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From Sandman Magazine

Snatchback | Just Kellie | Two Sizes 2 Small | Duty Free
@ The Grapes

Tonight, the Grapes plays host to four local punk bands. The headliners are used to playing the local circuit, but the opening act aren’t. It's their first show. Duty Free, for newcomers, are pretty damn good. They play mostly their own songs as well as an AFI cover and the Buffy Theme. It’s just a shame that one of the singers is losing his voice.
Next, Two Sizes 2 Small play a dynamic punk-pop set, full of between song banter. There’s no doubt that this band is funny and interact well with the audience. Their music is good, if not a little average, but they're certainly talented.
Just Kellie play next. Unlike the other bands tonight, I didn’t know what to expect and was pleasantly surprised. They’re defiantly a band to watch. They play melodic punk and really get the crowd going.
The headliners, Snatchback, play incredibly well. They have great songs, such as the hard-hitting opener Misconception, and much better stage presence than usual. During their set they invite a guest vocalist onstage for About Time and a guest bassist for Hardcore Song. This is a good move as it gets the already active audience more involved. They play a mixed array of songs; some off their EP “From The Bin” and also a Dropkick Murphys cover.
Its safe to say that Snatchback deserve to be successful. Their audience gets bigger each time they play, word is getting round. Be sure to check them out next time.

Charlotte Grounds _________________________________

From Zool Music

Snatchback | Kill the Lights | Johnny Rocket and the Atoms
@ The Grapes

After Kill the Lights finished I realised I was developing quite a headache so after not really being in the mood for a gig in the first place I was less in the mood by the time Snatchback hit the stage. They still managed to impress me though. The new stuff is sounding really quite good these days though it leaves the older old stuff look a little weak. But the band improve alot each time I see them though I still think some more movement and energy could worked into the stage performance to really make audience interested in them. The song Every Duck is their best and with the new songs getting more up to the quality of that I think over the next year the band will have a really strong set throughout. The band do a decent black flag cover but I'm more interested in hearing their own stuff! They finish with Misconception which closes the set on a definate high and I've had the guitar riff stuch in my head since I got home. Snatchback have a great deal of potential and im certainly gonna keep going to their gigs when I can! 75/100

Nick Back

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From unsignedsheffield

Snatchback play fast punky rock tunes. Judging by their sound they would love to be on Fat Records next to bands such as Rise Against and Lagwagon. Not that this is a bad thing at all. They keep all songs short, sharp and energetic and standout track 'gone fishin' is catchy as hell with textbook 'hey heys' in the chorus. I'd definetly want to see these live as this is a quality demo - 7/10. _________________________________

From Punknews

What’s happened to the Epi-Fat sound in 2003? Perhaps I’ve been left in the dark because people like Deck Cheese don’t send us cds, but I’m noticing that there are fewer and fewer British bands pedalling vintage skate punk (circa ’98) anymore.

What’s that you say? Bad Religion, Pulley and Ten Foot Pole were shite in their mid-nineties heyday and are truly abominable these days; Brett Gurewitz is a corporate brown nose and how Fat Mike hitched a ride on the political bandwagon I’ll never know. Okay, you’re probably right. But to plenty of young adults my age those treble speed drumbeats and recyclable riffs evoke much more than cynical finger wagging – we were weaned on these bands.

Prod us hard enough and we’ll recall how we thought NOFX were the most underground outfit on the planet, the term ‘major-indie’ or even ‘politics’ meant jack-shit and all we cared about was our outlandish, tent-like slacks and hair gel. I even recall scribbling defiantly on my Biology folder ‘Major labels are scum’ and ‘Green Day are shite’ (I always hated them). To my peers and myself Epi-Fat was a punk rock rite of passage, with Lagwagon’s ‘Ride the Snake’ as our ‘Wonder Years’ theme tune. Surely it was more than just the image based run off of an obscure sub genre? Wasn’t it?

Snatchback, from Sheffield, bring a lot of these memories flooding back. Sure, they’re hardly A-grade skate punk material, but as far as Epi-Fat stuff goes this is pretty solid. Think ‘No Control’ era Bad Religion riffs and those gloriously supercilious Brian Baker-esque solos. In fact three out of the four tracks here are very tolerable indeed, the only bad apple being the ham-fisted Rancid like dirge of ‘Gone Fishing’. This Pennines crew have plenty going for them.

As the years went past and my cynicism and good taste genes began to kick in, my buddies began to drift away from punk rock. Today some can probably be found in swanky wine bars or lapping town centres in their Vauxhall Novas, Banging Garridge Anthems 7 blaring from their stereos. But awkward youth-phase or no, I’d like to think we’ve all got a soft spot for Epi-Fat. Even if some of us only have our Phinius Gage cds for comfort.