February 2012
24th Brighton, The Hydrant
25th Bournemouth, Champions (all dayer)
26th Birmingham, Adam and Eve
27th Sheffield, Corporation
28th Newcastle, trillians
29th Derby, The Old Bell

March 2012
1st Ashton-under-Lyne (Manchester) Witchwood
2nd Buckley (Chester) Tivoli
3rd Bath, Green Park Tavern
4th London, Boston Arms

You can buy Subhumans stuff in the Iron Man Shop here: http://stores.ebay.co.uk/Iron-Man-Shop

Punks Alive presents an afternoon of Punk / Crust

Last Under The Sun / War/System / Hatework Conspiracy / Senseless / P.N.W
at The Adam and Eve, 102 Bradford Street, Digbeth, Birmingham, B12 0JD,

Sunday 12th February 2012
2pm til 6pm
£3 in on the door…. plus stalls.

Bring friends.

You can buy Dufus albums and all sorts of other stuff in The Iron Man Shop on eBay

Subhumans, Scarred Society, Meat Hook, The Knobbers

at Adam & Eve, 201 Bradford Street, Digbeth, Birmingham

26th February 2012

advance tickets available from www.angryscenesrecords.co.uk

£6 before 8pm

£7 after

www.theadam.co.uk

Buy Subhumans albums and all sorts of other punk stuff in The Iron Man Shop on eBay

Friday, 3rd February 2012

The Adam & Eve, 201 Bradford Street, Digbeth, Birmingham, B12 0JD
www.theadam.co.uk

8pm til 4am

Mr Nice is returning to Birmingham and the Adam & Eve.

During the mid 1980s, Howard Marks had forty-three aliases, eighty-nine phone lines, and twenty five companies trading throughout the world. Bars, recording studios, offshore banks: all were money-laundering vehicles serving the core activity: dope dealing.

Marks began to deal during a postgraduate philosophy course at Oxford and was soon moving large quantities of hashish into Europe and America in the equipment of touring rock bands. The academic life began to lose its allure. At the height of his career, he was smuggling consignments of up to thirty tons from Pakistan and Thailand to America and Canada and had contact with organisations as diverse as the CIA, MI6, the IRA, and the Mafia.

After many years and a world-wide operation by the Drug Enforcement Agency, he was busted and sentenced to twenty five years in prison at the United States Federal Penitentiary, Terre Haute, Indiana, the site of America’s only Federal Death Row.
He was released on parole in April 1995 after serving seven years of his sentence….and now he’s coming to the Adam!

Tickets £7 Buy Your Tickets Here

IMB6002 P.A.I.N featuring Howard Marks : “Let Me Grow More Weed” CD single Buy it here,

Download it from iTunes here or watch the video below.

You may be interested to know that some ten years ago Howard Marks and the Propaganga and Information Network (P.A.I.N.) recorded a song called “Let me grow more weed.” The song was released by Birmingham based record label Iron Man Records. The record aimed to introduce the legalisation of Cannabis into a more common arena for discussion and targeted the unconverted, the people who would not normally take an interest in the cause. Howard and the band threw down the gauntlet to the Government. They believe Cannabis should be legalised and will not stand aside ever. Howard Marks’ book “Mr. Nice” is a best seller, his articles in magazines have become notorious. He stands at the front line of the cause to legalise drugs and people are listening. P.A.I.N. on a more underground level, are also on the front-line of many different causes and social comment, one of them being the legalisation of Cannabis. “Let me grow more weed” has a message for all to read: Cannabis should be legalised.

“I have tried every way I can think of to accelerate the day of Cannabis legalisation, thereby ceasing the torture of Cannabis smokers. I’ve flooded the country with the good herb, I’ve stood for Parliament, and I’ve skinned up in police stations. None of it has worked. I needed help. I got it from P.A.I.N., the best guys in the world” – Howard Marks (2000)

The most recent release on Iron Man Records for immediate free download in full audio for review or airplay.

