2000TREES FESTIVAL

Upcote Farm, near Cheltenham,
16th – 17th July 2010

The Subways headline 2000trees Festival
Plus Metronomy and Bombay Bicycle Club join the weekend’s line-up

Discover the very best in new British music….

Post-grunge punk rockers The Subways will headline the Saturday night at this summer’s 2000trees festival, organisers can now reveal.

Last year the British trio were the main support for AC/DC’s stadium shows at Wembley Stadium and Glasgow’s Hampden Park. Before that they turned two years on the road touring with the likes of Foo Fighters and Oasis, and a potentially career-ending throat ailment, into their edgier second album All Or Nothing.

The Subways join folk-punk hero Frank Turner whose headline performance on the Friday night will be a monumental and fun-filled show from one of the nation’s most electrifying performers as well a main stage set from Sheffield’s finest experimental rock outfit 65daysofstatic.

Playing just before Frank on the Main Stage is Metronomy –  sublime electronic pop band who have risen to success over the past year with second album ‘Nights Out’ as well as remixing the big names of the UK music scene including Roots Manuva, Franz Ferdinand, Klaxons, Goldfrapp, Zero 7, Ladytron and Kate Nash.  And joining The Subways on the Main Stage on Saturday are Bombay Bicycle Club – brimming with youthful urgency, honesty and romance with chiming chords and sighed melodies that blaze proudly like flushed cheeks on a cold day.

Also confirmed for the weekend are local (GLOS) heroes Jim Lockey & The Solemn Sun, whose songs of downbeat redemption are bound to resonate with the disillusioned and the hopeful; the deft wit and underlying intellect of one of the UK’s premiere performers, Chris T-T; Hampshire seven-piece The Dawn Chorus who deal in thundering rhythms and folk blitz; expansive, organic indie with echoing, piercing guitars and insistent piano from Roundstone; subtly infectious, folk-sewn stories from Adam Kilip’s The Tailors; charming yet occasionally vitriolic stummer Ben Marwood and musical storyteller and 2000trees house folky Dan Heaver.

Completing the latest line-up confirmations are Scottish three-piece The Xcerts who will be premiering tracks from their second album currently being recorded with Brand New producer Mike Sapone in New York; country rock punkers Crazy Arm who got the festival started last year on the Thursday night; instrumental electronic outfit Maybshewill; the dance/electro/dub/rock mash up of Old School Tie and Bath’s banjo wielding Americano blues rock act, Kill It Kid.

With two full days featuring over 50 acts on three stages, comedy, DJs, headphone disco and campfire sing-a-longs to keep the party spirit going till dawn, 2010 is shaping up to be the best year yet for 2000trees – with an extra day of music and fun for just 500 people on July 15.

Line-up so far:

MAIN STAGE:

FRIDAY
Frank Turner
Metronomy
Crazy Arm
Maybeshewill

SATURDAY
The Subways
Bombay Bicycle Club
65daysofstatic
The Xcerts

LEAF LOUNGE:

FRIDAY
Jim Lockey & the Solemn Sun
The Dawn Chorus
Chris T-T
David Goo
The Tailors

SATURDAY
Kill It Kid
Roundstone
Old School Tie

GREENHOUSE STAGE
FRIDAY
Dan Heaver
Ben Marwood

ABOUT THE FESIVAL

Promoting the finest homegrown talent emerging from the vibrant British music scene, 2000trees is the perfect place to unearth tomorrow’s stars today. With an eclectic line-up spanning many musical genres, this intimate and friendly festival has become a haven for music fans – many of whom discover their new favourite bands at the event.

In its short history 2000trees has established itself as one of the leading small festivals in the British summer calendar. Created by a group of friends in 2007, the festival was born out of frustration with the ever increasing corporate sponsorship and mass advertising nature of the larger traditional British festivals.

Disillusioned by extortionate ticket prices with over priced food and drink, this band of festival veterans vowed to take matters into their own hands and in true punk rock style set about developing the perfect antidote.

Over the past three years the festival has witnessed some incredible live performances, from The King Blues, who had practically the entire field dancing and singing in the rain at last year’s sold out event, with Fightstar and British Sea Power delivering crowning headline sets.

The previous years have seen unforgettable performances from Eighties Matchbox B-line Disaster, Art Brut, Slow Club, Future Of The Left, Beans On Toast, The Duke Spirit, The Ghost of a Thousand, Danananaykroyd, These New Puritans, Red Light Company and Wild Beasts to name just a few.

