Category: News
FESTIVAL NEWS: HELLFEST ANNOUNCES MOST EPIC LINE-UP EVER!
Hellfest has staked its claim to becoming possibly the most epic heavy metal festival ever staged, with the announcement that it is to expand to SEVEN days and feature a mammoth 350 bands across six stages when it returns to action next summer.
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BREAKING NEWS: Northern Ireland live music ban extended to 5 July
The Northern Ireland Executive today (Thursday 17 June) extended the ban on live music for a further two weeks, until 5 July.
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TOUR NEWS: Halestorm invite us to join ‘An Evening With…’ the band
ÜS hard rockers Halestorm have announced that they are to return to Europe for a string of shows next February and March.
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BREAKING NEWS: Lockdown delay will cost music venues a further £36 million
The halting of the Government’s roadmap, with the easing of lockdown restrictions in England now indicatively put back until 19 July, could cost the country’s live music business a further £36 million, according to the body that represents grassroots music venues.
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RIP Chuck Tolan
The Belfast music scene today (Friday 11 June) lost one of its most colourful and enduring characters, in the form of Chuck Tolan.
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RIP LORD ZION
The Über Rock family has been deeply saddened to learn of the death, last month, of rock ‘n’ roll didact Lord Zion.
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TOUR NEWS: Blind River announce April dates
Following on from their recent ‘socially-distanced’ tour with King Creature, rising UK rockers Blind River have just announced their next, full capacity run of dates for April 2022.
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TOUR NEWS: Svalbard announce November dates
In another sign that live touring is returning to some sort of pre-pandemic normality, Svalbard have announced that they will follow their appearance at the Damnation festival with a run of dates for this November, with fellow heavyweights CLTDRP and Heriot in tow.
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RIP RAB McCULLOUGH
The Über Rock team is devastated to learn of the death yesterday (Saturday 22 May) of one of Belfast’s greatest musical sons, and one of life’s true gentlemen, the blues guitarist Rab McCullough. He was 72 years old.
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ITALIAN ROCKERS STORM TO EUROVISION VICTORY
Italian alt-rockers Måneskin last night became the first group since Lordi to win the much-maligned Eurovision Song Contest, while Finnish “violent pop” upstarts Blind Channel made it a good night for rock music by finishing sixth in the competition.
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TOUR NEWS: The Suicide Notes prove they didn’t prefer it in lockdown by hitting the road
Glitter-trash rock ‘n’ rollers The Suicide Notes are to emerge from hiding with a series of dates, ironically billed as the ‘Preferred It In Lockdown’ tour.
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FESTIVAL NEWS: REBELLION ORGANIZERS SLAM GOVERNMENT INACTION TO SAVE EVENTS
Organizers of the Rebellion festival have issued one of the most hard-hitting indictments yet of the Government’s lack of support and guidance for large-scale independent music events.
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