Last Under The Sun – Hooligan Jihad 5 song EP (Released through Iron Man Records, Birmingham 2011)

The band has been described as “Fast Chaotic Hardcore Punk Rock” from Birmingham England. Last Under The Sun includes members of Police Bastard, Selfless, Jilted Generation and Lokey.

Free full download of all tracks available here: http://lastunderthesun.bandcamp.com/

Simon Reeves – Bass
Mark Badger – Vocals / Guitar
Seano Porno – Vocals / Guitar
Simon James – Drums

Recorded, Mixed, Produced and Mastered by Simon Reeves at Framework Recording Studios, Musoplex, Birmingham, England between July and August 2010

The presskit including what people have said about the band so far is here: http://www.sonicbids.com/lastunderthesun

The band have a website here: http://www.reverbnation.com/lastunderthesun

Discography:

“All Agents Defect” 30 song Demo 2001 (Digital Download only on Last.FM)

“Windfall” 8 Song Album recorded 2001 released May 2004 (Iron Man Records)

“All Empires Crumble” 5 song EP recorded 2004 released May 2005 (Iron Man Records)

“Gone” 17 Song Album recorded Sept 2005 released 2010 (Iron Man Records)

“Hooligan Jihad” 5 song EP recorded August 2010 released 2011 (Iron Man Records) as digital download only.

Reviews worth mentioning:

Hooligan Jihad Reviewed by Mike Brown, Kemptation

Videos

“Awesome “new” CD from this Birmingham Band….I Love This! This is their third CD and they’re all good. At times emo sounding, reminding me of bands like Sensefield, but with more angst and more dischordant, at times they’re faster and angrier but still keeping their melody. This was actually recorded in 2005 and came out early 2010! New recordings are planned I believe. Lets hope so. They’ve toured extensively throughout Uk and Europe, but still they don’t seem to be at all well known, maybe because they don’t fit into the trendy style of punk, these are way under-rated, seriously, you won’t hear many better bands than this! – Steve”  Steve, Ripping Thrash, Issue 27, 2011

“My first exposure to this band, though being on Iron Man I had suspected something intense was on the cards. Right enough, intensity forms a large part of what Last Under The Sun do as they pile-drive their way through the seventeen tracks that make up the CD. This album was actually recorded back in 2005, but unreleased until now. The drumming on here is incredible though unfortunately the press sheet tells me the guy pounding them committed suicide earlier this year. He’d departed the band shortly after these sessions wrapped up, to be replaced soon after, so perhaps this is intended as a memorial piece. Certainly it would be difficult to imagine these songs with a different drummer, given the nature of the arrangement which almost places the drums out front as a lead instrument. Not the regular 9 to 5 and an interesting breakaway from standardised craftsmanship. “  Riot 77 Issue 15 2011

“One of the greatest (if not the greatest) bands to come out of England in the past 10 years. That’s a bold statement and yes I made it because I totally believe it too. This band is brutal, hard hitting, powerful, with deep lyrics, genius, talented and amazing live too. I could go on, and I will. The guitars and riffs this band produce are world class and will fuel the hardest stomper. The best of the best at what they do. They are hardcore, they are punk, they are metal, they are a million other great things, Last Under The Sun are the band I want playing at my funeral. I think that says it all really. If a band makes you want to hear them after you are dead then that truly must be the ultimate thing.”  Nick J Townsend, Rock Links / Nick J Townsend’s Monthly Column

“Look past the poor CD cover and you’ll discover some damn fine, catchy, full of hooks, punk, with the occasional more thrashy number. It makes me think of One By One crossed with say, Left For Dead and towards the end it seems to give a nod to Dischord/Fugazi. My only concern is the sound quality. Is that the sound they wanted? It sounds like an old tape in that the sound seems to come and go…like it’s turned up too loud on a cheap stereo and its distorting. At first it bothered me more but I’m getting used to it now. 7/10.”  Bald Cactus Issue 28 2011

