After 2008′s self-titled album, Caerphilly quartet Attack! Attack! have had quite a ride – supporting any amount of big names from Alkaline Trio to Lostprophets and many between, creating the “difficult” second album was surely to be make or break – a continuation of an album that perhaps didn’t gain the full credit it deserved.
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It’s that time of the year again, as the annual Hell On Earth Tour hits up the Corporation in Sheffield, with – as always – a stacked line-up with some of the most exciting names in hardcore and metal, headlined by Every Time I Die.
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On the most local of the Bring Me The Horizon club tour gigs, George catches up with delightfully cheery Cancer Bats frontman Liam Cormier as he aims for a wall in a car park to sit on for the interview (his words). They talk about the new record, bettering Hail Destroyer, and how almost everything is “super nice!”
George: How’s the tour been so far?
Liam: It’s been good, yeah, stoked! This is like, day five, day four, so I guess we’re halfway through. But I’m stoked, we were up in Glasgow last night which is always crazy, the kids there are fucking nuts and they go for it, so it’s cool to do a crazy show like that then come to Leeds, and Leeds is like our home away from home, we spend more time here than anyone else in England. So yeah, we definitely make Leeds our stomping grounds. The shows are really good here, we have a lot of friends here, so it’s kind of like a bit of a homecoming today. I’m stoked!
George: Have Bring Me The Horizon’s fans received you well, and have your own fans been coming out to these shows?
Liam: Yeah definitely, we’ve had more fans of our own at these shows than we expected, ‘cause the whole thing sold out so fast. I kinda thought it’d just be die-hard Horizon fans, which is cool ‘cause we wanted to play in front of new kids, that’s the reason why we’re here, but to know that many of our own fans were coming, or that there’s kids that are into both bands, which is cool because we think us, and Horizon are very separate, but just to know that there’s people that dig both of us, it’s kinda cool that way.
George: You guys have toured with Bring Me The Horizon on Taste of Chaos in the US before, and just completed a tour down under with them and Bullet For My Valentine – are you guys pretty close now?
Liam: Yeah, we did the US and Canada on Taste Of Chaos, and Japan and Australia with Bullet, we did that with Horizon last year as well. We’ve toured with Bullet a lot too, so it was cool to kinda hang out with both those bands again. Those Bullet shows were insane, they were really cool. 5 and a half thousand was the biggest, so pretty crazy…
[Liam at this point notices a bunch of girls walking past him in the distance...]
Liam: Woah, those girls are done up! Where are they going? It’s a Saturday afternoon and those girls are dressed up to the nines, where I would be wearing jogging pants. [laughs]
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Clashing with Hell On Earth’s big boys Terror and Every Time I Die just down the road is possibly the worst mistake a booking agent could of possibly made, but none the less, TRC and Lower Than Atlantis’ joint venture, the This Is England tour, makes a stop in Sheffield. Given the circumstances, the attendance is noticeably low – let’s see how it affects the bands tonight.
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Sadly, due to new ID rules recently implemented, about 40-kids are turned away on the door, but that doesn’t put a stop to the party inside as A Loss For Words return to Newcastle.
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MEMPHIS MAY FIRE (USA)
(http://www.myspace.com/memphismayfire)
“Making their UK debut, Texans MEMPHIS MAY FIRE introduce their diverse sound of southern-tinged post-hardcore, having made a name for themselves Stateside by touring with the likes of FOUR LETTER LIE, CONFIDE and ALESANA, be sure to see this quintet make a splash across the Atlantic. For fans of VANNA, SHADOWS CHASING GHOSTS and OF MICE & MEN.”
Support from:
BROADWAY (USA)
(http://http://www.myspace.com/broadwayfl)
EVITA
(http://www.myspace.com/evitaband)
THE ELIJAH
(http://www.myspace.com/theelijahuk)
THIS IS DIVINE
(http://www.myspace.com/thisisdivine)
Date: Monday, October 18th
Place: O2 Academy 2, Newcastle
Doors: 7pm
Age: 14+
Price: £6 – buy tickets from: http://www.motcpromotions.com/ and http://newcastle-academy.co.uk/
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MOTC Promotions Presents:
A LOSS FOR WORDS (USA)
(http://www.myspace.com/alossforwords)
“Boston’s pop-punk heroes A LOSS FOR WORDS return to the UK for their second club tour – in support of their critically acclaimed ‘Motown Classics’ album and debut LP ‘The Kids Can’t Lose’ – so if you missed their incredible show last time round, don’t make the same mistake twice! Having toured the US with FOUR YEAR STRONG, VANNA and NEW FOUND GLORY, these boys are set to explode.”
Support from:
OUR TIME DOWN HERE
(http://www.myspace.com/ourtimedownhereuk)
LYU
(http://www.myspace.com/lyurock)
STATE THE OBVIOUS
(http://www.myspace.com/statetheobviousuk)
Date: Wednesday, September 22nd
Place: Trillians, Newcastle
Doors: 7pm
Age: 15+
Price: £5 – pay on the door or buy advance tickets at: http://www.motcpromotions.com/
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MOTC Promotions Presents:
SCHOLARS
(http://www.myspace.com/scholars)
“To coincide with the release of their new double a-side super-single of ‘Tornadoes’ and ‘Fractures’, one of the UK’s most promising acts SCHOLARS is back in Newcastle and if you caught them on tour with DON BROCO in April, you’ll know that this one is not to be missed!”
Support from:
IN GRATITUDE
(http://www.myspace.com/ingratitudeuk)
STATIC LINE PARACHUTE
(http://www.myspace.com/staticlineparachute)
CHASING JAYNE
(http://www.myspace.com/chasingjayne)
Date: Monday, September 20th
Place: Trillians, Newcastle
Doors: 7pm
Age: 15+
Price: £4 – pay on the door or buy advance tickets at http://www.motcpromotions.com/
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