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Reading and Leeds line-ups announced!
Iron Maiden, Foo Fighters and Pixies will headline this year’s Carling Weekend: Reading and Leeds festivals. It will be the second time that Iron Maiden frontman Bruce Dickinson and his bandmates have headlined the legendary festival, making their headline debut in Reading in 1982 to support the classic Number Of The Best album. They will play Leeds Branham Park on Friday August 26 and Reading on Sunday 28, topping a bill that will also feature Marilyn Manson, Incubus, Iggy & The Stooges and NOFX.

“Reading was the first UK rock festival that I attended both as a member of the audience and as a performer,” Dickinson tells Kerrang!. “It’s also the place where I got the job with Iron Maiden and was the scene of many other less printable antics! I can’t wait to go back to playing what I think is the best rock festival in the UK.”

Alt-rock legends the Pixies will headline the festival in Reading on August 26 and Leeds on August 27. QOTSA will also join them on the main stage. At the top of the bill on August 27 in Reading and August 28 in Leeds will be Foo Fighters, who’ll return to the UK fresh from finishing their fifth album, In Your Honor.. Emo heroes Jimmy Eat World will also be appearing on those days.

For more info:

www.kerrang.com

www.readingffestival.com

Foos new album details

Dave Grohl has announced details of the new Foo Fighters double album, due to be released in June. In an official message on FooFighters.com Grohl announced, "In Your Honor will be the band's fifth album. Almost exactly a decade from the release of the first Foo Fighters record, it is a double album, as promised. One CD rock, one CD acoustic. And it has a few special surpises on there. From five hours of bedroom demos, to warehouses being built from the ground up, to months of rehearsals, to the construction of an 8,000 square foot classic recording studio, to the recording of 40 songs, to the final track list of 20 songs, it is by far the most ambitious project I have ever had anything to do with in my entire life."

Grohl also defended his choice of guests, which include former Led Zeppelin bassist John Paul Jones and chanteuse Norah Jones."They may seem strange to you,” he says. “They don't seem strange to me. I just love music. Music can be faceless. It can be nameless. After all, it's the sound that makes your hair stand on end, right? It will. I have a calendar in front of me that is a year-long, fucking packed with tours that will spin us around the globe over and over and over again. It makes me dizzy just looking at it. I can't fucking wait."

www.foofighters.com

www.kerrang.com

KsE Guitarist "Considering His Future"

01 Apr 2005

Killswitch Engage guitarist and uber producer Adam D has apparently quit seminal Massachusetts metallers Killswitch Engage.

The axe man will not be going on stage with the band at the San Diego Sports Arena tonight due to an "accident" he had during the band's show with The Used and My Chemical Romance last night at the Long Beach Arena in Los Angeles, California. Adam apparently split his infamous Daisy Duke-style "short shorts" and had a "boys out of the barracks incident" during the opening song of KsE's set. He then fled the stage with embarrassment and vowed never to return.

A spokesperson for the band told Metal Hammer "Adam is now considering his future in the music business."

www.metalhammer.co.uk

www.killswitchengage.com

Slayer to leave record label???

31 Mar 2005 Unconfirmed reports are alleging that Slayer have parted company with Mercury Records which is also home to fellow heavy metal legends Metallica.

It is believed uber producer Rick Rubin has taken his American Recordings label, to whom Slayer are signed directly, to rival company Warner Bros.

The as yet untitled follow up to 'God Hates Us All' is expected to hit stores this summer.