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Discharge News July 8 2008 Here's a new statement from the band: DISCHARGE FINALLY RELEASE THEIR NEW ALBUM "DESENSITISE" IN AUGUST
AND GO OUT ON THE ROAD TO PROMOTE ITS RELEASE WITH THE FOLLOWING SHOWS:
I've already heard some of the new tracks and can say that they sound great. They are a mix of the "old" Discharge (early EPs), with the newer style of the last EP "Beginning of the End". Downloadable versions of a couple of the new songs will be made available
soon. Keep checking back for an update. March 19 2008 There are a couple of changes to gigs coming up very soon - the Aberdeen and Dundee gigs have swapped dates: Aberdeen - now on Friday 21 March Material from the new album will be reviewed very soon. For those of you who saw Discharge recently, you will have already heard what the new sound is like. February 29 2008 The Discussions are now working again, after I'd worked on the problem today - make your views known about this site and the band so that we can give you the website you want to see. February 28 2008 Newcastle gig is postponed until next Thursday (March 6), due to Rainy having flu and Rat only just recovering from it!!! Tell anyone you know that is planning on going tonight and apologies for the short notice! I'll see any of you who plan to go to Trillians next week. Additional - the Discussion Boards are down for some reason...not sure why, but it may be related to the fact that the website has been recently "upgraded" by my provider... February 21 2008 The gig that was to be at Mansfield on the 13th March has been cancelled. Also, the gig at Leicester has had its date changed, but at the present time I do not know the new date. Until we know for definite, I would suggest that you contact the Mansfield Townhouse to see if they know anything. The new album is nearly finished recording and I should be getting some advance tracks for review soon. I will let you all know what the new sound is like and if it's anything like the "Beginning of the End" EP released back in 2006. I'm also planning on doing a re-design of the website. This will include how the site looks as well as the content in it, so if you have any suggestions about what you'd like to see in here, tell us on the Discussion Boards - I'll create a section in there for you all to record your ideas. More news as and when I get it. January 12 2008 There's been news of a few more gigs coming up in 2008. They are as follows: February 28 - Newcastle, Trillians November 2 2007 The Newport gig scheduled for the 7th December has been changed as Discharge are to play with UK Subs at the London Astoria 2 (now called The Mean Fiddler) - check the website for ticket details. At this time, we are not aware of the new date for Newport, but keep checking back here for more details. Other news: Discharge had to pull out of two shows in Zagreb and Belgrade, as Rainy was taken into hospital he had pneumonia. He is now out and on the road to recovery the band apologise for this and are hoping to reschedule the shows as soon as is possible. September 8 2007 Things might seem quite on the Discharge front but we have been fully
concentrating on writing songs for a new album. The hard work is paying off
we are about 4 songs away from finishing. We have recently been into the
studios at Bradford 1 in 12 to lay a few rough ideas down with Brian Doom at
the helm engineering and producing. We have decided to go out and do a few
shows, where we are going to play a few of the new ideas & see how they go
down live. August 28 2007 It's been a while since we had some news, but here is a statement from the guys, regarding the Montreal show: Discharge have pulled out of the Montreal Chaos show because Rainy was
deported few years ago from the USA as the band was due to do a tour. He was
jailed for two days and escorted handcuffed to the plane. The experience for
him was pretty much a nightmare as anyone could imagine. Well aparently
Rainy discovered that the Canadian and USA immigration use the same
database, so as much as some people said risk it see if he gets in, we would
not want to put him through the experience again (I mean for fuck sakes come
on) and as no flights had been booked for any band by this time it was Aug
1st, we had doubts whether it would go on. The weekend of the 4th and 5th
August discharge played Stockholm August Bulier Festival and was due to play
