UK Music Round-Up

Festival News
The first line-up announcement for the UK's two-date Slam Dunk Festival has been made. Headliners Taking Back Sunday will be joined by Every Time I Die, Architects and more. A full list of bands can be seen in the below.

Slam Dunk Festival Line-up

Taking Back Sunday (Headliners)
Architects
Every Time I Die
Cancer Bats
Set Your Goals
Make Do And Mend
The King Blues
Mayday Parade
Forever The Sickest Kids
The Audition

Five new bands have been added to the line-up of this summer's Download Festival. The additions are listed below.

Download Festival Additions

Killswitch Engage
NOFX
Nightwish
Black Veil Brides
Shinedown

A glut of artists have been added to the line-up for the UK's 2000 Trees Festival. See below for a full list of bands announced this week.

2000 Trees Festival Additions

65daysofstatic
Pulled Apart By Horses
Rolo Tomassi
The Xcerts
Johnny Foreigner
My First Tooth
Brontide
Turbowolf
Freeze The Atlantic
Marmozets
Run WALK!
Shapes
The Bronze Medal
Goodnight Lenin
The Cadbury Sisters
Sam Russo
Jason Steel
Sam Brookes

The first line-up announcement for this year's Y Not Festival has been made. The full list of bands so far is below.

Y Not Festival Line-Up

The Wombats
The Pigeon Detectives
The Subways
Summer Camp
Brontide
Juan Zelada
Jim Lockey & The Solemn Sun
Masters In France
Naymedici
Boat To Row
Son Of Eagle

Tickets for this year's Reading and Leeds Festivals will go on sale at 7:15pm on Monday March 12th. The headliners and several other acts are due to be announced on the same day.

News
Throats, who split in 2010, are giving away their entire discography for free.

Gallows are writing a new album.

Not Advised are now Natives. Head here to see a video blog from the band.

Sharks' video for "Arcane Effigies" has arrived.

Hildamay are giving away new single "The Light".

See the first instalment of The Wonder Years' UK tour diary from September here.

Luke Leighfield has released a documentary film entitled 'Seasons', which documents the recording of his forthcoming album New Seasons. Head here to watch and download the clip.

The Used will be playing a short acoustic set and doing a meet and greet at Banquet Records in Kingston on April 28th. More details can be found here.

New Found Glory will be bringing the 'Pop Punk's Not Dead' tour to the UK.

Save Your Grace have called it a day.

Click here to see The Ocean Between Us' video for "And Our Names Were Written In Water".

Attack! Attack! (UK)'s vocalist Neil Starr will release a split solo album with The Blackout's Gavin Butler on April 1st.

Pariso have joined Tangled Talk Records and will release their debut album on May 21st.

Head here to listen to Proxies' cover of Brand New's "Jesus Christ".

TRC's video for "Temptation" has arrived.

Click here to see The Deciever's video for "Darkest Days".

Hello Lazarus' new self-titled EP is available to pre-order from Scylla Records.

See The Smoking Hearts' video for "Seatbelts" here.

Eras have posted a video for "Tall Tales".

See Bet It All In Vegas' video for "Lion Soul" here.

Hello Bear have posted a video for "I Dropped the Screw in the Tuna".

Head here to listen to Your Last Drive's remixed version of "Decoys".

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Tours
NOFX
May
14th Leeds Academy
June
5th Bournemouth Academy
7th Bristol Academy
12th Manchester Ritz
13th Newcastle Academy
16th London Shepherd's Bush Empire

Sharon Van Etten
February
29th London Rough Trade East
March
1st London Cargo
May
16th London Scala
17th Manchester Deaf Institute
18th Dublin Whelans
20th Leeds Brudenell Social Club
21st Brighton Komedia

The Dillinger Escape Plan
April
26th London Garage

The Swellers
May
13th London Old Blue Last

The Bouncing Souls (SUPPORT: The Menzingers, Red City Radio & Leagues Apart)
May
2nd Manchester Moho

Lagwagon
June
26th London Islington O2 Academy
27th Bristol Thekla
28th Manchester Moho
29th Nottingham Rock City

Miike Snow
May
30th Manchester HMV Ritz
31st London Brixton O2 Academy

Polar. (SUPPORT: Carcer City)
May
1st York Stereo
2nd Leeds Well
3rd Liverpool Shipping Forecast
4th Northampton Racehorse
5th Stoke Underground
6th Glasgow Stairway
7th Aberdeen Tunnels
8th Sheffield Corporation
9th Southampton Joiners
10th London Garage
11th Aldershot West End Centre
12th Rugby Vault
13th Margate Westcoast Bar

Above The Underground
April
20th Crewe Box

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Contributors: Andy Biddulph & sean-reid

Had to check out that Brand New cover, and I was pleasantly surprised! Usually no-go territory in my opinion, but these guys have pulled it off beautifully. The electronic drums add a really nice touch.
May have to check out this band's own material now

That Souls date in Manchester, Jeez. Same day as HWM in London though.

Anyone got a re-up of The Throats stuff? The link isn't working.

Stoked to see Polar in Aberdeen, sad that no other bands in that list even have a Scottish date. So much music I would love to see.

Saw NFG on Friday, got to sing hit or miss with Jordan. Fucking. sick.

Do NOFX have no respect for A Level Exams?! dammit i have to miss them

I'm hoping the slam dunk lineup improves. It's good but not great.

Originally Posted by georgedcc

Anyone got a re-up of The Throats stuff? The link isn't working.

They're putting everything up again in a couple of days I think, I'll include it in here next week. In the meantime, pretty much everything on there is streaming here (I think).

Originally Posted by skanal1

Do NOFX have no respect for A Level Exams?! dammit i have to miss them

You know what to do. Go to the show, wing the exam.

Originally Posted by sean-reid

I'm hoping the slam dunk lineup improves. It's good but not great.

Who're you hoping for? TBS, ETID, Cancer Bats, Architects & MDAM do it for me.

Originally Posted by DanTGD

Saw NFG on Friday, got to sing hit or miss with Jordan. Fucking. sick.

Wait, what? Like... onstage and stuff?

Originally Posted by Andy Biddulph

Wait, what? Like... onstage and stuff?

Haha, it's kind of a funny story. Basically when he jumped to the barrier he accidentally smashed the mic into my mouth and cut my lip (in three places, I later found out.) he saw this and stayed infront me giving me the mic twice. Pretty cool of him to do that, I didn't even notice it was bleeding until after the encore.

cant wait for Gallows' new stuff.

Slam Dunk is looking like an excellent shout! Holy shit that's a good lineup

i'm studying at herts uni this year, and was looking forward to SDF, but it's not half as good as last year. still got tickets though.

Originally Posted by DanTGD

Haha, it's kind of a funny story. Basically when he jumped to the barrier he accidentally smashed the mic into my mouth and cut my lip (in three places, I later found out.) he saw this and stayed infront me giving me the mic twice. Pretty cool of him to do that, I didn't even notice it was bleeding until after the encore.

Sounds insanely cool and painful in equal measure.