We may or may not have left our most anticipated gigs of the second quarter of the year a week late deliberately, with Brand New smashing London a new one previously skewing our list a bit. Still, there’s most of the three months left and loads more gigs and festivals to get your teeth stuck into, so check out our top seven most anticipated gigs / tours / festivals
Right now we’re getting ready to announce our next two club nights, so keep an eye out for those and come along this Friday to see Save Your Breath, Roam and Calls Landing…
Now, with that out of the way, here’s what we’re stoked about:
Alkaline Trio / Bayside
We haven’t had some Alkaline Trio action since Reading/Leeds last year, so we’re excited to see them out with Bayside, both touring new material on a UK run. Both new albums from the bands are excellent (check them out if you haven’t already), and we’ll see those attending the London show right at the front!
APRIL
15 OXFORD Academy
16 NORWICH Waterfront
17 NOTTINGHAM Rock City
19 LEEDS Metropolitan University
20 NEWCASTLE Academy
21 GLASGOW ABC
22 MANCHESTER Ritz
24 BIRMINGHAM Institute
25 BRISTOL Academy
26 LONDON Forum
27 PORTSMOUTH Pyramids
Hit The Deck Festival
Pretty much our first festival of the year, Hit The Deck is where we really start getting excited about summer.
This year’s line up is headed up by the excellent Brand New, and with Gnarwolves, The Xcerts, Saves The Day, Nai Harvest and many more playing we couldn’t be more excited.
APRIL
19 BRISTOL Various Venues
20 NOTTINGHAM Various Venue
Vans Warped Acoustic Basement Tour
For the first ever UK edition of the Vans Warped Acoustic Basement Tour, Geoff Rickly of Thursday is joined by our boy Rob Lynch as well as Koji and Brian Marquis. Starting just after Hit The Deck, the tour hits the following dates and we’ll be heading along to the London and Cardiff legs!
APRIL
20 SOUTHAMPTON Joiners
21 CARDIFF Clwb Ifor Bach
22 LONDON Borderline
23 BRISTOL Thekla
24 NORWICH Epic Studios
25 NOTTINGHAM Basement
26 WOLVERHAMPTON Little Civic
27 GLASGOW ABC 2
28 SHEFFIELD Corporation
29 LEEDS Cockpit
30 MANCHESTER Deaf Institute
The Swellers
We started this list thinking it’d be tough to pick a top five and we’ve found it pretty much impossible to keep it to a top seven in the end as well. The Swellers are another band that released a mighty fine album recently and their return to the UK will see some of the loudest sing-alongs of the early summer!
APRIL
28 LEEDS Cockpit 2
29 GLASGOW Audio
30 NEWCASTLE Cluny
MAY
01 NOTTINGHAM Rock City
02 NORWICH Epic Studios
03 MANCHESTER Sound Control
05 BRIGHTON The Hope
06 SOUTHAMPTON Joiners
07 BRISTOL Fleece
09 KINGSTON Fighting Cocks
10 LONDON Borderline
The Menzingers at The Old Blue Last
A very special one off Menzingers show, celebrating the release of their new album, ‘Rented World’. That album is fucking brilliant and this show is sold out so we’ll see around a hundred of your there for fun times. We hope. If you’re lucky.
Real Friends / Modern Baseball / You Blew It!
One of the tours of the year because of the wealth of rising talent on displaying, the Real Friends / Modern Baseball / You Blew It! line up will be stopping at plenty of places across the UK, including playing a date for us in Cardiff. Don’t miss out on it, especially if you can’t make the festivals we’re chatting about next.
MAY
07 KINGSTON Fighting Cocks
08 KINGSTON Fighting Cocks
09 LONDON Old Blue Last
10 CARDIFF Clwb Ifor Bach
11 SOUTHAMPTON Joiners
12 LIVERPOOL Korova
13 GLASGOW Audio
14 MANCHESTER Star & Garter
15 NORWICH Epic Studios
16 LEICESTER Soundhouse
17 EINDHOVEN Dynamo
18 COLOGNE MTC
19 HAMBURG Hafenklang
20 BERLIN Comet
21 MUNICH Germany Sunny Red
22 KARSLRUHE Jubez
23 ANTWERP JH Kavka
Slam Dunk Festival
Any list of things we’re looking forward to in April/May/June would be painfully empty without Slam Dunk. One of our favourite weekends of every year, Slam Dunk 2014 is packed with great bands again and we’re getting very excited. Our favourites from this year’s lineup are Motion City Soundtrack, Goldfinger, Real Friends, Gnarwolves, Jesse James and Marmozets. Excited!
MAY
24 LEEDS Slam Dunk North
25 HATFIELD Slam Dunk South
26 WOLVERHAMPTON Slam Dunk Midlands
You can see the rest of the gigs we’re looking forward to in our Gigs section! And seriously… there’s a lot on in the next few months…