This winter, Rock City in Nottingham is set to be the ultimate destination for music enthusiasts, offering an unparalleled line-up of events that cater to diverse tastes. From the alternative sounds of Pitchshifter to the soulful melodies of Sheku & Isata Kanneh-Mason, the venue will host legendary performers and exciting newcomers. With events spanning punk rock, southern rock, folk, and more, Rock City promises an unforgettable experience for all attendees. Explore the dynamic atmospheres and artistic innovations of these upcoming performances and immerse yourself in the vibrant world of live music.

Rock City’s Eclectic Winter Line-Up: A Musical Journey Through Genres

How do you become an era-defining metal band? Is it through peerless levels of intensity? Hooks strong enough to get everyone in earshot singing? Or is it something as simple as the self-confidence to pursue your dreams despite all obstacles?What ever the hidden ingredient is, While She Sleeps have it.The world first heard vocalist Loz Taylor, guitarists Sean Long and Mat Welsh, bassist Aaran Mckenzie and drummer Adam Savage together on 2010 EPThe North Stands for Nothing. Ears instantly pricked upon hearing their energy and ambition. Sleeps’ bombardment of punk attitude and seething metal shattered expectations, as has their every subsequent album. Their integration of pop, electronics and conscious lyrics, which tackle depression and anxiety head-on, has continually kept the band two steps ahead of their peers.Metal Hammer deemed 2021’sSleep Society“an album very much for these troubled times, from a band we can continue to believe in”; its impact was followed by a weekend-stealing set at theDownload Pilot and, in 2023, a sellout show to 10,000 at London’s Alexandra Palace.All the while, Sleeps have stayed proudly, defiantlyDIY. They’ve eschewed the trappings of the conventional music industry by building their own base in their hometown of Sheffield. They release everything through their hand-made label, Sleeps Brothers, while writing, self-managing, demoing, producing and making music videos exclusively from their HQ. These tireless creatives go so far as to build their own stage props, which have joined them on blockbuster tours through five continents, visiting nations from Canada to Colombia, Thailand to Taiwan.

While She Sleeps

Rock City

Tickets are now available for Shed Seven at Rock City!

Shed Seven

One of the most influential bands of their generation and beyond, The Jesus and Mary Chain mark their 40th anniversary in 2024 with a new album, Glasgow Eyes. To be released on March 8th by Fuzz Club, this is the band’s first studio album since Damage And Joy (2017). 2024 promises to be a bumper year for devotees of the Reids: the brothers will also unveil their autobiography, a documentary, and a world tour starting in March.

The Jesus And Mary Chain

For the uninitiated, Me First and the Gimme Gimmes is THE punk super-group and cover band extraordinaire of 2024. Consisting of punk legends, John Reis, guitarist and lead vocals for Rocket from the Crypt, the celebrated scamp Joey Cape from Lagwagon on guitar, Pinch from The Damned, on the skins. Add to our crew Fat Mike, master bassist from NOFX and CJ Ramone from a little band you may have heard of, The Ramones, rounded out by the incomparable crooner, Spike Slawson. When duty calls for one of the Gimmes to perform with their other band, rest assured a traveling Gimme will step in.Jonny “2 Bags” Wickersham from SocialDistortion, Jay Bentley from Bad Religion or Stacey Dee from BadCop/BadCop are known to fill in and on occasion, Jake Kiley, professional stoner and recreational guitar player from Strung Out hops on tour too. Together, Me First and the Gimme Gimmes are an outfit that has always operated more like a beer-hall Pussycat Dolls than a regular mortal band. In 2004, Me First and the Gimme Gimmes had the pleasure of ruining Johnny’s Bar Mitzvah. They have since crashed another party and bring you Me First and the Gimme Gimmes Blow It…at Madison’s Quinceañera! After 7 studio albums, 2 live records and too many singles to count, they’ve tackled just about every genre under the sun. Be it Motown, Country, Show Tunes, Japanese Pop (sung in Japanese!), these seasoned punk rock pros have triumphed on every occasion in a way only the Gimmes could. With such an extensive and wide-ranging catalog, where does one begin?… With a live show of course! The powerhouse continues and they’ll be singing Corridos, Pop, Country and Motown tune all year long, so don’t miss it

Me First And The Gimme Gimmes

Tickets are now available for TRAVIS at Rock City!

Travis

21 November 2023 – Today music pioneers The Damned announce a huge 12-date UK tour for December 2024, bringing their 80’s line-up back together with the return of Rat Scabies.