Tickets are on sale now. More information is available from www.twothousandtreesfestival.co.uk

THE KING BLUES forced to withdraw from SLAM DUNK 2010 lineup.

We are sorry to announce The King Blues have been forced to pull out of Slam Dunk Festival 2010, due to the birth of frontman Itch’s baby. The due date of the baby is now the weekend of the festival. Below is a message from the father-to-be.

“Hi all. We’re very, very sorry to announce that we have had to pull out of this year’s Slam Dunk Festival. It’s not a decision we take lightly but there was genuinely nothing we could do about it. We had an amazing time last year, with some killer bands and a great atmosphere of fantastic kids and we’re gutted we won’t get to see this festival evolve into the 2 day mashup it has now become. Sorry to anyone who was planning on watching us and to all involved. Love, The King Blues.”

A replacement for the band will be announced shortly, along with a host of new additions to the lineup, joining the already impressive company of New Found Glory, Four Year Strong, Capdown, Set Your Goals, RX Bandits, The Rocket Summer, Fireworks, Breathe Carolina, Out Of Sight and Every Avenue.

SLAM DUNK Festival Official Information:

Tickets are £25 per day

Official box office: www.lunatickets.co.uk

Website: www.slamdunkmusic.com

The Best New Rock Festival in the World
High Voltage, the UK’s new prestige rock festival, launches in July 2010 with headline appearances from

Emerson, Lake & Palmer and ZZ Top
The dates: July 24 and 25, 2010.
The place: Victoria Park, London, UK.

Further acts announced…

Transatlantic, Venom, UFO, The Quireboys, The Union, Dweezil Zappa Plays Zappa

High Voltage is the must-see rock event of 2010 – a two-day festival featuring the very best in classic rock, progressive rock and metal. Custom built by rock fans, for rock fans.

Topping the bill are the legendary Emerson, Lake & Palmer and ZZ Top.

The latest additions add to an already stellar lineup that will run across two days and three stages – Main Stage, Prog Stage and Metal Stage.

Transatlantic (Prog Stage) – A rare performance from the prog rock supergroup made up of Roine Stolt (The Flower Kings), Pete Trewavas (Marillion), Neal Morse (ex-Spock’s Beard) and Mike Portnoy (Dream Theater). The band released their latest album “The Whirlwind” in late 2009 to widespread critical acclaim.

Venom (Metal Stage) – Venom are the legendary British metal band whose seminal 1982 album Black Metal spawned an entire genre. Acknowledged as a major influence by Metallica, Slayer and countless extreme metal bands, Venom are still led by iconic frontman Cronos, who was a guest star on Dave Grohl’s Probot album.

UFO (Main Stage) – One of the all-time great hard rock bands. In the ‘70s they released a series of classic albums including Phenomenon, Force It, Lights Out, Obsession and the definitive live double album Strangers In The Night. Now featuring guitar virtuoso Vinnie Moore alongside vocalist Phil Mogg, bassist Pete Way, drummer Andy Parker and guitarist/keyboard player Paul Raymond, UFO celebrated their 40th anniversary in 2009.

The Quireboys (Main Stage) – The Quireboys are, in their own words, “purveyors of the finest English good time rock ‘n’ roll since 1984” – a band in the tradition of The Rolling Stones and the Faces. And 20 years after their debut album A Bit Of What You Fancy hit number two on the UK chart, the Quireboys’ current album Halfpenny Dancer proves they’re still one of Britain’s great rock ‘n’ roll bands.

The Union (Main Stage) – The Union is a new band formed by Luke Morley, formerly the guitarist for legendary UK rock band Thunder and ex Winterville vocalist/guitarist Peter Shoulder. The band are currently somewhere deep in the English countryside devoting themselves to the songwriting process and expect to emerge later in the year to perform their debut shows. The album promises to be an inspired mix of blues infused rock featuring the stunning and unique vocals of Peter Shoulder.

Dweezil Zappa Plays Zappa (Prog Stage) – Dweezil Zappa and band play a greatest hits set of the music from his father, the maverick rock legend Frank Zappa. The band returns to the UK for the first time since a sellout tour in 2008.