“Considering most of them are in Police Bastard they are much more melodic than you’d expect, but over the years their sense of melody and the superbly-crafty songs have slowly, but surely grown on me. The vocals do not make the listening experience any easier. They hold an almost spoken word quality about them that breaks into a shout on songs such as Summers Day and, again, they may take a while to grow on you. To all intents and purposes Last… are a punk band, but they’re a punk band which transcends punk and takes it off in a unique direction – one that defies labelling. Sure they have fast songs, and sure the drums can, on occasion, pound you into submission, but many of the songs are built around a slow-burning melody that grows and grows as the song progresses. And it’s this quality that sets Last… apart from the pack. And that, my friends, is certainly no bad thing. We need a few more band doing something “different”.”  Itchy Bum, Itchy Bum ‘Zine 2010

Police Bastard / War//Plague – Attrition (Vinyl LP) was released on Profane Existence May 2011

Side A: Police Bastard – The Lie, Born To Die, Blasphemy Squad (Rudimentary Peni), God Off, Erosion, I Wish (The Mob). Recorded, Mixed, Produced and Mastered by Simon Reeves at Framework Recording Studios, Musoplex, Birmingham between February & December 2009.

Side B: War//Plague – Scene Not Heard, How Will They Reassemble Themselves, Concrete Burns, The Sheep, Rust, Screams Of The Dead. Recorded in the Summer of 2009 in Minneapolis, MN by Amy at Core Source Productions. Mastered by Jack at Enormous Door Studios.

Police Bastard – Attrition Tour November 2011

NOVEMBER
Thursday 10th Nov Friese, Bremen, Germany
Friday 11th Nov AU, Frankfurt,Ggermany
Saturday 12th Nov Liwi, Leipzig, Germany
Sunday 13th Nov Gig Exil, Eberswalde, Germany

Buy Police Bastard – “Attrition” & “It’s Good to Hate” in the Iron Man Shop here

For More information email mark at ironmanrecords.co.uk

Press kit: http://www.sonicbids.com/policebastard (all fanzine/promoter/press info)

Website: http://www.myspace.com/policebastard1994to2003

Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Police-Bastard/44809514403

Limited Edition 10″ Vinyl 45
Available only at shows or mail order from http://stores.ebay.co.uk/Iron-Man-Shop

Side 1
The Dishwater Kid (4’55″)
Don’t Harsh My Buzz (2’25″)
Side 2
Rocket Pool #2 (7’00″)

***NEW ALBUM TO BE RELEASED ON COOKING VINYL IN APRIL 2012***

THE LOST PLOT TOUR 2011 – Part Two

THE NIGHTINGALES with special guest Ted Chippington

October

Fri 21 – NOTTINGHAM, Bodega Social Club
www.thebodegasocialclub.co.uk

Sat 22 – CARDIFF University, Great Hall, supporting The Fall
www.swnfest.com
www.tickettailor.com/checkout/view-event/id/1077/chk/cc4d

Sun 23 – CHEMSFORD, Bitterscene @ Bassment Club w/ Mandeville
www.bitterscene.co.uk
www.wegottickets.com/event/131678

Mon 24 – NORWICH Arts Centre w/ Brothers
www.norwichartscentre.co.uk
www.ueaticketbookings.co.uk/events/the-nightingales–24-10-11-.aspx

Tue 25 – LONDON, 100 Club w/ David Cronenberg’s Wife + Tender Trap + Nathaniel Kidd And His Praying Guitar
www.the100club.co.uk
www.wegottickets.com/event/130142

Wed 26 – Live radio session on Marc Riley’s BBC 6 Music show at 7.00pm
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00c72y1

Wed 26 – MANCHESTER, Gullivers w/ Frazer King
www.facebook.com/pages/Gullivers-Manchester/108140529240138

Thu 27 – HULL, The Adelphi
www.theadelphi.com

Fri 28 – LEICESTER, The Soundhouse w/ Evil Dick & The Banned Members + Talking With Ghosts
www.soundhouseleicester.co.uk
www.musicglue.net/soundhouseleicester/gigdetails/28-oct-11-the-nightingales-soundhouse-leicester/

