Check out our photos of Biffy Clyro’s recent visit to Newcastle with support from Manchester Orchestra and Pulled Apart By Horses. For a review of the show, click HERE.
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Photos: Biffy Clyro – O2 Academy, Newcastle, November 4th 2009
November 6, 2009
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Live Review: Biffy Clyro – O2 Academy, Newcastle, November 4th 2009
November 6, 2009
Scot rockers Biffy Clyro’s fifth record, Only Revolutions, is almost upon release. With the critical acclaim last album Puzzle received, the trio have a lot to live up to. Riding into Newcastle, they bring along Pulled Apart By Horses and Manchester Orchestra along for the ride, for a sold out and eagerly anticipated show.
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Interview: Cruel Hand
November 3, 2009
During Have Heart’s second to last show, on what some referred to as Edge Day Eve, Faye caught up with Cam (guitar) and Chris (vocals) of fellow Bridge Nine band, Cruel Hand, across the Atlantic in Haverhill, Massachusetts.
They got talking about playing Have Heart’s final show, the new album, violence in hardcore, fairweather fans, stage diving into bushes, and a whole lot more.
Faye: You were last over in the UK last December with Have Heart and Carpathian, what have you been up to since then?
Cam: We went to Central America, that was cool. We did a full US tour with Have Heart and a bunch of other bands, on parts of that, that was in the summer. We did a couple of weeks with The Acacia Strain on the east coast and we did the final Internal Affairs shows on the east coast, and we did a weekend with Bane. We did two weeks with Madball in Canada – this isn’t really in order. I think that’s it, a lot of stuff.
Faye: You were originally on the bill for tonight’s Have Heart show at Anchors Up!, but are now on the line-up for tomorrow’s final Have Heart show, how did that come about?
Cam: I don’t know, Pat [Flynn, Have Heart vocalist] was just like, “Hey, you guys want to come play the bigger venue at the real final show?” and we were like, “Yeah, sure.”
Chris: It couldn’t work out, too.
Cam: Oh, yeah, our drummer couldn’t play today, that was why too, I forgot about that.
Faye: Are you flattered to be playing such a historic show? Do you consider it to be a historic show?
Chris: Yeah, I mean, it definitely is, but we’ve known them for a long time, so we don’t really look at them like that, I guess. It’s just like, these are our friends and this is their last show. We know it’s going to be an amazing show and I guess it is going to be a historic event in the history books, but I never really looked at it like that, but we’re stoked to be playing either way.
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Interview: Four Year Strong
November 1, 2009
It’s almost been a year since Four Year Strong set foot on these shores, so Faye caught up with them all in the midst of their month-long Eastpak Tour in London, as the self-proclaimed ‘double-sided dildo’ explain how they “bridge the gap from ass to ass” and lots more.
Faye: How are you all today?
Dan O’ Connor (vocals & guitar): Excellent, every thing’s going good.
Josh Lyford (synth & vocals): Life is stoked on things.
All: [laugh]
Faye: The last time you were over in the UK was in November of last year on the Easycore Tour, can you tell us what you’ve been up to since then?
Dan: Oh, shit. Fuck, what did we even do after that tour? That was in November, and then we did a holiday tour with Set Your Goals, then we did Taste of Chaos with Bring Me The Horizon, Thursday, Cancer Bats and Peirce The Veil.
Alan Day (vocals & guitar): We released a cover record.
Dan: Then in the summer we did a tour with Set Your Goals, Fireworks, Polar Bear Club, Gravemaker, and also Crime in Stereo and A Loss For Words, then we have recorded a new record and finished tracking it, the day before we left for here and that brings us up to the present time of being in the UK.
Faye: So, you’re currently on the Eastpak Tour with Alexisonfire, Anti-Flag and The Ghost of a Thousand, how’s it been so far?
Dan: It’s been good, it’s been awesome, I’m pretty stoked on it, the kids have been good.
Josh: The bus doesn’t smell like piss.
Dan: Yeah, the best bus we’ve had, which is sweet. The bunks are very, very comfortable.
Joe Weiss (bass): They are.
Dan: So much so that it’s almost too comfortable.
Alan: So much so that I wake up at 2pm every day.
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Photos: Three Way Dance – Trillians, Newcastle, October 28th 2009
October 31, 2009
Check out our photos of the annual Three Way Dance tour, during its final week, as it hits up Newcastle, featuring The JB Conspiracy, Dirty Revolution and Anti-Vigilante. For our review of the show, click HERE.
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Live Review: Three Way Dance – Trillians, Newcastle, October 28th 2009
October 31, 2009
Hitting Newcastle for the third consecutive week is the Three Way Dance tour, showcasing some of the UK’s best ska/punk bands, and this week’s line-up comes from The JB Conspiracy, Dirty Revolution and Anti-Vigilante.
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Live Review: Alphabeat – O2 Academy 2, Newcasle, October 27th 2009
October 30, 2009
It’s been a relatively quiet year for Alphabeat while they’ve been busy writing and recording their new album, but the Danish popsters are back in full stride, as they roll into Newcastle on the second night of their mini UK tour to promote their new single The Spell.
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Live Review: Fightstar – Newcastle University, October 26th 2009
October 30, 2009
Fightstar’s second tour of Be Human has seen them step-up venue sizes, moving into bigger venues that, with any fairness in the world, they should be selling out. Tonight, they stop in Newcastle, with Prego, Kerrang! Tour hopefuls Young Guns, and while Deaf Havana take a break, St. Albans rockers Saving Aimee join in the fun.
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Photos: Alphabeat – O2 Academy 2, Newcastle, October 27th 2009
October 28, 2009
Check out our photos of Alphabeat in Newcastle, during their mini UK tour, with support from Ou Est Le Swimming Pool. For our interview with Alphabeat, click HERE.
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Interview: Alphabeat
October 28, 2009
While promoting new single The Spell, Faye sat down with Anders SG and Troels of the Danish pop sensation Alphabeat, ahead of their Newcastle show during the band’s mini UK tour. We got talking to the chart toppers about the new album, signing to Polydor, future plans, and that X-Factor performance of Fascination, as well as a whole lot more.
Faye: Can you say your names and what you do?
Anders SG: I’m Anders SG and I sing.
Troels: I’m Troels and I’m the drummer.
Faye: You’ve been a bit quiet this year, what have you been up to?
Anders SG: We’ve actually just been focusing 100% on doing the new album that’s coming out around January/February, so that’s what we’ve been doing. We just decided that we didn’t want to play any gigs at all while making the record, just to be fully focused on that.
Troels: Yeah, this is our first tour after we finished touring last year, so it’s great to be back and playing live again.
Faye: You released the single The Spell last week, I believe it got to 20 in the UK charts, but number one in Denmark, are you happy with the response here?
Anders SG: You can’t really complain about it, it’s a top 20 single, so we’re really happy with that. We just hope we can build it back up again, because I guess we’re back with a new sound and everything, so people maybe have to adjust a bit to that, so we’ll just build on.
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