Confirmed lineup to date is as follows…

Main stage – Emerson, Lake & Palmer, ZZ Top, Foreigner, Heaven & Hell, Bachman Turner, Joe Bonamassa, Gary Moore, UFO, The Answer, The Quireboys, The Union…

Prog Stage – Transatlantic, Asia, Zappa Plays Zappa, Marillion, Argent, Steve Hackett, Focus, Pendragon, Uriah Heep, Magnum, Martin Turner’s Wishbone Ash, The Reasoning, Touchstone…

Metal Stage – Black Label Society, Down, Venom, Clutch…

High Voltage is the festival all true rock fans have been waiting for – custom built by rock fans for rock fans. The High Voltage team has been to every rock festival imaginable – taking what they have learned to build a festival unlike any other.

First of all there’s the music: two amazing headliners AND three unique stages specially curated to cater for different sides of the rock audience, and a brilliant supporting cast playing special must-see sets. Then there’s the festival itself. The facilities will be second to none: great food, proper beer, clean toilets, deluxe hospitality packages, designated hotels, free shuttle transport. This is somewhere you take the whole family.

High Voltage offers a new and unique festival experience for rock fans of all ages. Only High Voltage gives ticket buyers the freedom to design their own bespoke festival package – which can include accommodation, transport, parking and VIP bar access. Early bird ticket purchasers will be able to upgrade their tickets with a host of options from the 9^th February 2010.

Standard tickets are prices £135 (for weekend tickets) and £75 (for day tickets).

There is no booking fee for Classic Rock Presents High Voltage tickets.

Tickets are available from www.highvoltagefestival.com or 24hr cc ticketline 0871 230 5582.

Please check the websites below for further updates

www.highvoltagefestival.com

www.classicrockmagazine.com

HELLFIRE CLUB ANNOUCE SUNDAY HEADLINERS AND MORE!

The Hellfire Club have unveiled their headliners for the closing day of the first spin off event from the main Hellfire Festival.  The Ghost of a Thousand will be joined by main support The Eyes of a Traitor on Sunday 9th May and Hang the Bastards have been added to the line up on Friday 7th May.

Having kicked, screamed and fought their way out of Brighton, England in early 2007 with awe-inspiring debut full-length This Is Where The Fight Begins, THE GHOST OF A THOUSAND have rapidly become one of the UK’s most valuable and unique musical assets, thanks to their unhinged, uncompromising and utterly invigorating style. Having spent the last couple of years challenging old perceptions of what British hardcore was made of – collecting a Kerrang! Award nomination and a place in Q Magazine’s Top Five metal bands, along the way – the quintet are back with an album that doesn’t just tear up the rule book, it sets it ablaze and leaves it on your doorstep in a middle of the night drive by.  We have no doubt that TGOAT will close the inaugural Hellfire Club true to their word in a blaze of swaggering Rock ‘n’ Roll, hard rock heroism!

Event Details:

HELLFIRE  CLUB 2010
SPONSORED BY HONOUR OVER GLORY CLOTHING

7^th, 8^th & 9^th MAY

CLUB REVOLUTION PETERBOROUGH (FORMERLY THE PARK)

Featuring: THE GHOST OF A THOUSAND, DEVIL SOLD HIS SOUL, DEEZ NUTS, THE GHOST INSIDE, THE EYES OF A TRAITOR, SHAPED BY FATE, TRC, THIS IS COLOUR, POSTMORTEM PROMISES, PAY NO RESPECT, FAILSAFE, THE ARGENT DAWN, THE MOB GIRLS AND MORE!

PLUS SPECIAL GUEST DUBSTEP/DRUM N BASS DJ SETS FROM GEORGE ‘DOOGE’ NOBLE (EX YOUR DEMISE VOCALS) ON SATURDAY 8TH MAY.

Friday Doors: 5:30pm
Saturday Doors: 2pm
Sunday Doors: 2pm

TICKETS
Friday: £8
Saturday: £10

Sunday: £10
Weekend: £25

THE DOWNSTAIRS OF THE VENUE WILL BE OPEN FOR MERCH, BAR AND FOOD AND HANGOUTS.

TICKETS AVAILABLE FROM WWW.HELLFIREFESTIVAL.COM

KEEP UP TO DATE WITH THE LATEST HELLFIRE CLUB NEWS ON FACEBOOK – http://www.facebook.com/pages/Hellfire-Festival/24452926988

TWITTER – http://twitter.com/HELLFIREFEST

SLAM DUNK FESTIVAL 2010 FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT!

