they can go before things fall apart. Those familiar with…
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