the Anti Fest in Prague, but promoter pulled it last minute. February 4 2007 It's been a while since the site was updated, but thanks to Beano Skint there's some news below and new photos coming up once I get them re-sized and pages sorted out for them.. 2nd - 4th March, 2007. Discharge at Punk and Disorderly Festival. The
Metronom, Berlin, Germany. www.punk-disorderly.de. If anybody has photos they want to show on this site, contact me through the discussion boards and we can arrange for them to be shown. In fact, any Discharge-related stuff you may have and want to share on this site, go ahead and get in contact. October 11 2006 There has been a change to the Discussion Forum - I have password-protected the whole of the folder where the Forum resides, so that it keeps the spambots out. When you are prompted by the page to enter a password in the pop-up login box, use the following info: username: never password: again Once you're in, you can then use the forum as usual. Note that if you want to post articles, you will have to log into the BOARD using your normal username and password, not the one above. July 14 2006 There's some more gigs coming up: Saturday July 15th: Penzance Club 2000 Also the band go to Ireland at the end of July and play the following gigs: Friday July 21st: Dublin Voodoo Lounge Their agency (Crucial Talent) are now booking shows for a full UK tour in November and in between gigging the band are still working on new ideas. I will be uploading some photos soon of various gigs that have happened recently - thanks to those that have sent them in. April 25 2006 Here's another gig that Discharge are playing at (info courtesy of ChaosAgency) 25th May Should be a good one! April 16 2006 The new tour has finished for now and it was a storm! At Newcastle, we didn't get to hear the new track from the EP (drum stool broke!), but the set was pretty damn good! Thanks to those in the crowd that took website flyer off us and thanks to the band for letting me take photos - they'll be up on the site shortly. If anyone else has photos from any of the recent gigs, please send them in and I'll give them a good home up here. The band have the following statement about the tour: "DISCHARGE WOULD LIKE TO THANK EVERYONE THAT CAME TO THE SHOWS AND GAVE US GREAT SUPPORT, WE HAD A GREAT TIME AND CAN'T WAIT TO GET BACK OUT ON THE ROAD WE ARE WORKING ON A SECOND FULL TOUR AROUND OCT/ NOV WE HAVE THE OCCASIONAL GIGS IN BETWEEN ( CHECK WEBSITE) SO TILL THEN CHEERS TEZZ, BONES , RAINY ,RAT." March 20 2006 For those who haven't seen the cover for the New EP "Beginning of the End", here it is:
Expect a review of the EP very soon - as soon as I get my hands on it and before the touring starts in earnest! Anyone wanting to book the band, can you please use their agency - Crucial Talent. For gigs in Europe, use www.MAD-Tourbooking.de. February 16 2006 The dates mentioned below are actually the 3rd and 4th of April and not March as first reported. January 20 2006 There's a couple of dates added to the upcoming tour:
Monday March 3rd: Hull - The Ringside I'll do a review of the new EP once I get my hands on a copy. January 2 2006 Here's some news from the band - a New Year's Message! Many thanks to everyone that has supported us over the years greatly appreciated, I know things were a bit quite in the Discharge camp or so it seemed over 2005. We have been busy working on new material to be released in 2006 and of course the birth of the two new Roberts boys, we are going into the studio early Feb to lay down 3 new tracks for a EP release which will hopefully be on CD format (with bonus DVD tracks) and vinyl. Not sure which tracks will be on it - titles we are working with: "They Lie You Die", "Blood of the Innocent", "The World Fights Back" (we shall be including the new songs in the live set). The EP should be ready for when we hit the road for a few UK shows (see below in previous News) so save ya Xmas money, it is being released on Thunk Records, who are also putting out the official Discharge DVD shortly after the tour (I know its late, but things are now in the final stages). We are also planning a second phase of shows around the UK sometime in May/June so if you know of a venue that might be interested in booking Discharge, send it to the site and we will pass details onto the booking agent. A lot of things to look forward to in 2006 see ya there. The nightmare continues... Tezz, Rainy, Bones, Rat Great stuff to come, then...! Can't wait... December 26 2005 Discharge have officially announced a new tour in 2006 - here are the first set of dates, with a second leg in May/June. More details on the second leg as soon as I hear about them. Support for all March/April gigs is to be Certified.
