The album, which features the singles “Lived A Lie” and “Fresh Start Fever”, was released January 27, 2014 and marked the band’s first record to reach the number one spot on the UK’s official album chart.

The Surrey-based rockers, joined by fellow English alternative band Deaf Havana, will be hitting the road next February for an 8 date stint across the UK, starting in Wolverhampton.

YMAS UK TOUR 2024 CELEBRATING 10 YEARS OF CAVALIER YOUTH PLUS MORE
We’re so excited to be bringing along good friends @deafhavana Sign up to our mailing list by 6pm tomorrow for access to our artist pre-sale, 10am Wednesday. General sale 10am Friday. pic.twitter.com/2vW55DQV4b

— You Me At Six (@youmeatsix) November 27, 2023

In an Instagram post by frontman Josh Franceschi, he informed fans this tour would be the “only UK shows next year other than our appearance at Slam Dunk.” The 33 year-old also prepared fans for the shows by saying: “With Cavalier Youth turning 10 we’ll be playing a bunch of that as well as some other heat.”

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You Me At Six’s latest release and eighth studio album Truth Decay, dropped on February 10, 2023, and saw the band celebrate their career as one of the UK’s biggest modern rock bands. Discussing the album, Franceschi said: “We are at our best when all five of us are on the frontline, living it and breathing it, all five of us swinging, putting our creativity into it. That’s what Truth Decay gives you.”

In other news, You Me At Six were recently announced as headliners for 2024’s Slam Dunk Festival alongside acts such as The All-American Rejects and I Prevail, with Pale Waves, Funeral For A Friend, Asking Alexandria, Waterparks, The Wonder Years and many more acts joining the lineup.

Fans who have signed up to the band’s mailing list by 6pm on Tuesday, November 28 will be eligible to get tickets in a pre-sale. The pre-sale will become available at 10am on Wednesday, November 29. General ticket sale will commence on Friday, December 1 at 10am. For more information and to purchase tickets, click here.

Tour dates:

09/02/2024 – KK’s Steel Mill – Wolverhampton
10/02 – UEA – Norwich
11/02 – O2 Academy – Bristol
13/02 – O2 Academy – Oxford
14/02 – Town Hall – Middlesborough
15/02 – P&J Live Hall C – Aberdeen
17/02 – Mountford Hall – Liverpool
18/02 – Guildhall – Portsmouth

Meshuggah will be supported by artists including Animals As Leaders, And So I Watch You From Afar and Three Trapped Tigers. Festival-goers will also be treated to performances by Textures, Curse These Metal Hands, Plini and many, many more.

The festival celebrates all forms of rock music, becoming labelled as “three days of expansive exhilaration” and “a haven of progressive music across the spectrum of all things heavy.”

2024 will mark the festival’s 10th anniversary, with a special 30% off deal on tickets available until the end of 2023, or until tickets sell out. To celebrate the anniversary, festival organisers took to social media to christen the show as “Arc10Gent.”

// Were you waiting for the icing on the cake after last week’s first 2024 announcement? Arc10Gent comes but once in a lifetime so we’re pulling out all the stops…

Headlining the Friday of #ATG10 is the mighty @meshuggah, alongside the amazing @AnimalsAsLeader! pic.twitter.com/WvhXShSMzf

— ArcTanGent (@ATGFestival) November 16, 2023

Organisers also put together a YouTube playlist for metal fans to enjoy ahead of time, “featuring the greatest hits of all the newly announced bands” for the 2024 lineup.  

// Did you catch the big news yesterday? Happy goddamn birthday to us. Follow our YouTube playlist featuring the greatest hits of all of the newly announced bands for #ATG10. https://t.co/QSOFSO0o9x pic.twitter.com/woq14n8S2C — ArcTanGent (@ATGFestival) November 17, 2023

ArcTanGent organiser James Scarlett shared more on the plans for the 10th anniversary of the festival, saying, “To celebrate our 10th birthday we wanted to invite back some of our all-time favourite bands from over the years. We drew up a list of all the bands that have ever played ATG that we’d like back and, as it was probably the best thing I’ve ever seen at ATG, naturally Meshuggah was top of that list.”

