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  Award-nominated independent rock and metal festival, Takedown Festival, has today announced the next wave of artists for its 2026 edition. The festival returns to Portsmouth Guildhall on Friday 3rd and Saturday 4th April 2026, once again delivering a packed lineup of heavy music to the south coast. Newly confirmed acts include Mouth Culture, the alternative rock Leicester collective known for their anthemic, high-energy chaos, and Zetra, the shadowy London duo bringing their unique brand of shoegaze-soaked metal theatrics. Both will take to the stage on Saturday, alongside Lastelle. On Friday, South Of Salem and Asomvel join the bill. This year’s event will be headlined by PRESIDENT, marking the masked collective’s first ever festival headline slot. Having quickly gained a reputation as one of heavy music’s most exciting and unpredictable new forces, their Takedown 2026 performance promises to be a defining moment in their rise. Also topping the lineup are Phil Campbell and the B...

  Award nominated independent rock and metal festival, Takedown Festival has today announced it’s return in 2025. The festival will take place at the Portsmouth Guildhall on Friday 4th and Saturday 5th April 2024 with tickets set to go on sale on Friday 30th August 2024 at 9am BST. After announcing the postponement of the 2024 edition due to the basement development works on the Grade II building, Takedown Festival are hugely proud to announce it’s return in 2025 with the prolific Elvana (Elvis fronted Nirvana) headlining the Saturday and former MMA fighter fronted Kris Barras Band headlining the Friday. Joining Elvana and Kris Barras Band for a star-studded lineup will be Welsh alt-rockers Dreamstate, two-time MOBO award nominated Kid Bookie, fast rising UK metalcore stars Acres, Lake Malice, InVisions, URNE, The Nightmares, Ferocious Dog, Blanket and many more. Kai and Sarah Harris of Takedown Festival Ltd said, “We are unbelievably happy to be able to share the line up for Taked...

  After careful consideration, the organisers of Takedown Festival regret to announce the postponement of this year’s festival which was due to take place at Portsmouth Guildhall on Saturday 13th and Sunday 14th April. Building works currently being undertaken at the Grade II listed venue to transform the basement of Portsmouth Guildhall into one of the most innovative creative spaces for young people in the country, have now been extended across the festival dates resulting in the loss of two key areas of the festival site and a reduction in capacity, which combined with challenging trading conditions have sadly left the event unviable for this year. Takedown Festival will return in 2025 with, it is hoped, much of this year’s line-up carried forward. Further details will be announced soon but in the meantime all ticket holders will be refunded by their point of purchase. Takedown Festival Ltd Director and CEO of The Guildhall Trust, Andy Grays said, “Like many historic buildings...

  Award nominated independent rock and metal festival, Takedown Festival has today unveiled the day splits and stage times of the 2024 edition and announced nine more artists confirmed to play the festival. Joining the line-up will be London mathcore masters Pupil Slicer who will be performing their critically acclaimed new album ‘Blossom’ in full, UK nu-metal star Deijuvhs, Acres, The Hara, Calva Louise, Blanket, Harbinger, Lastelle, and Sumer. The announcement of day splits and stage times has revealed that Creeper will be headlining the Laney Stage on the Saturday, just after nu-gen star Cassyette takes to the stage. The Saturday line-up also sees Kid Kapachi headlining the Total Rock Stage, Graphic Nature closing the ‘Metal For Good’ stage and Mimi Barks topping the ‘Divergent’ stage. On the Sunday, Dinasaur Pile-Up will the closing the festival as headliners of the Laney Stage, Terrorvision will be concluding to Total Rock Stage, Pupil Slicer take on the ‘Metal For Good’ stag...

  Award nominated independent rock and metal festival, Takedown Festival has today unveiled the second wave of artists that will be appearing at the 2024 edition. Joining the previously announced headliners Creeper and Dinosaur Pile-Up will be Hastings beat-punk reprobates Kid Kapichi, Nu-gen star Cassyette, heavy metal champions Employed To Serve, UK chart topping hellions TERRORVISION as well as BVDLVD, Graphic Nature, Lake Malice, Grove Street, PENGSUI, Fort Hope, and many more. The first line up announcement saw the likes of Kid Bookie, Dreamstate, Mimi Barks, ‘A’, Snayx, Dead Pony, Stone Broken and more all announced to appear at the festival in 2024. For the first time ever, Takedown Festival will span over two days, taking place on Saturday 13th and Sunday 14th of April 2024 at the Portsmouth Guildhall. Tickets for Takedown Festival 2024 are on sale now via this ticket link: www.takedownfestival.com . Kai and Sarah Harris of Takedown Festival Ltd said, “We are very proud to ...

  Award nominated independent rock and metal festival, Takedown Festival has today unveiled the first wave of artists that will be appearing at the 2024 edition. For the first time ever, Takedown Festival will span over two days, taking place on Saturday 13th and Sunday 14th of April 2024 at the Portsmouth Guildhall and will be headlined by horror punk icons, Creeper following the release of their critically acclaimed new album, Sanguivore and alternative rock heavyweights, Dinosaur Pile-Up. Joining Creeper to create a star-studded festival lineup will be ‘A’, Dreamstate, Kid Bookie, Snayx, Mimi Barks, Hell Is For Heroes, Stone Broken, BLACKGOLD, Dead Pony, Urne, Mason Hill and many more. Tickets for Takedown Festival 2024 will go on sale on Friday 3rd November at 9am via this ticket link: www.takedownfestival.com . Kai and Sarah Harris of Takedown Festival Ltd said, “We are really excited to announce today the first bands for the Takedown Festival 2024 line up! Now expanded to 2 ...

DECADE ANNOUNCED AS SPECIAL GUESTS ON THE USED UK TOUR ‏   CONFIRMED FOR  HIT THE DECK AND TAKEDOWN FESTIVAL DECADE have been revealed as special guests to The Used  on their February run of shows up and down the UK. Decade complete the bill, joining UK hardcore outfit,  Landscapes who are also confirmed to appear at all dates. Says Alex Sears , Decade frontman; “We are completely made up to be touring with The Used. I think every band currently on the UK circuit would agree that they are a massively influential band so to be able to tour with them is an honour. Plus our mates in Landscapes are coming out too so it’s gonna be one big party!” Furthermore , Decade are confirmed to play two festivals following their dates with  The Used ; the first of which will be Takedown Festival , Southampton (UK), on March 7 th alongside acts such as Mallory Knox , Charlie Simpson &  Arcane Roots , followed by Hit The Deck Festival which take...