JAN 21ST BRADFORD RIOS (SUPPORT FROM BILLY CLUB/CERTIFIED) I will definitely going to the Newcastle gig on April 5th - anyone that wants to meet up and talk about the site or whatever with me, give me a shout and we can arrange something. 3 December 2005 Just got word that Discharge are going on tour again in 2006. These newest gigs are at the following venues: March 25 November 2005 Welcome to the new-look site. I hope you like it - it makes it a little easier to navigate around and I will be uploading more images of the covers when I get around to scanning them. Thanks to all those who have been in touch with updates to the Gigs and some memories of the early days. I will be publishing that lot very soon. I also plan to make the News page updatable by the band themselves, so they get news across to all of you sooner than I can. 7 October 2005 The band has got in touch and have sent out the following news forus: "Bones and Sarah have had a healthy baby boy Conor George Roberts. The band are planning two UK shows for the end of the year - more soon." Congrats to Bones & Sarah - let's see "the next generation" of Discharge soon... 14 August 2005 The guys have sent on some news for us: Tezz and Tracy had a boy Jack Daniel Roberts. All
are doing well. I've asked about how the new album is going - we should hear about an update soon. I'm currently doing a bit of site re-design at the moment - nothing major - and am looking to try and make it more interactive so that the band themselves can post news for us all to read. 17 June 2005 Thanks once again to the twats who hacked the site. I didn't get a more up-to-date backup than this, but it's better than nowt. I don't think there's too much damage, but some links may take a little while to put right. Some of the News has gone, but I was gonna prune it down anyway... Once more - fuck off to all hackers! 22 April 2005 Here is a statement from the band about recent happenings: DISCHARGE STATEMENT WE HAVE DECIDED TO CUT BACK ON TOURING COMMITMENTS THIS YEAR , SO AS WE CAN FINALLY START WORKING ON SOME NEW MATERIAL, THIS WE HAVE STARTED TO DO AT MAD HOUSE STUDIOS, THE DISCHARGE DVD THAT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE OUT LAST YEAR IS HAVING THE FINISHING TOUCHES DONE TO IT, SO THAT'S SOMETHING FOR YA TO LOOK FORWARD TO, DURING THE DISCHARGE BREAK, BONES HAS BEEN CONTINUING WORK WITH BROKEN BONES( NEW LP AND USA TOUR) SAME WITH RAT AND THE VARUKERS. USA TOUR IN JUNE AND NEW LP END OF THE YEAR, SO ALTHOUGH
IT SEEMS LIKE WE HAVE BEEN DOING FUCK ALL ,WE IN FACT HAVE ALL BEEN PRETTY
TIED UP I THINK THEY CALL IT HAVING A LIFE. 28 October 2004 Got hit by a virus yet again! 8 October 2004 Thanks To No Fucker!! My website has hit by a virus, but luckily I got the home page restored - hopefully the fuckwits who host the site have got their server fixed now. No other real news as yet, but I got the book "Burning Britain" recently, which has some great stuff on bands from 1980-84 in the UK. Well worth a purchase from Amazon UK... 24 August 2004 Here is a review of recent Stoke gig that Discharge played: DISCHARGE + SICK ON THE BUS + DRONGOS FOR EUROPE - Stoke-on-Trent, Talbot (17/09/04) After a rather disappointing showing at Wasted recently, expectations are high for Discharge to turn in a good performance tonight, and they deliver all we could hope for, and much more. From the second they take the stage in fact, it’s very apparent that this is going to be an infinitely superior gig. No lengthy intro tape for starters, they just stroll on and blast into ‘Hear Nothing, See Nothing, Say Nothing’… and who can’t but be impressed when they hear such a song in full flight? No murky sound today either; although they have problems with Rainy’s bass cutting out on several occasions, the mix is thick and powerful, and most importantly Bones’ guitar is scything the air like a tightly coiled strand of razor wire that’s just snapped under some immense strain. Rat’s barking ferociously like a pitbull on a very short leash as he prowls the cramped stage, but the intimate atmosphere – the band are literally right there, in our faces – just adds to the intensity. At Wasted, they seemed ill at ease and strangely detached from proceedings, but tonight they’re really up for it, and so are we, and there’s a sizzling connection between stage and hall. We’re hit hard and fast with classic after gnarly classic, the only minor criticism being that maybe some of the old mid-tempo songs (like ‘Ain’t No Feeble Bastard’ and ‘A Look At Tomorrow’) are actually played too fast (too fast? Is there such a thing?) and they lose a little of their monstrous groove. Just before they got up and tore us a new arsehole, Rat also told me that the band have finished work on two new songs, although they’re not ready to be gigged yet, so a brand new record with the current lineup may not be too far away. That will be the real test for Discharge, but right now, when they’re on this kind of form, I have every faith that they can pull off something special. Earlier tonight, we were also treated to a solid set of
infectious anthemic punk by evergreen Brummie veterans, Drongos For Europe,
who opened the show in fine style. And then Sick On The Bus staggered on and
treated us to an amusingly inebriated and obnoxious thirty minutes, which
would have been even better if they’d been able to remember their own songs!