The Damned

Now in their 3rd decade as a full-time professional touring act, Limehouse Lizzy continue to keep the spirit of Celtic rock icon Philip Lynott and his band THIN LIZZY alive and dominating stages worldwide.

Limehouse Lizzy – Presenting The Greatest Hits Of Thin Lizzy

Bongo’s Bingo: Xmas

Hands down the world’s greatest post-millennial punk-rock group, The Chats have skipped past theunimaginable banana skin of COVID-19 to emerge tougher, faster, funnier, more riotous – even betterfor 2022!

The Chats

Tickets are now available to see SHEKU & ISATA KANNEH-MASON at Rock City!

Sheku & Isata Kanneh-mason

The Snuts have a chart-topping and top 3 albums under their belts, with songs that resonate with an arsenal of adoring fans across the world. They have always wanted to take risks as a band and with the incoming new album ‘Millennials’ (23rd Feb), they have followed through on that promise – they’ve followed up, changed up and – fully, wholeheartedly, joyfully – revved up.

The Snuts

Reigning from southern California, Robert Jon & The Wreck has been taking the southern rock sound established on the east coast and bringing it to the West Coast. Since their inception in 2011, these five native Californian’s; Robert Jon Burrison (Lead Vocals/Guitar), Andrew Espantman (Drums/Background Vocals), Henry Schneekluth (Lead Guitar/Background Vocals), Warren Murrel (Bass) have been electrifying audiences globally with their soaring guitar leads, infectious grooves and rich vocal harmonies. With yearly European tours now becoming an integral part of their touring regiment, Robert Jon & The Wreck found their flow being on the road most of the year, returning to California and prolifically pumping out new material. Their sixth studio album, the critically acclaimed “Shine a Light on Me Brother,” was released in 2021. On September 30, 2022, The Wreck recently released “Wreckage Vol. 2,” a collection of exclusive in-studio and live concert performances recorded from 2020 – 2022 on Joe Bonamassa’s KTBA Records. The band’s new 4-track EP “One Of A Kind” will be released on Joe Bonamassa’s Journeyman Records on Friday March 10, 2023. On August 4, 2023, the band released the album “Ride Into The Light” via Journeyman Records to critical acclaim. In June 2024, the band will release their new album “Red Moon Rising” featuring the singles Ballad of A “Broken Hearted Man,” and “Stone Cold Killer.”

Robert Jon & The Wreck

“How the fuck are we going to turn this into a song?” That’s the question Lou Barlow and John Davis have asked themselves since co-founding the Folk Implosion in the early 1990s.Beginning with improvised jams featuring Barlow on bass and Davis on drums, the duo develop their beat-driven pop collages from the ground up. It’s the process they used on their debut cassette,Walk Through This World with the Folk Implosion, and one they’ve returned to 30 years later on their spellbinding, self-referencing reunion,Walk Thru Me.

The Folk Implosion (beta)

Tickets are now available for PITCHSHIFTER at Rock City!

Pitchshifter

At this point, Myles Kennedy’s voice precedes him. Certainly, it courses through six chart-topping albums from gold-selling rock juggernaut Alter Bridge, three records with Slash and The Conspirators, two albums from The Mayfield Four, his 2018 solo debut Year of the Tiger, and guest appearances for everyone from Disturbed and Halestorm to Gov’t Mule, Sevendust, Mark Morton and Darryl “DMC” McDaniels. For as much as he remains renowned for his skyscraping timbre and earth-quaking bluesy wail, his musicianship also encompasses eloquent songcraft, thoughtful cinematic arrangements, and, of course, dynamic guitar fireworks as explosive as his astounding vocal range. That brings us to his second full-length solo album, The Ides Of March [Napalm Records]. These eleven tracks follow all of his muses into a pastiche of distorted rock ‘n’ roll frenzy, Memphis Delta-soaked blues catharsis, soul ponderances, and even dalliances into country.

Myles Kennedy

Grammy-award nominated heavy rock outfit Baroness mark their much-anticipated return with new album, STONE. Their sixth record overall and third released via Abraxan Hymns, STONE finds the Philadelphia-based quartet of John Baizley (guitars/vocals/illustration), Gina Gleason (guitars), Nick Jost (bass), and Sebastian Thomson (drums) streamlining the momentous multi-genre vocabulary of its critically-acclaimed predecessor Gold & Grey (2019). This is still very much Baroness—just refocused for efficiency and rethought as a consequence of stability. STONE’s most prominent tracks, “Last Word,” “Beneath the Rose,” “Shine,” and “Anodyne,” reflect thoughtfully, groove deeply, and refract tumult effortlessly. They, of course, rock.

