PORTALS Festival have announced a host of further bands for its 2023 event, including main stage sub-headliner for the Saturday, the magnificent Bossk. Also announced today include AK/DK who are replacing Elephant Tree (who have had to drop out), Hundred Year old Man, Astrosaur, A Burial At Sea and more.
Festival organisers Sam and Asher – “We’re thrilled to reveal the almost complete lineup for Portals Festival 2023 at EartH Hackney. We’re especially delighted to welcome Bossk back to Portals Festival after their mind-blowing headline set at Portals Festival 2021, we’re expecting to be drenched in post-metal and we can’t wait.”
“Elephant Tree have had to cancel and we send our best wishes and a speedy recovery to Jack. In their place we welcome AK/DK back to the Portals stage; they first performed for us at an all-dayer at the Brixton Windmill in the early days of Portals. It’s been incredible to see them grow over the years and we’re looking forward to seeing what they can do on such an incredible stage at EartH. We’ve had shed loads of requests for this year’s day splits and day tickets, so it’s great to get them out. There are limited numbers so don’t wait around!”
Bands announced today are as follows:
Bossk (sub-headline Saturday), AK/DK (replacing Elephant Tree who have pulled out due to injury), Hundred Year Old Man, Astrosaur, A Burial at Sea , Dead Bird, Ogives Big Band, Mount Forel, Qariaq
Portals Festival will take place at EartH in Hackney, London on Saturday 27th and Saturday 28th May 2023.
Tickets for the event are available from the following link.
2000trees Festival has recently announced a whopping 50 further artists, acts and bands for their 2023 event. The festival takes place between Wednesday 5th July and Saturday 8th July at Upcote Farm near Cheltenham and followed up its 2018 Festival Award for Best Medium Sized festival with the same award in 2022.
Joining an already brilliant line up includeWelsh party starters Skindred, who are unbelievably playing their first ever 2000trees, returning heroes and 2000trees favourites Deaf Havana. Also announced are Empire State Bastard, a band that features Simon Neil from Biffy Clyro and Mike Vennart from Oceansize. One of the finest modern punk bands ever, The Bronx will be performing at the festival, Hastings 4 piece Kid Kapichi return with a brilliant debut album ‘This Time Next Year’ under their belts and Salt Lake City metalers Chelsea Grin make their festival debut.
Also announced today include some of 2000trees most beloved UK acts (Casey, The Xcerts, Martha, New Pagans), some rising stars of rock and hardcore (High Vis, One Step Closer, Fleshwater, Bad Nerves), some exciting new artists from across the genres (Witch Fever, Mimi Barks, As Everything Unfolds, Lake Malice, Cody Frost, Lynks) and some must not miss US acts (Prince Daddy & The Hyena, Meat Wave, Narrowhead).
From 2000trees Festival organiser James Scarlett – “Not only have we added some huge bands in Skindred, Deaf Havana and instant-legends Empire State Bastard, but we’re stoked to be bringing even more of the most exciting up-and-coming artists to 2000trees 2023. It’s just going to get bigger and better, don’t sleep on it if you want to join us. 4 Day Tickets will be the first to go and that’ll be sooner rather than later!”
PORTALS Festival has announced a host of further bands for its huge 2023 event, including main stage headliner, the wonderful instrumental legends, MONO from Japan. Also announced includes recently reformed Leicester rock band Maybeshewill, singer songwriter AA Williams whose superb 2022 album ‘As The Moon rests’ graced many AOTY lists recently, Japanese noise rock band Bo Ningen and Atlanta Georgia 2 piece ’68.
Festival organisers Sam and Asher give us some insight into their 2023 headliners and what they mean to them and the event – “When we booked the first ever Portals all dayer at the New Cross Inn (South East London) in 2015, never in a million years did I think we would ever book a band with the stature of Mono. They are true pioneers, defining what we now know as post-rock. Their live show mesmerises and tranfixes you, transporting you to new worlds. The band formed in the late 90s, when we weren’t even in our teens, before we even knew what post-rock was. Around that time, grunge, punk and alt-rock were the weird, experimental, counter-culture music that we and our peers fell into. Who knew that the sonic landscape would be changed so dramatically by stripping away the aggression to the bare bones, and rebuilding music through extreme dynamic range and carefully crafted instrumentation. Mono were one of those bands, and it’s an honour to be able to bring them to such a dedicated, enthusiastic and reverent audience, such as our Portals Festival family.”