‘Sloppy’ doesn’t even come close to describing it, but these guys always
entertain, especially when under the influence. 20 August 2004 There's a fair bit of news this time - firstly, I have been asked by Tezz to take over the Discharge website. At this time, I don't know if it means running this site as the official one, or taking over their current website at www.discharge.uk.com, or maybe even merging the two to create a new site - there'll be more info on that once I know myself and I'll post more news as I hear it on that. Secondly, there are more gigs coming up! Discharge play two nights at Stoke-On-Trent : Talbort Hotel Friday September 17th with Sick On the Bus and Drongoes For Europe , then on the Saturday night September 18th with Chaos UK and Billy Club, tickets are priced £8 for either night or £12 for entry to both nights. Tickets are available from music mania in Hanley tel: 01782 206000 or www.musicmaniauk.com. Space is limited so get them ASAP. Discharge then go to Scandinavia! They play Thursday 23rd September Gamla Oslo in Norway, Friday 24th September Fryshuaset Stockholm in Sweden, Saturday 25th September TBA Helsinki Finland and Sunday 26th September TBA Tampere Finland. On Sunday November 28th, Discharge play with Exploited and GBH at Rock City Nottingham in England - should be a good one! Thanks to Rat for for the gig info - I hope to hear more news as it happens, so keep checking back here! I have some more photos to upload soon from the Brazil gigs they done recently - hopefully they'll be on the site over the weekend...depending on how I feel after my first stag do...! 11 July 2004 Rat has got in touch with me and asked me to pass on the following message: DISCHARGE APOLOGISE TO ALL THOSE THAT TURNED UP TO SEE THEM AT FULL FORCE FESTIVAL, ON THE WAY TO THE AIRPORT THE BAND HAD VAN TROUBLE WHICH MEANT THEY MISSED THEIR FLIGHT - THE ONLY ONE THAT DAY. HOPEFULLY THE BAND WILL BE BACK OVER GERMANY SOON. Rat also sent the full version of an interview for Terrorizer magazine - you can read this in the History section. 10 June 2004 Not much to report at the moment, but I have been in contact with a guy in Brazil who said that the lads went down well there! I still haven't got the video from The Archer yet - here's hoping! I've started off a new Bulletin Board (hosted on my other site) so that I can start to keep track of any memoirs and gig lists etc about the band so that I can start to work on the book I've been wanting to do for some time. I don't want my bulletin board to go the same way as the official board went - i.e. turning into a Tezz and Rat -bashing forum! Any posts even resembling that sort of subject will be binned as soon as. As far as the book goes, I've only got the initial idea of chapters sketched out so far, with their titles sorted. I plan to use the info I got from Tanya Rich as well as hopefully re-establishing links with Mike Stone and the guys from the 1991 line-up. Hopefully Steve from Thunk Records will be able to expand on his time in the Grave New World era too! I will be contacting Rainy soon too after he's got back from the Brazil tour and from that hopefully get a chance to interview Tezz and Bones in depth. Of course, the one that is missing from this list of interviewees is the elusive Cal. I feel that no book about Discharge would be complete without some input from the longest-serving singer of the group. I can only hope that I can somehow make contact and get a positive response! On the subject of the Brazil tour, my contact also said that MTV recorded an interview and 3 songs, so hopefully this footage will see the light of day at some point! 15 May 2004 I am recovering after what can only be described as an absolute belter of a gig last night! The lads turned up at The Archer in Newcastle and were in excellent form, as we witnessed a 4-song soundcheck that gave a taster of what was to come later on that night. If you have any concerns about Rat being the vocalist for the band, then forget about them - he rules! I got a chance to meet them backstage before they delivered the Hell On Earth to a packed venue. I got talking to Tezz and Rat first and they are really down-to-earth lads, talking about the tour and the plans for the DVD and new album - these should be great when they come out! Stepping past Bones who was catching up on some sleep at the time, I spent a while chatting to Rainy, who although generally considered to be the more quiet of the group, was keen to talk and I spent a good while with him. Later on as Bones woke up (snapshots to come) and I was introduced to him by Tezz, he took time out to talk to me too. All I can say is that the lads are definitely back on track with the band and they are all eager to show the world what they are capable of. Photos of the gig will be going up soon, once I sort them out and it was a pity that the gig didn't get recorded - I tried but my MiniDisc let me down. The gig was being videoed, so with a bit of luck that should with me soon. Grab whatever chance you can to see them - you'll not regret it!
