Starting a new feature on Last Hours Kathleen from Scratch That Itch zine has written seven new zines reviews surveying what’s going on with some zines in April 2009! Including reviews of Lights Go Out, Beat Motel, Jerk Store, Nazdrove zine, On T’Road, Richochet!Ricochet!, Ploppy Pants and You Can’t Say No to Hope zine

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Nineteen years ago, the poll tax riot dealt a crippling blow to the Thatcher administration. Could the G20 protests deal an even more significant blow to the Brown administration?

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‘Arson is for lovers’ is the kind of pop record i adore, the kind that just grows and grows on you, until you reach the point where you can’t imagine a day passing without having to achieve sonic confirmation that each hook is exactly where it was the last time, or just to check that you’ve been humming it correctly.

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This is the second release from the – currently unsigned – band, who formed in September 2007 and should have fans of Coalesce salivating.

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Frank Turner claims to be haunted by the scene from Spinal Tap where no-one turns up for an instore appearance. He really didn’t have anything to worry about today. Pure Grooves, the record shop/cafe tucked away behind London’s Smithfield market, is packed to capacity and a few ardent fans even have to settle for the pavement outside.

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Articles like have appeared in the Evening Standard for many years in the run-up to contentious demonstrations. It is a ritual in which the hacks working for the Standard have never failed to participate.

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Other than the weather everything about today was fairly predictable. It was a simple “A to B” march from outside Temple tube station through to Hyde Park. Frankly, there’s little newsworthy to report

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Today about 30-40,000 people marched through London as part of the G20 Put People First march. There was a large ‘militant workers bloc’, which formed with over 600 people marching behind the banner ‘Direct action… against redundancies and repossessions’.

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Both the G20 summit and and the protests taking place around it have been hot topic in mainstream media sources, hushed conversation between activists and in general discussion internationally. But what is it that will be drawing people out into the streets over the coming week? Who are the G20 and what protests are planned? [...]

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To cut to the chase, Ceremony play 80s hardcore harder, heavier and faster than anyone did 25 years ago, and they do it pretty well.

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