-       New Found Glory (UK 2010 festival exclusive), The King Blues, Capdown (exclusive UK reunion show), Four Year Strong, Set Your Goals

-       RX Bandits, Out Of Sight and Every Avenue confirmed

-       More bands being added and more announcements to come all throughout Feb and March 2010

-       SLAM DUNK FESTIVAL this year happening over 2 days at 2 sites in London and then Leeds

-       Dates are Saturday 29^th May (London) and Sunday 30^th May (Leeds)

-       Over 10,000 capacity, the festivals highest ever

-       40+ bands to play/be announced over 7 stages

May 2010 bank holiday weekend sees the annual return of SLAM DUNK FESTIVAL, one of the most exciting and popular new festivals in the UK. This year however, it’s gotten even bigger and better. With the major success of the last 4 years, this year the festival takes the giant step of doubling in size. Because of its popularity, the Leeds site and format remains unchanged, though the festival grows with the addition of another site, this time in London, the day before.

After much research, a suitable site for the London date has been found at the Hatfield Campus of The Univesity Of Hertfordshire. This is just north of London, with a 21 minute direct train from Kings Cross, and being on a junction of the A1, it has excellent transport routes. The site allows the same capacity and format as Leeds, so the festival now has the capacity of 10,000 people over the 2 days. The same bands will play both days, which are:

Saturday 29^th May: ‘Slam Dunk Festival South’, University of Hertfordshire

7 stages, 5000 capacity

Sunday 30^th May: ‘Slam Dunk Festival North’, Leeds University

7 stages, 5000 capacity

Over 40 bands will play both days

Festival Promoter Ben Ray says “I am extremly pleased that the success of previous years has allowed me to launch Slam Dunk South which allows even more people to get the chance to see so many quality bands.  I think people enjoy the fact that it isn’t just one or two big stages and instead people can move freely between 7 stages, all with music they like, and see everyone from large international bands to great new UK talent. I really think I owe a lot to the small upcoming UK bands!”

A little bit of SLAM DUNK history :

SLAM DUNK actually started as a rock club night in 2001 at the legendary Cockpit in Leeds. It specialised in the pop punk / emo / ska punk / hardcore genres, and the brand also promoted shows by some of the most popular of the bands in the genres across Leeds. As these genres became more popular over the years, the brand started to become nationaly known as one of the original and best associated with the music, branching out and starting up the festival, as well as the record label that launched You me at Six.

2008 saw the format change from a one stage festival to the multi stage festival at Leeds University it is today. With the increase of stages came the increase in the number of bands, from international and major UK bands to the smaller upcoming UK bands. Being the only festival of its type to do this, the awareness of the festival quickly grew nationally. 2009 saw the festival grow even more to a total of seven stages and with an overall capacity of 5000 which sold out almost instantly.

Slam Dunk festival is now known for showcasing new UK talent, picking up the likes of You Me at Six in 2007 and Young Guns in 2009, as well as bringing over the cream of US talent for a UK audience.

The list of previous bands includes Paramore, Fall Out Boy, Thursday, The Academy Is, Kids in Glass Houses, Hundred Reasons, Boys like Girls, The Blackout, Twin Atlantic, The Ghost of a Thousand, Devil sold his Soul, Attack! Attack!, Zebrahead, Sonic Boom Six, Fightstar and many more.

SLAM DUNK Festival Official Information:

Tickets are £25 per day

Official box office: www.lunatickets.co.uk

Website: www.slamdunkmusic.com (please note new site)

Announced – Wednesday 17^th February

Presale: To people that have registered on www.slamdunkmusic.com – 10am, Saturday 20^th February. General onsale Monday 22^nd February – 9am

Latitude Festival returns for an incredible 5th edition on 15-18th July 2010, taking place once again in the sumptuous surroundings of Henham Park Estate set within Suffolk’s stunning Sunrise Coast.

Celebrating its fifth year in 2010, Latitude has already become a firm favourite of the festival circuit. Starting out as a small and curious gathering of people in 2006, Latitude’s bold and pioneering approach of incorporating the full range of arts over one weekend has helped to secure its reputation as one of the most respected and highly anticipated events of the season.

Over the past four years, Latitude has inspired and charmed; shocked and educated; bewildered and beguiled. It has entertained its crowds with an eclectic blend of established and emerging acts, all of the highest calibre. With the arts very much at its core, Latitude’s dizzying display of talent is spread throughout the site in perfectly designed and dedicated arenas that entice you in.