8 April 2004 First off, the guys have announced that a pretty big tour of the UK is at last all systems go, so look forward to seeing Tezz, Bones, Rainy & Rat in a city near you soon! They also plan to visit Germany and Brazil too! Note the change of dates for the Brazil tour in the gigs section, as it is a bit earlier than previously stated. Secondly, I now have many more live recordings, one of which is from 1979 with Tezz on vocals! Most of these are on tape, so I have my work cut out to master them onto CD....a nice little summer job I think! These recordings are not for sale, so please don't ask, but if you have stuff to trade, get in contact. I think Tezz could be interested in a copy of the 1979 gig.... I look forward to seeing the guys at Newcastle and hopefully will get some great photos and even audio or video! If anyone is going to the Newcastle gig and wants to meet up, swap stuff, etc, drop me a line, OK? Ticket price is £8 for the Newcastle gig, so I guess that will probably be the going rate elsewhere. If anyone plans to take photos, video or audio from these gigs, then a swap for stuff I have will be up for grabs. I also forgot to tell you that the Music Soujourn website now has the Tezz interview available to listen to - if you're an HTML tech-head, you can eventually get to the main RM file so that it can be burned to CD or converted to WAV etc. The link to the website where the interview is: http://musicsojourn.com/AR/Alt/page/d/Discharge.htm and just click the Play Lo link button and you'll need Real Player to listen to it. Whilst looking through a copy of Kerrang recently I noticed an advert for the Astoria gig on 10 April, which used the 8 image montage menu I use on this site as the home page - great to see the lads using my images (which are their images really) as promo material. They asked if it would be OK and of course who am I to refuse them?! The Images section has had a bit of a revamp to make it easier to view and I'll do a bit more work on it soon to finish it off - at least you can see some shots from the 100 Club back in 1983 now. I got these from a fan who got them off a mate. The scans weren't brilliant and looked like 256-colur low res, but after a little bit of Paint Shop Pro restoration, they look a little more like photos. The Discharge in Finland site eventually went down, but after getting in touch with the original site owner, I am now proud to say that this site is the official host of those great pics. The link has been updated and searching for these in Yahoo now brings you here instead of a bad link. Additional - I've updated the Lyrics section, so apologies to all concerned about certain songs having wrong lyrics...I had forgotten about the lyric sheet that was originally supplied with the earlier singles/EPs and have now edited the offending songs to reflect the true words and not those of the heavily-erroneous "Punk and Destroy" attempts.
30 January 2004 Great news now though - Discharge are very actuve and will be on tour throughout Europe this year and possibly USA again! Check the Gigs section for more details. There is to be a new album released this summer entitled "Beginning of the End" on Thunk Records and distributed through Cargo UK and Cargo USA. Looks like the lads have shrugged off the Sanctuary Records death-grasp at last. A documentary DVD with old and new live footage as well as interviews will also be released later in the year, so keep your eyes peeled for that one. To top it all, there is to be a new official Discharge website set up from today. I must say that I didn't know about this and it puts paid to my plans of this site becoming the official site. Hopefully it will be really up-to-date and contain lots of stuff I simply can't get a hold of. Thanks to all concerned that have contacted me in recent times with offers of audio and video - it's much appreciated and I'm always after more! Hopefully soon I will have the Sugar Mill video (yes it was filmed!) in full. The website that has samples of the gig's called Athens-Hardcore. I now have the Hanley 1983 and Japan 1991 gigs on DVD and am at present finalising DVD Menus and box artwork for these. The new website is apparently going to be at www.discharge.uk.com Not live yet, but hopefully soon then, eh? Oh, there will be more images uploaded soon, including some stuff from the 100 Club 1983 - not fantastic quality in terms of file size and resolution, but still great to look at!
