Duane's Pit Stop -- May23, 2003 - Get Yer Hard Core News Here...w/ no Matt filler.

Duane's Pit Stop

Welcome back to another issue of Pit Stop. This week we have lots of UK news as well as US punk news. Here at MusicTAP, we want say thanks to reader Karla who’s subsequently is at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway doing some work for team Toyota for the Indy 500 this coming weekend. Karla writes that she turned on one of her drivers to check out MusicTAP and that driver is none other than two-time winner of the Indy 500 Helio Castroneves. WOW!! What a surprise! Thanks Karla,...and good luck Helio on this weekend's race. Keep checking us out...we're addicting. Now off to the news.

Deconstruction lose NOT KATIES - The organizers of the download festival have had to pull the NOT KATIES from the bill for various problems due to a number of bands canceling (limp bizkit, hatebreed, hed pe etc.) with the stages. They've now had to merge the SCUZZ and DECONSTRUCTION stage. This meant losing the NOT KATIES as otherwise they would be VERY pushed for time apparently if they played. Not Katies apologies to their fans if anyone was going to download hoping to see them.

The Dead Pets - Just to let you all know The Dead Pets will be doing a full UK tour in November to coincide the release of their second album. They will be recording during the summer and the work may be produced by The Mighty, Mighty Bosstones Joe Gittelman. They will still be doing as few live dates before the tour:

May 31: Sheffield Corporation
Fri June 6: Ashton Under Lyne, Witchwood- On stage 9.45. Just £2.
Sat June 7: Huddersfield Abrahams
Sat June 14: Hounslow, Rifleman (with My Gay Monkey)
Sun June 22: HITS, Morecambe (The Dome, 4pm-4.45pm)
Fri June 27: Sunderland, The Borough (with Mrs Slocombe's Lovers)
Sat June 28: Newcastle The Cluney (all dayer with Leftover Crack, One Way System, Five Knuckle, Hug Lorenzo and a load of others) Dead Pets on 8-8.30.
Say July 5: Edinburgh, The Wheatsheaf
Sun July 6: Scarborough (all dayer)
Sun July 13: Scunthorpe, Lincoln Imp (afternoon bash with Monkey Shuffle)
Sat July 26: Wakefield Festival
Sun Aug 10: Scarborough H20 Festival
Fri August 15: Star and Garter, Manchester (with 4ft Fingers, Resistance 77).
Sat August 16: Jesmond, Newcastle, The Archers (Punkfest with Chelsea, Lurkers and others)
Mon August 25: Witchwood, Ashton Under Lyne (all dayer with UK Subs and a load more).

CONCRETE JUNGLE confirmation - the band that no one had heard of - little punks make racket have been confirmed as 'A STATIC LULLABY'. So add them to the already brilliant line-up this year and you have one of the best concrete jungle stages ever! At least mean fiddler did something right!

NUFAN TOUR - According to the official website, No Use For a Name will be coming back to the UK in the fall for a tour, so look out for tour details soon!

Stretch Armstrong Dates! - South Carolina's hardcore finest finally hit the UK for some support shows with Rancid and a handful of headline dates. The headline shows will have Steel Rules Die and Incoherence as supports.

Thursday 11th September - Birmingham Academy with Rancid
Friday 12th September - Sheffield Corporation
Saturday 13th September - Manchester Apollo with Rancid
Sunday 14th September - Glasgow King Tuts Wah Wah Hut
Monday 15th September - Leicester Charlotte
Tuesday 16th September - Newport TJ's
Wednesday 17th September - London Underworld
Thursday 18th September - London Brixton Academy with Rancid

Stretch Armstrong new album will also be out sometime in August!

Full Concrete Jungle Line Up - According to the OFFICIAL king prawn mail out the line up for this years Concrete Jungle Stage at the Carling Weekended are as follows:

Pennywise
Lagwagon
Alkaline Trio
Mad Caddies
Saves The Day
Turbonegro
Anti-flag
Little Punks Make Rackets
Thrice
Something Corporate
King Prawn
Funeral For A Friend

Another Rufio Date! - Monday 1st September, Glasgow - King Tuts Wah Wah Hut

Tuesday 2nd September - The Corporation - Sheffield

More Rancid Dates! In the UK - Here is the full list (!) of dates for Rancid's first UK Tour in 5 years!

Thursday September 11th Birmingham Academy
Saturday September 13th Manchester Apollo
Thursday September 18th Brixton Academy
Thursday September 25th Glasgow Barrowlands

Stretch Armstrong will be supporting on all dates except Glasgow.

The (International) Noise Conspiracy - has announced they will be on a mix CD created by DJ Spooky in the next issue of Adbusters Magazine. Other bands featured on the CD include Fugazi, Bad Brains and Public Enemy.

Eulogy Recordings - has announced the addition of three new bands to their label. The first, Age Of Ruin is an East Coast act that is happy to be a part of Eulogy. The band will be touring this summer and then heading to the studio to begin work on their debut. Take a listen to the band here. Albert React is the next of the additions; the label compares them to the likes of Thursday and Glassjaw. You can listen to AR here while the band is in the studio writing new stuff for their upcoming full-length. Don't forget that the guys have been recently added to Hellfest. Finally, Missouri's Calico System also has found a home at Eulogy. The band, whose kindred spirits include acts like Thrice and Poison The Well, have audio posted here for you to listen to.

All three acts will have more posted in the up and coming weeks at Eulogy, so watch for all of the new stuff coming your way.

The Zeros Add One - The Unsung Zeros are proud to announce a new addition to their band. UZ welcomes Chris Martin on lead guitar. If you want to go give Chris a pat on the back and welcome him into the band, hit up the Unsung Zeros homepage and drop him a line.

Additionally, the band is gearing up to start writing stuff for their new album after finishing their current tour out in the east. The UZ site also has dates for the remaining shows, so take a look.

Always Getting All The More Hellish - Trustkill's seventh annual Hellfest just keeps getting bigger and bigger (not like we're trying to stop it). The festival, being held up in Syracuse, NY @ The Fairgrounds July 4th-6th, has added even more bands to the lineup. Both Unearth and Albert React are now members of the Hellfest bill, now reaching over 100 bands. The full line-up (including acts ranging from Anberlin to Every Time I Die and Further Seems Forever to From Autumn To Ashes and many more) and other details are posted over at the Hellfest site.

Aquabats DVD - Fearless Records have announced they'll be releasing the long rumored and long awaited DVD from The Aquabats. When the DVD will be released and what it will be titled are still left unknown the DVD is said to chronicle the story of the 'Bats from the beginning up until the present.

Victory Signs Another Band - Victory have just signed Premenitions Of War from Toledo, OH. Head over to www.premonitionsofwar.com for more info and downloads.

That’s it for this weeks edition of Duane’s Pit Stop and remember if you have any punk news or just want talk crap to me you could always reach me at dkleyva@musictap.net have a good weekend and be good Humans. Peace.