Here Edge writers Natt Day and Tom Wingrave give a different approach to Takedown Festival. For those of you who are somehow unaware, the University of Southampton played host to Takedown Festival 2013, which saw the University transformed into a full blown music festival for the day. With a huge number of bands on the…
For those of you unaware, last year the University of Southampton played host to the Takedown festival, which transformed the university into a full blown music festival. With last year’s 4 stages hosting the likes of Skindred, Deaf Havana, Lower Than Atlantis, Bury Tomorrow and Bleed From Within, the festival successfully managed to bring the…
In addition to the already fantastic line-up of The Blackout, Don Broco, Mallory Knox, Arcane Roots, While She Sleeps and Max Raptor, Takedown Festival have announced that We Are The Ocean and Glamour Of The Kill will also be playing at this daylong event at the university. Tickets went on sale today as the highly recommended rock festival…
The rock festival returns to Southampton for another year featuring The Blackout and Don Broco
You probably haven’t heard of Redfest but you definitely should have! Returning for its 6th year, Redfest is one of the smallest festivals around and we were lucky enough to be invited along to review this 3 night event in Redhill, Surrey. With main stage highlights such as Modestep, Young Guns, Kids in Glass Houses,…
Prior to their summer festival dates, including a date at Redfest in Surrey, Simon Mitchell from Young Guns took time to chat to The Edge about life in the band and their recent album, Bones. What made you want to be in a band and who are your main inspirations? When I first saw Green…
Back for its sixth year, Redfest is a small festival which packs a punch! The festival was originally launched by Matt Nichols as a one day event with The Ordinary Boys headlining and support coming from Newton Faulkner, Laura Marling and The Silversun Pickups. The festival soon grew to a three day event and in the…
Having just returned from touring with Enter Shikari, playing 6 dates across the UK and previously playing across the UK on their ‘Bare Bones Club Tour’, Young Guns decided to add two more dates to both reconvene and conclude the tour. After collectively seeing them five times at venues varying from 250 to 2500 capacity, this…
Back after a one-year hiatus, the one-day rock and metal festival Takedown returned last month. This year it was hosted by the University of Southampton, and featured a bigger lineup than ever. This review focuses on the performances of the Monster Energy Stage (the main stage), which was located inside Garden Court (also known as…