Announced are:
MONO, Maybeshewill, AA Williams, Bo Ningen, ’68, Pupil Slicer, GGGOLDDD, Paranoid Void, Straight Girl, El Moono, A-Tota-So and The Broken Islands.
The Slam Dunk Festival 2023 lineup is complete and it’s beautiful!
PVRIS, The Maine, Jxdn, Sueco, Escape The Fate, Teenage Bottlerocket, Scene Queen, Emarosa, LANDMVRKS, Higher Power, Youth Fountain, ZAND, LØLØ, Millie Manders and the Shutup AND The Tyne
They join the already announced Enter Shikari, The Offspring, Billy Talent, Creeper, Trash Boat, Kids In Glass Houses, Fireworks, The Academy Is…, Yellowcard, Four Year Strong, We Came As Romans, Movements, Static Dress and loads more.
Anddddd the stage splits have also dropped! There’s going to be some clashes there!
Outbreak Fest 2022 was a massive triumph for the alternative scene. A weekend of unforgettable music and something that will be hard to beat for it’s next iteration.
2023 is coming fast and have plenty in store.
The first batch of bands have been announced, including two headliners.
Those headliners are Denzel Curry and Death Grips.
And they are joined by an incendiary collection of acts. Converge, Candy, Code Orange, Earl Sweatshirt, Fleshwater, Gel, High Vis, Jesus Piece, Koyo, Lil Ugly Mane, Loathe, Mike, One Step Closer, Scowl, Show Me The Body, Soul Glo, Speed, Spy, Trapped Under Ice, Turnover, Wiki and Zulu.
And this is only the beginning aka the first announcement!
The three day event will be taking place June 23-25 at Depot Mayfield, Manchester.
Bloodstock Open Air has just got even bigger with the announcement of 12 more bands for their 2023 line-up.
Those bands that have been announced are: Heaven Shall Burn, Crowbar, Sacred Reich, Seething Akira, Urne, All Hail The Yeti, Dead Label, Brothers Of Metal, Gutalax, Cobra The Impaler, Uuhai and InVisions.
They join the likes of Killswitch Engage, Megadeth, Anthrax, In Flames, Gatecreeper, Fit Foe An Autopsy, Devildriver, Biohazard and more.
Bloodstock will be taking place between 10-13 August 2023 at Catton Park, Derbyshire.
Slam Dunk Festival has become a staple of the Festival season since its inception in the UK. It’s grown to unprecidented highs over the last date and now it’s expanding beyond the UK.
First up France is set to have its very own date where The Offspring will headline things on June 2nd 2023 at Halle Tony Garnier, Lyon. Billy Talent, Simple Plan, Zebrahead and Oaken will support.
Then just two days later, Slam Dunk Italy is set to take place over two days on June 2nd and 3rd 2023 over at The Beach at Rimini at Bellaria Igea Marina. Rancid and The Offspring will headline their respective days where Anti-Flag, Less Than Jake, Bowling For Soup and Destroy Boys are playing the Friday and Simple Plan, Billy Talent, Enter Shikari and Trash Boat the Friday.
Tickets will go on sale Tuesday 22nd November 2022 at 10AM.
These are all due to take place after Slam Dunk 2023 at Hatfield Park and Temple Newsman in 27th and 28th May 2023.
After a whirlwind summer, it’s time to get excited to see who’ll be playing around the UK in 2023.
This brings us to Slam Dunk Festival which today kicked off a holy hell what the actual fu** responses as they have announced an eye watering 22 bands including run-on shows from The Academy Is as well as Kids In Glass Houses alongside sets from Enter Shikari and The Offspring and loads more.