26 November 2003 Discharge are to play the Sugar Mill club in Stoke-on-Trent (good old UK!) on 18 December 2003! I am not sure if I will be able to make it down there, so I hope more UK gigs are planned, but it's a great opportunity for us to see the new line-up in action! Tickets are £5 (from local outlets?), or you can use the website www.wayahead.com to book them at £6.25 each (maximum 10) including the old booking fee. The club is for over 14s only, but the gig itself is billed as an over 18s event, so make sure you're either over 18 or look like you are!! If anyone is definitely planning on going and are going to take video or audio of the gig, get in touch. Also, if anyone fancies getting me a T-shirt on the night I will forward dosh onto them. I may yet be able to get down there, but as most of my plans fall apart, it may well not happen! If anyone wants to see and hear what they sound like now, then the DVD of the Finland gig is one way of doing just that....
4 October 2003 More detail on the dates that they played in the USA recently will be filled in when I get a chance to read the back of the T-shirt I took delivery of today! 29 September 2003 Here's some hot news just in: Discharge Interview with
Tezz Live on The Internet I also have got the PuntalaRock gig on video (thanks Markku!) and am presently mastering it onto DVD with menus, cover, etc. I'm also getting a tour t-shirt too now (thanks Dan!). Any videos of the new gigs would be appreciated.... Oh - also, the current stand-in bassist is called Davey. Hailing from San Diego, he is their driver and is doing a great job for Dis as they continue their tour. Let's hope Rainy gets sorted soon and is back in the gang though.... Pics from the US tour are coming soon too.... 25 September 2003 Oh, if anyone can get me a tour shirt and any other related gear (flyers/posters/tickets etc), I'd be grateful and repay you or swap for a promo copy of their latest album, which by all accounts is not being sold at the gigs. Once again, if anyone can get a video of any of the gigs to me, I'd be very grateful! Oh, I am now in touch with Tanya Rich, who used to be the band's manager back in the early days and and hopefully will be getting mucho information about life back in the days when the band were starting out. This, together with the info I will be getting from Mike Stone and Nigel Bamford will start to show a good idea of what the band were like from a perspective of others apart from fans. I'd love to write a book about this if I can get more material including photos together! More news as and when it happens.... 13 September 2003 6 September 2003 More news as it happens! 30 August 2003 A few more images of the lads pre-gig I think has come in, so they're in the Images section. Cheers to Jari for those! Also added a transcribed interview from Sounds magazine/newspaper from 1981. This is in the History section. I've been meaning to put this in for a while, but forgot about it until now. If anyone out there has the Toys Factory release of "Grave New World" on CD, get they touch as I feel it will be better than me trying to digitise the vinyl.... Mike Stone is currently selling off his old file copies of Discharge singles and albums on Ebay. "Realities of War" has just been sold, with HNSNSN going up for grabs now. I got in touch with Mike and he's agreed to an interview, so that'll be up on the site soon. What I'd really like to do is get enough material together so that a book could be published about the lads, as I feel they've not been represented by media that well and deserve it for their contribution to the scene. If we can source a cheap way of getting the book published with their approval - hopefully filled with rare photos - I'm sure the book would go down a storm. If you have any contacts at all with ex-members or indeed current members, please get in touch. If there are any T-shirts on sale at the gigs and you're going to one, again get in touch to sort something out with me! Any audios/videos etc etc etc....!
10 August 2003 There are more shots of the lads going mad in Finland in the images section. Rat and Bones look particularly angry! Here's the set list they performed: 1 Realities of War Extra: 15 The Possibility of Life's Destruction Extra for the second time: 17 Fight Back Anyone with a video or audio of this gig, please get in touch.
