SOS Festival delivered its biggest and best festival to date. Celebrating its 12th year, it took place at the Longfield Suite, Prestwich. Organised by Lynne Hampson and her great team. Lynne has succeeded in creating an amazing family-friendly rock/metal festival. This year SOS Festival delivered one of the best they’ve …
Read More »SOS Festival 2019 – Full Day by day Line-up announced
SOS Festival takes place each year at Longfield Centre, Prestwich. 2019 will be our 12th edition and with the bar set incredibly high in 2018. The work is on to deliver another killer line-up over three days, between 12 – 14 July 2019. The superb Quireboys who are celebrating 35 …
Read More »BLOODSTOCK Announces First Winners For New Blood Stage & Jagermeister Stage Additions
As BLOODSTOCK’s regional finals for their grass-roots-artist-supporting METAL 2 THE MASSES scheme thunder through local venues around the country this month, the festival is very excited to announce the first winners who won themselves a slot on 2018’s New Blood stage this August. Joining the bill on Friday are hard-rocking …
Read More »HRH Metal – Academy, Birmingham – Day 1, Saturday 17th February 2018
This year’s HRH Metal took place at the weekend in Birmingham. It’s the second year of the event, and the lineup was definitely appealing. The festival appeals to a lot of the same people as Hammerfest but for many people Birmingham is just easier to get to. With three stages …
Read More »SOS Festival X – Prestwich 14-16 July 2017
2017 is the tenth year of SOS Festival, an annual affair organised by the team behind Rocksector Records. They showcase not only their own label acts but also some European bands that you might otherwise not get to see and they also give a platform to a whole host of …
Read More »SOS Festival, Radcliffe Civic Centre, Manchester – Day 1 Friday 17th July 2015
What do we know about SOS Festival then? Sponsored by Rocksector records and organised by them and Chris Appleton (founder member of Fury UK and now playing with Absolva amongst other things) who also compered it, it’s now in its 8th year and showcases some of the label’s talent, along …
Read More »Collibus at Bloodstock 2014
Collibus put in a great performance on the Sophie Lancaster stage on the Sunday at Bloodstock. Here are some photos of their set… [flickrapi user=”planet mosh” get=”photoset” id=”72157646538453966″ size=”z” count=”100″]
Read More »Collibus interview at Bloodstock 2014
I spoke to Gemma & Steve from Collibus the day before they play at this year’s Bloodstock. We discuss their upcoming set, the band, their apperance at Wacken the weekend before, festivals, music scene, what their plans are for the future, about Gemma interviewing Cristina Scabbia fron Lacuna Coil and a …
Read More »BLOODSTOCK is just four weeks away!!
There’s just four short weeks to the best metal party weekender of the year and BLOODSTOCK are still adding bands! Both weekend and day tickets are flying out the door over at www.bloodstock.uk.com. Keeping the power metal fans happy will be Italy’s ARTHEMIS, who join the main Ronnie James Dio …
Read More »Collibus Announced for Wacken 2014 – Press Release (21st April 2014)
Press Release April 21, 2014 at 2:15pm Hailing from the underground Manchester metal scene, Collibus is a five-piece female-fronted progressive metal band of tour-de-force proportions. Having won the 2013 Parliamentary Rock the House Discretionary Metal Award, Collibus made history by becoming the first heavy metal band ever to play a …
Read More »Collibus (Album Party) – Satans Hollow, Manchester: 17th April 2014
To celebrate the release of their album The False Awakening in January Collibus held an album party at Satans Hollow, Manchester on the Thursday before Easter. Getting the party started were Vice, a four piece heavy metal band from Bury. Opening with Rise Up, Ishmail playing a six string bass …
Read More »SONISPHERE 2014 announce Dream Theater, Devil You Know, Yashin and more
As previously announced, THE PRODIGY, IRON MAIDEN and METALLICA are headlining the festival, with exclusive appearances from ALICE IN CHAINS, DEFTONES and LIMP BIZKIT. SONISPHERE will now feature a total of over 100 bands across the weekend and has revealed more names to join the festival’s 2014 line up. SONISPHERE …
Read More »DOWNLOAD FESTIVAL: 24 new bands, Trivium stage boost, day splits revealed!
.@DownloadFest confirm new acts and day splits! Hot on the heels of Sonisphere’s announcement on Monday, Download Festival has announced another 24 bands to the bill…and also revealed their day splits! First up, Bring Me The Horizon, who have literally destroyed everything in their path since they released fourth album …
Read More »Manchester Academy Heavy Rock & Metal Festival, 18th January 2013
Dusty Pop Entertainment presents a special event featuring 10 Manchester bands over two stages at the Manchester Club Academy on the 18th January 2013: MANCHESTER ACADEMY HEAVY ROCK & METAL FESTIVAL Featuring 10 of the North West’s most vibrant bands. Each ticket gains access to the two venues! Doors : …
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