PREVIEW: Hit The Deck Fest

From the team behind Dot-To-Dot comes yet another bit of multi-venue magic by the name of Hit The Deck Festival.

Having already carved a serious name for itself up in Nottingham with various sellout years, HTD comes to Bristol for the very first time, and brings with it a whirlwind of guitars and noise.

Hitting it as ‘the UK’s premier indoor alternative festival’ is a tall order, so let’s check out the line-up.

Alt-rock of course abounds, but they’ve got the sub-genres in the bag on this one. There’s melodic hardcore (or pop punk depending on your persuasion), with Title Fight and Gnarwolves getting along like a transatlantic house on fire, as well as metalcore from Bleeding Through and the like. Post-hardcore comes in the form of The James Cleaver Quintet, We Are The Ocean and Attack Attack! (US), all in distinctively different senses of the word of course.

US-style indie? Never Shout Never and the unfortunately named (but actually very good) Front Bottoms are there. Bleed From Within fly the flag for deathcore, and Sonic Boom Six for ska-core.

If you’re looking for something a bit more ‘out there’, mathcore outfit Rolo Tomassi and post-rock Leicesterians Maybeshewill are also included on this line-up release.

So with more to be announced, not too shabby, eh? Full info below.

HIT THE DECK FESTIVAL 2013

Saturday 20th April 2013
Midday doors
14+

O2 Academy and Academy 2, Thekla, The Fleece and Exchange.

Don Broco
We Are The In Crowd
Never Shout Never
We Are The Ocean

Attack Attack! (US)
Sonic Boom Six
Bleeding Through
Title Fight

Black Dogs
Bleed From Within
Evarose
Gnarwolves
The James Cleaver Quintet
Summerlin
Vinnie Caruana
Attention Thieves
Blackeye
Canterbury
Dead End Path
Decade
Dingus Khan
Empress
The Front Bottoms
Hand Of Mercy
Heart Of a Coward
Idiom
Max Raptor
Maybeshewill
Natives
Rolo Tomassi
Run From Robots
This or the Apocalypse
Walter Schreifels
Whirr

And more TBC

For tickets and to stay connected:
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