Port Lympne’s Hevy Festival have released a batch of 15 more bands to join its 2013 line-up, including Killswitch Engage as headliner alongside already announced headliner, Black Flag. All currently confirmed bands including the latest additions are detailed below:
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Port Lympne’s Hevy Fest have announced another fourteen new bands to now join its 2013 line-up, joining previously confirmed headliner, Black Flag. All currently announced bands are listed below along with an updated poster:
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Hardcore legends Black Flag are set to reunite for this year’s Hevy Festival weekend in August. The reunion is set to include former frontman Ron Reyes (1979-1980) back on vocals. It has also been confirmed that this will also be the band’s only UK appearence of 2013.
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Celebrating their fifth birthday this summer, Hevy Fest at Port Lympne Wild Animal Park in Kent, will be unleashing over 80 incredible bands across 4 stages for 2013, with a strong line-up covering hardcore, punk and metal acts with a limited number of Early Bird tickets now available.
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This year marked the debut of what will now be our annual Reader Awards, a time for you the reader to cast your opinions our way on how you have found various things across the board of the music industry for the past 12 months. It was also a chance for those of you in bands to get your fanbase to let us know just why we should all take notice of you.
We asked you what you feel have been the best releases, most noteworthy bands, notable record labels, the best venues the UK has to offer and even to help offer some foresight to some bright stars that 2013 will offer us.
Now, the results for this year have been compiled and are all listed below. Remember, if you’re not happy with the results, they are all down to what you readers have provided us. Feel free to discuss and let us know your thoughts in the comments below:
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Date: August 4th, 2012
Venue: Hevy Festival, Kent
Interviewer: Jack Bastard
Format: Written
Website: www.tjcq.co.uk
Facebook: www.facebook.com/thejcq
Twitter: www.twitter.com/thejcq
With an astonishing reaction to their debut album, ‘That Was Then, This Is Now’, we catch up with the genre warping The James Cleaver Quintet to talk about their success, cock-farting (yep, really) their eclectic sound, how they felt their Hevy Festival set went the day before and where that’s all derived from:
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Date: August 4th, 2012
Venue: Hevy Festival, Kent
Interviewer: Jack Bastard
Format: Written
Website: www.balanceandcomposure.com
Facebook: www.facebook.com/balanceandcomposure
Twitter: www.twitter.com/balanceandcomp
Somewhat standing out from the rest at Hevy, Balance & Composure put on one of the most energetic and passionate performances across the whole weekend, not letting the fact they’re one of the most mellow bands in the line-up deter them. This being the first date of a short UK tour, they certainly set the bar high for the rest of the week. We spoke with them to talk about Hevy, the upcoming tour and more:
Tags: Balance & Composure, Hevy Festival
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Date: August 4th, 2012
Venue: Hevy Festival, Kent
Interviewer: Jack Bastard
Format: Written
Website: www.lastwitnessofficial.com
Facebook: www.facebook.com/lastwitnessuk
Twitter: www.twitter.com/lastwitness
Last Witness have had an incredible year so far, with the release of their new album ‘Mourning After’ and touring with the likes of Your Demise and The Devil Wears Prada being just a few of their achievements. After a brief break up and new members added, Last Witness 2.0 are a testament to themselves proving that drive and ambition are the key to success:
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Date: August 4th, 2012
Venue: Hevy Festival, Kent
Interviewer: Jack Bastard
Format: Written
Website: www.feedtherhino.co.uk
Facebook: www.facebook.com/feedtherhino
Twitter: www.twitter.com/feedtherhino
London hardcore upstarts Feed The Rhino make a return to Hevy Festival following the release of their new sophomore effort, ‘The Burning Sons’. After yet another demolishing set, we caught up with them after their performance to talk about the new record, how the set went for them and to discover what Feed The Rhino is really all about:
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Date: August 4th, 2012
Venue: Hevy Festival, Kent
Interviewer: Jack Bastard
Format: Written
Website: www.campusofficial.com
Facebook: www.facebook.com/campusbe
Twitter: www.twitter.com/campustheband
Playing early in the morning didn’t deter Belgian post-hardcore act Campus from putting on an intense, energetic live show and revealing why they are gaining as much attention as they are in mainland Europe. We caught up with them after their set and got an insight as to what it is that makes Campus, what they thought of the set themselves and more:
Tags: Campus, Hevy Festival
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Date: August 5th, 2012
Venue: Hevy Festival, Kent
Interviewer: Zach Redrup
Format: Written / Audio
Website: www.devilsoldhissoul.com
Facebook: www.facebook.com/devilsoldhissoul
Twitter: www.twitter.com/d_s_h_s
Ambient post-hardcore outfit Devil Sold His Soul have always been ones to stick to their guns, despite not creating the kind of music that reels in a strong fanbase easily. However, those with patience will reap the treasures, and upcoming third full-length ‘Empire Of Light’ is their biggest offering yet. Following their Hevy performance, we caught up with the guys to talk about the album, leaving Century Media Records, feeding rhinos and more:
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Date: August 5th, 2012
Venue: Hevy Festival, Kent
Interviewer: Zach Redrup
Format: Written / Audio
Website: None available
Facebook: www.facebook.com/malloryknoxuk
Twitter: www.twitter.com/malloryknoxband
Emerging British rockers Mallory Knox have put the popularity growth of their fanbase on a huge rise since the release of last year’s debut EP, ‘Pilot’. With their debut full-length record to come at the beginning of next year, it seems like this is only going to multiply tenfold in a few months time. Following a set at this year’s Hevy, we spoke with Mikey Chapman and Sam Douglas about the record, the acoustic re-release of ‘Pilot’, festival stories and more:
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