With Guitars Festival Diary 2012
As you have already gathered their is a large chunk of 70s punk complemented with the odd 2tone champions, all will be appearing at a three-day music festival in Bath on the weekend set aside for royal jubilee celebrations. Among the bands lined up for The Last Jubilee event at the city’s racecourse are The Buzzcocks, The Damned, Eddie and the Hot Rods, the Selecter, the Rezillos and Bad Manners. Festival-goers are being encouraged the camp out at the event, which harks back to the monarch’s silver jubilee in 1977 – when punk was at its height. Also appearing will be ex-Strangler Hugh Cornwell, poet John Cooper Clarke and Sex Pistol Glen Matlock, with his band The Philistines. But any punk festival with the likes of the Ruts DC, UK Subs, Vibrators, 999, Lurkers, easily gets With Guitars vote, just off now to find Bath on Google maps The festival will be raising money for the children’s charities BIBIC, Wooden Spoon, Frenchay After Burns Club and the South West Children’s Hospice. More details are at www.lastjubilee.co.uk.
Sonisphere Festival 2012; Date; Fri 06 July – Sunday 8th July: Location: Knebworth Park, Knebworth KISS / QUEEN / FAITH NO MORE / ANDREW W.K / INCUBUS / CYPRESS HILL / EVANESCENCE /MASTODON / FIELDS OF THE NEPHILIM / FLOGGING MOLLY / THE DARKNESS / LUCUNA COIL / KATATONIA / WOLFMAOTHER (plus lots more).
Sonisphere 2012 continues to impress, With Guitars are still trying to get over last years amazing event. This year it’s Kiss European Exclusive, Queen Exclusive & Faith No More UK Exclusive headline sets for Sonisphere 2012. While we are at it, the festival also fields the only UK shows of 2012 from Evanescence, Marylin Manson, Incubus, Within Temptation and Wolfmother. SONISPHERE festival is KISS’ invitation to have the best time of your life with long lost friends such as the anthemic ‘Rock N Roll All Night’, the jubilant singalong ‘I Was Made For Lovin’ You’ and the rallying cry of ‘God Gave Rock N Roll to You’. We would ask you to lock up your daughters, girlfriends and wives, but with Gene Simmons in town, it’s pretty clear there’s no stopping them. And if you can’t fight them, join them at their only European show of 2012. With a quarter of a century having since passed, rock legends QUEEN are to return to play a second concert at the venue that provided them with the setting for one of their biggest and most historic concerts. QUEEN’s Brian May and Roger Taylor have confirmed the band will headline the second day of SONISPHERE appearing on the APOLLO stage on Saturday July 7. KNEBWORTH was the setting for QUEEN’s final concert with Freddie Mercury in August 1986. May and Taylor also confirmed that for this very special event they will be joined by US singer-songwriter ADAM LAMBERT. The potent chemistry between QUEEN and Lambert broke the surface when at the invitation of Brian May and Roger Taylor, Lambert joined them for the closing showcase at the recent MTV Europe Awards where QUEEN were present to collect their Global Icon award.
For the final, Sunday night, SONISPHERE KNEBWORTH is proud to announce the legendary FAITH NO MORE as the headline act on the APOLLO stage. Onstage irreverent, uncompromising, unpredictable and dazzling at every turn, FNM have been setting new standards in exciting rock performance for more than two decades now. With classics such as ‘Falling To Pieces’, ‘Epic’, ‘Midlife Crisis’ and ‘Be Aggressive’, Mike Bordin, Roddy Bottum, Bill Gould, Jon Hudson and Mike Patton are poised to set KNEBWORTH on fire when they close the last night at SONISPHERE with their only UK appearance of 2012. Joining the three superb headliners are some of the biggest names from the world of rock and metal. As well as the exciting names from the world of rock, SONISPHERE once again shows its forward thinking nature, and invites musician/comedian TIM MINCHIN to headline the Saturday night on SATURN. Since his first appearance at SONISPHERE back in 2010 the TIM’s success has gone from strength to strength, resulting in his first UK arena tour, his first West End Musical (Matilda The Musical) and numerous high profile TV appearances. After the astounding success of Bill Bailey’s SATURN slot last year, TIM – with full backing band in tow – is bound to deliver a much talked about and highly memorable show at SONISPHERE. Loads more bands, comedy, djs & entertainment still to be announced… Shooting rockets. Blood spitting. Face Paint. Shiny Boots and utterly jaw dropping triumphant live shows: SONISPHERE is proud to announce KISS as Friday’s headliner. With a reputation for being perhaps the most flamboyant and entertaining band on the planet, the American Kings will bring their stage extravaganza to SONISPHERE as their only European performance of 2012. While many bands have been chasing the eye liner shock horror dollar and have come and gone without changing the face of music as we know it, KISS have gone from strength to strength garnering praise, success and too many accolades to mention throughout the years, selling over 100 million albums worldwide and counting as the band is poised to unleash new album ‘Monster’ in June 2012.