Scarlett continued, “Animals As Leaders last played way back in 2016 so they weren’t far behind! We’re stoked to be welcoming both bands back in even bigger fashion than last time, to celebrate 10 years of ATG.”

ArcTanGent will be the only UK show that Meshuggah will play in 2024, as well as being the only European show for Animals As Leaders.

// Fans take note – this is a UK exclusive. It will be the only UK show Meshuggah play in 2024, and the only European show of 2024 for Animals As Leaders.

— ArcTanGent (@ATGFestival) November 16, 2023

More acts are set to be announced as excitement for the ArcTanGent 10th anniversary builds. Tickets are available to purchase here.

Speaking on the impact of the album, Alana Haim said, “The crazy thing about ‘Days Are Gone’ is that the first thing that we ever came out with was the ‘Forever’ EP and we put that out on the internet without knowing how to promote things.”

She continued, “We didn’t know how to get music out there. The only thing that we knew was that we were super proud of what we had finally created after being a band for six years at that point. We had finally gotten a recording that we loved, and we were like, ‘Cool, we have this. What do you do with it?’ So we put it on the internet with absolutely no idea what was going to happen. And it completely changed our lives.”

Bassist Este Haim also shared, “A lot of the songs we’ve written when we were in our twenties mean something different to us now that we are in our thirties. I don’t know if we are any wiser, though.”

Following its release in 2013, Days Are Gone reached No.1 on the UK charts, No.2 on the Billboard Top Alternative Rock Album chart and No.6 on the Billboard 200 chart.

Haim have also created a special edition vinyl reissue of the album, availabe to pre-order here, set to be released on 29th September.

Haim took to Twitter to celebrate the Days Are Gone 10th anniversary, writing, “This year marks the 10 year anniversary of our first record, and our baby, “ Days Are Gone”. This record was a labor of love, with songs we’d been writing since high school in our living room.”

This year marks the 10 year anniversary of our first record, and our baby, “ Days Are Gone”. This record was a labor of love, with songs we’d been writing since high school in our living room. To celebrate, we made a special edition re-issue of our vinyl and cd that comes out… pic.twitter.com/iuoglUrVMU

— HAIM (@HAIMtheband) July 12, 2023

Tickets for the Shepherd’s Bush Empire show will be available on pre-sale on 29th August at 12pm for fans who pre-order any format of the 10th anniversary reissue of Days Are Gone from Haim’s official website. Tickets are available on general sale from 12pm 30th August and can be purchased here.

Stream Haim’s debut album, Days Are Gone, here.

Lewis Capaldi recently announced that he will be taking a break from work commitments following his performance at Glastonbury in order to “adjust to the impact” of living with Tourette’s syndrome. Capaldi wrote, “I used to be able to enjoy every second of shows like this and I’d hoped three weeks away would sort me out. But the truth is I’m still learning to adjust to the impact of my Tourette’s and on Saturday it became obvious that I need to spend so much more time getting my mental and physical health in order, so I can keep doing everything I love for a long time.”

This announcement followed his decision to take a break to prepare himself for his Glastonbury performance, but has ultimately ended in a longer hiatus than initially planned.

One such commitment that Capaldi will be missing is the headlining slot of Reading and Leeds Festival, where he was set to headline Reading on Saturday 26th August and Leeds on Sunday 27th August. The festival organisers addressed his cancellation, writing, “We’re gutted that Lewis Capaldi won’t be performing at R&L this year, but health comes first and we wish him a speedy recovery.”

The 1975 have now been announced as the replacement headlining act, and are reportedly close friends with Capaldi. At The 1975’s gig at Finsbury Park on 2nd July, Matty Healy addressed Capaldi, saying “I want to send my sincerest thoughts to Lewis Capaldi who is a dear friend of mine, who on the day when he had to cancel his tour, checked in on me. And it’s also a reflection on how hard being a solo artist is as I would not be doing this show if I didn’t have these amazing men and women behind me.”

The 1975 have decided to use their headlining slot to celebrate the 10th anniversary of their self-titled debut album, released in 2013. Frontman Matty Healy announced this decision onstage at TRNSMT festival, telling the crowd, “So, on Saturday at Reading and Sunday at Leeds in celebration of 10 years of our debut album, The 1975 will be playing that album in full in support of our good friend Lewis Capaldi. If you’ve got tickets, good for you. If you haven’t, go and get them. We’ll see you there.”

