As we head into the Christmas period, Slam Dunk Festival have opened a door on their proverbial advent calendar to give everyone a December helping of new bands for next years’ festivals. Kicking off this announcement is the Slam Dunk Festival debut in 2020 of none other than Refused. The Swedish punks are heroes to…
Prior to their appearance at last weekend’s Butserfest, Young Guns announced two intimate shows to celebrate the upcoming release of their new album, Echoes. We sent Rachael Griffiths along to their sold-out Borderline show to capture an exclusive gallery of the band and their supports, Greywind and Drones. Also to follow is Rachael’s review of…
Butserfest, the UK’s biggest “straight edge” festival (alcohol free and drug free) have got plenty of news to share with everyone about this years’ edition of the festival. Firstly, a couple of line up changes. With the news that Fearless Vampire Killers are soon to disband, they have unfortunately dropped off the Butserfest line up….
With the season of festival announcements well and truly underway, Slam Dunk Festival 2016 have announced another eleven bands to join the fun for the May Bank Holiday triple header event in Leeds, Birmingham and Hatfield. This announcement focuses heavily on home grown talent – in fact, only one of the bands isn’t from the…
After a little break, the Rock Sins 2015 awards are continuing with one of our top photographers, the awesome Fran. She’s put down her camera and picked up her keyboard and (rather eloquently, if we do say so ourselves), picked out her best bits (and the odd disappointment) from last year. Over to you Fran….
After being absent last year, The Vans Warped Tour returned to the UK this year with a line up that certainly proved divisive. There’s no denying that despite Asking Alexandria and Black Veil Brides both being hugely popular, just as many people hate the bands. Still with a queue of young fans stretching around Alexandra…
Words by Jamie Giberti, Sam Dignon, James Halstead, Fran Dignon and Lisa Fox. Photos by Jamie Giberti except where credited. Featured image of Slipknot (above) by Danny North. After all the build up, the waiting, the queuing at the gates of Donington, the tent assembling, the BBQ’s and the drinking, Friday arrived and it was…
A few weeks ago we received the welcome news that the Vans Warped Tour was making it’s UK return in 2015 after having 2014 as a year off. The event, which in 2015 is going to be a one day, all day festival at it’s usual UK home of Alexandra Palace in London on the…
With a good portion of us all recovering from another fantastic Download Festival, the week of Download has also coincided with some great sales news for rock albums in the UK album chart over the last week. To the surprise of very few people, Download’s Saturday night headliners, Devonshire rock trio Muse have hit number…
It’s just a few hours (literally, HOURS) until the gates open on the 2015 Download Festival at Donington Park. So yesterday the organisers threw another (welcome) surprise at all of us with the announcement of not one but two secret bands for Download 2015. Both of them have albums coming out this week. Both of…
With the time drawing ever closer to the biggest show of Sheffield metalcore group Bring Me The Horizon’s career, headlining London’s Wembley Arena this December, news has emerged of the support bands for the night. To say Bring Me The Horizon have stacked the deck is an understatement. Opening up on the night will be…
After the controversial release of ‘Temper Temper’, Bullet For My Valentine returned to UK stages with the “Rule Britannia” arena tour, with Asking Alexandria and Young Guns as the support acts. While lining up, the security were on high alert and warning everyone to look after each other and keep close attention to our belongings…
