Festival Announcements

RUSSELL HOWARD AND BILL BAILEY MARCUS BRIGSTOCKE, KATHERINE RYAN, LEE NELSON, RUSSELL KANE, SARA PASCOE, JOEL DOMMETT, HOLLY WALSH, OWEN JONES AND MORE TO APPEAR ACROSS THE WEEKEND GRANDMASTER FLASH TO MAKE EXCLUSIVE APPEARANCE AT LEEDS FESTIVAL 5 HEADLINERS ACROSS 3 DAYS AND OVER 250 ACTS ANNOUNCED Reading & Leeds Festival …

A campaign has started to get Beholder frontman and Bloodstock Metal 2 The Masses organiser Simon Hall to do a forward roll on stage at Bloodstock this year in order to raise funds for the Sophie Lancaster foundation.  This is your chance to see Simon Hall make a tit of himself and …

After four successively sold out years, and having cemented the annual event as Britains best 100% independent, 100% grass roots festival, Beermageddon returns for the fifth year over the August Bank Holiday weekend 2016 to Stoke Prior Sports & Country Club with 3 days of hard and heavy metal! Tickets …

With just over 7 weeks to go until the gates open for Reading and Leeds 2016, Saturday Day Tickets for Reading Festival are now sold out. There are now very limited Friday, Sunday and Weekend tickets left. Festival fans lucky enough to have secured a ticket to Reading for Saturday …

UK TECH-FEST announces an its after party line-up, stage times and a workshop programme offering musician masterclasses, PR and marketing sessions, product demos and loads more. The after party shenanigans for this year’s UK TECH-FEST are: Thursday: AGHAST + Whitmore VS Craft-D (rap battle) + Pteroglyph Friday: Koala Cage Riot + Sean …

BREAKING BANDS FESTIVAL 2017 26th-28th May 2017 Popular festival announces the first batch of bands for next year’s event! The ever growing and ever popular Breaking Bands Festival returns for its third year next May. Housed at the fantastic Stoke Prior Sports & Country Club in Bromsgrove, the Festival promises to deliver the …

23rd to 24th July 2016 ONWARD & UPWARD: Ramblin’ Man Fair Adds the Rising Stage with Fresh New Acts. Ramblin’ Man are proud to announce the addition of the Rising Stage and a further 12 acts to the bill. In partnership with Laney Amplification, TAMA drums, and Andertons Music Company, the …

The final running order and day splits have finally been announced for this years SOS festival, held in Manchester. All the details can be found here www.mwaweb.com/sos_2016_info. FRIDAY (Dean Hocking Stage) Absolva 10.20pm (80 mins) Babylon Fire 9.20pm (40 mins) Pythia 8.20pm (40 mins) Strain 7.20pm (40 mins) Beyond Salvation 6.20pm …

BLOODSTOCK RELEASE DAY TICKETS; LAUNCH YOUTUBE COMPETITION Just six short weeks ’til we throw open the gates at Catton Park and the metal hoardes flood onto our hallowed turf for BLOODSTOCK 2016!  To celebrate, day tickets are now on sale! Ticket prices have been frozen for the FOURTH year running at £60 each (+ booking …

23rd to 24th July 2016 ONWARD & UPWARD: Ramblin’ Man Fair Adds the Rising Stage with Fresh New Acts   Ramblin’ Man are proud to announce the addition of the Rising Stage and a further 12 acts to the bill. In partnership with Laney Amplification, TAMA drums and Andersons Music …

Buffalo Summer will headline the Steelhouse Festival‘s warm up show, which takes place on Friday 22 July. They will be joined by Those Damn Crows and the winners of a Battle Of The Bands being held at Fuel Rock Club in Cardiff on Sunday 3 July.  Admission to the warm …

STANDING ON TOP OF THE ROCK-INGHAM Hey we’re back, I heard you missed us? A different venue, less bands but no dip in quality is what Rockingham is offering this year. After last year’s successful weekend, plans were put in motion to deliver more of the same AOR goodness as …

TWO WEEKS TO GO FULL SCHEDULE ANNOUNCEDMORE ARTISTS ADDED TO THE BILL Including WILKO JOHNSON FURTHER ACTS ADDED TO THE SPEAK EASY LOUNGE Including performances from Robin Ince / Danielle Ward / Michael Legge / Glenn Wool Festivities kick off at midday each day With two weeks to go until …

Would you believe it, it’s festival season again. Always mind boggling at how quickly a year passes, we are just one week away from Download Festival opening its doors to the Donington faithful once again and nine days until the first bands start taking to the stages. But who to see? …

With just over 3 weeks to go, things are really heating up over at Scotland’s Wildfire Festival. Not content with the formidable line-up already in place, it’s now getting seriously heavy with the addition of 18 new tectonic-shifting acts to this years event. Festival director Dave Ritchie beamed, “We have …

BLOODSTOCK festival is excited to announce another batch of bands for August’s event at Catton Park! Regrouped Brit industrio-metallers, KILL II THIS join the main stage fora Saturday slot.  Frontman, Mark Mynett says “BLOODSTOCK is one of the finest metal festivals there is; this year’s stunning line up says it all!  So we …

Suvilahti Helsinki will once again be taken over by metalheads, as the nineteenth annual Tuska Festival gets going. Tuska 2016 will see performances by such acts as Ghost, Avantasia, Children Of Bodom, Anthrax and Testament, to name a few. HELSINKI STAGE It’s been years since Tuska second stage was a …

With one month to go until this year’s inaugural STONE FREE FESTIVAL, Kilimanjaro Live and The O2 are proud to reveal the full details of the weekend’s extravaganza. Main Stage Arena With a stunning line-up in the arena, Stone Free will be headlined by Alice Cooper on the Saturday night …

The crowd is quite large for the event venue. You will notice many folks leave to enjoy playing Bingo Buddha indoor. Just when you though Download Festival had finished announcing everything and were preparing for the arrival of 100,000 people…they went and made a bunch of announcements! Firstly, we all …

Stone Free Festival reveals full weekend details, exclusive events & new additions to the bill at The O2, London ADDITIONAL WEEKEND LINE UP REVEALED MORE ACTS ADDED TO THE BILL  SPEAK EASY LOUNGE ANNOUNCED including Alice Cooper in conversation with writer David Quantick The legendary Roger Dean in conversation with …