Isle Of Wight Festival Announces The Stone Roses As First 2013 Headliner
The Isle of Wight Festival 2013 has announced one of the UK’s most iconic bands The Stone Roses, as Main Stage headliners on Friday 14th June. This will be the band’s only UK festival appearance in 2013.
Written by: Jon Stickler | Date: Monday, 26 November 2012
Early Bird Tickets For WOMAD Festival 2013 On Sale Today
Early bird tickets for next year’s WOMAD - the World of Music, Arts, and Dance - go on sale today.
Written by: Elliott Batte | Date: Friday, 23 November 2012
Bullet For My Valentine Confirmed For Download Festival 2013
Download Festival chief promoter Andy Copping has just confirmed via Twitter that Bullet For My Valentine have been added to the 2013 line-up.
Written by: Jon Stickler | Date: Thursday, 22 November 2012
Reading And Leeds Festival To Reveal First Bands For 2013 Line-Up Next Week
Organisers of the Reading and Leeds Festival have today announced that the first bands for the 2013 line-up will be revealed next Thursday, 29th November, at midday.
Written by: Jon Stickler | Date: Wednesday, 21 November 2012
Jools Holland And His Rhythm & Blues Orchestra Confirmed For Jazz FM Love Supreme Jazz Festival
Jools Holland and his Rhythm & Blues Orchestra, Marcus Miller, Branford Marsalis Quartet, Neil Cowley Trio, Soweto Kinch, Phantom Limb and Zara McFarlanehave all been confirmed to perform next July at the Love Supreme Jazz Festival, the first major UK festival of its kind in over 20 years. Jazz FM Love Supreme Jazz Festival Tickets go on sale today. Further acts, including Saturday night headliners, will be announced in the coming months.
Bloodstock Festival Adds Devildriver And Municipal Waste To 2013 Line-Up
Bloodstock festival is excited to announce Californian circle-pit kings, Devildriver, and thrash metal outfit Municipal Waste on to the 2013 bill.
Written by: Jon Stickler | Date: Thursday, 15 November 2012
Bloodstock Festival Confirms Lamb Of God As 2013 Saturday Night Headliner
Bloodstock Open Air festival has confirmed that their 2013 Saturday night headliner will be groove-metal overlords, Lamb Of God.
Written by: Jon Stickler | Date: Wednesday, 07 November 2012
Download Festival Add Seven More Acts To 2013 Line-Up
Download Festival organisers have this evening added seven new acts to next year's line-up. Joining the main stage headliners Iron Maiden, Slipknot and Rammstein on the 2013 bill will be Queens of the Stone Age, Thirty Seconds To Mars, The Gaslight Anthem, Motorhead, HIM, A Day To Remember and Alice in Chains.
Written by: Jon Stickler | Date: Monday, 05 November 2012
KISS To Headline Download Festival Second Stage?
Download Festival organisers are set to make a new announcement tonight, however, www.metaltalk.net have already reported that glam-rock legends KISS could headline the second stage at the Donington Park event on Friday 14th June.
Kasabian Confirmed For Snowbombing Festival 2013
Leicestershire rockers Kasabian have been confirmed as one of the headline acts for next year’s Snowbombing Festival.
Written by: Elliott Batte | Date: Wednesday, 31 October 2012
Live Nation Ends Hyde Park Concerts Putting Wireless Festival & Hard Rock Calling In Doubt
A number of London-based festivals, events, and musical concerts are currently in peril - after supermassive promoter Live Nation ended their contract with Hyde Park following this year’s problems with noise restrictions, cancelled gigs, and curfew breaks.
Written by: Elliott Batte | Date: Tuesday, 23 October 2012
Stereoboard Preview Swn Festival 2012
Created in 2007 by Radio 1 DJ Huw Stephens and local music promoter and industry expert John Rostron, Sŵn (pronounced ‘soon’ and Welsh for ‘sound’) has grown into the 4 day, 16 venue, 200 band event it will be when it kicks off this Thursday, 18th October in Cardiff.
Written by: David Ball | Date: Tuesday, 16 October 2012
Bloodstock Festival Announces King Diamond As Friday Night 2013 Headliner
Bloodstock Open Air is excited to announce their first headliner for 2013. The Grammy-nominated, Danish metal legend King Diamond will dazzle eyes and perforate eardrums in the Friday night top slot.
