Date: August 6th, 2011
Venue: Port Lympne Wild Animal Park, Kent
Website: www.hevy.co.uk
Facebook: www.facebook.com/hevyfest
Twitter: www.twitter.com/hevyfest
Photo gallery: View it here
Note: As only a few members of the site were able to review the festival weekend, we were sadly unable to cover every band performing throughout the day.
Extended to a full three-day weekend and being one of the only festivals to be hosted at a wild animal park, Hevy is most definitely a unique beast that’s growing from strength-to-strength year after year since its creation. Now onto the second day of the weekend, all four stages of the festival were open for business, and our ears were open to the huge array of bands.
Tags: Acoda, Arcane Roots, Architects, Awaken Demons, Bastions, Brotherhood Of The Lake, Brutality Will Prevail, Collapse The Control, Feed The Rhino, Floods, Gold Kids, Heart In Hand, Heart Of A Coward, Hevy Festival, Me Vs. Hero, November Coming Fire, Off!, Our People Versus Yours, Page 44, Rise To Remain, Spy Catcher, The Carrier, The Dillinger Escape Plan, The Ghost Of A Thousand, The Xcerts, Title Fight, TRC
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Date: August 5th, 2011
Venue: Port Lympne Wild Animal Park, Kent
Website: www.hevy.co.uk
Facebook: www.facebook.com/hevyfest
Twitter: www.twitter.com/hevyfest
Photo gallery: View it here
Note: As only three members of the site were able to review the festival weekend, we were sadly unable to cover every band performing throughout the day.
Extended to a full three-day weekend and being one of the only festivals to be hosted at a wild animal park, Hevy is most definitely a unique beast that’s growing from strength-to-strength year after year since its creation. With such great acts like Sonic Boom Six, Basement and Flood Of Red kicking off the festival weekend, it’s sure to follow in similar great fashion.
Tags: Basement, Carcer City, Crossbreaker, Departures, Don Broco, Flood Of Red, Hevy Festival, Lost Boys, Lower Than Atlantis, Max Raptor, Never Means Maybe, Sonic Boom Six, Steel Rules Die, Tek-One, The Bottlenex, The First, Turbogeist
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Date: August 12th, 2011
Venue: Leo’s Redlion, Gravesend
Support: Prophecy, Accidents, Silent Descent
Website: www.exitten.net
MySpace: www.myspace.com/exitten
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Gravesend is a place that’s not known to many, and to those to whom it is known to there will be none too kind a word to be said about. So, it is a mystery to myself and many others as to why apocalyptic post-hardcore crew Exit Ten have decided to travel to one of its shittiest corners as one of the final legs of their UK tour.
Tags: Accidents, Exit Ten, Silent Descent, Unforseen Prophecy
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Date: August 4th, 2011
Venue: Debees, Winsford
Support: The Venom Inside, Kalashnikov
Website: www.reverbnation.com/synapsemetal
MySpace: None available
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When you start off a band at a young age, it’s very unlikely that you’re going to break through into the big time, but that’s not to say it’s impossible either. Success can come to anyone who carries the talent, puts in the effort, and a lot of the time it helps to know the right people too. Regardless, Winsford can find all of their local talent at local music bar/pub/club (depending on what night you go there), Debees.
Tags: Kalashnikov, Synapse, The Venom Inside
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Date: July 30th, 2011
Venue: Moho Live, Manchester
Support: The JB Conspiracy, Chief
Website: www.capdown.net
MySpace: www.myspace.com/capdown
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One of the few good things to come out of Milton Keynes, Capdown have reunited, and are celebrating their recent reunion with a UK tour, mainly in small intimate venues. Tonight, they are stirring things up in Moho (the venue with the fucking huge staircase in the middle of the room).
Tags: Capdown, Chief, The JB Conspiracy
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Date: July 10th, 2011
Venue: Knebworth House, Knebworth
Website: uk.sonispherefestivals.com
Facebook: www.facebook.com/sonisphereuk
Twitter: www.twitter.com/sonisphere
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Note: As only three members of the site were able to attend the festival weekend, we were sadly unable to cover every band performing throughout the day.
The third and final day of the Sonisphere weekend brings to the table another day filled with brilliant acts sprawling across a range of different genres. With what might be Slipknot‘s final UK performance together (at least with the current line-up), it’s an emotional and iconic day for all maggots in attendance.
Tags: Alestorm, Amplifier, Anberlin, Arcane Roots, Arch Enemy, Bat Sabbath, Bill Bailey, Black Tide, Cancer Bats, Dangerous!, Feed The Rhino, Fletcher, Floods, Four Year Strong, House Of Pain, In Flames, InMe, Jason John Whitehead, Kylesa, Limp Bizkit, Mad Dog, Mastodon, Motörhead, Orange Goblin, Parkway Drive, Slipknot, Sonic Boom Six, Sonisphere Festival, The Answer, The Ocean Between Us, Title Fight, Turbowolf, Volbeat
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Date: July 9th, 2011
Venue: Knebworth House, Knebworth
Website: uk.sonispherefestivals.com
Facebook: www.facebook.com/sonisphereuk
Twitter: www.twitter.com/sonisphere
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Note: As only three members of the site were able to attend the festival weekend, we were sadly unable to cover every band performing throughout the day.