Baroness & Graveyard

TANGKis the righteous and vibrant fifth album from madcap truth-seekers, IDLES. Pronounced“tank” with a whiff of the “g”-an onomatopoeic reference to the lashing way the band imaginedtheir guitars sounding that has since grown into a sigil for living in love-the record is the band’smost ambitious and striking work yet. Where IDLES were once set on taking the world’s piss,squaring off with strong jaws against the perennially entitled, and exercising personal trauma inreal time, they have arrived in thisnew act to offer the fruits of such perseverance: love, joy, andindeed gratitude for the mere opportunity of existence.A radical sense of defiant empowerment radiates fromTANGK, co-produced by Nigel Godrich,IDLES guitarist Mark Bowen, and Kenny Beats. Despite his reputation as an incendiary post-punk sparkplug, frontman Joe Talbotsingsalmost all the feelings inside these 10 songs withhard-earned soul, offering each lusty vow or solidarity plea as a bona fide pop song—that is, athing for everyone to pass around and share, communal anthems intended for overcoming ourgrievance. Lead single “Dancer” stands as the throbbing and scuzzy highlight at the album’scenter-rattling bass and ricocheting guitar giving Talbot space to talk about sweat and sexonthe dancefloor. (You will spy LCD Soundsystem’s James Murphy and Nancy Whang here, too,singing.) It is lascivious and playful and positive, the ecstatic sound of at least a temporary fix. Inthe improvised hook, Talbot offers IDLES’ essential new mantra: “I give myself to you/As longas you move on the floor.”He is singing about the rapture of a new relationship, but he is also singing about the specialdynamic between IDLES and their fans, or IDLES and the world at large. This is a band’s vow tokeep lifting and fighting for themselves and their listeners, to keep offering the grim persistenceof joy and hope and love and wonder as long as that’s what anyone needs to survive. It is a lovesong the same way thatTANGKis a love album—open to anyone who requires something toshout out loud in order to fend off any encroaching sense of the void, now or forever.

Idles: Love Is The Fing Tour

Having made their debut with the Mercury Prize-nominated Stars Of CCTV in 2005, the four-piece proved progressive yet accessible. As with its tales of high street life, club-driven weekends. Also keeping your head above water on the breadline, the album yielded five Top 40 singles.

Hard-fi

Massive Wagons, the UK rock powerhouse, formed in 2009 through sheer small town boredom and an appetite for loud and live music.

Massive Wagons

Tickets are now available for CONFIDENCE MAN at Rock City!

Confidence Man

Tickets are now available for EMBRACE at Rock City!

Embrace

2023 saw Kneecap play triumphant sold-out shows at London’s Electric Ballroom, two shows at Dublin’s 3Olympia Theatre and headline a US tour which culminated with a sold-out show at New York’s Bowery Ballroom. In the summer the Irish rap trio signed to revered independent record label Heavenly Recordings and announced details of their Toddla T produced debut single for Heavenly Recordings, ‘Better Way To Live’ which is a collaboration with Fontaines D.C. ‘s superconductor frontman Grian Chatten, who brings a louche and ruffled charm to Kneecap’s relentless and addictive bounce. The band kick-started the new year with the world premiere of ‘KNEECAP’ the feature film at this year’s Sundance Film Festival’s opening night on Thursday 18th January. ‘The Kneecap biopic film’ is written and directed by Rich Peppiatt (‘One Rogue Reporter’) and stars Michael Fassbender. The trio head back to the US this spring for SXSW and a headline tour as well as playing festivals across the UK and Europe. With news of their Toddla T produced album imminent… “2024 has Kneecap’s name on it..” – The Metro –

Kneecap

The SoCal alt-metal foursome Alien Ant Farm formed in 1996 with the raging singer/songwriter Dryden Mitchell, guitarist Terry Corso, bassist Tye Zamora, and drummer Mike Cosgrove. All were bored with their day jobs and sought something else to break them from corporate norms. Music allowed them to freely express themselves, and a friendship was born. They independently released their quirky debut, Greatest Hits, toward the end of the ’90s and soon enough noise surrounded the band. It won the award for Best Independent Album at the 1999 L.A. Music Awards and Alien Ant Farm found themselves striking a deal with Papa Roach’s New Noize, which is partners with DreamWorks.

Alien Ant Farm & CKY

Tickets are now available for GOAT at Rock City!

GOAT

With 70+ sold-out shows so far in the US and by overwhelming demand, They Might Be Giants is extending this most popular “Evening with” performance of their breakthrough album Flood in its entirety into the United Kingdom. How will Flood be presented? Hard to say, as the show evolves every night, but needless to say, this is a once-in-a-lifetime tour.

