Oh man. It wasn’t a tough decision to head down to the Old Blue Last for Kerouac’s final show, but it sure as Hell was a difficult proposition to review it afterwards and convey even a fraction of how it felt on the night. Hugh Platt handles the words; Ben Gibson is our man with the camera.

Six things we learned when we saw Kerouac’s last EVER show:

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Hevy Festival have added another 24 bands to their 2012 bill, including the winners of this year’s Redbull Bedroom Jam competition. They’ve also announced the provisional day splits for the bands they’ve announced so far, which give an indication of how many more bands the festival plans on announcing before it all kicks off at the start of August.

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The Long Haul
Debtors
Tangled Talk
06 February 2012

by Alex Andrews

For those who’ve waited patiently as #UKSWELL has cluttered their Twitter feed and cropped up on ironic t-shirt designs – biding their time until the day comes when there’s a British band genuinely worth getting excited about, The Long Haul may well be the answer you’ve been looking for.

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We’ve been talking up The Tangled Tour for aaagggeeesss. We’re big fans of every band that’s taking part, and we can’t remember the last time we could say that about a tour that’s got seven bands playing over the course of its run. We’re not the only ones to think so either – when we arrived at The Hope & Anchor last weekend, they were having to turn people away at the door….

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The Long Haul first popped onto our radar when other bands started recommending them to us towards the tail-end of 2010. Our high-opinion of them was solidified when we finally got to see them live when we caught them smashing apart the cramped basement space that is the Buffalo Bar in Highbury. Since then, not only have their own releases continued to float our collective boat, but the band’s guitarist, Lewis Johns, has produced some of the fiercest homegrown records to emerge from the UK in recent years.

Now with a new vocalist and a new EP to their name, and The Tangled Tour a mere two weeks away, we figured now was as good a time as any to drop a line to their bassist, Adam Guest, and find out just what’s going on right now in the world of The Long Haul.

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Over the past couple of months, we’ve spotted a word (or rather a hashtag) popping up on Twitter when a few good people are tweeting at each other. That word is #UKSWELL. We thought we’d have a chat with Holy Roar Records co-founder and Pariso guitarist, Alex Fitzpatrick and see what all the fuss is about.

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Kerouac / The Long Haul
Split EP
Tangled Talk Records
07 March 2011

by Andy Parker

Has there ever been a better time in the history of the UK underground than what we’ve seen in the last 5 years? True, we’ve seen many spectacular acts explode then implode, but they burned fast and burned hard. Now two of our favourite bands of last year have come together for a wonderful slab of 10″ grey vinyl – courtesy of Tangled Talk Records  – and they’re out to wreck your lives.

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The Long Haul
From: Southampton, UK
Lazy equation: (Converge + south coast smalltown hate) x five sets of middle fingers
Website: The Long Haul on Facebook
Thrash Hits verdict: Combining threatening but angular guitar work with some of the fiercest growls we’ve heard come out of a skinny feller, The Long Haul are the latest in a long line of Tangled Talk acts to earn a spot as one of our Future Hits, and further proof that the UK hardcore scene is in rude health. We caught up with Lewis Johns, guitarist with the five-piece. [Read more →]