Sat 29 – PRESTON, The Continental – Unpeeled: Tribute To John Peel All Dayer w/ Clinic + Lovely Eggs + The Bent Moustache + Float Riverer and many others
www.newcontinental.net
www.wegottickets.com/event/133282

Sun 30 – BIRMINGHAM, Wagon & Horses (Digbeth) w/ Betty & The Id + Micronormous
www.myspace.com/wagonhorses

November

Thu 3 – MUNICH, Sunny Red @ Feierwerk
www.feierwerk.de

Fri 4 – EBENSEE, KINO Kulturverein
www.kino-ebensee.at

Mon 7 – INNSBRUCK, Weekender
www.weekender.at

Tue 8 – VIENNA, B72
www.b72.at

www.mojo4music.com/blog/2011/05/the_nightingales_amazing_retur.html

AVAILABLE PRODUCT

Books

Robert Lloyd – THIS HAPPENED, THEN THIS (Nightingales Lyrics 2004 – 2010)
www.thenightingales.org.uk

Robert Lloyd – WELL DONE, UNDERDOG (Nightingales Lyrics 1981 – 1983)
www.lulu.com/leethacker

Robert Lloyd – ONLY MY OPINION (Nightingales Lyrics 1983 – 1985)
www.lulu.com/leethacker

Recent CDs

Nightingales – INSULT TO INJURY
http://stores.ebay.co.uk/Iron-Man-Shop

Nightingales – WHAT’S NOT TO LOVE?
http://stores.ebay.co.uk/Iron-Man-Shop

Nightingales – OUT OF TRUE
http://stores.ebay.co.uk/Iron-Man-Shop

WALKING DOWN THE ROAD – A HISTORY OF… Ted Chippington 4CD box set
http://stores.ebay.co.uk/Iron-Man-Shop

CD Reissues

Nightingales – PIGS ON PURPOSE, HYSTERICS and PISSED & POTLESS
www.cherryred.co.uk/cherryred/artists/nightingales.php

Nightingales – IN THE GOOD OLD COUNTRY WAY
www.carolinetruerecords.co.uk

LINKS

www.thenightingales.org.uk

www.facebook.com/pages/The-Nightingales/8860762012

www.myspace.com/revtedchippington

Sam Fry Passed away this weekend. He was the second drummer with Last Under The Sun from 2001 to 2002, he played many gigs and played the drums on the the 30 second 30 song first demo called “Defect” and the 8 songs that made up “Windfall” that the band produced around the same time.

If anyone has any more photos of Sam when he was in Last Under The Sun with Rhys and myself, please send a copy across. I didn’t have a decent camera in those days so i have no photos of him at all that I can find.

He was a good drummer and a kind, caring, decent bloke you could sit down and have a proper chat with. When we weren’t at band practice, or on the way to a gig,  Sam came down to the gigs I was organising at The Old Railway. He would spend the evening chatting to bands, people who showed up for the gig or Rhys who was behind the soundesk. He liked Bob Dylan and introduced me to Shellac – “1000 hurts” and a band called Lvmen. I first met him when he was playing drums for Eggraid, he was someone I really liked from the start and he was a fan of Redshift too.

When Sam left Last Under The Sun he joined Eastfield and I kept in touch now and then but he moved on to Plymouth and I left him to get on with it, expecting to bump into him at another gig, another day, in another place. That never happened.

I’m almost without words now that he’s gone, he was a good mate. Like many experiences in life, you don’t realise how special things are until they’re all gone – Mark 21st Sept 2011

Police Bastard / War//Plague – Attrition (Vinyl LP) was released on Profane Existence May 2011

Side A: Police Bastard – The Lie, Born To Die, Blasphemy Squad (Rudimentary Peni), God Off, Erosion, I Wish (The Mob). Recorded, Mixed, Produced and Mastered by Simon Reeves at Framework Recording Studios, Musoplex, Birmingham between February & December 2009.