They Might Be Giants: Flood, BOOK and Beyond

Forget the hurt, it’s been 35 years of pure joy for Lightning Seeds, one of the country’s best loved bands. And to celebrate, they have announced a massive 17 date UK tour and a lovingly put together 20 track greatest hits album ‘Tomorrow’s Here Today: 35 Years of Lightning Seeds’, out October 4th 2024.

Lightning Seeds

When most bands get round to releasing album number five their sound, weighed down by expectation or having resorted to formula, has generally ossified. It might still sound good and fans will probably lap it up, but the days of adventure and exploration are quite often long gone.

Warmduscher

CASISDEAD might not live in our world, but his music reflects its seedy underbelly. His debut album Famous Last Words is a fully realised expansion of the dystopian futurism that has captivated audiences since he first announced himself in 2013. Over the past decade, he’s dipped in and out of the shadows, blessing fans with cult hits while maintaining his anonymity, shunning media attention and donning various masks; a rejection of the spotlight that’s helped to create folklore around a rapper who’s widely regarded as one of the UK’s most inventive lyricists.

Casisdead

Formed in 1997, Chicago Heavy Rock band SOiL quickly took the scene by storm. The band has sold over 2 million albums worldwide and is best known for the hit singles “Halo”, “Unreal”, “Redefine”, “TheLesserMan”, and “Shine On”.

SOIL

For Northern Ireland-originating rockers Therapy? resilience and survival have become watchwords.

Therapy?

WEDNESDAY 13 and his current band–which features former MURDERDOLLS alumni Roman Surman and Jack Tankersley–will be performing a full set of MURDERDOLLS songs, taken from the band’s celebrated 2002 debut album, ‘Beyond The Valley Of The Murderdolls’ and their triumphant 2010 return, ‘Women And Children Last’, which won them the RevolverGolden Gods Comeback Of The Year’ Award.

WEDNESDAY 13 performing MURDERDOLLS

Tickets are now available for BOB VYLAN at Rock City!

Bob Vylan

Belched from Hell’s depths onto the piss-stained concrete of Suffolk thirty long and disturbing years ago, Cradle Of Filth are undisputed giants of the heavy metal realm. Imperious purveyors of a perennially unique strain of dark, dastardly and wilfully extreme metal, with deep roots in the worlds of gothic horror and occult curiosity, the band led by Dani Filth has weathered three decades of tumult and trial, earning a formidable reputation as both a singular creative force and one of the most riotously entertaining live bands the metal world has ever produced.

Cradle Of Filth

Before Mötley Crüe, before RATT, even before there was a Metallica, Y&T was slogging away in sweaty rock clubs around America. When the band formed in the early 1970s, little did they know they would set the standard for hard rock bands that trailed. Many of the biggest acts of the ’80s became popular opening for headliners Y&T—and cut their teeth on the band, as evidenced by the Y&T mentions in tell-all books by acts such as Metallica and Mötley Crüe.

Y&t – 50 Year Anniversary

Tickets are now available to see ROYAL REPUBLIC at Rock City!

Royal Republic

SOFT PLAY are the British punk duo made up of Laurie Vincent and Isaac Holman. After being on hiatus for several years, the band, formerly known as SLAVES, have reignited their partnership under a new moniker, and have been back on the road with The Prodigy marking the band’s much anticipated return to the live arena.

Softplay

Tickets are now available for GORILLA RIOT at Rock City Beta!

Gorilla Riot (beta)

Formed in 1992 from the ashes of The La’s and Shack, Cast have become one of the most celebrated guitar bands in the UK with ten top 10 singles.

CAST

Lacuna Coil

Blossoms

Public Service Broadcasting have been “teaching the lessons of the past through the music of the future” for over a decade. 2013’s debut album Inform – Educate – Entertain used archival samples from the British Film Institute as audio-portals to the Battle Of Britain, the summit of Everest and beyond. Two years later, The Race For Space used similar methods to laud the superpowers’ rivalry and heroism in orbit and on the Moon. In 2017, they were joined by voices including Manic Street Preachers’ James Dean Bradfield for Every Valley.

Public Service Broadcasting

Tickets are now available for THE LIBERTINES at Rock City!

The Libertines

Tickets are now available for CARAVAN PALACE at Rock City!

Caravan Palace

With perfect party music, personally curated by Jon McClure of Reverend and the Makers and Vicky McClure, Jonny Owen and the gang, we guarantee it’ll be another afternoon of no holds barred party times!

