Groezrock PULP SUMMer SLAM The BAMBoozLe PUnk rock
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Groezrock PULP SUMMer SLAM The BAMBoozLe PUnk rock
WORLDWIDE FESTIVAL GUIDE 2012 APRIL - MAY ILLUSTRATIONS: NICK EDWARDS HEY, YOU, LOOK OUT of THAT WINDOW. THERE’S A WHOLE FUCKING WORLD OUT THERE, AND STACKS OF INSANELY GREAT FESTIVALS FOR YOU TO GET YOUr CHOPS INTO THIS SUMMER. GO AND BECOME AN INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL MONSTER WITH FRONT’S GLOBAL FESTIVAL GUIDE! FRONT’S FAVE BELGIAN IS BACK AND A LITTLE BIT INCREDIBLE Groezrock WHAT: 28-29 April, Meerhout, Belgium groezrock.be Who’s there: If newly reformed big hitters Refused and Verse are exciting you to the point of foaming at the cock, it’s best we don’t tell you about Rancid, Lagwagon, Gorilla Biscuits, Thrice, Parkway Drive and The Bronx playing as well, as you may well get too pumped and die. Why it’s ace: It’s a fucking belter! So much so that FRONT has taken control of the Friday night to throw early-comers the biggest and bestest party ever. Hell, are we excited. The girls will: Be fucking impressed if you can get them into the sick VIP area, so make best buds with festival organiser Hans. Hans is a bloody nice man. If you see him, high five him. You go, Hans. UK equivalent: HEVY FESTIVAL 3-6 August hevy.co.uk The loudest thing in Kent just got a whole load louder with Verse making their way from Groezrock to Hevy alongside heavyweight headliners Converge as well as The Chariot, our new best mates from page 110. Even if it’s chained to your skull, you’ll lose your freakin’ mind. PHILIPPINES SMASH FESTIVALS PULP SUMMER SLAM WHAT: 28 April in Manila, Philippines pulpmagazinelive.com Who’s there: Scary lady-fronted Arch Enemy with August Burns Red, Bless The Fall, Darkest Hour and We Came As Romans. Why it’s ace: For a big-ass lineup of metal like that, you’ll have to part with 400 Philippine Pesos. That’s six quid. Fucking hell. Big spenders can part with £70 for a VIP pass that includes a special lounge area, open bar and free pizza. Hey everyone, let’s go! Get wasted on: Basi, the pale red booze made from sugar 40 48 FRONT ISSUE 167 cane that has its very own festival and national holiday in its honour. Fuck, the Philippines do everything right. UK equivalent: CRASH DOUBT 2 June lincolnista.com/crashdoubt With Sonisphere doing a big shit on our plans, try Crash Doubt. OK, so the pizza is paid for and the weather is pissier, but it’s dead cheap and the lineup’s strong. Brutality Will Prevail, Last Witness, Hang The Bastard and Polar will get you forgetting all about the free pepperoni. VEGAS AND PUNK ROCK AND BOWLING. ‘NUFF SAID. Punk Rock Bowling WHAT: 25-28 May in Las Vegas, USA punkrockbowling.com WHO’S THERE: An absolute slugger of a line up that includes Rancid, NOFX, Hot Water Music and Pennywise. A jackpot, if ever we’ve BECAUSE B’S BATSHIT BONKERS BUT seen one. We haven’t, mind. We suck BLOODY BRILLIANT balls at gambling. WHY IT’S ACE: Mother truckin’ punk rock, in mother truckin’ Las Vegas, with mother truckin’ bowling tournaments. There’s not a lot more WHAT: May 18-20 in New we can add to that to make it sound Jersey, USA thebamboozle.com any more amazing. Perhaps free pizza Who’s there: You’ve got one and boobie-looking competitions. helluva roster when Blink-182 are The girls will: Love a dude with playing but aren’t your headliners. a fat wedge in his pocket and, from Taking the top spot is Skrillex, Foo what we’ve heard, there’s nothing Fighters, and Bon Jovi, with Brand like that in your trousers to impress. New, A$AP Rocky, Jimmy Eat World, Create a fake business card with your Mac Miller and Incubus too. Huge. title as Super Lord Of Every Bank In Why it’s ace: The whole The World And Owner Of Your Dad organization is a crackers acid trip, and the ladies’ll throw their chests in with fictional characters withholding your face. information, such as a haggard clown UK equivalent: SLAM DUNK called Linc keeping a ‘Very Special FESTIVAL Guest’ on the Sunday secret and a 26-27 May, Hatfield hide-and-seek loving Bob The Builderslamdunkmusic.com bumming idiot called Scoop McDroop Slam Dunk takes place at the almostleaking exclusives. as-fun uni unions of Leeds and Get wasted on: You’re in the Herts and has a punk rock States surrounded by superlineup that’s still churning cool punk fan girls, so look our juices for less than cool with a sixer of Pabst £40. Think Taking Back UNG GUNS YO an Blue Ribbon beer. Red Sunday, Motion City pe ro Eu st one of our fir blazing and “Groezrock was Cups optional, but we bet Soundtrack and ETID as w n su e Th . nces e time. festival experie our angry liver it’s trendy with the added bonus new to us at th ly al re ll sti it , as nd sa Europe w ost Of A Thou enough to have stacks of not plunging into a Gh to s ler el From The Sw of booze was s we loved. Lots of the bastards floating life of gambling debt. nd ba DJ of to d ll fu ke as as e w rly and we wer ea o to about. ng ed yi pt um cons out em tent. We set ab UK equivalent: in the Eastpak or but the tent flo e nc da e th ncing not only READING AND LEEDS the five of us da itself, with just ag to sw 24-26 August ak stp Ea around in on repeat. readingfestival.com Andrew W.K. ANTI-FLAG Good times.” It kinda pains us to say it, but the “I love playing Wa rped Tour. only place we’ll be seeing a line-up of Having done the tour several this proportion is at the evil festival times, it’s comfor table. We know how to survive on overlord Reading And it and keep healthy. There are Leeds. Head there to see always smart kid s who are stoked Foo Fighters, Paramore, on punk rock. You couldn’t You Me At Six and Odd ask for any more.” Future. ThE Bamboozle GUS WOOD CHRIS #2 FRONT ISSUE I68 73