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From Friday 17 August 2012

PREVIEW: Reading Festival 2012 Friday

For part two of our Reading preview, we’re going to preview Friday on Friday with our picks from each stage of the festival! Main Stage: THE CURE Loved by indie kids, punks and goths alike, The Cure’s return to Reading seems long overdue. Expect epic renditions of the big hitters and quirkier

Thursday 16 August 2012

PREVIEW: Reading Festival 2012 Saturday

With Reading festival just around the corner, we’re going to delve deep into the line up with our top picks from each stage, and to break convention we’re going to go for a preview of Saturday first… Main Stage ENTER SHIKARI After destroying the main stage at Reading and Leeds last year,

Tuesday 14 August 2012

PREVIEW: 10 fond Reading Festival memories

Reading Festival serves as a closer of the festival season for so many in the UK, and it was my favourite festival growing up by far. I loved the trips up and swigging a warm beer in the mud more than anything. I’ve been going there for a decade

Tuesday 31 July 2012

PREVIEW: Hevy Fest 2012 Red Bull Bedroom Jam Stage

Now only 3 sleeps away, Hevy fest feels so close we can smell it, and today’s final preview should just about tip your excitement into overdrive. So, take a look at our picks from each day of the Red Bull Bedroom Jam stage, and rejoice! FRIDAY 1. ACODA Easily our favourite from last

Monday 30 July 2012

PREVIEW: Hevy Fest 2012 Rock Sound Stage

For the second part of our Hevy preview series (part one is here), we’re turning to the Rock Sound stage. It features some more of the finest names in hardcore and punk, and here’s who you should be watching over the weekend… FRIDAY 1. MARMOZETS We bang on about these guys

Friday 27 July 2012

PREVIEW: Hevy Fest 2012 Punktastic Stage

Hevy boasts one of the most impressive line ups of the entire festival calendar this year, and with only one week to go, we thought it was apt time to start letting you in on what we’re most excited about! First up, we’ll blow our own trumpet as hard as

Friday 20 July 2012

Reading/Leeds Festival Memories #1 – Blood Red Shoes / Young Guns / Deaf Havana

We love Reading and Leeds. It’s an institution of the British Summer and each year, it’s one of the messiest of all the festivals. This year, we thought we’d get some memories from the other side of the barrier with a series of Reading Festival memories, and the first

Friday 01 June 2012

Hit The Deck Interview Special Feature Part Two ft. We Are The In Crowd, Lower Than Atlantis and more

For the second of our two part coverage in interviews of this year’s Hit The Deck festival, we’ve got a four strong batch of great bands. Check out the interviews below! Deaf Havana http://www.facebook.com/deafhavana Lower Than Atlantis

Tuesday 29 May 2012

Preview: Crash Doubt Fest 2 [2/3 June 2012]

This weekend (2nd and 3rd of June), Lincoln will see an invasion of punks as Crash Doubt Fest returns for its second weekender. Punktastic has a stage this year with some of the best punk bands around from the UK and abroad, and we’re going to guide you through what

Hit The Deck Interview Special Feature Part One ft. Young Guns, Campus and more

We’ve been busy bees at Groezrock, Camden Crawl and Slam Dunk since, but we’re now giving you a whole chunk of interviews from Nottingham’s Hit The Deck festival last month. The first five interviews from the weekend are now up, and you can check them out below!