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These Surrey
scamps have toured with alt-heavyweights Angels and
Airwaves, Paramore, Fightstar and Enter Shikari, and
they're warming up for Music Live with appearances at
the Slamdunk Festival in Leeds and Give it a Name in
London and Sheffield. If that doesn't get them in the
zone, what will?
Compared by NME to the likes of Panic At The Disco and
Brand New, these boys effortlessly demonstrate that
we can do this emo-pop-punk thing here in the UK just
as well as they can do it over the pond.
'With catchy melodies, snappy lyrics and hip-wriggling
instrumentals, they're onto a winning combination, and
are sure to break through to mainstream consciousness'
- Kerrang!
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Mosh-mad
newcomers, this Essex post-hardcore five-piece
are fresh from sold-out gigs with Fightstar. They've
also shared bills with The Used, Gallows and The
Blackout, and their live shows to date have been
an incredible riot of stage invasions and sweaty
singalongs - probably why Kerrang, MTV2 and Scuzz
have all made it patently clear that they see
a serious future for WATO.
Music Live falls bang in the middle of the band's
frantic first headline tour.
'The next big thing in post hardcore' - Rocksound
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Andrew 'Falco'
Falkous and Jack William Egglestone made up two thirds
of cult Welsh rockers Mclusky, and Kelson Louis Tregurtha
Mathias was in fellow Welsh lunatics Jarcrew. Got that?
Everybody loves rock family trees. Anyway, Future of
the Left pick up where their previous outfits left off
and create a savage and visceral rock explosion, like
an amazing Welsh amalgamation of Les Savy Fav and Shellac.
'Cuts a bloody swathe through your cranium, leaving
you reeling and gasping for more. The battle cries have
been practiced, the troops are focussed and playtime
is well and truly over. Here's to the future. 9/10'
- Drowned In Sound. |
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East
Londoners who combine elements of old-skool ska,
reggae and punk to create a sound that easily
justifies comparisons to Sublime, Operation Ivy
and even ultimate scene-daddies the Clash.
They spent 2007 playing the likes of Leeds &
Reading festivals, supporting Hard-Fi at Wembley,
touring with Gogol Bordello and Capdown, while
still finding the time to keep their feet on the
ground with a succession of shows in squats and
community centres.
Recently snapped up by Island offshoot Field Recordings,
the boys look set to take their socially-aware
and politically-charged music to the masses.
'This is
my favourite album of the year!' - Mike Davies
(BBC Radio One) |
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When it
comes to sheer thrilling unpredictability in the live
arena, there are few acts who can touch Sheffield's
Rolo Tomassi. Their shows are an adrenalin-soaked
mass of jerky, aggressive keyboard-laden art-punk
noise - discordant, frantic and chaotic but never
disjointed.
Comparisons to Melt Banana, Botch and The Locust aren't
without merit - but these young female fronted mentalists
are no copycats. In fact, they're 'probably the most
exciting grind- cum- Casio- cum- hard- cum- whatever
-core band in Britain as of right this bloody minute',
(beat that!) according to Drowned in Sound.
'They take anything and everything, wrap it in a ball
of noise and snot it back out on your toast' - Artrocker |
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Combining
the best bits of Idlewild, The Get Up Kids and
Hundred Reasons, Tellison's insanely catchy
indie-rock anthems have established them as
one of the most exciting bands in the country
right now - as their acclaimed performances
at last year's In The City and this year's Camden
Crawl illustrated.
Debut album Contact! Contact! Will already be
on many a self-respecting underground music
fan's iPod, and with their songs starting to
infiltrate the mainstream (they've recently
featured on Channel 4's The Inbetweeners and
E4's Nearly Famous - as well as having videos
on TopShop TV and MTV2), it looks like they
won't be staying underground for much longer.
'This band deserve your love' - Rock Sound |
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With a full page 'Introducing'
feature and a KKKK album review already under their
belts, it's fair to say that the ultimate rock tastemakers
are quite fond of this bunch. In fact, so much so
that they actually reckon we should 'thank God for
Slaves To Gravity'. Blimey!
Their impressively meaty riff-laden grunge harks back
to a classic era of rock, when the likes of Soundgarden,
Alice In Chains and Pearl Jam ruled the roost. The
good name of grunge may have been soiled by Cr*ed
and N*ckelb@ck, but if STG keep up the quality they've
demonstrated on debut album Scatter The Crow, then
hey, they might just single-handedly rescue the reputation
of the entire genre!
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Young
Liverpool four-piece The Hot Melts were the
first signing to legendary American punk label
Epitaph's brand new UK imprint, Wonderland Records.
And, after months of being holed up in their
Merseyside rehearsal room, they were flown out
to Chicago to record their debut album, which
is all set for release this summer. Their explosive
punk-pop mixes up the best bits of American
bands like Green Day and Weezer with the finer
points of influential English bands like Pulp
and Blur.
This is one truly fine pop group, and the world
is going to fall head over heels in love with
them, any…minute…now.
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Describing
themselves as '80s power-pop metal', Glamour of the
Kill certainly know how to deliver a riff. They've been
working on their new album with hot new metal producers
Geoff and Ginge (the clever folks behind the latest
Bullet for My Valentine album) and if you're looking
for a reference point, then this is probably a mighty
fine place to start. Oh, alright then… you can
have Avenged Sevenfold too.
'Charismatic foursome who mix epic
singalong choruses with powerful pummeled riffs and
rhythms. One of the UK's brightest young hopes...
it's clear this northern collective are on the path
to success' - Kerrang!
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'There
ain't no party like an Outcry Party!' says Kerrang,
and y'know… we're not about to argue with
that. Outcry Collective's passionate and intense
brand of punk owes just as much to Rage Against
The Machine and The Bronx as it does to Black
Flag and Minor Threat, and with all the big rock
mags right behind them, they look set to follow
in the footsteps of recent UK hardcore success
stories Gallows and The Ghost Of A Thousand.
'Fast-paced belting hard rock, as if Every Time
I Die had walked into Deep Purple's rehearsal
room and started playing their instruments' -
Metal Hammer.
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Like Alexisonfire
and Enter Shikari having a jam in the Bongo, these Boro
lads are one of the hardest-working bands in our thriving
local scene. And it's all paying off… they've racked
up support slots with pretty much every 'dun dun dugga
dugga dun dun CHUGGA CHUGGA WAAAAH' band worth their
tight jeans and hair dye. Fresh back from a UK tour
with French post-hardcore troupe The Beverley Secret,
Beyond This Oath will be eager to show you all what
they're capable of, so get down nice and early…
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