It may only be March, but the birds are singing, the sun is shining and it is officially the start of festival season. This weekend sees us heading to Southampton for Takedown Festival 2015. One of the best of the younger festivals, Takedown Festival was launched in 2012 and is now in its fourth year. It…
Slam Dunk has announced a whole heap of bands that finalises this year’s lineup. Fresh from their biggest UK tour to date, British metalcore heavyweights Architects join the likes of You Met At Six and While She Sleeps. Californian post-hardcore legends Finch are set to perform and riding on the success of Disobedient, hardcore heroes…
It may be only just be February, and the snow may be falling, but my favourite time of the year is already creeping up on us. The first festival on my calendar for 2015 is the mighty Takedown Festival, which takes place at Southampton University on Saturday the 7th of March 2015. Launched in 2012 and now…
Welcome back! The next member of Team Rock Sins to offer up their 2014 End Of Year Awards is our man in the midlands Will Stevenson. Over to you Will…. 1) Album of the year Against Me! – Transgender Dysphoria Blues Trasngender Dysphoria Blues is a modern classic of a punk album. The lyrics are…
Welcome back to the Rock Sins 2014 End Of Year Awards. The fourth instalment of this years’ Rock Sins awards is provided courtesy of one of our main live reviewers and interviewers, Mr Sam Dignon. Take it away Sam…. 1) Album Of The Year: The Ghost Inside – Dear Youth I feel the best way…
Words by Lizzie Cooley, photos by Jonathan Yip. As one of the top 20 hottest bands in the world at the moment, Baby Godzilla took to the stage of the Forum Hertfordshire and delivered their (now infamous) blend of “extreme noise” and explosive entertainment. With support from the likes of Zoax and Hooligan Collective, it…
Having been busy working on their fourth album for the last few months, Hertfordshire electro rock quartet Enter Shikari decided upon home turf for their first major UK gig of 2014. Rock Sins sent James along to witness the Shikari live comeback in the flesh… First up, Roam (6) are competent enough in their delivery…
Continuing to spoil their attendees and doing very well in their attempts to get more people to part with their hard earned monies, Andy Copping and the Download Festival 2014 Team at Live Nation HQ have added another nine acts to the festival line up for this year’s rock and metal extravaganza at Donington. Top…
It may only be March, but the birds are singing, the sun is shining and it is officially the start of festival season. This weekend sees us heading to Southampton for Takedown Festival 2014. Ok so we might not be able to walk around in bikinis yet, but as Takedown is indoors, thankfully we don’t need…
With an impressive array of rock, punk, alternative and metal bands with a dash of indie already amassed on the line up for the one day Camden Rocks 2014 All Day Festival, taking place on Saturday 31st of May 2014, the organisers have now released another bands of artists onto the line up. Top of…
The start of the year wouldn’t be complete without one of the most consistently great touring packages of the year, the Kerrang! Tour. They’ve outdone themselves this year though, managing to get nu metal legends Limp Bizkit, Japanese metalcore heroes Crossfaith, a band with a goblin (Nekrogoblikon) and British rising stars Baby Godzilla. And it’s…
