In addition to those sweet as you like on-stage photos of Cancer Bats’ Main Stage triumph we showed you last weekend, our man Gobinder Jhitta took a shedload of photos at this year’s Leeds Festival. We basically gave him free rein to go shoot whatever and whoever he wanted, and he didn’t let us down – pretty much every band we ranted and/or raved about in our post-Reading & Leeds Festival podcast is featured in his gallery, which you can check out after the jump.
If you’re going to Reading or Leeds Festival this weekend and you’re on Thrash Hits, you don’t need us to recommend you Foo Fighters, Paramore and Bullet For My Valentine. You’ve already made up your mind on what side of the Enter Shikari fence you’re on but here are six bands you really ought to see.
We’ve already brought you photos from this gig earlier this week, but now we’re bringing you the critical eye of Alex Andrews as he reviews what went down when Touché Amoré, Pettybone and Grappler brought – or tried to bring – their A-game to the Camden Barfly….
There are a lot of things that are good about Touché Amoré. One of the good things about Touché Amoré is that they force lazy music bloggers to learn the keyboard-shortcut for typing “é”. Another, perhaps more relevant, good thing about Touché Amoré, is that they are a bloody awesome live band. That’s why we had Ben Gibson go and photograph them doing just that at the Camden Barfly earlier this week, at any rate.
Pettybone
From Desperate Times Comes Radical Minds
Damage Done Records
12 September 2011
By Ryan Williams
Pettybone are a band with a point to prove. It would be easy to focus on the fact these four punks from wildly divergent backgrounds (a Czech, a Londoner, a German and a Cornish) are women but there’s more to it than being massively patronising. This album is punk as fuck.
Pettybone
From: London, UK
Lazy equation: (Girls + Politics) x Hardcore x Camden
Website: Myspace.com/TheSoundOfTheRevolt
Thrash Hits verdict: Four ladies from Camden with a shared passion for hardcore and politics. They’re the kind of band that goes on tour in either Israel and Camden. We love that.