Lorna Shore was absolutely amazing. Hearing Will Ramos make insane, inhuman sounds with his voice was a top tier experience and the guitar solos by Adam De Micco were legendary. The rain didn’t stop me and my friends from seeing such a great performance 
@2JTravNZ I’m so excited for you to see them! I was nothing but pleased with my experience witnessing these amazing artists!
Oh man! Awesome to hear you enjoyed the show.
Im seeing them in 1000 head capacity venue. Really looking forward to it, its one of my favourite venues too!
This is my next festival starting this Wednesday. I’ve been going for a few years, bought tickets in 2019 for 2020 and it didn’t happen because COVID happened, but every year since I’ve made the pilgrimage to Cheddar Gorge for what has turned into my favourite festival on the entire UK festival circuit. About 20k music nerds from all around the world converging on a farm in Somerset, England.
Is there any listed here that you wouldn’t mind seeing?
Dude, Primus obviously!! And of course some good ol’ Napalm Death 
I’m looking forward to Primus, I’ve never seen them before. I’ve seen ND a few times and I love it when Barney has his political vents. 
Primus live is amazing, I’ve seen them twice. Les Claypool is truly a wizard on bass. If you have the opportunity, just check out his hands while plays. It’s unreal 
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It’s time for me to drop a big one!
I think there were a total of 96 bands/artists playing over the weekend and we saw 44 of them with 43 full sets, it beats my previous festival record by a long chalk. Whilst it was absolutely sublime to be amongst all that talent blessing my ears, my eyes and my soul - seeing so many was actually exhausting. Starting at 11am and going until about midnight with a 2 hour break for a siesta somewhere in the middle was a long assed day and caused me to neglect a couple of basic human needs. Don’t worry, I didn’t soil myself, but I did get dehydrated which I think contributed to a dose of the manflu lurgy. Was it worth it? Hell yeah!
This was the final line up with day splits
The bands we saw were as follows, our favourites have the heart emoji.
Wednesday;
Chalk Hands
Giant Walker
Overhead, The Albatross 
Lost in Kyiv
Sans Froid
Dimscua
Svalbard
God Alone
Thursday;
Ian
Terminals
Iskandr
Haal
Otay:onii
Nordic Giants
Michael Cera Palin
Alcest
Scorpion Milk
Igorrr
Chelsea Wolfe
Bruise Blood
Friday;
The Sad Season
Wildernesses
Blessings (only saw 10 minutes)
Civil Service
No Violet
Zahn
Heck
Arcane Roots
Youthmovies
Perturbator
Napalm Death
Primus
Saturday;
Sara Zozaya
Erotic Secrets of Pompeii
Kathryn Joseph
Tanzana
Jo Quail & The Crossbones Ensemble
Oathbreaker
Darkher
Chat Pile
Humanfly
Pupil Slicer
A.A. Williams
Cult of Luna & Julie Christmas
2027 tickets are booked already, it’ll be my main Christmas present from my partner. The best festival!
Overhead, The Albatross
I loved this pic because of the clasped hands. I would have erased them but it made me smile.
Guitarist from HECK who were playing a one off show. They caused chaos
Jo Quail and her bone cello creating the best DOOM ably assisted by her looping pedal.
Last week I did an extreme music festival where drone, black metal and doom were the staple courses on the menu. This weekend has been a time for mixed music of the popular variety.
Sobriety was king 
for both 
No camping for this festival, we plump for a budget hotel in the city centre and commute to site via a shuttle bus. It’s a huge festival, 2nd in size to Glastonbury.
We saw a total of 22 bands/artists.
Day 1
54 Ultra
Westside Cowboy
December 10
Untitled
Blossoms
ROLE MODEL
Florence and the Machine
Chase & Status
Day 2
Beth McCarthy
Keo
Clementine Douglas
Skye Newman
Geese
Charli xcx
Fontaines DC
Day 3
Absolutely
Slayyyter
Maisie Peters
JADE
sombr
RAYE
Dave
The heart emojis are for who I enjoyed the most.
Here are a few pics.
sombr
Dave
JADE
Maisie Peters singing a tribute to Dolly
Tom Grennan (w/ C&S)
Watching Florence as the sun set.
Me, slightly amused by the poster.
Organectomy.
Support acts
En fire.
Door openers, local band psychedelic metal i think from what I could gather and saw of them. Cool sound, would like to see them again.
Shrunken.
North Island based Hardcore band stools damn tight super solid band. Got a good little pit going with the kids throwing down. Definitely happy I got to see these guys finally.
I love local shows just being able to have a yarn to the musos makes my night being able to thank them for their presence and abilities.
Lucid shift.
Local boys, a couple of friends play in this band, heaps heavy and tight as can be! Always smash out a great show.
Organectomy
If you like Slam you should know this name. These guys are big all over the world in the slam scene but they are just our mates who play music here at home. Hella good yarns with the lads pre and post show. Face melting goodness. 200 head bar, I see them again in october supporting lorna shore in a 1000 head venue. Cannot wait too see them tear the roof off there.
I don’t always update this thread, it takes me so flipping long to compose what I want to put down. Honestly, some people on this site have a better grasp of English than I do and it’s their second language. 
Anyways. Here goes.
On Sunday night I visited Manchester for a gig in a venue I’ve never been to before called The Lions Den. I’ve been getting FB ads for the band and tbh they sounded right up our street so around lunchtime Sunday we bought tickets and planned to make a day of it by getting some nice food whilst there. We went for a Brazilian restaurant, one of those that have waiters constantly visiting your table with skewered grilled meats. It was bloody lovely. 
After a big feed we made our way to the venue, and it was running 15 minutes late. We got in and managed to get on the rail - right in front of one of the speakers. We waited about 45 minutes for the bands in the packed small venue of about 150 capacity to hit the stage.
The bands were called Skin Thief and Khan and had travelled from Melbourne Australia to tour the world and tonight it was our turn. Skin Thief were up first and gave us some head nodding doom and fuzz adjacent post rock riffs. I’d definitely catch these lads again if they were playing a festival I was at.
Next up were Khan with a very similar music sound but they had vocals, one clean and one unclean, exactly how I love my rock/metal gigs. I’ll be giving these lads a listen on a streaming service and I’ll definitely go to their next gig they play local to me.
I left the gig with a ringing in my left ear and a crick in my fragile neck but thankfully the ringing went on Monday and the bangover cleared up on Tuesday.
A hazy, smokey wall of riffs! 
Skin Thief
Khan
Khan are a great band from my hometown. Glad you got to see them
