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The Blackout | Music Photography

By Dave Piper | February 1, 2010 - 5:29 pm | Music Events, News Leave a comment

There is a little list I have at home, Its my ‘Bands to shoot in 2010′ list. Somewhere near the top of the list was THE BLACKOUT.

Two things are important here, It was crazy crazy night and thank you to the people who help it be so. Just trying to get out the back of the venue was funny enough, nevermind some funky shapes be thrown down on the dance floor. The second thing was the great music. ALL TIME LOW were the OUTSTANDING head liners tonight. My Passion and the Young Guns were there to warm up the crowd.

THE BLACKOUT are another prime example of the Welsh brand of Metal, The Blackout offer up the Post-Hardcore serving. All signs are set for stardom following the greats as Avenged Sevenfold, Bullet for my Valentine, Skindred and Lostprophets t just name a few. This band are really that good. I am not sure what they put in the water down there, but its working.

http://www.theblackout.bigcartel.com/

http://www.myspace.com/theblackout

Make sure you put SAVE OUR SELVES - The best in town , On first.

Pull No Punches (EP) (2004)
The Blackout! The Blackout! The Blackout! (Mini-LP) (2006)
We Are The Dynamite! (2007)
The Best In Town (2009)

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Enter Shikari | Music Photography

By Dave Piper | October 15, 2009 - 4:05 pm | Music Events Leave a comment

Birminghams Brand new 02 Academy play host to Enter Shikari, Devil wears prada supporting.

Enter Shikari are a four-piece post-hardcore band from St Albans, Hertfordshire, England formed in 2003. Inspired by hardcore (in both punk-rock and dance genres), metal and trance.

Despite being offered several major label record deals, their debut album Take To The Skies was released on their own label – Ambush Reality – in March 2007, reaching the dizzy heights of #4 in the UK’s official Album Charts and going on to sell over 100.000 copies in the UK (the album was released in Europe through PIAS, in North America on Ambush Reality / Tiny Evil, and in Japan on Hostess).

In March 2008, after spending 12 months on the road across the globe, Enter Shikari set up camp in their rehearsal room (a large shed in Chris Batten’s back garden which they christened “The ‘Low”) to begin writing tracks for their second album such as Antwerpen which was released as a free digital-download from the band’s website.

In July they played to their largest live audience at the UK date of Linkin Park’s ‘Project Revolution’ travelling festival alongside JayZ, Pendulum and N*E*R*D, as well as playing several shows with Linkin Park in mainland Europe.

Enter Shikari followed a UK / Ireland tour in October 2008 with the release of a one-off single ‘We Can Breathe In Space, They Just Don’t Want Us To Escape’ (a finished version of a track the band demoed in 2005 but never got around to ever finishing properly until the summer 2008). — last fm.

Link to the bands website