Bloodstock may only be getting into its stride, but already details have been announced for next year’s 20th anniversary event, which will take place over the weekend of 6 – 9 August 2020.
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Just as they prepare to break new, potentially muddy, ground with their first ever appearance at Bloodstock, ÜR’s favourite reprobates, The Wildhearts, have announced that they are to release a new six-track EP, ‘Diagnosis’, in October.
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ÜR-approved Swedish metal maestros Grand Magus have confirmed a run of nine dates for next March.
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We have a cardinal rule here at Über Rock, which has remained unbroken for the decade we have been kickin’ rock ‘n’ roll ass… and that is that we do not – no, make that do NOT – do tribute acts. NO. NEVER. EVER. Now, Thobbe Englund is not a tribute act – he is, after all, a former guitarist with Swedish metal gods (and that’s a hint of what is to come) Sabaton, sensationally quitting the band between the recording and release of their 2016 album ‘The Last Stand’ to pursue a solo career. Now, however, he has released an album of Judas Priest covers…
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It’s hard to know where to start with reflecting on this particular gig, which came in the middle of a run of Irish dates by the French-born South African-raised feminist punk duo by the name of The SoapGirls. But we’ll leave aside the (perceived) confrontationalist attitude of the headliners and start with the promotion of the show – or rather, the distinct lack of it! From what I could see, outside of a few posters in the venue itself, and a Facebook event page which was merely posted when the gig was announced, with the scantest of information, and then never updated, zero effort had been putting into attracting a crowd. Perhaps it should have come as no surprise, therefore, that the numbers who did turn up were distinctly on the equally sparse side, with only a handful more than a dozen paying punters making the effort on this otherwise balmy Sunday evening.
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