The preview version of an invited review article on attosecond physics phenomena at nanometric tips has just appeared. While the final version will contain a number of additions and minor changes, we follow Journal of Physics B and advertise this non-edited and non-final version already here. The article will be published in a special J. Phys. B issue on “25 years of re-collision physics”, edited by Kenneth Schafer (Louisiana State University, USA), Marc Vrakking (Max Born Institute, Germany) and Zhiyi Wei (Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China).