The band also took to social media to confirm that this will be a 10th anniversary performance of their debut album.

Reading & Leeds Festival
25th – 27th August 2023

‘The 1975’ 10th Anniversary Performance
Tickets on sale now https://t.co/VV4VRerwe4 #The1975 pic.twitter.com/lMyQoeToIW

— The 1975 (@the1975) July 10, 2023

Tickets to Reading and Leeds Festival 2023 are available to purchase here.

Read about Matty Healy leaving his Dirty Hit directorship here.

Read about The 1975’s War Child collaboration here.

Stream The 1975 here.

During the group’s ten years together, they have released five studio albums and will utilise this back catalogue to mark the anniversary, a special greatest hits fanzine will be released on 14th October. The compilation has been created with a very personal touch and will contain different forms of media, including photos, special edition band merchandise, art cards and a CD with a tracklist of unreleased recordings. All the specially curated contents will be enclosed within a zine book, the publication will also include documents which chart the band’s career, further exclusive photographs of the group and the band member’s personal objects, a QR which provides more links to content and exclusively created band interviews.

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Brittain McVey has spoken with BANG Showbiz concerning the group’s tin anniversary, “I think for a lot of people, there are various moments over the last 10 years that offer up nostalgia. Up until this point, every tour has been based on a specific album, like last year we had the ‘Cherry Blossom’ album and tour in September. But this one is going to be different because we want to get all the albums from the last decade into the show. Hopefully, it will be the sort of show where – some people might have been really big fans of the first or the second album and we want people to relive those moments with us. It’s going to be emotional, but it’s going to be so hard to pick a set list because we’ve got five albums now!”

Throughout the group’s career they have enjoyed great success, The Vamps scored their first number one album with their third studio album Night & Day and received two Gold certifications for their first two albums Meet The Vamps and Wake Up. Due to their commercial success, the band have worked with some big names in music such as Demi Lovato on the 2014 single “Somebody To You” and performed with Taylor Swift on tour.

Frontman Simpson has also spoken on the group’s experiences, the singer talks about how the band had opportunities to meet and work with their heroes, “Meeting Dave Grohl for me was just ridiculous because he’s been one of my idols for so long. They say don’t meet your heroes but it was just very inspiring to learn that you can be a good person and also just be a sheer legend. Connor got to meet Brendon Urie from Panic at the Disco. James as well, like when we got to tour with Taylor [Swift] which was amazing.”

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The anniversary campaign’s live aspect is soon approaching, the band’s The Greatest Hits Tour will kick off on 23rd November 2022 at Manchester’s 02 Apollo. The group will perform at the Brighton Centre on 25th November 2022 and will appear at London’s The 02 Arena on 27th November 2022. After seven more UK arena shows, the band will conclude their Greatest hits tour on 11th December 2022 at Birmingham’s Utilita Arena.

The Vamps 10 Years Of The Vamps – The Greatest Hits Tour

23/11/2022 – O2 Apollo – Manchester
25/11 – Brighton Centre – Brighton
27/11 – The O2 – London
30/11 – Bournemouth International Centre – Bournemouth
01/12 – Motorpoint Arena – Cardiff
03/12 – 3Arena – Dublin
05/12 – SSE Arena – Belfast
07/12 – M&S Bank Arena – Liverpool
08/12 – OVO Hydro – Glasgow
10/12 – Royal Concert Hall – Nottingham
11/12 – Utilita Arena – Birmingham

Click here to purchase tickets.

Click here to pre-order 10 Years Of The Vamps.

I think most would agree with me when I say that Alt-J never really topped their debut, but that’s not through lack of trying. An Awesome Wave was so fresh and clean that when we all got our first taste of the band, it was hard to put your finger on where this sound came from, and what they would end up doing next. The next few albums churned out a few great singles, “3WW” from RELAXER, and “Hunger Of The Pine” from This Is All Yours are personal highlights, but overall the LPs never quite reached the same level of cohesion that the debut did. That doesn’t mean the band have lost all of their charm though. The amount of off the wall ideas that you can squeeze into a series of albums over a decade, and still come out with something that sounds, ultimately, like an Alt-J album… is astounding. The pure creativity has always been the one thing you can rely on.

