Following our US West Coast tour late last year, we decided to take a break for 2011 to write and record new material; the Traunoma Festival in Madrid being our last live appearance until 2012.

With the recent sad death of our long time friend Phil Vane, the Scumfest Collective have decided to dedicate some of the proceeds taken from this years festival to help Phil's family.

We feel honoured to be involved in this years event and hope you will show your support.

What remains of our US West Coast Tour shirts are now up for sale at cheap prices direct from the Nightgaunt Graphics site.

Grab 'em while you can because 'when they're gone... they're gone...'

There have been some last minute venue changes* to the tour, dates will now run as;

• 06.09.2010 - *Cobalt Cafe, 22047 Sherman Way, Canoga Park, Los Angeles, CA, US
• 07.09.2010 - Burro Rayado, Tijuana, MX
• 08.09.2010 - Nile Theater Front Room, 105 W. Main St, Phoenix, AZ, US
• 09.09.2010 - *Yayo's, 4632 S Maryland Pkwy 18, Las Vegas, NV, US
• 11.09.2010 - 924 Gilman Street, Berkeley, CA, US
• 12.09.2010 - Kimo´s Bar, 1351 Polk Street, San Francisco, CA, US
• 13.09.2010 - Off Broadway, 2504 Franklin Blvd, Sacramento, CA, US
• 15.09.2010 - Satyricon, 125 North West 6th Ave, Portland, OR, US
• 16.09.2010 - Fernwood Community Association, Victoria, BC, CA
• 17.09.2010 - The Rickshaw, 254 East Hastings Street, Vancouver, CA
• 18.09.2010 - The Morgue, 9501 Airport Way S, Seattle, WA, US

With our first US West Coast tour almost upon us we can announce the majority of dates. One or two have still to be confirmed, but so far the tour will run as;

• 06.09.2010 - Infest Warehouse, Los Angeles, CA, US
• 07.09.2010 - Burro Rayado, Tijuana, MX
• 08.09.2010 - The Underground (aka the Nile), Phoenix, AZ, US
• 09.09.2010 - Redstone House, Las Vegas, NV, US
• 10.09.2010 - TBC, Fresno, CA, US
• 11.09.2010 - Gilman Street, Berkley, CA, US
• 12.09.2010 - Kimo's Bar, San Francisco, CA, US
• 13.09.2010 - Off Broadway, Sacramento, CA, US
• 15.09.2010 - Satyricon, Portland, OR, US
• 16.09.2010 - TBC, Victoria, BC, CA
• 17.09.2010 - Distort, Vancouver, CA
• 18.09.2010 - The Morgue, Seattle, WA, US

We have a handful of European dates coming up over the coming months, starting with some Italian shows.

29.04.2010 - Bologna
30.04.2010 - Pieffe Factory, Gorizia
01.05.2010 - Rovina Hardcore festival

Then over to Germany & Belgium

06.05.2010 - AZ, Mulheim
07.05.2010 - Anarchist Black Cross festival, Liege
08.05.2010 - Hafengeburstag, Hamburg

...and finally back to the Czech Republic for the Play Fast or Don't festival.

31.07.2010 - Play Fast or Don't festival, Hradec Kralove, Czech Republic

Hope to see you there...

We are very pleased to announce that we will finally get ourselves over to play the US, starting with a short tour of the West Coast between September 6 - 18 2010.

The tour details are still being fixed but we're looking at starting in LA & ending in Seattle. As soon as we have the full final schedule, I'll post it here.

It's been a long time coming, but I've finally found some time to build the new Deviated Instinct site. It's by no means complete, there's still reams of content we'd like to add, but I was so sick of looking at the previous temporary site, I just had to get this launched in it's basic form. I'll add more as I find the time.

The recent Back to Black festival in London was dead cool. We'd like to thank Bongo for putting on a superb line up & for looking after us so well. It was also great to catch up with Agrimonia & old friends again too. We're now busy planning trips for next year, more on that as we finalise our plans.

Thought I'd take the opportunity to shamelessly plug Ian Glasper's latest offering 'Trapped in a Scene'. It gives a pretty fair portrayal of all things black & crusty in the UK scene through the mid - late 80's.

'The underground hardcore scene of the mid to late 1980s was UK punk rock's last significant creative gasp. Emerging from the wreckage of the anarcho-punk scene spawned by the likes of Crass and Conflict, it took its influences from the studs 'n' leather punk bands of the early 1980s such as Discharge and GBH. These bands pushed musical boundaries into new avenues of extremity, helping to shape the alternative music scene of today. Trapped in a Scene is the long-awaited closing volume of Ian Glasper's celebrated trilogy on the UK punk scene of the 1980s.'

Oh, Deviated Instinct are featured too.

Go and read it for yourself.