Takedown Stage Times

Tickets are priced just £30 (or £34 with additional UPRAWR 18+ aftershow wristband)

Wristband Exchange will be open from 12pm, doors open 1.30pm. The event will finish around 11pm (subject to change).

JAGERMEISTER STAGE
Funeral For a Friend 10pm
KIGH 8.30pm
Jamie Lenman 7.20pm
Canterbury 6.10pm
Feed The Rhino 5.10pm
Blitz Kids 4.10pm
Fearless Vampire Killers 3.10pm
Verses 2.10pm

UPRAWR STAGE
Chimaira 9.10pm
Yashin 8pm
Hacktivist 7.10pm
Heart of a Coward 6.20pm
Idiom 5.35pm
Heart in Hand 4.50pm
The Hell 4.05pm
Black Futures 3.20pm
Smoking Hearts 2.35pm
The Catharsis 1.50pm

TOTALROCK STAGE
Heaven's Basement 10pm
Glamour of the Kill 9pm
Black Spiders 8pm
Turbowolf 7pm
Jettblack 6.10pm
The Dirty Youth 5.20pm
Skarlett Riot 4.30pm
The Howling 3.40pm
Western Sand 2.50pm
Voodoo Vegas 2pm

BIG DEAL STAGE
Lost Alone 9.30pm
Baby Godzilla 8pm
I Divide 6.50pm
Centiment 5.40pm
Zoax 4.40pm
The First 3.40pm
Octane OK 2.40pm
Aurora 1.40pm

SOUTHAMPTON MUSIC MAGAZINE
Introducing...
Ashes to Angels 9.25
YOUR BAND HERE? 8.40
Ghouls 7.55
Emp!re 7.10
A Tale of Two Cities 6.25
Dendera 5.45
Dead 5.05
Saint The Sinner 4.25
Seasons in Wreckage 3.45
Our Hollow Our Home 3.05
Ugly Love 2.25
6 Minutes to Sunrise 1.45

Indoor venues have limited capacities, we cannot guarantee access to every performance. Get to the stage nice and early for your favourites.

ELVENKING Explain Non Appearance

Sadly Elvenking were unable for a second time to play their UK dates and following some negative comments and abuse aimed at them, they felt they had to explain the reasons for the their non attendance in full. They posted the following statement on their facebook page:

"We are sorry to announce we were not able to play the UK shows as planned this week, for reasons that go beyond our will and control. Unfortunately, the promoters didn’t show any respect and/or any kind of professional behaviour towards us. These shows had already been cancelled in September 2013, and that caused us a big loss of money; nevertheless, we decided to cover those costs ourselves, with the promise of a better situation for the re-scheduled February gigs. After months of silence, unanswered mails, not a single piece of information, plan or time schedule, we read on Facebook that the Dublin show was cancelled and nobody had the good sense to let us know. Once asked what was happening and why nobody was telling us anything about this gig, the promoters decided not to pay the agreed amount of money that would have covered our costs for getting there.

Our agency informed us that the advance payment, which was agreed from both sides, and which we needed to buy our flight tickets, was late. Furthermore, the contract hadn’t been signed (until the last minute) by the promoter, and the promoter informed our agency, that they didn´t have money to pay right now and that they have to wait for the money from the ticket sales. In other words: If the sales are bad (and no one ever told us how the sales were), we might end up paying again.

Everybody expects that bands are on time, that their equipment is in good condition, that they rehearsed their songs and perform as good as they can. And of course, every band is trying to do all this, ‘cause it is every bands wish to be good, and professional so that the fans enjoy their shows. Why can´t all these bands expect the same enthusiasm from the people behind the scene?

A show got cancelled on the upcoming tour and nobody even told us. And once we found out, we were told that it is up to us to step back from what everybody agreed on and pay.

This is simply not acceptable for us and with sad heart we had to cancel our presence in the UK…ONCE AGAIN! We usually don’t like to talk business, especially not publicly, but after reading some really nasty things about us and our involvement in this, we feel the need to tell everybody what really happened. We just couldn’t afford to risk a deeper loss of money. We are deeply sorry to all the fans who have waited so long for these shows to happen…, but it seems we simply got offered this opportunity by the wrong people. We promise we will work hard to get to the UK as soon as possible!"

 

 

Takedown After Party

I've already told you what I think of Takedown Festival and how excited I am to be going, but there is more! If you think you can handle a whole day of music and then more, why not go to the UPRAWR after party? UPRAWR are fairly well known now in the alternative scene as they also appear at Slam Dunk festival providing after show goodness for them.

It starts at 10.30pm and goes on until 3am and tickets are just £6 each if you haven't already got a festival ticket that includes entry.

Elvenking UK Tour

Elvenking have been producing metal out of Italy since 1997 and have some what of a cult fan base in mainland Europe, which is more rapidly spreading to the UK. They have previously played at Metalfest and Bloodstock Festival where they performed with ex-Skyclad singer Martin Walkyier. This month they will once more join with Walkyier for 4 exclusive shows, entitled The Viking Funeral Tour.

These shows will be taking place in two different formats, one being Elvenking's set where they will play stuff from their Era album and possibly a few new tracks from the album they are currently recording and the second as the backing band for Walkyier as he performs his take on Skyclad material, which has appropriately been called Martin Walkyier Goes Skyclad.

“I consider this new album to be the closest to the original conceptual idea of the band we’ve yet done. When we founded Elvenking, our idea was to mix up strong epic and intense music with influences from folklore and with lyrics based on our personal idea of life and what we consider as a personal sort of paganism. Through the years, we moved steps away from our original path in search of new stimuli and ways to express ourselves as songwriters, but now we want to carve the name Elvenking firmly into our music and define exactly where the origins of our band are. We are really looking forward to these shows, because it will be really special to see how people react to Elvenking in the UK today…” - Aydan (guitars)

 

Iron Knights UK Tour & Free Download

It's about time there was some Iron Knights news! This month they will be on tour in the UK with their brand new line up to promote their new album which is due out around April this year.

I can't bring you information about the new album just yet, but watch this space and in the meantime why not listen to Destroyer? It's a stand alone track as it isn't featured on the album, and can be downloaded for free from their website! Everyone likes free stuff!

February/March Tour Dates:

21 Feb - The Unicorn, London

22 Feb - The Flying Shuttle, Bury

23 Feb - The Victoria Inn, Derby

26 Feb - The Head of Steam, Newcastle

27 Feb - The Venue, Dumfries

28 Feb - The Moorings Bar, Aberdeen

1 March - Bannermans, Edinburgh

2 March - Rock Zombie, Dudley