This weekend would’ve been the fifth Hevy Festival…but as you no doubt know by now, the festival was forced to cancel their event this year. They tried to schedule a replacement all-dayer at the Brixton Academy here in London, featuring some of the biggest bands on this year’s (cancelled) bill…but as you also know by now, they had to cancel that too.
It’s not been the best year for Hevy Festival, truth be told.
It’s the first Killswitch Engage w/ Jesse Leach London show ever and their first gig over here since Download Festival last summer and it’s well and truly sold out. It’s more than just a homecoming. Is this the gig of 2013? At least until their appearance at Hevy Festival this summer…
Pre-gig meal: Wahaca. Pork pibil tacos, steak tacos, corn and a celebratory Cinco de Mayo margarita.
Top 6 things we learnt watching Jesse Leach & Killswitch Engage in London…
We were half tempted to make a sports-themed Slaylist this week – what with the Olympics kicking off in our home city of London and all that – but then we realised that other than ‘Running Free’ and a handful of other tracks, we’d really be scraping the barrel when it came to coming up with valid tracks for it. So instead we fell back on an old favourite: the festival Slaylist. Given that Hevy Festival 2012 is a mere five days away, it was the obvious candidate.
Hevy Festival have added another 24 bands to their 2012 bill, including the winners of this year’s Redbull Bedroom Jam competition. They’ve also announced the provisional day splits for the bands they’ve announced so far, which give an indication of how many more bands the festival plans on announcing before it all kicks off at the start of August.
Hevy Festival have made their second line-up announcement for 2012, adding nineteen more bands to their bill- including the identity of their Sunday night headliner: Descendents. Not only will the legendary punk band be headlining the punk and hardcore fest, but it’ll be the only UK festival show they’ll be playing all year.
Hevy Festival has announced its first fifteen bands for 2012 – they are Converge, Will Haven, Protest The Hero, Deaf Havana, Verse, The Chariot, A Wilhelm Scream, Deez Nuts, Set Your Goals, Trapped Under Ice, Pianos Become The Teeth, Balance and Composure, Sharks, Last Witness, and Crocus. Sweeeeeeet.
Samuel Breen to Raziq Rauf:
“Hey Raz,
I’m thinking about going to Brutality Will Prevail tonight in Manchester. Would you like a review? Guess it’s up Thrash Hits street.
xoxo”
Raziq Rauf to Samuel Breen
“hey Sam
that’s funny because I literally just finished reviewing the London show for Metal Hammer this minute! yes I’d love a review. check out Harm’s Way as well – they are excellent.
razx”
Apart from Raziq’s impressive refusal to start sentences with an upper case character, you may notice how ignorant/casj (delete as appropriate) I was, WRT Brutality Will Prevail. Having now seen them live I’m ashamed of such apathy.
@samuelbreen: @raziqrauf …I couldn’t be more confused
@raziqrauf: @samuelbreen: Can not wait for this review.
It’s worth noting how bewildered I was throughout the whole gig. Something which came to a head during Harm’s Way. In fear that I was having a breakdown, I left half way through their set.
Six things I discovered when Brutality Will Prevail came to Manchester:
We sat on The Dillinger Escape Plan’s tour bus with Greg Puciato at Hevy Festival 2011. Obviously we just talked about dinosaurs from Jurassic Park and the six biggest animals Greg could fight while The Ghost of a Thousand started their last ever set (you can hear that in the background).
They’ve done it. They’ve survived. Tomas Doyle and Ben Gibson have made it through to the other side of Hevy Festival 2011. Let’s see what they got up to on the third and final day of the festival….
Architects were second only to their buds, The Dillinger Escape Plan, as far as the Saturday night main stage line-up at Hevy Festival 2011 went – but are they ready to step up to the challenge? Has their much talked-about lurge towards “the mainstream” backfired? Tomas Doyle reviews…