Mad About Rock

  Today, Thursday 27th October, the brilliant, award-winning 2000trees Festival announces the first set of bands for their 2023 event. Ahead of any announcement for the main three full days (Thursday 6th, Friday 7th and Saturday 8th July 2023), 2000trees can now announce (nearly all of) the Wednesday Forest Stage line up, which will see a very limited number of festival go-ers given an extra days access to the event. The bands for Wednesday 5th July are all acts and artists that played the 2022 event and instantly became new, 2000trees cult classics. They all took the opportunity in 2022 and return to the festival only a year later as 2000trees heroes. As 2000trees Festival organiser James Scarlett explains, it is not a day to be missed - “Wednesday at Trees is pretty much my favourite day of the entire year! It’s super chilled and is almost the calm before the storm of the full festival. There are only two stages open (Forest and Word) so there is way less running around than on T...

  Holding Absence are proud to announce that on Saturday 10th July they will be performing 'The Greatest Mistake Of My Life' in it's entirety, Live & In Colour. The show will be streamed from the picturesque Portland House in Cardiff and will feature some extremely special guests. Frontman Lucas Woodland comments: “We are ecstatic to announce that Holding Absence will be performing 'The Greatest Mistake Of My Life' in FULL for the people of the internet on Saturday July 10th! We’ve worked super hard to make this a special experience for fans of our band - regardless of their location - and can’t wait for people to hear this album in full for the very first time. Hellbent on making this the best experience possible, we enlisted not only Grammy-nominated producer Romesh Dodangoda (who produced previous singles ‘Gravity’ and ‘Birdcage’ and mixed the Bring Me The Horizon ‘Live At The Royal Albert Hall’ DVD) and director Zak Pinchin (who worked with the band on '...

LOATHE & HOLDING ABSENCE ANNOUNCE SPLIT EP  PLUS CO-HEADLINE UK TOUR! Heavy experimental collective of five Loathe and Cardiff ascending post-hardcore group Holding Absence are pleased to announce an exciting new collaborative project. Each band will be contributing 2 brand new studio tracks to a split EP titled ‘This Is As One’ out February 16th via SharpTone Records. Pre-orders for the ‘This Is As One’ EP are available now: 10" Splatter vinyl: http://nblast.de/ThisIsAsOneVINYL Digital: http://nblast.de/ThisIsAsOneDIGI www.thisisasone.com Both bands are today premiering videos for new EP tracks! Make sure you check those out at the locations below: Loathe ‘White Hot’ Holding Absence ‘Saint Cecilia’ Loathe and Holding Absence first officially met when they toured the UK together in April of this year with Blood Youth, bonding over their shared common principals as well as a respect for each other’s music and vision. Despite what some might see as fairly big sonic dif...

HOLDING ABSENCE Add More UK Dates & Reveal New Music Video For 'Heaven Knows' Cardiff ascending newcomers HOLDING ABSENCE are very pleased to announce four new UK shows for November supporting OUR LAST NIGHT. The melodic post-hardcore five piece have just wrapped up a number of successful UK shows supporting YOUNG GUNS and show no signs of slowing down there. Vocalist Lucas Woodland comments: "After a very successful run with our new friends in Young Guns, we're ecstatic to announce that we'll be returning to Birmingham, Glasgow, Manchester & London this November, live and in colour, as support to Our Last Night. We hope to see you at a show!" In addition to these new dates, the band have also released an impressive video for new single, 'Heaven Knows'. Watch it here: https://youtu.be/jPIe2Afur00 The narrative of Heaven Knows reads a suicide note - A depressed person musing over their life and the lasting impressions they wou...