Cherry-picking the very best from the worlds of music, theatre, comedy, literature, film, poetry, dance, fashion and cabaret – it is a festival like no other; an intimate place that encourages you to be all that you’ve ever wanted to be; and indulge in the spirit of exploration and discovery.

A Brief History…
In its first year Latitude boasted a mind-blowing headline set from Antony & The Johnsons, Howard Marks provided the shocks and laughs with tales from his hit book ‘Mr. Nice’ in the Literary Arena and the legendary performed two very special performances on not only the main music stage, the Obelisk Arena, but also in the Poetry Arena.

Having already secured its pioneering reputation in its inaugural year, tickets to Latitude’s 2nd edition sold out fast and with the likes of Arcade Fire, Jarvis Cocker and The Good, The Bad & The Queen providing a top quality soundtrack and comics including Bill Bailey, Alan Carr, Dylan Moran and Mark Steel providing the laughs its easy to see why.

A blisteringly hot 2008 saw the festival bloom into a larger and even more popular event featuring music from Sigur Rós, Elbow, Grinderman and Joanna Newsom, and renowned English composer and pianist Michael Nyman mesmerised the Film & Music Arena with a spellbinding solo piano piece, a presentation of his own short films and an intimate Q&A with the audience. Also boasting such literary giants as Hanif Kureishi, Iain Banks and Irvine Welsh as well as the nation’s very own Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy; and the Theatre Arena expanded into a mini festival of its own with the National Theatre, RSC, Paines Plough and Royal Court bringing everything from emerging playwrights to classical Shakespeare, musicals to zombies!

And last year’s fun-filled weekend was perhaps the best yet; musically it featured a fabulously glamorous headline set by disco icon Grace Jones who bedazzled the crowd with a variety of costume changes for every song and put on an incredible hula-hooping display during ‘Slave To The Rhythm’, against a moody backdrop of thunder and lightning. The Obelisk’s other headliners Pet Shop Boys delivered hit after hit to a hypnotic visual display of graphics and lights whilst Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds brought the festival to a fitting close with a perfectly menacing performance.

Elsewhere over the weekend Media & Culture Minister Ben Bradshaw sparred with Jon “The Reverend” McClure over the state of British media at Instigate Debate in the Literary Arena; Sadler’s Wells presented Hofesh Shechter who brought his all-female cast of world renowned dancers to the floating stage on the lake; Latitude welcomed the Royal Opera House and the first full orchestra to appear at an outdoor music festival; Britten Sinfonia; And teams of budding dancers learnt salsa, ballroom and tap with dedicated workshops. Another first was the fashion show by House Of BlueEyes whose models defied physics by strutting on water down a catwalk on the lake. And the woods rang out with the sounds of both the human beatbox chorus of Shlomo & The Vocal Orchestra.

Other highlights over the weekend included an amazing show of vocal and musical beauty courtesy of special guest Thom Yorke who played the now established Sunday morning headline set; Spiritualized provided a wall of light and sound whilst Little Boots further cemented her hold on the British pop scene with an electropop-tastic set on the Sunrise Arena.

Whilst Latitude’s extensive line-up is an incredible assortment of riches that can keep you entertained all weekend, there is also another side to Latitude… a leisurely stroll through the festival’s magical woods and beyond can lead to all manner of untold treasures and unexpected pleasures.

By day you can stumble upon impromptu acoustic performances, fascinating political debates and interactive art installations that will transfix you for hours. But after sundown, in true Bacchanalian style, discover Latitude’s dark and decadent side as the enchanted woods transform into a secret world of temptation and intrigue. A haven for nocturnal animals in search of some mischievous fun under a canopy of fairy lights and imposing oak trees.

Day and night, Latitude Festival is the place to let the experience lead you; to explore the extraordinary and relish in unknown delights – the perfect place for the open-minded, culturally inquisitive and free-spirited.

So as the winter months take their toll, start daydreaming of happier, warmer climes and book yourself a slice of unadulterated cultural fun and adventure this summer at the fifth Latitude Festival on the Sunrise Coast.

Tickets to go on sale at the Latitude Festival launch on
Tuesday 9th March 2010

www.latitudefestival.co.uk

OK, well to kick off this Hellfire round up we have managed to squeeze on one more awesome band !

Joining us on Sunday

LOVVERS: NEW track! Tour starts NEXT WEEK!

After killer shows headlining the BBC Introducing Stage at Reading/Leeds Festival last weekend, Lovvers