Written by: Jon Stickler | Date: Friday, 12 October 2012
Manic Street Preachers Film To Be Premièred At Swn Festival 2012
A one off screening of 'Culture, Alienation, Boredom and Despair' – a film about the Manic Street Preacher’s album 'Generation Terrorists' - will be showing at this year’s Swn Festival as a Welsh exclusive.
Written by: Jon Stickler | Date: Wednesday, 10 October 2012
Blur To Tour And Play Festivals In 2013
Britpop legend Blur have announced that they’ll be touring in 2013 - despite suggesting earlier this year that the epic Olympics closing ceremony concert would be their last gigs.
Written by: Elliott Batte | Date: Monday, 08 October 2012
Festival No.6 Tickets Now Onsale
After an astonishing debut in 2012, Festival No.6 is delighted to confirm that tickets for its return on the weekend of 13th-15th September 2013 are now onsale.
Written by: Elliott Batte | Date: Friday, 05 October 2012
Bloodstock Nominated In 2012 UK Festival Awards - Vote Metal!
Bloodstock Open Air Festival is proud to announce it has been nominated in several categories in this year's UK Festival Awards.
Written by: Jon Stickler | Date: Wednesday, 03 October 2012
Tesla Confirmed To Headline New HRH AOR Festival
HRH AOR have announced a complete UK one-off exclusive performance by Sacramento rock legends Tesla who will christen this first event with a totally exclusive performance drawing from the best of their extensive catalogue.
Written by: Jon Stickler | Date: Thursday, 27 September 2012
Slipknot Confirmed As Download Festival 2013 Headliner
Slipknot have been officially confirmed as the third and final main stage headliner of Download Festival 2013. The announcement rubbishes yesterday's claims that Pearl Jam are to headline the Friday night of the Donington Park festival.
Vodafone Reveal Pearl Jam As Download Festival 2013 Third Main Stage Headliner?
Mobile phone network provider and festival partner Vodafone have appeared to have dropped an almighty clanger and accidentally revealed Pearl Jam as the third and final main stage headliner for Download Festival 2013.
Written by: Jon Stickler | Date: Wednesday, 26 September 2012
Russell Watson Confirmed As First Headliner For 2013 Lytham Proms Festival
Russell Watson, the UK’s best-selling classical artist, selling in excess of seven million albums worldwide, has been announced as the first 2013 headline act to perform at Lytham Proms Festival Weekend on Saturday 3rd August 2013.
Damnation Festival Completes Line-Up
Earlier this month we made a big deal out of how you should all be heading along to this year’s Damnation Festival at Leeds University on 3rd November, largely because of the spectacular line-up. Well, with the opening bands for all three of the stages now confirmed, we can only reiterate that point as things have, predictably, only got better.
Written by: Ben Bland | Date: Wednesday, 26 September 2012
Vince Power's Music Festival Group - The Company Behind Hop Farm Festival - Seeking Administrators
Music Festivals Group, a company behind a number of festivals such as the Hop Farm Music Festival and Spain’s Benicassim, has gone into administration, blaming an ‘over-saturated’ music festival market for it’s demise.
Written by: Elliott Batte | Date: Tuesday, 25 September 2012
Stereoboard Previews Supersonic Festival 2012
The music business is often a depressing place. Bands that matter fall by the wayside whilst those that stand for nothing remain, triumphant. The record labels that are run by the people who truly care collapse in ruin, take the example of Hydra Head last week. The promoters that try their best give up because almost nobody is interested. Thank all that is good in this world, then, for Supersonic Festival. Ten years old this edition, the Birmingham based event is a weekend celebration of genuine boundary-pushing music and in 2012 looks set to be as avant-garde as ever. Not only does the weekend long festival (19th-21st October) feature an amazing array of hugely exciting artists, but many of them will be making extra special appearances over the course of the weekend.
Written by: Ben Bland | Date: Friday, 21 September 2012
Rammstein To Headline Download Festival 2013
After revealing Iron Maiden as the first headliner for next year's Download, organisers have this morning announced Rammstein as the second headline act to be confirmed for 2013's festival.
Written by: Jon Stickler | Date: Friday, 21 September 2012
Download Festival To Confirm Second Headliner Tomorrow At 10AM
Download chief booker Andy Copping has just revealed via his official Facebook page that he will announce another headline band for 2013's festival tomorrow, Friday 21st September, at 10am.
