It's Saturday at Download, the weather has dried up enough and the sun is as bright as Anti Flag drummer Pat Thetic's hair. We were lucky enough to catch up with him to chat about touring, playing Download and general life.
This weekend Detroit rockers Queen Kwong will perform at LeeFest Presents: The Neverland alongside names including Lianne La Havas, Circa Waves and Everything Everything. We caught up with the band ahead of their appearance to talk about the festival, what you can expect from their show and more.
In a few days Get Inuit will make their debut at LeeFest Presents: The Neverland. We caught up with the band ahead of their appearance to talk about the festival, their top tips and more.
Liam Cormier of Cancer Bats has a reputation for being one of the nicest guys in the business, so we knew our chat with him at Slam Dunk Midlands would be something special. At Liam’s request we’ve put a link to the "podcast" at the bottom of this page, it might be a new addition to BTN so keep your eyes open!
Download is the bad boy rock 'n roll festival of the UK, but this year there has been an injection of blues rock bands to funk it up. We caught up with the biggest band on the blues rock scene at the moment - LA cool cats Rival Sons - post-performance with drummer Mike Miley to chat about festivals, future plans and stealing the Prom Queen.
Swedish rock outfit Normandie will hit UK shores on Monday for the very first time, as they set to embark on a headline tour which sees them perform in seven cities. To mark the occasion we caught up with the band to hear some of their stories from the road...
This week sees metallers Stoneghost hit the road with Raging Speedhorn, so we thought it would be the perfect opportunity to catch up with drummer Cris Finnis to hear the band's top tips and stories from the road.
We're in the press room at Download and with Orange County metalcore originals Atreyu and they have brought the sunshine. After smashing their afternoon set on the main stage, we get to hang out with frontman Alex Varkatzas and find out how Download has been for them...
After a chat about Scotland, Irn-Bru and other random things we got down to the serious stuff with up and comers Vukovi, following their debut appearance at Download Festival.
Camden Rocks this year was brimming with up and coming bands, including punk rock five-piece Drones. After a recent shift in band members, we were keen to find out how things were going, so we caught up with drummer Mitchell Thomas and new members Lois McDougall and Tim Kramer to see what they had to say.