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A chat with Set It Off at Slam Dunk Midlands 2017!

Arriving for our first interview of Slam Dunk 2017 and we are met with a bubbly and excited Cody Carson, frontman for Florida “pop-punk/rock” band Set It Off. Check out our in-depth chat where we talk about Slam Dunk, the horrific Manchester attacks and the feeling playing in the city in the aftermath, the Upside […]

2000 Trees announce Forest Stage lineup!

*Festival announcement klaxon* 2000 Trees have announced the lineup for their awesome Forest Stage acoustic sets! The stage is a popular one for more reasons than just the music, with beautiful scenery making it a great place to relax and take a break from all the chaos of a music festival while listening to the […]

Download Festival Ones To Watch

We’re well and truly about to enter festival season and we couldn’t be more excited. With Download Festival within touching distance, we’ve selected some of the best bands on this years line up that we think you should be checking out over the festival weekend. Motionless in White – Words Liz Birt Motionless in White […]

Toploader to headline Fort Fest 2017!

*Festival announcement klaxon*. Fort Fest have announced the headliner for 2017 and it is *drum roll*……… TOPLOADER! They will be closing the festival as Sunday night’s headliners. Also announced are; Massmatiks, Veridian, Rory Indiana, Chasing Cadence, Diamond Days and Sweet Crisis! They join; Our Hollow Our Home, Fort Hope, Normandie, Tigress, Big Spring, Skarlett Riot, […]

Handmade Festival, Leicester 2017

Handmade Festival 2017 Handmade is a Music, Photography, art, comedy and performance festival held each year in Leicester, UK. In the last couple of years the festival has moved from using various city centre venues to one location in the University student union which also houses the Leicester O2 Academy venue.   Day 1, Friday […]

10 Years of Take To The Skies

Nothing makes you feel old quite like the anniversary of an album. It might be hard to believe but this year sees Enter Shikari’s Take To The Skies reach 10 years (!!) since release. Yep that’s right, both it and you have aged a whole decade. In celebration, and in anticipation for the bands performance […]

Slam Dunk Festival: Ones to watch 2017!

May bank holiday weekend (27-29th May) sees the UK’s favourite touring festival Slam Dunk return for its 11th year! After the success of 2016’s run, including headliners Panic! At The Disco’s incredible set, we have all been wondering just how the organisers can top last year. Well they have tried and we’re pretty sure that […]

UK Tech-Fest announces new bands!

*Festival announcement klaxon* UK Tech-Fest has announced a new wave of bands! The festival is set to take place between July 6 and 10th at Newark Showground, Nottingham. 17 new bands have been added to the lineup and they are; Betraying The Martyrs, The Haarp Machine, Rolo Tomassi, Martyr Defiled, Oni, Red Seas Fire, Shattered […]

2000 Trees new band announcement!

*Festival announcement klaxon* 2000 Trees has announced 11 more bands to it’s lineup! Added are; Deaf Havana who will be playing a fan-chosen set!, Spring King, Employed To Serve, Dave Hause & The Mermaid, Oathbreaker, Milk Teeth, Svalbard, Young Legionnaire, The Dirty Nil, Lemuria, Freeze the Atlantic and The Winter Passing! Deaf Havana‘s James Veck-Gilodi […]

Too Close To Touch to make UK debut at Slam Dunk!

After keeping us on tenterhooks since their 2013 inception, Too Close To Touch are FINALLY heading over to the UK! Their first appearances on UK soil will be at this years’ Slam Dunk festivals! Latest album Haven’t Been Myself was released via Epitaph in Spetember 2016 and has helped the band reach over 7 million […]

Impericon Festival announces stage times!

With only a couple of days to go until Impericon Festival hits Manchester, the stage times have been released! Taking place at Manchester’s Academy2 on bank holiday Monday – April 17, the festival showcases some of the worlds’ best metal acts! Stage times are as follows: Thy Art Is Murder          9:45-10:35pm Being As An Ocean       […]

My Slam Dunk Experience; A Look Back

It’s nearly time to start getting excited about Slam Dunk Festival, if you aren’t already! With another year of big bands and what are sure to be some exciting sets on the horizon, it’s time to take a look back at previous years. Remember THAT headline set from Panic! At The Disco last year? Or […]

Slam Dunk announces stage splits

The Slam Dunk stage splits are here and it is sure to be a busy day of running around for all attending! Heading up the Jagermeister Stage this year and celebrating 10 years of Take To The Skies is Enter Shikari who will be joined by the likes of Don Broco, We Are The Ocean, […]

Impericon Festival 2017 preview!

April 17th, 2017 will see Manchester’s Academy 2 house some of the world’s best and heaviest bands! Thy Art Is Murder complete with former vocalist CJ McMahon, are set to headline 2017’s Impericon Fest. The metal touring festival stops off in six cities across Europe with Manchester being the only UK date. For just £27.90, […]

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