Lead singer of You Me At Six said in a press release about the event: “Looking forward to returning to Slam Dunk this year to headline the festival. Slam Dunk has given You Me At Six so much over our career & we’ve got a lot of special memories from performing there over the years. The line-up is stacked with great artists, so will be an elite one.”

Fans of You Me At Six, who released their eighth studio album earlier this year titled Truth Decay, shared their excitement over the news on X. One person said: “Already my favorite slam dunk”, whilst another person commented: “favorite band headlining my favorite festival.” The group first performed at the festival in 2007 alongside Paramore, Reel Big Fish and Mad Caddies.

Already my favourite slam dunk.

— Benjamin Franklin (@benmeatsix) October 25, 2023

Since 2006, the Slam Dunk Festival has celebrated rock and punk artists from all over the world. This year, the festival treated the audience to performances by legendary punk group The Offspring, British band Enter Shikari and Billy Talent. However, the festival received criticism over issues of health and safety concerns – including overflowing toilets.

In a report, Slam Dunk Festival organizers said: “Thank you for giving us the time to fully investigate the events of the Slam Dunk Festival 2023.  We have taken that time to work with our internal team and many external partners, firstly to work out why things went wrong and then find solutions and improvements for next year. Please let us be clear that we are not trying to pass the blame of anything to other people, we are simply telling the truth about what caused those issues, so you can be assured we have identified the problem and therefore are able to fix it.”

“We would like to stress that we take full accountability for everything that happened on the day, and we are so sorry that some people didn’t have the experience that they should have. We hope you give us the chance to change that.”

Organizers of the event have promised a change for next year’s show, including 25% extra toilets and additional taps at all waterpoints.

Confirmed line-up

You Me At Six
The All American Rejects
Prevail
Artio
Asking Alexandria
Bob Vylan
Boys Like Girls
Funeral For A Friend
Goldfinger
Head Automatica
La Dispute
L.S. Dunes
Mad Caddies
Mom Jeans
One Step Closer
Palaye Royale
Pale Waves
Pennywise
Røry
Set It Off
The Bouncing Souls
The Interrupters
The Selecter
The Skints
The Wonder Years
Waterparks
We The Kings

Waterparks will begin their UK tour at Bristol’s O2 Academy on June 24th, 2021. The See You In The Future tour will be hitting venues in Birmingham, Leeds, and Manchester, before concluding the tour on July 1st 2021, at the O2 Academy in Brixton. 

The Texan trio announced news of the See You In The Future tour via a post to social media. Taking to Instagram late last night (October 20th), Waterparks shared a snap of the upcoming tour dates. 

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Garnering a whopping 31,000 likes and 1400 comments, the post has been greeted with a joyous reception from Waterparks’ huge fanbase. One excited fan commented: “Oh my gosh, I am crying with happiness!”

Following the UK leg of the tour, the Turbulent hitmakers will then travel across Europe, playing shows in Amsterdam, Berlin, and Munich. Tickets for the See You In The Future tour will go on sale on Friday, October 23rd. 

Waterparks have delighted fans by announcing a new concert film and a live album to be out next month. Entitled Fandom: Live In The UK, the concert film and its accompanying live album is geared for release on November 27th, via Hopeless Records.

Waterparks shared the trailer for Fandom: Live In The UK on October 16th via Hopeless Records’ YouTube channel. Receiving over 2000 views, the trailer can be watched in full here.

Waterparks have also released some limited edition merchandise on their website, which the band also announced via Instagram today. The merchandise collection includes some eye-catching band shirts and a limited edition Fandom: Live In The UK vinyl record. More information about Waterparks merchandise can be found here.

The latest release from Waterparks is Lowkey As Hell, which premiered last month on September 25th. Lowkey As Hell is the first single Waterparks have released since Fandom, their third studio album that was released in October of 2019. Fandom contains songs such as Dream Boy, Telephone, and Easy To Hate. 

 

 

 

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An ode to pop-punk giants of the early 2000s, Lowkey As Hell has touches of Sum 41 and early Blink 182. Beginning with a rustic sounding guitar riff, lead vocalist Awsten Knight sings about the band’s not-so-relatable problems, but issues that are problems nonetheless. 

Knight starts the track by singing the opening lyrics: “I just cried into a shirt I could never afford last year/My Drake problems, my fake problems/But it’s really how I’m feeling here”. Knight launches into how success in the music industry, whilst rewarding, has impacted his mental health. 

Knight continues meditating on the ups and downs of stardom: “I like cool shirts, I like cold rings…I think I’m halfway there but my heart feels off so/What’s the point of being great if I’m great and alone?” Whilst it has awarded the band financial freedom, Knight claims stardom has also afflicted ample amounts of negativity upon him.

The confirmed dates for Waterparks’ See You In The Future tour will go as follows:

21/06/2021 – O2 Academy – Bristol
25/06 – O2 Academy – Birmingham
26/06 – O2 Academy – Leeds
27/06 – Manchester Academy – Manchester
29/06 – Glasgow O2 Academy – Glasgow
30/06 – Rock City – Nottingham
01/07 – O2 Academy Brixton – London