Tech-hardcore mentalists Palm Reader return for a mammoth day of live music. The band celebrate the release of their second album Beside the Ones We Love by playing five shows in a single day. The shows all take place on May the 4th and you can find full details for each show and its line-up below:
1st Show: The Old Blue Last, Shoreditch
14.00 – *Secret Headliner*
13.15 – Let’s Talk Daggers
12.30 – Palm Reader
2nd Show: The Black Heart, Camden
14.30 – Palm Reader
13.45 – Exes
13.00 – Ohhms
3rd Show: The Windmill, Brixton
16.30 – Palm Reader
15.45 – TBA
15.00 – We Never Learned To Live
5th Show: The Star, Guildford
22.00 – Palm Reader
21.15 – Employed To Serve
20.30 – Stallone
Tickets will be available from AYP? Promotions shortly so keep an eye on this link. You can check out the video to I Watch the Fire Chase My Tongue by Palm Reader below:
Remember Days of Worth? The 5 piece rock act were signed to Visible Noise back in 2005 and they released a massively overlooked record called The Western Mechanism. In honour of the album’s 10th anniversary the band are reforming for a one-off show at The Fighting Cocks in Kingston on the 11th of July. Support will come from Freeze the Atlantic who’s members come from bands like Hundred Reasons, Reuben and Laruso. This is a show you will not want to miss.
Check out the video to State of Me by the band below and check out vocalist Simon Griffith’s current band Radio Alcatraz if you like your post hardcore.
A double-dose of heaviness is currently wreaking havoc across the UK. The Rodeo Idiot Engine and Scumscene favourites Oblivionized are currently touring and you’d be a fool to miss them. Check out the remaining dates below:
July
31 – The Fenton, Leeds
August
1 – London, The Unicorn
2 – Nottingham, Stuck on a Name Studios
3 – Brighton, Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar
The show at The Unicorn promises to be a special one because while it’s free entry it has a stunning bill that includes Stallone, ITHACA, Somme and Meatpacker.
If you like heavy music from the UK’s wealth of noisey talent then you are absolutely spoilt for choice right now. Below we have compiled a list of tours and shows that are worthy of your attention because they feature some of our favourite bands currently doing the rounds.
Pariso & Svalbard Split Tour
11/7 – Katie Fitzgerald’s, Stourbridge
12/7 – The Roxy 171, Glasgow
18/7 – Unicorn, London
19/7 – Edge of the Wedge, Portsmouth
2/8 – Summerfest at Frog&Fiddle 2 Pigs, Cheltenham
3/8 – Sick Sick Six Fest, Leicester
Employed to Serve & Svalbard European Tour
5/8 – DNA, Brussels
6/8 – AJZ Talshock, Chemnitz
7/8 – TBA
8/8 – Capsloc, Capelle Aan Den Ijssel
9/8 – Waldmeister, Solingen
10/8 – TBA
Other Great Shows
9/7 – Unicorn, Camden (ACxDC, Implore, Oblivionized, Razoreater & TEEF)
18/7 – Rigger, Newcastle (Empires of Light, Burden of the Noose & Black Heath Coven)
19/7 – Stuck on a Name Studios, Nottingham (Oblivionized/Razoreater split recording)
15-17/8 – Chimpyfest at T Chances, Tottenham Court Road (feat. The Atrocity Exhibit, Razoreater & Confine)
23/9 – Old Blue Last, Shoreditch (Hexis, Rainmaker, Let It Die, Employed to Serve & Oblivionized)
Here at UK Scumscene we have made no qualms about our love for both Oblivionized and Old Skin and now the 2 bands are heading out on a short tour that sees the band hit London, Brighton and Bristol for an intimate weekender that is bound to be one of the most crushing tours of the summer. Check out the dates below:
6/6 – London – Power Lunches
7/6 – Brighton – The Lectern
8/6 – Bristol – The Red Lion
You can grab a free track from both bands from the recently released Church of Fuck compilation False Metal Eternal. Get that via the widget below:
Send More Paramedics have announced a London show as a part of their farewell tour. The show takes place at the Camden Barfly on May 10th. Tickets are £12 in advance.
Send More Paramedics formed in 2001 and play a form of punk-influenced thrash metal which is complimented by a zombie theme. The band released 3 albums through In At The Deep End Records which are all still available from the label’s webstore. You should probably associate yourselves with those records now if you haven’t already.
Normally a one-man black metal behemoth, Caïna will play a full band show at the Camden Black Heart in honour of his 10th anniversary under the Caïna name.
Caïna take to the stage at the Camden Black Heart on July 5th with support from fellow Church of Fuck luminaries Esoteric Youth and Old Skin. Tickets can be bought for £6 in advance from Bleak Metal or you’ll have to pay £8 on the door.
Caïna is also taking set-list requests so if you want to hear the band play a specific song from their back catalogue you can head over to Caïna’s Facebook page and request up to 3 songs. In addition to all this the show will also be filmed for a future Caïna release.
We recently reviewed the latest Caïna material which forms a part of the Esoteric Youth / Caïna split that is due out on Church of Fuck soon. Read our review here and pre-order the limited edition cassette here.
The metallic hardcore tour of the year has already arrived in the form of Iced Out and Old Skin who are heading out for a jaunt around the UK this month. Check below for the full list of confirmed dates:
19/2 – Black Bull, Gateshead
20/2 – The Alex, Southampton
22/2 – The Red Lion, Bristol
23/2 – Cowley Club, Brighton
24/2 – Power Lunches, London
25/2 – Fine City Audio, Norwich
If you need a reason as to why you should go to a show then look no further:
3 of our favourite hardcore bands are touring together in February 2014. This is brilliant news. Razoreater, Stallone and Employed to Serve take off on a 8 date jaunt through the country from the 1st to the 8th of February. Check out the full list of dates below:
2014
1/2 – The Square, Harlow
2/2 – The Hope, Brighton
3/2 – The Unicorn, London
4/2 – Venue to be announced, Sheffield
5/2 – The Bridge Inn, Worcester
6/2 – The Stag & Hounds, Bristol
7/2 – The Pomfret Arms, Northampton
8/2 – Stuck on a Name, Nottingham
We will update you all on those unconfirmed dates once they’re, you know, confirmed. All dates now confirmed except the venue for the Sheffield show.
The Japanese metal beast that is Kawabata Makoto’S Mainliner are currently touring the UK and Ireland this month but they are joined for two dates by brilliantly named noise rock mentalists Dethscalator.
Dethscalator join the band for a Birmingham date at The Flapper on the 26th of September and a London date at Corsica Studios on the 29th of September. For the rest of the Mainliner dates look below:
19 Liverpool – The Blade Factory
20 Cork – Clonakilty Guitar Festival. West Cork (Ireland)
21 Dublin – Grand Social (Ireland)
22 Limerick – Bourke’s (Ireland)
23 Glasgow – The 13th Note
24 Newcastle Upon Tyne – Think Tank @ Hoults Yard (w/ Haikai No Ku)
25 Hebden Bridge – Trades Club
26 Birmingham – The Flapper (w/ Dethscalator)
27 Bristol – Thekla
28 Brighton – The Green Door Store
29 London – Corsica Studios (w/ Patent Saint & Dethscalator)
Need a reason to check out Dethscalator? Then look no further than here:
You can also stream the new Mainliner record by clicking here.
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