| A band a day were announced over 7 days, and the bands and announcement partners are: ’68 (with Upset Magazine), Heilung (with Louder), Pupil Slicer (with Rock Sound), Tokky Horror (with Distorted Sound), Birds In Row (with Knotfest), The World Is A Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid To Die (with Punktastic) and Converge (with Kerrang!) Other acts already announced include Deafheaven (playing ‘Sunbather’ in full as a UK exclusive), The Fall Of Troy, Cave In, Igorrr, Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs, Elder, Russian Circles, Svalbard, Jaga Jazzist and many moreATG dates are 16th/17th/18th/19th August 2023 Ticket link – HERE |
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| Following on from the last weeks ARCTANGENT Festival 2023 annual ‘Advent Calendar’, where one band a day were announced on a different media platform each day, we can now announce all bands in full from the announcement.So, the bands and announcement partners are: American noise duo from Atlanta Georgia ’68 (with Upset Magazine), a main stage headliner in Heilung, the phenomenal experimental folk band with members from Denmark, Germany and Norway (with Louder) and London 3 piece (and one of the finest heavy bands in the UK right now) Pupil Slicer (with Rock Sound). Also announced are punk collective Tokky Horror (with Distorted Sound), French hardcore band par excellence Birds In Row (with Knotfest), Connecticut progressive indie rock band The World Is A Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid To Die (with Punktastic) and another main stage headliner, returning legends and one of the greatest bands in the world, Converge (with Kerrang!).Festival organiser James Scarlett, on this latest announcement – “I’m so excited to have Heilung headlining the Friday Main Stage at ATG. I honestly believe it could end up as the best headline set we’ve ever had. They bring an absolutely incredible live show the likes of which ATG has never seen before – there are warriors, there is fire and there is absolutely extraordinary music. Get involved! Oh yeah and oh my god it’s Converge too!”The festival has already announced a host of incredible bands including Deafheaven (performing ‘Sunbather’ in full as a UK exclusive), The Fall Of Troy, Cave In, Igorrr, Pigs7, Russian Circles, Svalbard and more. They have also announced a handful of bands for the Wednesday (4 day ticket holders only have access to this day), which include Scalping and Conjurer. The FULL list of bands currently announced are (new additions in bold): Heilung / Converge / Igorrr / Deafheaven / Jaga Jazzist / Pigs*7 / And So I Watch You From Afar / Loathe / Cave In / Russian Circles / The Ocean / Elder / Brutus / The Fall of Troy / VOLA / Scalping* / The World Is A Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid To Die / Svalbard / Liturgy / Holy Fawn / Conjurer / Wiegedood / LLNN / Birds in Row / Pupil Slicer* / ‘68 /Attan / Barrens / Bear / Bicurious* / Bones of Minerva / BRIQUEVILLE / The Callous Daoboys / Catbamboo / Cobra the Impaler / Curse These Metal Hands / Domkraft / DVNE* / Five the Hierophant* / Helpless / Herod / Hidden Mothers / Hippotraktor* / The K. / La Bestia de Gevaudan / Lack the Low / Land Wars / Lawi Anywar / LLNN / Madmess / The Most / Mountain Caller / Ogives Big Band* / OHHMS / Parachute For Gordo / Playgrounded / Psychonaut / Quietly / Satyr / Skin Failure* / Spook The Horses / Straight Girl* / Sugar Horse / Standards / TANKENGINE / Tokky Horror / tortuganónima / Unprocessed / Wess Meets West / Year Of No Light / Youthmovies* Wednesday Only – 4 Day Ticket required Ticket Link for ArcTanGent 2023 is – HERE ———————————————– A little bit about ATG The award winning Arctangent Festival is a green fields music festival that delivers line-ups you won’t find anywhere else on Earth. Arctangent Festival has built a reputation for itself as THE emerging UK rock festival, both putting on exclusive performances from exceptional, worldwide artists and supporting new, exciting talent. Arctangent Festival is a fully independent festival that grows organically year on yearPrevious acts include headliners Opeth, Messhugah, Coheed and Cambria and Battles, as well as the likes of Shellac, Converge, Glassjaw, Explosions In The Sky, Russian Circles, Nordic Giants, Mono, Tesseract, American Football, The Dillinger Escape Plan, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Carpenter Brut, Deafheaven, La Dispute, And So I Watch You From Afar, Animals As Leaders, Cult of Luna, Deerhoof, This Will Destroy You, 65daysofstatic, Zeal & Ardour, Ho99o9, Daughters, Pigs7, Brutus, F**k Buttons, Fronterier, Black Peaks, Pupil Slicer, Ithaca, Car Bomb, Rolo Tomassi, Arcane Roots, Employed To Serve and many more. ———————————————– Best Small Festival winner at the UK Festival Awards 2018, Arctangent Festival ———————————————– |
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Role: Photographer / Reviewer / Interviewer
Chief, the one that bugs the team for team for their reviews and images. Creator and founder of The Bristol Gig Guide. Can usually be found swamped in admin or getting cramp kneeling at the front of a gig.
Available for: Gig Shoots, Gig Reviews, Photo Shoots, Album and Single cover shoots, Videography work, Interviews and Touring
First attended gig: Republica, circa 1996.
First gig shot: Hands Off Gretel, at The Louisiana!
Dream gig: Huge metalhead and my ultimate dream gig would be shooting my heroes Slipknot at a huge stadium gig, or as festival headliners. And to experience shooting a headline tour outside the UK
