Check out our photos of this year’s Kerrang! Relentless Energy Tour as it returned to Newcastle, featuring All Time Low, The Blackout, Young Guns and My Passion. For a review of the show, click HERE. Interviews with My Passion and Youngs Guns coming soon!
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The sold out Kerrang! Relentless Energy Tour is back in Newcastle for yet another year, and this time round we’re treat to the diverse bill of All Time Low, The Blackout, Young Guns and My Passion, with kids queuing from as early as 7am for this one…
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Well, here we are. Three days of unbridled musical joy spaced out over 6 different stages encompassing every genre imaginable and whetting the appetites of tens of thousands of avid festival-goers. This is Leeds Festival, the culmination of the UK’s festival calendar, and a grand display of the UK, and beyond’s musical expertise. Expectations were high. Tickets prices even higher. The amount of fat blokes in wedding dresses even higher still.
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The Blackout are on the road to the Reading and Leeds Festivals, and to warm up are playing a select few intimate shows. George has caught them in York, where vocalists Gavin Butler and Sean Smith, drummer Gareth ‘Snoz’ Lawrence, and guitarist James Davies, as well as tonight’s supporting act The Guns‘ frontman Alex Wiltshire, have a lot to say; they talk Warped Tour, crabcore, try to catch George out on illegally downloading their album, and why every Welsh twin girl eats shit. Here’s how it went down…
George: Can you say your name and what you do in the band?
Snoz: He’s Gavin and he’s a singer and general good guy.
Gavin: He’s Snoz, and he plays drums and he can pick me up easily.
George: Can you put a straight up genre on your music? ‘Cause it seems pretty uncategorisable.
Gavin: We’re just a rock band at the end of the day, I think. A lot of people try and pigeon-hole bands and stuff, and a lot of our songs, and pretty much all of our albums are so different to each other that you couldn’t put them all in one basket; there’s like really heavy rock ‘n’ roll songs, there’s heavy beatdowns and stuff and there’s really poppy, pop songs like.
Snoz: I’m getting quite old now, people are talking about different genres, there’s so many different genres, there’s metalcore, hardcore, thrashcore, spazzcore, corecore…
George: Crabcore…
Snoz: Crabcore, is there crabcore now? Who the fuck does crabcore?
George: The American Attack Attack!
Gavin: Ahhh, is that because they do the crab thing?
George: Yeah.
Snoz: They’re rubbish.
Gavin: Aw, God.
Snoz: We’ve always been about, if we’ve got a good riff, we’ll just go with it. If it sounds like N*SYNC or if it sounds like Slayer, just go with it.
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On the road to Reading and Leeds, The Blackout have stopped off to play some largely intimate warm-up shows; tonight they’re in York, where a crowd has been gathered since the early morning, a usual occurrence for the Merthyr sextet.
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Screams literally litter Newcastle’s university today at the mere mention of The Blackout‘s co-frontman Sean Smith, so most of today’s queue goes slightly AWOL and scatters at a chance to meet him in person. Nonetheless, a LOT of people have turned out for the Welsh six-piece today, as have many for the buzz around new flavour band, Hollywood Undead.
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We were able to have a brief chat with Sean Smith of The Blackout before headlining the Fishing For Eskimo stage at Slam Dunk in Leeds last week.
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