Dayfever

“It still amazes me how enjoyable it is to play the Substance LPs. The contrast between Joy Division and New Order is very apparent but both complement each other very well. My only frustration is not being able to play more of our records each night. I am totally looking forward to the next phase. So, let’s enjoy some Substance and get ready for the future. Lots of love, Hooky.” [PETER HOOK]

Peter Hook & The Light

Tickets are now available for STARSET – IMMERSION: THE FINAL CHAPTER at Rock City!

Starset – Immersion: The Final Chapter

We’re very excited to announce that Sammy Virji will be coming to perform at Rock City, as part of his ‘Isn’t It’ UK tour!

Sammy Virji ‘isn’t It Uk Tour’

Bongo’s Bingo

Punk Rock Factory

Over the course of her career as an award-winning artist,singer/songwriter/guitarist Samantha Fish has brought extraordinary power to her self-expression, capturing her inner world in combustible riffs, visceral rhythms, and spine-tingling vocal work. On her new album Faster, she joins forces with super producer Martin Kierszenbaum (Lady Gaga, Sting) and imbues even more intensity into her electrifying brand of blues/rock-and-roll. With Fish accompanied by legendary drummer Josh Freese (Guns N’ Roses, Nine Inch Nails, The Replacements) and bassist Diego Navaira of The Last Bandoleros, the result is a singular body of work both irresistibly galvanizing and emotionally raw.

Samantha Fish

Originally hailing from Dingley in Melbourne, Australia, Jet quickly conquered the world after forming in 2001, selling more than 6.5 million albums globally and securing almost 10 x Platinum certification in Australia and Platinum in the USA and UK for their 2003 debut album “Get Born”. The album produced a string of classic singles in “Are You Gonna Be My Girl”, “Rollover DJ”, and “Look What You’ve Done” and netted the band 6 x 2004 ARIA awards. Both “Are You Gonna Be My Girl” and “Cold Hard Bitch” peaked at number 1 on the US Modern Rock singles charts and propelled the band to the top of festival bills and charts around the world.

They say that good things come to those who wait. A little over two years after their launch, you could say that Cardinal Black are testament to the power of patience, thought and persistence.

Cardinal Black

Louis Dunford

“Feeling naked, dressed up head to toe/It’s been a while since I’ve been this vulnerable,” sings Heather Baron-Gracie – of the British alt-rock four-piece Pale Waves (Heather, Ciara Doran, Hugo Silvani, Charlie Wood) on “Seeing Stars”, a gorgeously melodic slice of dream-pop about opening yourself up to love, heartbreak and self-discovery. In many ways, the se are the themes that define their fourth album Smitten: vulnerability, love, sexuality, queerness, finding yourself, moving on, growing up. “I was reading a lot of sapphic poetry and queer films and just being ultra queer,” Heather says today. “I feel like that unlocked a lot of my past experiences with women that have been in my life, that I’ve been in relationships with and that I’ve been in love with.”  While Pale Waves’ first three albums focussed on the band’s immediate present, Smitten is a lot more preoccupied with past lives – some more recent than others. Written two years after Unwanted, and after the tour that followed, Heather found herself in a head space where she could finally breathe, and reflect, like peeling through the pages of along -forgotten teenage diary and being surprised by what she found. “I found myself writing about not just a certain time period, but my whole life, from years ago,” she says. “WhenI fall in love, I fall deep, and it’s interesting to me that you can feel so fascinated and smitten with someone and then they can become a total stranger. So I feel like Smitten really summarised perfectly what I felt for others at a certain point.” So much of Smitten captures the excitement and euphoria of early queer relationships; some of which come alongside confusion and pain. On lead single “Perfume”, an infectious 1980s -leaning anthem reminiscent of bands like The Cure and The Cranberries, Heather sings about being totally enamoured with a person: “My mother says that when I want something I never let it go/Call me obsessed but I don’t mind just as long as it’s all mine.”

Pale Waves

Apocalyptica are thrilled to announce a massive tour in support of the follow-up to their legendary debut record. PLAYS METALLICA VOL. 2 TOUR will continue the journey that began in 1996 when cellists from Helsinki’s world-renowned Sibelius Academy played symphonic tribute to the biggest of the big four – heavy metal titans Metallica. Countless shows later, the classically-minded dynamos are returning to their roots to bring a legendary story full circle.

