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6 days ago | 
kerrang.com | Emma Wilkes |Stu Garneys
May 31, 2025Words:Emma WilkesPhotos:Stu GarneysMentioning KOKO to longtime Creeper fans is enough to give them the spooks. The site of their infamous faked breakup in 2018 as they sent their Eternity In Your Arms era to the grave, the announcement of their return there already had the Creeper cult quaking.
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Jan 27, 2025 | 
kerrang.com | Luke Morton |Stu Garneys
The first wave of bands have been announced for the return of Warped Tour 2025. Kicking off the 30 Days Of Warped, with bands being revealed over the next 30 days up to February 26, six bands have been revealed for the biggest punk comeback of the year. Joining Warped Tour 2025 are Simple Plan, Bowling For Soup, a reformed Dance Hall Crashers, Pennywise, Miss May I and Chandler Leighton.
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Jan 20, 2025 | 
kerrang.com | Nick Ruskell |Stu Garneys
Ahead of the imminent announcement of their fifth album, Employed To Serve have announced their first run of UK shows for 2025. In April, they'll hit the road for their biggest headlining gigs to date. And to underscore what a quiet night at the library it won't be, they're taking East Anglian death metal squadron Celestial Sanctuary and London hardcore brutalists Burner along. "We're so fucking stoked about this tour," guitarist Sammy Urwin tells K!.
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Dec 3, 2024 | 
kerrang.com | Nick Ruskell |Stu Garneys
Pierce The Veil have announced their world touring plans for 2025, featuring their biggest shows to date. As well as hitting New York's legendary Madison Square Garden and The Kia Forum in LA, the San Diego emo crew will head to the UK and Europe in September for a string of gigs, including Manchester Co-op Live and London's OVO Arena Wembley.
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Nov 29, 2024 | 
kerrang.com | Emily Carter |Stu Garneys
Pierce The Veil fans here in the UK, get ready: the band are up to something. Overnight, cryptic teaser posters have appeared in London, Manchester, Birmingham and Glasgow, with some intriguing – and yet to be unravelled – symbols on them. What is made clear on these prints, however, is that PTV will be announcing something on Tuesday, December 3, so watch this space.
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Nov 20, 2024 | 
bringthenoiseuk.com | Stu Garneys
Photo Credit: Stu Garneys Nearing the end of a hugely successful 2024, with non-stop touring and hitting over one billion global streams, we couldn’t wait to see Teddy Swims at his recent headline show at London’s Eventim Apollo. Check out our gallery from the show above!
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Nov 13, 2024 | 
kerrang.com | Stu Garneys
With outfits set to stun and the volume cranked up, One Marylebone was transformed into a greebo playground, with artefacts from Download's past on display and even an appearance from the Download Dog himself. And while our heads hurt today from all the cocktails and bellowing along to rock club bangers, we're still counting down the days til we can return to Donington and do it all again with The Darkness, Poppy, Dayseeker, Lorna Shore, the Sex Pistols with Frank Carter and loads more.
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Nov 11, 2024 | 
kerrang.com | Emily Carter |Stu Garneys
We’ll be honest, since My Chemical Romance’s pair of Black Parade shows at When We Were Young last month, we weren’t expecting news from the band anytime soon. But, of course, on a random Monday, from out of nowhere, they’ve just sent the internet into meltdown with a teaser post.
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Oct 30, 2024 | 
kerrang.com | Emily Carter |Stu Garneys
Having returned to the stage for the first time since 2019 this year, we’ve got even more good news from the Slayer camp: the band will also be performing live in 2025, too! The thrash titans have revealed they’ll be headlining Kentucky’s Louder Than Life in September, having been scheduled to play in 2024 but cancelling due to the effects of Hurricane Helene (‘the band will be headlining the festival next year to give fans another chance to see their much-discussed reunion set,’ reads a...
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Oct 30, 2024 | 
kerrang.com | Emily Carter |Stu Garneys
Speaking to Kerrang! over the summer before they headlined Download, we asked Patrick Stump and Pete Wentz about their current So Much (For) Stardust era, and if Donington was the last chance for UK fans to see FOB this time around. “I think so,” said Pete. “And I don’t say that in a ‘we’ll never play the UK again’ way, because I’m sure we will. I do think that of the ones that are on the books, this is probably the last one that’s on the books.