Side B: War//Plague – Scene Not Heard, How Will They Reassemble Themselves, Concrete Burns, The Sheep, Rust, Screams Of The Dead. Recorded in the Summer of 2009 in Minneapolis, MN by Amy at Core Source Productions. Mastered by Jack at Enormous Door Studios.

Police Bastard – Attrition Tour 2011

OCTOBER
Thursday 6th Oct Plan Z, Leuven, Belgium Chaos Bar, Plan Z, Weldadigheidsstraat 76, Leuven, Belgium (that’s the name of the place, there’s a bar called the chaosbar in the basement. Just so you won’t be confused)
Friday 7th Oct Kopi, Berlin, Germany
Saturday 8th Oct AJZ Bahndam, Wolfhagener str 11, 42929, Wermelskirchen, Germany.
Sunday 9th October AK44, Giessen, Germany

NOVEMBER
Thursday 10th Nov Friese, Bremen, Germany
Friday 11th Nov AU, Frankfurt,Ggermany
Saturday 12th Nov Liwi, Leipzig, Germany
Sunday 13th Nov Gig Exil, Eberswalde, Germany

Buy Police Bastard – “Attrition” & “It’s Good to Hate” in the Iron Man Shop here

For More information email mark at ironmanrecords.co.uk

Press kit: http://www.sonicbids.com/policebastard (all fanzine/promoter/press info)

Website: http://www.myspace.com/policebastard1994to2003

Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Police-Bastard/44809514403

Side A
Police Bastard – The Lie
Police Bastard – Born To Die
Police Bastard – Blasphemy Squad (Rudimentary Peni)
Police Bastard – God Off
Police Bastard – Erosion
Police Bastard – I Wish (The Mob)

Recorded, Mixed, Produced and Mastered by Simon Reeves at Framework Recording Studios, Musoplex, Birmingham between February & December 2009.

Side B
War//Plague – Scene Not Heard
War//Plague – How Will They Reassemble Themselves
War//Plague – Concrete Burns
War//Plague – The Sheep
War//Plague – Rust
War//Plague – Screams Of The Dead

Recorded in the Summer of 2009 in Minneapolis, MN by Amy at Core Source Productions. Mastered by Jack at Enormous Door Studios.

Iron Man Records has made some good friends at Profane Existence and this Vinyl LP release is the result of  months of hard work on all sides. Iron Man Records released Police Bastard – It’s Good to Hate (on CD only) in 2010 and the CD featured 5 new songs and a DVD of live material recorded between 2007 and 2010. The band wanted to get a release out in other parts of the world so Profane Existence offered to release a different version in USA as a split album with War//Plague.

Police Bastard / War//Plague – “Attrition” split LP was released in May 2011 as a limited edition of 2000 VINYL LPs and features the same five Police Bastard songs as “It’s Good to Hate” plus an extra track Blasphemy Squad originally written by Rudimentary Peni. There are 6 tracks by War//Plague and some fantastic original sleeve artwork by Gost.

What people have said:

POLICE BASTARD WAR//PLAGUE split LP Absolutely crushing stuff here by two bands made up of weathered veterans from both sides of the Atlantic:

POLICE BASTARD hailing from Birmingham, UK (formed by ex-DOOM members) play a combination of classic peace punk with thrashier punk influences and include crustified versions of RUDIMENTARY PENI and the MOB.

WAR//PLAGUE hail from the DIY punk underbelly of Minneapolis (ex-PROVOKED, CALLOUSED, PONTIUS PILATE etc.) and play a deeply moody style of crusty punk with rhythmatic tribal undertones. Really good split if you’re into any of the aformentioned bands.