Apocalyptica Plays Metallica Vol. 2 Tour 2024

Debut album Cub has taken on a life of its own in the 18 months since release, with sprawling, psychedelic numbers and sharp grunge refrains alike igniting Wunderhorse’s ever-growing audience. Cub’s campaign and the months following have seen the four-piece graduate from playing in basements and pubs to filling Glastonbury’s Woodsies tent and selling out Kentish Town’s O2 Forum months in advance.

Wunderhorse

From serenading the dimly-lit corners of East London pubs to Courting interest from several major record labels, agents, promoters & publishers in a few short months, The Last Dinner Party have burst forth gloriously into the guitar music renaissance.

The Last Dinner Party

Sea Girls release the brand new album `Midnight Butterflies’ in June. It’s focused melodic joy and pop perfection in twelve parts. It’s the confident sound of a band arriving at their peak. Sea Girls creatively are utterly rejuvenated on this record, a true artistic statement.

Sea Girls

The Struts have been a live sensation since they first erupted onto the scene with their certified Platinum anthem, “Could’ve Been Me,” taking the No. 5 spot on Alternative Radio and introducing the world to their triumphant, timeless rock sound. Following the release of their critically-acclaimed debut, 2016’s Everybody Wants, the British rockers set out on the road, bringing their energetic tracks alive on stage with larger-than- life performances and cementing their reputation as a must-see live act. Lead vocalist Luke Spiller, guitarist Adam Slack, bassist Jed Elliott, and drummer Gethin Davies have continued to prove themselves worthy of that distinction since first coming together in Derby, England back in 2012. They’ve opened for the likes of The Rolling Stones, Foo Fighters, and Guns N’ Roses, while selling out shows across the globe and leaving a trail of unbridled rock collections, including 2018’s Young & Dangerous and 2020’s Strange Days, in their wake. Their on-stage prowess and perpetual musicality have allowed them to reach the No. 1 Spot on Spotify’s Viral Top 50, garner more than 850M on-demand streams, and put them in the studio collaborating with Kesha, Tom Morello, Robbie Williams, Def Leppard and more. Now, The Struts have taken the raucous nature of their live shows and transmuted it into an album, fusing their arena-sized energy into their most concentrated and exciting songs to date. “This record showcases each individual member’s strengths,” Spiller says of their fourth album, Pretty Vicious and first full-length release on Big Machine/John Varvatos. “It’s some of my favorite music, hands down, we’ve ever conjured up. It’s the record everyone’s been waiting for.”

The Struts & Barns Courtney

 A National Treasure and Glam Rock Royalty who have taken the world by storm for six decades.

SWEET

Tickets are now available to see New Model Army at Rock City!

New Model Army

Fronted by vocalist Buster Bloodvessel, Bad Manners are the best in British ska, outrageous and enigmatic they are known for their crazy antics and two-tone tracks. Rising to prominence during the late ‘70s ska revival movement, they quickly gained early exposure through 2-Tone Records package tours and an appearance in the live documentary Dance Craze. Securing themselves a string of UK hits including “Ne-Ne Na-Na Na-Na Nu-Nu”, “Lip Up Fatty”, “Special Brew” and “Can Can”, they remain as one of the country’s best loved live acts!

Bad Manners

Tickets are now available for THANKS FOR THE MEMORIES at Rock City!

