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Anyone looking for a quiet Monday night in London was in the wrong place if they headed for the O2 Academy 2 in Islington as Skarlett Riot, Fahran and Sertraline put on a fine show of energetic rock and metal.
"Exhilarating and effervescent." These are the words that scintillating progressive metal quintet Sertraline use to summarise their tantalisingly heavy yet catchy sound. The Stoke-on-Trent five-piece fuse raw intensity with soothing melody - in their words, "big naughty riffage" meets "groovy, heavy but hella melodic." The band, who share a name with an anti-depressant drug that's... Continue Reading →
London's finest day-long celebration of rock is back as Camden Rocks Festival returns on Saturday 2 June. Highlights include post-punk legends Public Image Limited (PiL), fronted by former Sex Pistol John Lydon, playing the festival for the first time, while it'll be headlined by Newcastle's Mercury Award nominees Maxïmo Park, who will close the day out at Koko.... Continue Reading →
Fort Fest, the UK's coolest new rock festival and one of the most exciting for new UK bands, has announced the first set of acts to be playing at this year's event on 4-6 August. The initial lineup announcement includes two of our favourite bands in the form of Fort Hope and SEASONS, as well as... Continue Reading →
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