Buy It Here http://stores.ebay.co.uk/Iron-Man-Shop

FREEDOM IN FIRE KOLLEKTIV & CHAOSCREW PRESENT
3-day benefit-festival in the center of Leuven, Belgium. Thursday 6, Friday 7 and Saturday 8 october 2011

http://freedominfire.blogspot.com/2011/08/chaosbar-crust-festival.html

Thursday 06/10/2011 :

Police Bastard (oldschool punk with members of Doom, Sensa Yuma – UK)
Derci Goncalves (grindcore – Brazil)
Nahende Vernichtung (20 years of d-beat’n'roll – BE)
Visions of War (crustpunk – BE)
Cave ne Cadas (crust, first gig! – BE)
+ punkrock / heavy metal afterparty

Friday 07/10/2011 :

Ulrikes Dream (metallic crustpunk – BE)
Cause of Divorce (grindcore – Germany)
Attrito (hcpunk – Italy)
Hostilidades (metallic crustpunk – BE)
Terror Defence (d-beat crust – NL)
Autonoma Paradise and the dreadlocks terror (metalcrust France)
+ karaoke afterparty

Saturday 08/10/2011 :

El Ego (death metal / crust, with members of Ictus – Spain)
Next Victim (dark crust, built on the ashes of Mind Pollution – Poland)
Protest Grotesk (crust’n'roll Germany)
Siphilisation (doommetalcrust with a violin – BE)
Sade (crust – BE)
Deafenestration (crust – BE)
+ maybe one more
+ 90′s / disco / dance afterparty

Political info room :
•12h [MOVIE] Living Utiopia – Anarchism in Spain. Living Utopia is a unique documentary that blends the historical account of the origins and development of the Spanish anarchist movement, and the revolution of 1936 — illustrating an anarchist society in action. Spanish spoken, English subtitles. Duration 1h34min.
•14h [LECTURE] An introduction to anarchism by Anarchy=Order
•15h30 [MOVIE] Breaking the Spell – A look at the 1999 Seattle WTO protests. English spoken, English subtitles. Duration 1h03min
•17h [MOVIE] OP Genova 2001 – L’Ordine Pubblico Durante il G8 – about the protests against the G8 in Genoa in 2001, where Carlo Guiliani, a protestor, got shot by police. English spoken. Duration 42min.
•18h15 [MOVIE] Bold native – A fiction feature film about an animal liberator wanted for domestic terrorism. English spoken. Duration 1h44min.
•20h : Closed.

Vegan food available on Friday and Saturday. Sleeping places available (bring your mats and sleepingbags!!). Bingo, shooterfootball, quiz, cock-a-doodle contest, lectures, (political) movies, … . More information will be announced in the beginning of September. Entrance will be around €6-7 euros each day, €16 for 3 days – tbc!

BENEFIT FOR CYKLOPEN – Social center in Stockholm that was completely build by activists, and completely burned down by neonazi’s. Information about Cyklopen will be available at the fest (if you cant make it to the festival and still want to know anything about it, send us a mail at freedominfire at riseup.net).

PLACE TO BE :
CHAOSBAR / Plan Z
WELDADIGHEIDSSTRAAT 76
LEUVEN
BELGIUM

£10 a day or £28 for the weekend. Two venues within walking distance of each other, a lot of good bands

FRI – The Varukers – Poundaflesh – Defcon Zero – Flatpig – Short Bus Window Lickers – The Vile – Ephemeral Foetus – Rabies Babies – Regimes – Dirty Rotten Scoundrels – Low Rollers – Blatoidea – Ninebar – Kartel – True Valiance – Cold Hard Truth

SAT – The Restarts – KADT – Blod Drunk – Constant State of Terror – Last under the Sun – Spat – Meinhof – Happy Spastics – Foolish – Knuckledust – Injury time – Paulie Pecker – Chains of Hate – Conviction

SUN – Sick on the Bus – The Fiend – Usual Suspects (tbc) – Spanner – Cop on Fire – Aberrent – Brutal Regime – Poison Legacy – Greed Force – Prowler – Six Ft Ditch – Hell Burns Away – No Direction

Reknaw in association with rucktion records

Bands start 7pm @ the Grosvenor