Thanks For The Memories

In the little over a decade since Neck Deep formed in the Barlow brothers’ spare room in Wrexham, Wales, a lot has changed. From the scrappy, naively hopeful beginnings that define the starting of so many teenage bands, the pop-punks have gone on to be one of British Rock music’s most successful global exports in recent memory: top 5 records in both the US and UK, global touring, viral hits and over a billion streams just some of the fruits of ten years spent mastering their craft.But now, as the band stand on the brink of their fifth, self-titled LP, there’s an acknowledgement that the more things change, the more–in some ways at least–they stay the same.“This album is the sound of us knowing ourselves and knowing our ability,” explains frontman and youngest Barlow sibling Ben. “It’s unapologetically us. We’re professional songwriters now and we’ve really honed in on what we’re good at–but it’s also about having fun and enjoying writing these tracks. And there are those little sonic signatures in the mix that even I can’t really put my finger on that just make it Neck Deep. It happens when we get in a room together and it clicks-it’s us just doing our thing like we always have.”For this record, the band, completed by Ben’s older brother and bassist Seb, guitarists Matt West and SamBowden and drummer Matt Powles, took ‘doing their own thing’–and only their own thing–to the next level. Eschewing a keen list of collaborators and producers eager to work with one of rock’s hottest properties and choosing, instead, to write and record in their own warehouse space, mere miles from where they grew up. Old school, just like it used to be.“It was all us,” smiles Barlow. “There have been no compromises and that’s the way we like to do things these days. At this stage in our career it’s what we needed to give ourselves the freedom to make the exact album we wanted to make. It was hard at times, but it also meant we talked a lot internally and got really clear about what we really wanted this album to sound like-what we really do best.”True enough, this collection encompasses everything the Walians have excelled at across their career, enhanced and dialed to eleven. From the bouncing bombast of Dumbstruck, Dumbf**k and Sort Yourself Out’s ripping intensity, to the poetic introspection of They Don’t Mean To (But They Do) and sun-down-at-a-festival singalong of It Won’t Be Like This Forever, it’s an LP that boasts a song for almost any occasion(including, in recent single Take Me With You, the impending alien invasion).“I think it’s one of my favourite songs we’ve ever written,” extolls Barlow when asked about It Won’t BeLike This, the track the band have chosen, amongst stiff competition, as the lead single for the album. “It’s a tune that has a wide appeal. That song is a real arm round the shoulder to the listener from us, the song writers. That’s the thing about our band, we can write these fun songs but when we touch on something emotional it normally works because it tends to be these quite universal emotions that everyone can relate to.I’m really proud of that.”And perhaps it’s that metaphor of the arm round the shoulder of the audience, more than anything, which sums up where Neck Deep find themselves ten years into their career. “We want to do this forever,” nodsBarlow. “And there are fans out there who have given so much to us in the last decade. I’ve always said I hope Neck Deep can help get people through some of their worst times and be the soundtrack to some of their best times. If this music can reach someone a thousand miles away and get them out of a funk they’re in, then that’s what it’s all about for us.”“We don’t need to be models,” finishes Ben. “We don’t need to be fashion icons, we don’t even need to be political commentators. We just need to be the soundtrack to people’s best and worst times.”And as they move into this new era, Neck Deep look set to be nothing short of just that for a growing army of fans.

Neck Deep

Tickets are now available for THE BRIAN JONESTOWN MASSACRE at Rock City!

The Brian Jonestown Massacre

Hailing from Luton, Myles Smith has carved out a niche for himself in the music industry with his unique blend of folk, americana and pop influences. A virtuoso guitarist since the age of nine, Myles has garnered acclaim for his DIY approach and genuine connection with his audience. His previous releases, including hits ‘Solo’ and ‘My Home,’ have solidified his position as a rising star in the music world.

Myles Smith

Tickets are now available for THE FUTUREHEADS at Rock City!

The Futureheads

After a long and successful career, UK rock royalty, You Me At Six, have announce their split. Frontman Josh Franceschi says “When we started YMAS we were kids. We only ever wanted longevity, to travel and to experience life as a group of friends. We feel like on the eve of our 20th anniversary as a band, now is a good time to call time.We’re in a fortunate position where our fans still want to see us live and come celebrate the life of this band. So that is what we will do for 2024 and 2025. We can’t wait to see our fans on the road”Over a career that spans 20 Years, You Me At Six have had some amazing career highs including two Number One albums, world tours, streams that recently topped over a billion worldwide and faces that have graced the covers of magazines across the globe.The band will embark on a 2025 farewell world tour, to say goodbye to fans, kicking off with SlamDunk for their last ever festival appearance.

You Me At Six

“Nominating a tour as a ‘farewell tour’ has a certain amount of gravitas,” commented FISH on the announcement of the European shows, “and I’m so glad that I have managed to bring together a ‘best of’ line up of musicians from across my live career to come out on the bus with me on my final sortie out on the road. They’re not just highly talented musicians but old friends and co-writers of some of the finest songs I’ve released in the 35 years as a solo artist.

Fish Farewell Tour

Airbourneis a hard rock band hailing from Warrnambool in regional Victoria,Australia. Formed in 2003 by brothers Joel and Ryan O’Keeffe, the band has carvedout a distinctive niche in the rock music scene with their high-energy performancesand no-nonsense rock ‘n’ roll sound. The line-up is rounded out by Justin Street onbass and backing vocals, and Jarrad Morrice on rhythm guitar.2007 saw band punch into the scene with the debut album,Runnin’ Wild, havingbeen certified Silver in the UK, and charted in the top 30 of the ARIA Albums charts,appeared on the US Billboard 200; UK, France, Austria, and Switzerland Albumschart. Their second album,No Guts. No Glory.came out in March 2010 andreached top 20 in Australia, Austria, New Zealand, Finland, Greece, Sweden, andSwitzerland, as well as going in at #31 in the UK and Top 100 of the US Billboard200. Continuing their legendary impact, the third studio album,Black Dog Barking(2013) and peaked at #17 in Australia and came in top 20 in Austria, Finland,Germany, New Zealand, Sweden, and Switzerland, as well as top 100 in the UK,Spain, Norway, and France. In October 2016, Airbourne released their fourth album,Breakin’ Outta Hell, which peaked top 5 in Austria, Germany, and Switzerland; #9 inthe UK; and top 20in Australia.