To celebrate the 10 year anniversary of the album that changed our lives, we’re playing an extra show at Brixton Academy where we will play An Awesome Wave in full. Tickets on Friday 22nd April, 10am BST. https://t.co/MDdbFL3N82 pic.twitter.com/bDkunsytla

— Δ (alt-J) (@alt_J) April 14, 2022

The show comes in the middle of an already announced tour of the UK, a 14^th date has been added to the beginning of the group’s now 4-night residency of Brixton Academy. About half of the tour has already sold out, but you can see here for full details on any of the full tour. See below for the full list of dates on The Dream Tour:

6/5/22 – Barrowland Ballroom – Glasgow
7/5 – Barrowland Ballroom – Glasgow
9/5 – O2 Academy – Leeds
10/5 – O2 Academy – Bristol
12/5 – Rock City – Nottingham
13/5 – O2 Apollo – Manchester
17/5 – O2 Academy Brixton – London (An Awesome Wave Anniversary Show)
18/5 – O2 Academy Brixton – London
19/5 – O2 Academy Brixton – London
20/5 – O2 Academy Brixton – London
22/5 – Olympia Theatre – Dublin
23/5 – Olympia Theatre – Dublin
25/5 – The Telegraph Building – Belfast
27/5 – O2 Academy – Birmingham

The Romance is Boring reissue was first announced back in 2019 and will be pressed on gold vinyl, with only 1,500 copies available for fans. A special digital download card will also be accompanying it, containing their 2010 four-song EP All’s Well that Ends. Pre-orders (which can be made on the band’s website here) will also get you a special copy of ‘The Universe Replied’: An Oral History of Romance is Boring, a 35,000-word zine giving interviews with past and current members talking about the process of making the album and touring it.

As for the Hello Sadness reissue, it will be accompanied by new artwork and will be pressed on transparent blue vinyl, with only 1,000 copies being made. The reissues are due next February 18^th courtesy of Arts & Crafts. A band statement concerning the reissues said “Since its original release the band’s membership has changed, beloved venues have closed, we are all far older and more jaded. But Hello Sadness still hurts. ‘The Black Bird, The Dark Slope’ swirls desperately, ‘Every Defeat a Divorce (Three Lions)’ serves as a reminder of the dust gathering thicker in the England men’s football team’s trophy cabinet, and we, Los Campesinos!’s ‘sad eyed children’, still hang on their every word.”

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The band’s never been shy of showing their sentimental side for past works, having done reissues for the tenth anniversary of their first two albums back in 2018, for 2008’s Hold on Now, Youngster… and We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed. This was accompanied by a two-week tour. Last year they celebrated the anniversary of Romance is Boring with a reissue on Valentine’s Day, as well as two London concerts where they played the album all the way through. Also, the release of their latest EP back in May, Whole Damn Body, featured songs recorded around the time of Hello Sadness, seeing the band continuing to make this into an event for the fans.

To help fans eager to join them live to celebrate, last September they announced three dates where they would be playing around the UK, seeing Cardiff, London and Leeds from the 13th to the 15th of December. Suffice to say, the band seem to be on a roll at the moment. And fans have plenty more to look forward to, with lead vocalist Gareth Paisey admitting they were working on a new album. Also, the tenth anniversary of their fifth album No Blues (2013) is coming up in a couple of years, so it seems they won’t be short of things to celebrate just yet. So if you want a bit of the action, better get ordering now!

The anniversary repressing was launched on 1st January on limited 600 copies of the gold and red splatter vinyl, with one side etched with handwritten lyrics. Originally available on the While She Sleeps’ official website, the LPs sold out immediately but you can keep checking the band’s social media channels in case more copies are ordered due to popular demand.

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The North Stands For Nothing is the third EP in the band’s career following their first steps with And This Is Just The Start (2006) and Split with the Andwhitestars (2009), and the one to transform While She Sleeps from a hobbie and side project into a full-time music act. The EP was recorded between January and April 2010 in their home studio ‘The Barn’ in Sheffield, with mastering by Tim Turan from Turan Audio in Oxford, and officially released on 26 July through Small Time Recordings.