29 July 2003 Well, by all accounts, the gig went well, with 5 or so songs from the new self-titled album and the rest of the set being of the old school. The Full Force gig did not go ahead, due the previous injuries sustained after the car crash earlier in the year, but by all accounts the lads are set to play the British Invasion 2K3 on 20th September at ORANGE PAVILION-Nationall Orange Show Fairgrounds 689 South "E" St.,San Bernadino.
7 July 2003 5/7/2003: Full Force festival, Roitzscjhora, which is close to Leipzig, Germany. See www.withfullforce.de for more details. Sorry for the delay on this one....I got tied up with other stuff and thought it was happening later on in the month....D'Oh! If anyone seen the gig, let me have a report or photos or anything....! 1/8/2003: Tinto festival, Spain. 20/9/2003: San Bernardino, California, USA. Still no sign of any UK shows yet...come on lads, spread the joy to the homeland!
18 June 2003 The alleged reason of Rat not being up to it, is absolute rubbish, as The Varukers have had to cancel their gigs in order for Rat to continue with Discharge, which they are more than happy to do as they are big fans too. Rat is more than capable of the job and so I for one look forward to seeing the guys play the UK, which hopefully will be soon! Another potential gig is at Roitschjora, Full Force on June 21st. Again, the information is not concrete, but apparently is on Rebeccas Punk Page. I can't seem to view it as it's a 'Page Not Found' job, but can anyone else confirm this gig? 15 June 2003 Hopefully the Finland Puntalarock gig will still go ahead as planned - visit http://www.puntala-rock.com for more details. Special thanks to Jonas von Kjerrulf and Mikko Koivuluoma - organiser of the Puntalarock - for these bits of news. If anyone has press cuttings, interviews, photos, video, audio, memories from any Discharge event, please get in touch, as I am trying to collate a big Discharge encyclopedia. Also, I am still trying to get a good capture of the black and white gig onto DVD. My DVD+R recorder does not give me the result I am looking for, but hopefully I may be able to get it onto a DVD-R recorder in the near future. All those who have asked for it please bear with me..... 25 May 2003 If you know anything more about this, or will be videotaping it if it goes on PPV, or at the concert, or taking any photos, or recording the gig, then get in touch!!!! 22 May 2003 The website for the festival - http://www.rockparty.se has all the details, which isn't much, but at least confirms the band to be playing!! This is hopefully the start of what should be a great tour we hope! If anyone is going to see them and is to be filming the concert, or recording it or even taking photos, please get in touch, as I'll be very interested in any footage etc! 6 May 2003 13 April 2003 A few things now.... First off, I know about the crap lyrics for a few of the songs listed. I'm working on it and waiting for a more definitive answer to this one, so please don't get in touch about it (I'm so embarrassed!) Secondly, it looks like Discharge will still not be playing gigs, due to Cal's lack of interest in the live performance! Any other news of Dis doing gigs looks like it will be fiction....watch this space! Lastly, I will a some point be creating a menu for the Discharge LIVE DVD I recently captured to DVD+R. It is poor and at present I haven't much time to do stuff, but please bear with me. Any interested parties, please contact me for further details. 22 February 2003 I also have two copies of their latest album (simply called Discharge) and they are the promo versions, with card covers, like CD singles sometimes are. They look great and are of course rare! If anyone wants one, they are going to go to the first two people who can make me a decent offer.
Still no sign of any contact with the band, but I'm not giving up hope yet! No sign of any gigs yet....The Exploited are touring in the summer, but Discharge haven't announced anything to date. 12 December 2002 Tezz has confirmed this via close mates at
Mohawk
Masters that 2003 should see the guys out on tour. I can't wait
and I bet you can't either! More details to follow when I can confirm
what is planned.
27 November 2002 22 November 2002 With a bit of luck, I should be contacting Tezz soon with a view to what is happening in the world of Discharge. Seeing as he's recently re-joined Broken Bones along with brother Bones, it may well be that Discharge are only going to be a studio band from now on. Recent rumours or hearsay that they might support Metallica seem unfounded and probably wouldn't happen. The live CDs artwork can be downloaded from here too. If you want to know more, then contact me.
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