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From Wednesday 31 October 2012

Taking Hayley added as comp winners to Warped Tour UK

> Despite having a really bad name and some distracting fringes, Taking Hayley have emerged as victors of the Ernie Ball Battle Of The Bands competition to play Vans Warped Tour UK. The band will join the likes of Lostprophets, Bring Me The Horizon, Less Than Jake and New Found Glory

Friday 19 October 2012

Lostprophets to let fans select a track of their Warped UK setlist for Teenage Cancer Trust

Lostprophets have teamed up with Teenage Cancer Trust to give fans an awesome opportunity to select a rarely or never played song of their Warped Tour UK set. People that aren’t even going to the Alexandra Palace Warped UK event will be able to benefit too as Punktastic will

Thursday 27 September 2012

Download festival completes 2013 headliners with Slipknot

Download festival have confirmed Slipknot as the third headliner for their 2013 event. Slipknot join Iron Maiden and Rammstein at the Donington festival in June. “SLIPKNOT CONFIRMED TO HEADLINE FRIDAY NIGHT AT DOWNLOAD 2013 SLIPKNOT are today announced as the third headliner at Download Festival on Friday 14 June 2013, marking the

Thursday 20 September 2012

Iron Maiden first confirmed headliners of Download 2013

Iron Maiden are set to headline Download 2013. Yep. The festival is miles and miles away (feels like it only finished yesterday) but the band are confirmed and announced! Whether this is an attempt by the festival to get in ahead of the Glastonbury / Sonisphere casualists is unsure, but

Friday 17 August 2012

First five Hevy Fest photo galleries online now!

So, if you missed all the fun, we had a stage at Hevy last weekend (we’re still recovering) and we got all the usual awesome festival content. The first five galleries from the festival are now online (with plenty more on the way), and you can check them out

Thursday 02 August 2012

Crocus announce that Hevy fest is final ever show

Latest in awesome bands to kick the can, Crocus have announced that their appearance at Hevy Fest this weekend will be their last ever show. See a full statement from the band on the split below: “It is with a heavy heart that we announce that our slot on Saturday 4th

Tuesday 31 July 2012

WTFest announces a few more bands / a few bands pull out

So! WTFest4 takes place at the end of August, and there’s been a few slight adjustments to the line up today… Firstly, Drawings can no longer play the Tellison show on the Thursday. Mothbites will open, and that same show has now been moved to The Joiners! Crocus can no longer

Thursday 26 July 2012

Punktastic T-Shirts return in time for Hevy festival!

It’s been a while since we’ve had T-Shirts at Punktastic, and we’re happy to announce that attendees of Hevy festival will have dibs on getting their hands on the first new design we’ve had in years! Check it out…

Monday 23 July 2012

Reading + Leeds announce BBC Introducing Stage featuring Marmozets, Hildamay, Samoans and more!

The BBC Introducing stage for Reading and Leeds festival has been announced, and it’s pretty rad! you can check out the following over the Festival set to take place over the August Bank Holiday weekend. ATTENTION THIEVES BACKYARDS BEARFOOT BEWARE BLACK MOTH CROOKED TONGUES CUT RIBBONS DANICA HUNTER DEAF CLUB DEAR PRUDENCE DINGUS KHAN EMPROR AND DUPPY BEATZ ESCAPE TO NEW

Wednesday 18 July 2012

SWN Festival announces initial line up

SWN Festival is back again in 2012, and after we had such a good time last year, we’re hoping we can make it back. They’ve just announced their initial line up for 2012, which you can see below and at http://swnfest.com/first-wave-of-acts-announced/. Our personal favourites from the first announcement are Turbowolf,