The North Stands For Nothing was almost entirely a self-made project produced by guitarist Mat Welsh with composition, arrangement, lyrics and artwork all done by the band. The EP featured While She Sleeps’ first two music videos of the monumental tracks ‘Crows‘ and ‘Hearts Aside Our Horses‘, fan favourites to this day and a highlight of any of the band’s energetic concerts.

With the addition of vocalist Lawrence Taylor the year before and ever since beginning to work on The North Stands For Nothing, the band has maintained its original line-up consisting of the founding members Mat Welsh (rhythm guitar), Aaran McKenzie (bass), Sean Long (lead guitar) and Adam Savage (drums). Heavily toured and promoted, the EP paved the way for the Sheffield quintet to becoming one of the most influential and sought-after acts in the European contemporary metalcore scene. 

 

 

 

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Earlier in 2020, in response to the widespread criticism of devaluation of music by streaming platforms and record labels, in addition to the difficulties imposed on music acts due to the COVID-19 ongoing restrictions, While She Sleeps made a stand and launched their innovative sustainable business model. Based around the Patreon public support platform, the band established the Sleeps Society virtual club, revolving around four tiers of monthly membership granting their followers a wide range of benefits and exclusive content. Since its inception on 15 October 2020 and following the update two weeks later, While She Sleeps have more than passed their initial goal of 500 members, with the highest paid ‘Revolution’ tier all sold out and currently standing at 2071 total members and almost 142 unique posts

Alongside the society launch, the metalcore heavyweights debuted the title single ‘Sleeps Society‘ as their first and only release for 2020. Following the standalone track ‘Fakers Plague‘ from December 2019, these are the only two songs since the release of their fourth album So What? in March 2019. While She Sleeps have confirmed they are currently working on their fifth record, also called Sleeps Society and set for premiere on 16 April 2021, done entirely with their fans’ and members’ support.

However, the organisers of the festival have said they feel comfortable announcing that events can run in 2021 after the beginning of the roll out of a mass vaccination programme, which they say can be used in conjunction with social distancing plans they have already devised in the summer to ensure that the events can take place in the summer of 2021.

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The first of these events will take place on the 9th and 10th of July 2021 and the second will be on August 12th, 13th and 14th. While we don’t have a lineup yet, tickets are now available. There will be a mixture of 1,500 general and family tickets have been made available for the first weekend, organisers have said they hope they can scale up to 3,000 in the coming months. The second event in August will initially only sell 500 tickets, this is to accommodate those who had tickets to the 2020 festival and will be carrying over their ticket to the new dates.

Director of Stendhal Festival, Ross Park Hill spoke about the news in a statement saying; “It’s been a really tough year, we don’t have to tell anybody that because every one has been in somewhat of the same boat. That said, the entertainment and events industry have probably seen the biggest hits brought on by the pandemic, so we are quite simply delighted to have been able to navigate our way through 2020 and still be in a position to run events next year.”

He then went on to say; “I’d like to take the opportunity to again publicly thank those patrons who rolled over their tickets from 2020 to 2021, they are a one of the main reasons we survived 2020 and are in a position to re-launch the festival in 2021.”

“In that vain I’d also like to thank all the organisations that have supported us through the pandemic including Causeway Coast and Glens Borough Council, Help Musicians NI and The Arts Council of Northern Ireland. We are so excited by the prospect of welcoming people back to the farm and we can’t wait to be able to once again deliver all the music, arts and creativity that Stendhal is known for. We guarantee it will be worth the wait.”

Stendhal 10.
August 6th, 7th,8th, 2020.
Gather friends and celebrate.#tenyearsofstendhal#lovestendhal pic.twitter.com/f33lnjR0ME

— Stendhal Festival (@Stendhalireland) September 27, 2019

The organisers of Stendhal Festival tried to organise the first ever socially distanced music festival in August called Unlocked, which would have been a series of weekends that would have showcased artists from the island of Ireland, while adhering to the social distancing guidelines. Unfortunately, the event also had to be cancelled because of an rise in cases in Northern Ireland.

Tickets for The Stendhal Festival are available here.