Written by: Jon Stickler | Date: Thursday, 20 September 2012
Download Festival Confirm Iron Maiden As First 2013 Headliner
Download organisers have just confirmed that the legendary Iron Maiden are the first headliners to be announced for 2013's festival.
Rammstein Self-Confirm For Download Festival 2013?
Could it be that Rammstein are to headline Download Festival 2013? According to the band's summer 2013 live schedule listed on Facebook, they are!
Download Festival Organisers To Announce First 2013 Headliner At 6pm TONIGHT!
The organisers of the hugely-popular Download Festival have confirmed that they will reveal the first of their three headliners tonight at 6pm.
Written by: Elliott Batte | Date: Thursday, 20 September 2012
Hard Rock Hell Prog Launches New Interactive Festival In Association With Prog Magazine
Organisers of the Hard Rock Hell weekender have announced a new weekend boutique festival called HRH PROG which is proudly sponsored by PROG Magazine and takes place at the Magna Science Adventure in Rotherham on April 6th and 7th 2013.
Written by: Jon Stickler | Date: Tuesday, 18 September 2012
Swn Festival Announces Special Headline Show From The Blackout & A Further 80 Acts Added To Line-Up
Sŵn has today announced that The Blackout will be playing a special show at this year’s Sŵn Festival. The Welsh rockers will perform at The Globe on Saturday 20th October.
Written by: Jon Stickler | Date: Monday, 17 September 2012
'Bestival Bus Crash Is A Terrible Shock', Says Festival Organiser Rob Da Bank
BBC Radio 1 DJ and Bestival organiser Rob da Bank has spoken out about the horror bus crash which killed 3 and injured 50, describing it as a ‘terrible shock’.
Written by: Elliott Batte | Date: Thursday, 13 September 2012
Stereoboard Preview Damnation Festival 2012
If you like heavy metal then, unless you have been living under a rock for the last few years, the chances are you will be familiar with the name that is Damnation Festival. Taking place annually at Leeds University, the festival has previously featured headline performances from the likes of Devin Townsend, The Dillinger Escape Plan and Carcass. This year doom overlords Electric Wizard are heading the bill and yet somehow the event has not completely sold out yet.
Written by: Ben Bland | Date: Tuesday, 11 September 2012
Leeds Festival Organisers Explain Green Day Absence
The organisers of Reading and Leeds Festival have posted a statement on their website explaining why Green Day were unable to perform at both Reading and Leeds Festivals, citing the punk-rock band’s busy tour schedule as an immovable obstacle in their plans.
Written by: Elliott Batte | Date: Monday, 10 September 2012
Music Festivals 'Not My Favourite Place To Play', Says Jack White
Ex-White Stripes star and all-round musical genius Jack White has confessed that he really isn’t a fan of performing at music festivals, and has described them as an ‘unnecessary evil’.
Written by: Elliott Batte | Date: Friday, 07 September 2012
Green-Fanged Spider Found In Noel Gallagher's Guitar Case Leads To Festival Quarantine
Rockstars may be known for their backstage antics and shenanigans, but Mancunian Noel Gallagher managed to get the whole of the backstage area of the Jersey Live Festival shutdown over the weekend because of rather different reasons... After a rare, potentially lethal breed of green-fanged spider was found crawling inside one of his guitar cases!
Written by: Elliott Batte | Date: Tuesday, 04 September 2012
Bestival To Live Stream On YouTube - UK Festival Exclusive
Always at the forefront of the festival experience and new technology, Bestival is once again pushing the boundaries as it announces that for the first time, the festival will be live streamed to the Bestival YouTube channel for fans around the world to enjoy, in what is a UK festival exclusive.
Written by: Jon Stickler | Date: Friday, 31 August 2012
Stereoboard Previews Jersey Live Festival 2012
With festival goers still drying off from Creamfields or shaking off their Reading and Leeds hangovers it would be easy to assume that the festival season is over. However, as we edge closer to September and the end of another wonderful British ‘summer’, a trip over to the Channel Island of Jersey will treat visitors with the Jersey Live festival this coming weekend.
Written by: Ryan Crittenden | Date: Wednesday, 29 August 2012
Early Bird Tickets For Reading & Leeds Festival 2013 On Sale Thursday 30th August 2012
Reading and Leeds Festival came to a close on Sunday night at both sites, with spectacular performances from all the artists over the weekend, making this year’s event a classic to go down in history.
Written by: Jon Stickler | Date: Tuesday, 28 August 2012