Sacramento four piece Trash Talk bring their aggressive live show to the UK once more, supporting Cancer Bats. Midnight Mixtape took to their tour bus to interview three quarters of the hardcore outfit.
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The ’October, 2010’
Hampshire quartet Canterbury have been on the attack this year, taking on shows and festivals across the UK. They came to London Underworld for their biggest headline show to date, and Midnight Mixtape caught up with them about their growth, touring and the state of the modern music industry in this tell-all interview.
It’s been an eventful year for young Hampshire boys Canterbury. They released their debut album ‘Thank You’ and single ‘Gloria’ for free online to rave reviews and toured the UK extensively, taking on venues and festivals big and small. We sat down with singer-guitarist Mike and singer-bassist Luke to catch up on their journey so far.
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The Boston godfathers of hardcore hit London for an intimate, chaotic, but crowd-pleasing show as a stop on their European tour. Midnight Mixtape sat down beforehand to interview Bane frontman Aaron Bedard.
Ask a hardcore musician what bands have influenced them, and a name that will repeatedly, undoubtedly come up is Bane. The Boston five-piece have been around for almost two decades, touring extensively and releasing a string of EPs, 7inches and highly acclaimed full lengths ‘It All Comes Down To This’ (1999), ‘Give Blood’ (2001) and ‘The Note’ (2005). We sat down with frontman Aaron Bedard before their headline show at The Relentless Garage to chat about touring, dropping the straight-edge label, and what the future holds for the band. Read more here!
In a room full of sweaty anticipation, built up over an almost three year wait for My Chemical Romance to return with a Scottish headline date, Twin Atlantic do little to appease the masses. But, in all fairness to this Glasgow-based quartet, who really could? Playing every song with vigour, they’re tight, competent musicians, who manage to inspire a smattering of participation for both ‘Audience and Audio’ and ‘You’re Turning Into John Wayne’, but no one is stealing any of My Chem’s limelight, not tonight anyway.
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UK Release October 11th 2010 Roadrunner Records
‘AB III’ is the third album from Alter Bridge. The band is formed by Creed trio Mark Tremonti, Brian Marshall and Scott ‘Flip’ Phillips along with Myles Kennedy. The album allows Alter Bridge fans to take a sigh of relief over fears that the band had finished when the group took a temporary break back in 2009. During this time Creed reformed and Kennedy took time out to front Slash’s touring band.
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We Are The Ocean stormed into the Somerset town in typical fashion, with a full volume, high energy show to a packed out audience. The five piece opened the show with new single “Lucky Ones” which is a catchy tune, and suitably used for an opener as it requires a lot of audience participation during the chorus.
From the get-go, Dan Brown was bouncing all over the small stage, and at times joining in the mosh pits with the hundreds of adoring fans, by the end of the show, the singer was drenched from head to toe in sweat, the sign of a good gig!
The crowd were out in full force for We Are The Ocean, having been suitably warmed up by support acts Chickenhawk and Proceed, both of which seem like they will soon be hitting the big time on their own, they were that good. After only short delays for gear changes, We Are The Ocean played an hour’s set, including hits such as “Don’t Be Careless” “Playing My Heart” and “(I’ll Grab You By The) Neck Of The Woods”, all of which sounded spot-on. Read more here!