In The Hudd Festival Date: June 9th-10th June. Location: Huddersfield (various venues). :Line Up: TBA
In The Hudd Festival is a new multi venue indoor music festival in Huddersfield West Yorkshire. On Saturday 9th & Sunday 10th June across music venues in the town centre, over 25 Indie, Rock, Punk, Folk and Acoustic are lined up to perform including Club Smith, Daniel Pearson, Skint & Demoralised, Hawk Eyes and Mr Shiraz. You can buy a ticket for Saturday/Sunday that allows entrance to any show by any band throughout that day and evening, and at the bargain price of £9.20 for Saturday and £10.50 for Sunday this looks likely to be a lot of fun. Two day festival over the weekend of 9th & 10th June, bands playing 2.30-10.30 in two main venues (Bar 1:22 and The Parish) in Huddersfield. Day tickets (£8 Sat / £9 Sun plus booking fee) get you into any show all day long.
Here is a taster of one of the festival bands Club Smith…
SUMMER SUNDAE WEEKENDER 2012. Location: DE MONTFORT HALL AND GARDENS. Date: 17th 18th 19th AUGUST 2012 Line-up (so Far): PUBLIC IMAGE LIMITED/ KATY B/ tUnE-yArDs/ ASIAN DUB FOUNDATION/ REVEREND AND THE MAKERS/ILLY MASON/ FRANCOIS AND THE ATLAS MOUNTAINS/ JONATHAN RICHMAN/ JUAN ZELADA/ LAZY LESTER AND FRIENDS / DAN MANGAN/ RACHEL SERMANNI/ CASHIER NO 9/ GOODNIGHT LENIN/ GRACE PETRIE/ THE MAGIC TOMBOLINOS/ Y NIWL
British legends Public Image Limited were formed in 1978 by John Lydon. PiL’s work is widely regarded as the most innovative music of the post-punk era. This April sees the release of the first new PiL material in 20 years. The EP “One Drop” which debuted on Steve Lamacq’s BBC 6 show has already gained a strong online following and will be followed by the album “This Is PiL” in May. Peckham lass and Rinse FM protégée Katy B took the country by storm in 2011 with her intoxicating blend of dubstep, R&B funky, house and UK Garage on her critically acclaimed debut album “Katy On a Mission.” Next up on the 2012 bill Merrill Garbus aka tUnE-yArDs leaves crowds stunned by her live performances, artful songwriting, soulful voice and vivid sound. Asian Dub Foundation are one of Britain’s most exciting live bands. Audiences should ready themselves for a performance doused in raga-jungle rhythms, indo-dub bass lines and fast-chat conscious lyrics. With a sound that recalls the likes of Bob Dylan and Johnny Cash, Willy Mason will be bringing his poetic flair and pioneering folk to the Summer Sundae Stage, plus Reverend and The Makers fronted by John McLure will also be bringing a dose of their hook strewn, guitar flavoured electro indie pop. The next artist announcement will be made within a month TICKETS – Limited number of 2012 Early Bird Tickets are currently on sale at 2010 prices while stocks last. Young Persons ticket for 14-17 Year Olds. Again Early Bird Young Persons tickets are available in limited numbers so grab yours while you can. For more ticketing information including live-in vehicle and camping tickets, please see our website www.summersundae.com/tickets
V FESTIVAL 2012: Line Up: STONE ROSES / THE KILLERS / SNOW PATROL / NOEL GALLAGHER’S HIGH FLYING BIRDS / NICKI MINAJ / DAVID GUETTA / TINIE TEMPAH / ED SHEERANŸ / EXAMPLE / TOM JONES / KEANE / MADNESS / JAMES MORRISON / NERO / EMELI SANDÉ / FRIENDLY FIRES / HAPPY MONDAYS / PROFESSOR GREEN / OLLY MURSŸ / NOAH & THE WHALE / BEN HOWARD / RIZZLE KICKS / FRANK TURNER / LABRINTH / MAVERICK SABRE / THE ENEMY / MILES KA/E / DAPPYŸ RODRIGO / GABRIELA, PIXIE LOTT / LISSIE / SHED SEVEN / THE TING TINGS / THE HUMAN LEAGUE / THE PROCLAIMERS / THE STRANGLERS / REVEREND AND THE MAKERS / INSPIRAL CARPETS / THE RIFLES / DJ FRESH