Enter Shikari The Offspring Billy Talent Four Year Strong Trash Boat Bowling For Soup Less Than Jake Zebrahead Creeper Holding Absence Malevolence Fit For A King SeeYouSpaceCowboy Real Friends Grayscale NOAHFINNCE Destroy Boys Maggie Lindemann Charlotte Sands girlfriends Kids In Glass Houses (‘Smart Casual’ 15 years anniversary celebration) The Academy Is…
Slam Dunk Festival will take play May 2023 on 27th at Hatfield Park and Temple Newsam Park, Leeds on the 28th.
OUTBREAK FEST, which celebrated its 10th Anniversary this weekend with headliners Turnstile,Knocked Loose, Deafheaven + Touché Amoré have announced dates for 2023.
The fest will take place on 23rd, 24th and 25th June 2023 at the new home of Depot Mayfield, Manchester.
A limited number of tickets are now on sale at this years price of £95 for a weekend ticket.
This years event saw it sell out almost immediately and had the most incredible sets, live podcasts, an Art & photography exhibition, Record stalls, vegan food vendors, skateboarding and so much more!
Check the video for a little piece of the weekend:
Less than a year has passed since the previous iteration of Slam Dunk Festival and here we are for the third time at the Temple Newsam site since switching from the city centre where just about everything is bigger and better! The stages, the food, the acts, the sound etc. It feels truly amazing to be back without the fear of coughs, covid passes and everything else in-between that would stop us from attending!
Having grown up from my teenage years to university on a steady diet of Pop-Punk, Metalcore and tonnes of more music, it almost feels as if this is a dream today and it feels as if the gap between all the shows in the last few months has passed. Also, this has to be the most diverse lineup I’ve witnessed in a long long time!
Pinkshift
Over on their festival debut, the Baltimore based Pinkshift continue to win over some new faces to the band and I’ll say this, their energy levels didn’t drop by one bit at all. They sounded up to that point in the day, the best out of every single band on the day and they continue to win over every person that watched (including myself) especially with their recently released single ‘Nothing (in my head) which has you losing your mind over that soaring guitar.
Cassyette
Kicking off the heavier side of things is the always incredible, Cassyette, an artist who hasn’t gone unnoticed over the last year and has steadily put out a consistent repertoire of banger after banger. Her oozing her anthemic liveability has the early crowd being thoroughly entertained with her glam rock attitude with her added swagger though… she lives up to the hype.. Being a staple as one to watch could lead her to falter a but but with track such as ‘Sad Summer Girl’, it makes her pleasing to watch and hopefully in a few years time, we’ll see this artist head further up the festival bill.
Yours Truly
Rising Aussie favourites take to the Temple Newsam stage for the second time in as many days, previously on You Me At Six’s 10 Years Of Sin (Sinners Never Sleep Anniversary Shows) it’s clear that they’re fan favourites in the scene at the moment the way everyone’s bouncing on the stage to show that this is Yours Truly’s world, we’re just living in it and proof that they have only gotten better with time, refining their sound over the pandemic. Sadly though production monsters have struck during their set which do plague the performance on the occasion but that doesn’t make things unenjoyable, it makes us want to watch even more.
Meet Me At The Altar
Today there’s someone we’ve been wanting to watch for a while now but sadly their set is plagued by some technical difficulties, especially on their guitar early into their set. After some momentum from May The Odds Be In Your Favour, the sounds are a little disappointing in the rhythm of their set but around their ending, they do show some motivation at what they really can do to make them a good presence where hen they do make their UK return, these problems won’t bring them down, they’ll bring the carnage to their set.
Hot Milk
‘Lets show them how we do it in the north’. says Hannah Mee, leading the charge with Hot Milk as they reach some amazing heights with their Rock Scene stage performance. The band blast through some high octane tracks, the recently released ‘Bad Influence’ as well as their previous title track off EP, ‘I Just Wanna Know What Happens When I’m Dead’with every single piece of energy just dripping from the band, it’s very impressive to say the least. Hot Milk continue to go from strength to strength in the dynamic flow of their back catalogue of tracks and the atmosphere just raises things up ten times of what any band has accomplished so far today.
