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NEW RAILPUNK CD The new 12 Track CD 'FANATICOS PARA TRENES' from Brum's Eastfield is out now Beat Bedsit records Available for £5 post-paid (cheques to A.Adams) from: EASTFIELD, PO BOX 7804, BIRMINGHAM B13 8AS. UK. or www.eastfieldrailpunk.co. uk For Distribution rates/trades..please contact Paul at Beat Bedsit PO BOX 2927, BRIGHTON, EAST SUSSEX BN1 3SX. UK  [email protected] Still pumping em out The Madskull Record label have just released another new record! The 5-track Human Alert/Seein Red split 7" which features both bands playing each others records???? Click on the above logo to access the site. Full review here. PUKE N VOMIT! New Californian punk label the sickeningly named Puke N Vomit Records has just spewed up two brand new 7" releases by Neon Maniacs and League Of Struggle. They are both selling for $3.50 postpaid. For more info and the full catalogue email em at [email protected]om Ripping Thrash label & CD Wizardry Steve 'Ripping Thrash' the UK zinewriter extraordinaire who has been pushing his hardcore thrashy pen at us for 15 years now!!! Which deserves full credit! And unlike some of the other blinkered UK zioneists has dipped his toes into cyber space and is promoting some new releases on his record label. Most notably being Anarchy Spanky. He's also doing a cheap priced CD duplication service so give him a call coz I did at this link. Ripping Thrash #20 is out now!!!!!

INFLAMMABLE MATERIAL A new edition of London fanzine Imflammable Material explodes onto the scene next week. And at  £1 a shot you can get it. For more info contact Mike at [email protected] VERY METAL Don't be put off by the name coz these fuckers are anything but metal...these are Punk Rock full on. Very Metal are from St Louis and blast out some powerful snotty punk rock with big beefy guitars and a rabid attack in the vocal department. They've just released their debut album 'Life's Too Short' on Beer City Records. And from the sample I just heard they are gonna be a big name on the real punk scene. APOCALYPSE NOW! Apocalypse Babys have released a new 45 called 'Full Metal Racket'. That should confuse the humourless punk police. Check Asterix for the full drill at [email protected] 2001 A Punk Oddessy! Steve Pyle ex-HDQ mainman and Flies On Toast website infamy, is compiling a 45 minute Compilation CD featuring Love Kills, Anti-Clockwise, Antidote, Kismet HC and The Pits. He's also planning on a rare live Culture Shock bootleg to fund the CD. And that ain't all, he's ressurrecting his old band HDQ's debut album too. So check out his expanding site for the full hysterectomy at Flies On Toast Benefit CD! Yet more benefit CD's are amongst us this time from that picturesque London Punx website which is JJ's latest venture. So if your in a punk band, have got a mohican, are veggie and want some cheap exposure drop him a line by June or visit his site for more info at www.londonpunks.co.uk and make a drunken/veggie??? punk happy! The law abiding Laura Norder and girlfriend of D. Rummer ex drummer of Bug Central is doing the graphics.

SOAP & SPIKES #8 OUT SOON! Soap And Spikes fanzine has been quiet of late but not for long. The soon come and much delayed Johnny Rotten issue #8 of his zine is due out anytime now!!! And if you wanna get your gear sold in Canada, check out his new punk distro, zine or record label and write to Derek Dykeman, Soap & Spikes Magazine/Label/Distro , 561 Brant St., P.O. Box 85021, Burlington, Omtario, L7RS-4K3. There will be a review of Issue #7 as soon as I get it back. Hey Mitch if you reading this, put it down it makes yer eyes bad!!!??? 4 MINUTE WARNING #3 Coming soon to a squat near you is Blackpool's very own 4.M.W. zine with Affray, Barse 77, Bad Preachers, Bus Station Loonies, MDM, Disorder & Apocalypse Babies phew!!! Due in August 31 Fir Grove, Marton, Blackpool, Lancs, FY1 6PJ, UK. BIG PUNK LIST FOR SALE! A very reasonably priced list of punk records, CD's and tapes covering the whole board from '77 to Now! is up for grabs. Write to Mitch at 31 Fir Grove, Marton, Blackpool, Lancs, FY1 6PJ, UK. 100 PUNKS zine. July issue out now!