Onto day number two of the 2011 Sonisphere festival and now all of the stages are in full operation. Taking the main stage headline spot after the legendary UK debut appearance of The Big 4 less than 24-hours before is Scottish trio Biffy Clyro. Along with a host of many other great bands across the festivals many stages, the excitement continues onwards.
Tags: All Time Low, Architects, Bad Religion, Biffy Clyro, Cavalera Consipiracy, Cherri Bomb, Gallows, Ginger Wildheart, Gojira, Hill Valley High, InnerPartySystem, Kids In Glass Houses, Me Vs. Hero, No Americana, Panic Cell, Pulled Apart By Horses, Richard Cheese, Rival Sons, Saint Jude, Six Hour Sundown, Sonisphere Festival, Steve-O, Sum 41, Sylosis, Tek-One, The Crave, The Hype Theory, The Mars Volta, The Sisters Of Mercy, The Treatment, Weezer, While She Sleeps, You And What Army?, You Me At Six
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Date: July 8th, 2011
Venue: Knebworth House, Knebworth
Website: uk.sonispherefestivals.com
Facebook: www.facebook.com/sonisphereuk
Twitter: www.twitter.com/sonisphere
Photo gallery: View it here
Note: As only three members of the site were able to attend the festival weekend, we were sadly unable to cover every band performing throughout the day.
Extended to a full three-day weekend with just the Saturn stage not used on the Friday, the first day of musical entertainment at this year’s Sonisphere brings a bloody big attraction: The Big 4. With their first ever appearance over in the UK, the festival sure has a pretty impressive exclusive amongst the rest of the country’s festivals, and for all thrash metal fans this surely the makings of a wet dream come true.
Tags: Acoda, Anthrax, Black Breath, Blood Red Shoes, Cerebral Ballzy, Decade, Diamond Head, Flats, Glamour Of The Kill, Hounds, Japanese Voyeurs, Killing Joke, Lower Than Atlantis, MakethisRelate, Megadeth, Metallica, My Passion, Protest The Hero, Rolo Tomassi, Slayer, Sonisphere Festival, The Big 4, The Black Dahlia Murder, The Defiled, Witchsorrow, Young Legionnaire
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Date: July 9th, 2011
Venue: Roundhouse, London
Support: Evaline
Website: www.mychemicalromance.com
MySpace: www.myspace.com/mychemicalromance
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There for the iTunes Festival spread across London, My Chemical Romance are slotted in at the Camden Roundhouse with support from Evaline. The Roundhouse is generally a fairly small sized venue for My Chemical Romance‘s modern status, having not long played at impressive sized arenas such as the O2 and Wembley in the recent years. Nevertheless, that doesn’t make it any less of an amazing performance on their behalf, providing a rare opportunity for fans to get that little bit closer to their idols.
Tags: Evaline, My Chemical Romance
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Date: July 7th, 2011
Venue: The Quarterhouse, Folkestone
Support: 33, Bastions
Website: www.gallows.co.uk
MySpace: www.myspace.com/gallows
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The Quarterhouse is a striking building, found in the heartland of Folkestones’ Creative Quarter. Nicknamed ‘the cheese grater’ because of its strange metal design, the venue houses a great bar and restaurant as well as a small theatre room for all kinds of shows. An unassuming place in a quiet part of town. Hardly a place you’d except to find Watford punks Gallows, who after the release of ‘Grey Britain’ in 2008 and a string of legendary shows on the festival circuit, have far outgrown the tiny confines of places like the Quarterhouse. Nevertheless, it’s a treat for fans to be able to get so up close and personal with the band as they return to the kinds of venues that they played at the start of their career.
Tags: 33, Bastions, Gallows
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Date: July 2nd, 2011
Venue: Bowl, Milton Keynes
Support: Biffy Clyro, Death Cab For Cutie, Tame Impla
Website: www.foofighters.com
MySpace: www.myspace.com/foofighters
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There are few bands in the world who could fill a space the size of the Milton Keynes Bowl, let alone a rock band with something of a limited mainstream appeal. But, looking out at the scene as the Foo Fighters launch in to their massive 2-hour set, the strengths of this band and the dedication of their fans are clear to see.
Tags: Biffy Clyro, Death Cab For Cutie, Foo Fighters, Tame Impla
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Date: June 28th, 2011
Venue: Muni Arts Centre, Pontypridd
Support: Counterhold, The Exiled, Revoker
Website: www.sepultura.com.br
MySpace: www.myspace.com/sepultura
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Thrash metal titans Sepultura arrived at the modest Muni Arts Centre, which was chosen as the replacement venue for the now defunct, perhaps more fitting Millenium Music Hall in Cardiff. With them they bring along fellow noise makers Counterhold, The Exiled and Revoker, who have recently been signed by the infamous Roadrunner Records.
Tags: Counterhold, Revoker, Sepultura, The Exiled
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