Airbourne

Tickets are now available to see HALINA RICE IMMERSIVE LIVE SET & AV at Rock City!

Halina Rice Immersive Live Set & Av

As RØRY turns 40, she’s not just celebrating a milestone she once thought she’d never reach—she’s at the height of her creative powers. Recently crowned“Best UKBreakthrough Artist”at the Heavy Music Awards, she’s shattering every industry expectation and proving it’s never too late.Since the release of her debut EP GOOD DIE YOUNG in 2022, RØRY has amassed over30 million streams, built a fan base of over 1 million, and sold out two UK tours. Backed by heavyweights like Kerrang!, Rock Sound, and BBC Radio 1, she’s proving that authenticity and raw storytelling resonate on a massive scale.As the leader of the #37club, RØRY is determined to make recovery as iconic as the tragic #27club. She writes for those who’ve been told they’re too old, too broken, or too late to chase their dreams. Her explosive sets at Download and Slam Dunk 2024 left tents overflowing with fans hungry for more.Now gearing up for her biggest UK tour to date, RØRY is set to take the stage at iconic venues, including London’s Kentish Town Forum, to celebrate her highly anticipated debut album RESTORATION, due for release in early 2025. With her fearless energy and deeply personal lyrics, this tour promises to be a defining moment for both her and her fans, cementing her place as an icon in the alternative music scene.

RØRY

The Dead South have never been about constant reinvention, but about full commitment to their own singular way. With confidence in their sound and style and trust in each other, The Dead South arrive at the cusp of explosive global success in an enviable, and well-earned, position: total autonomy. It doesn’t really matter what you call their music – progressive bluegrass, alternative Americana, country, folk and western, what matters is that this is theirs, and people from all different backgrounds, beliefs, experiences, languages and ages love it.

The Dead South

Tickets are now available to see THE MARY WALLOPERS at Rock City!

The Mary Wallopers

The Dualers are a 9-piece Jamaican Rhythm & Blues band from SouthEast London. They first hit the headlines when the single ‘Kiss on the Lips’ entered in to the UK charts at number 21 despite no industry or professional backing, the follow up single Truly Madly featured in full on the Hollywood blockbuster Fools Gold, the success has continued with 2 top 30 UK albums, their 2nd number 2 in the independent album charts and large scale tours, which have included prestigious venues such as Wembley Arena, Manchester Apollo and a record breaking 14 sold out shows at Indigo at the O2. With an ever increasing large worldwide fan base behind them and now being heralded as Britain’s finest Ska & Reggae band, The Dualers continue to play to sell-out crowds all over the UK, Europe & Asia. 2025 will see the Dualers back out on a big UK tour featuring new tracks from their upcoming Beach Life album.

The Dualers

“The Waterboys live for the experience of playing, of feeling our music evolve and grow with each consecutive concert. Nothing makes us happier than seeing a long list of dates like these. How will the music change? What will happen that’s never happened before? How much fun and thrills can we and the audiences have? Come and join us!” – Mike Scott

The Waterboys

Tickets are now available for SUPERGRASS at Rock City!

Supergrass

AC/DC, arguably the greatest rock band of all time, are brought to life by Live/Wire with the true passion you would expect from professional musicians who share your love of this legendary live act. They deliver a critically acclaimed High Voltage two hour rock ’n’ roll set with not only cannons and a full bank of Marshall amps but a journey that takes fans from one of the best-selling albums of all time ‘Back in Black’ through to the 2020 release ‘PWR UP’, with a healthy dose of the classics from the Bon Scott era.

Live/wire

Lead Vocalist / Guitarist Ricky Warwick: “Well what can we say … we wanted to see how the reaction was to the band reforming before deciding anything going forward and the fans last week made it a no brainer for us … we had to play more shows! So here we are announcing two years worth of shows at once, small runs to keep it special, ending at hallowed ground each for our “annual” St. Andrews Day Party! A HUGE THANK YOU to everyone who turned out in force to see us this year so on behalf of Stumpy, Floyd, Tantrum and myself, we are very honoured and proud everyone stuck with us and blew the roof off everynight … see you next year!”

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