Magnolia Park
Another international debut, were the social media sensations, Magnolia Park. ’10 for 10′ became this full circle moment for everyone in the crowd because it was one of those songs that when you hear for the first time which has a poignant meaning and the standout on the day of the festival but made them all the more crushing and pleasing to watch. In all honesty they are ballsy to be covering ‘Sugar We’re Going Down’ (as is anyone who chooses to) and they nail it perfectly because of their modern electro-pop blend which fans have become accustomed to. The more I listen to Magnolia Park, the more interesting they become to me not only because they seem to be the future of what the genre has to offer but because when they inevitably make their Slam Dunk return, a bigger stage will be required.
Mod Sun
It’s been a while since the record ‘internet Killed The Rockstar’ dropped and he brought about a new age of Rock to our ears and when the tracks ‘Karma’, ‘Annoying’ and more hit, all you hear is the entire crowd chanting back and screaming the lyrics. What’s more is the amount of time Mod Sun interacts with the crowd, expressing how loved he feels to be there and the entire time, that love is reciprocated. Dedicating the set to his fiancé Avril Lavigne (and even a few rumours of the queen herself being there) the 2021 breakout single ‘Flames’ is one that possibly can be heard across the pond for what is a fantastic set for the first time appearance
Set It Off
It’s been three years since Set IT Off last played in the UK. Postponement after postponement meant that their latest upcoming tour has now been on the back burner for the last few years (thanks to COVID) and this is just the opening salvo of what is to expect when things come about in a few months time. Starting off with ‘Skeleton’ and ‘Projector’ it’s obvious that they’re clear fan favourites already and will continue to stay in their setlist for a good while but that doesn’t mean they won’t bust out their old hits such as ‘Wolf In Sheep’s Clothing’ as well as ‘Why Worry’, there’s more than enough charm to go around, especially with the bands colour coded outfits as well as a You’re Next style bunny mask for their touring guitar player.
As December Falls
Making their return to Slam Dunk Festival (with their previous appearance back in 2018) and after an impressive SOLD OUT headlining run of the UK, British Pop-Punk protégées As December Falls continued to impress with their lovely catalogue of tracks, especially their latest release of ‘Go Away’, we just want more and we will on their upcoming Autumn UK Tour later this year. With the entire set of crowd pleasing tunes fizzing with some personality, the sass manages to cook up more to get the crowd really going and hopefully they’re going to be firm favourites sooner rather than later.
Nova Twins
Now I Feel for Nova Twins, I really do. They’re at the end of the day just about to go on before main headliners Sum 41 but the more you watch from them, the more you’re just in their trance. With the crowd rather drained, the duo powerhouse get the crowd moving again and again to have them reignited to remind them just who the hell they’re watching. The annihilating Riffs and furious tracks make the most of their message and believe me when I say, nexttime they tour, get your butts to a show.
Sum 41
The final band to take to the stage, the kings of the festival today are sounding the absolute best from left to right all over the place, especially with a massive Red Devil looking ominously out into the crowd.
It feels so weird to be listening to tracks such as ‘The Hell Song’, ‘In Too Deep’ and ‘Fat Lip’ but I suppose that’s always the case of people you’ve been listening to for years. They’re always welcome with the favourites in their setlist where you hear the crowd collectively chanting back and a realisation comes to you, this is the community of the entire festival singing back. The setlist is culled from more nostalgia feels of the last 20+ years but they hold up time and time again.
Picking up in between the set, covers of riffs from The White Stripes ‘Seven Nation Army’ and Queens ‘We Will Rock You’ feel effortless from my standpoint. The band have always been capable of more, and the set provides it time and time again to bring Slam Dunk Festival 2022 to a triumphant end but if I may say, this is a crowd that wants more and they oozed up every last ounce of what was put out there today.
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