Run to the hills! Or, more accurately, run to the box office! After weeks of teasing. Heavy metal legends, Iron Maiden have announced a huge headline show coming to Knebworth next summer! Following on from the announcement of the European leg of the bands massive Run For Your Lives tour. Bruce Dickinson & Co are…
Ahhhh, Download middle Saturday. The time when everyone is nicely settled in. Middle Saturday at Download 2025 has a very eclectic feeling. In fact, we put it to Download’s Senior Promoter Kamran Haq that it just might be the most eclectic main stage line up a day at the festival has ever had! Following on…
Having just celebrated Record Store Day 2025 (see our recommended best release pick up’s for that on this post), the Download Festival team have another glut of announcements for everyone! This includes the full District X programme – but more on that later! The one that ties in most closely to RSD 2025 is the…
Rock Sins ventures to Shepherd’s Bush Empire to see The Darkness on their penultimate date of the 22 date UK tour. With initial trepidation after hearing the news of Massive Wagons pulling out of the London dates due to someone in their camp contracting the dreaded C word, we wouldn’t be surprised with the dates…
You know it’s almost Christmas when The Darkness are on tour and like the best Christmas present, they’re the gift that keeps on giving. If you’ve even seen them live, you’ll know exactly what we mean when we say they put on one hell of a show, and if you haven’t seen them before, you’re…
A bumper announcement from the Download Festival team about Download Festival 2022 this morning! A mixture of bands from the cancelled 2020 and 2021 lineups, along with some fresh faces have given us all plenty to look forward to in June 2022. Confirmed alongside headliners KISS, Iron Maiden and Biffy Clyro for the main stage…
The Download Festival team have pulled out all the stops for a mega first announcement of Download 2021! As promised by festival booker Andy Copping, the bulk of the 2020 lineup has re-joined the party for 2021, but with some interesting new additions and replacements for those who couldn’t rejoin from 2020. Headliners KISS (on…
East Anglia’s favourite rockers The Darkness burst back onto the live scene at the end of 2019, in support of their latest album Easter Is Cancelled, and we sent along our photographer Daniel Ackerley-Holmes to capture all the shenanigans at their Cambridge date on Friday 6th December. The band played a very special 2 part…
The Darkness are back! Lowestoft’s mightiest rock heroes have this morning announced their brand new album, Easter Is Cancelled, will be released on the 4th of October 2019 through Cooking Vinyl. The news of the album was unveiled in this quite brilliant video, featuring The Darkness’s main man Justin Hawkins in his typically effervescent style….
Goofball glam rockers The Darkness have unveiled plans for a new album and massive UK tour. The band, led by Hawkins brothers Justin and Dan, launched pre-orders for the forthcoming opus on PledgeMusic. A statement on their website said: Brooding, magnificent. Like the mighty mother condor, sitting atop her rock egg in a nest of…
