After the thoroughly great first day of Download Festival 2022 (read our Friday Download 2022 review here if you missed it), it was time to go again for the often legendary Middle Saturday. A quick shower and back to the arena it was! Things got going a little later than planned thanks to Iron Maiden’s…
You Me At Six did not disappoint at Hatfield on Thursday, (May 2nd) celebrating 10 years of Sinners Never Sleep. With the added bonus of a stacked line up of Yours Truly, Kid Kapichi, Holding Absence and The Hunna, making you ask what more could you want? Yonaka unfortunately had to pull out last minute…
Think back to June 2021. The Download Pilot festival took place in front of 10,000 lucky and willing festival going test subjects, as part of the first Government Pilot aimed at getting the UK live music scene back on its feet after the various lockdowns. Those in attendance, and thousands more at home living the…
Gloucester’s Underground Festival returned on March 26th with 30 bands across four stages and three indoor venues. With the weather on their side and free admission to the festival, the stage(s) was set for a brief taster to wet your appetite for what is to come in the summer once festival season gets underway. Cult…
The return of Funeral For A Friend was well worth the wait and if you were lucky enough to catch them at last year’s Slam Dunk Festival you’ll know that it just built the excitement more for their own shows even more! Joining the welsh emo rockers on this run were Holding Absence and Static…
It’s Tuesday which means we have another new playlist for you lot! We’re opening things up with new music from Sheffield’s Malevolence who have been turning a lot of heads recently and are due to release their third album later this year. This will certainly be one to look out for! A number of tours…
Holding Absence have had one hell of a year. In spite of the COVID pandemic, they’ve managed not only to release one of the best albums of the year (The Greatest Mistake Of My Life), but play a big part in the return of live music to the UK. Starting off with what was by…
Entering back into the arena for our final day, we begin at Main Stage West with practically black skies setting a rather doomy backdrop for openers The Hara (5). Playing to one of the main stages’ smaller crowds we’ve seen this early on, the band nonetheless seem intent on making at least a visual impact,…
A bumper announcement from the Download Festival team about Download Festival 2022 this morning! A mixture of bands from the cancelled 2020 and 2021 lineups, along with some fresh faces have given us all plenty to look forward to in June 2022. Confirmed alongside headliners KISS, Iron Maiden and Biffy Clyro for the main stage…
This is Holding Absence. Words heard and read time and again by those, like us here at Rock Sins, who have followed the South Wales collective from their inception. Four years on from bursting onto the scene with their first single, and two years on from their debut self-titled album, Holding Absence return with “the…
Let’s face it. 2020 in many ways has been, well, total bollocks hasn’t it. Music has done its best to come to the rescue as it often does, with the likes of Bury Tomorrow, Coldbones and Sertraline to name just a few UK acts releasing excellent music at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. But…
Its almost time for another new month, and we’ve got another great selection of twenty tracks for you all to enjoy. Kicking things off this week is the new single from Katatonia, The Winter Of Our Passing, taken from their wonderful new album City Burials. We also have the thunderous Amongst The Shadows And The…
