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It seems kind of redundant to list the REALLY popular artists from the UK (The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, David Bowie, The Cure, Radiohead, etc.), so this is primarily composed of lesser-known (in North America) artists or artists who had one or two hits and deserve a second glance.

65daysofstatic (post-rock, electronic)
Adebisi Shank (math rock, experimental)
Africa HiTech (future garage, IDM)
Aphex Twin (IDM, ambient)
Architects (mathcore, post-hardcore)
Autechre (IDM, experimental)
Biffy Clyro (post-hardcore, alternative rock)
Blondie (new wave)
Blur (britpop, alternative rock)
Boards of Canada (IDM, experimental)
Brian Eno (ambient, experimental)
Bring Me the Horizon (metalcore, deathcore)
Burial (dubstep, ambient)
Cocteau Twins (dream pop, shoegaze)
The Creatures (post-punk, new wave)
Devil Sold His Soul (post-hardcore, ambient metalcore)
Engerica (alternative rock, post-hardcore)
Four Tet (IDM, experimental)
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Right then, Top 10 albums of 2010, may change if I hear anything even better in the next week or so, but here they are...

1. Deftones - Diamond Eyes
2. Bring Me the Horizon - There Is a Hell, Believe Me I've Seen It, There Is a Heaven, Let's Keep It a Secret
3. Young Guns - All Our Kings Are Dead
4. The Gaslight Anthem - American Slang
5. Alesana - The Emptiness
6. Lostprophets - The Betrayed
7. Cancer Bats - Bears, Mayors, Scraps & Bones
8. My Chemical Romance - Danger Days: The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys
9. Kids In Glass Houses - Dirt
10. Pendulum - Immersion

Disappointments of 2010 =/

Bullet for My Valentine - Fever

You Me at Six - Hold Me Down

Best EPs
Futures - The Holiday
Alexisonfire - Dog's Blood
And So I Watch You From Afar - The Letters EP
We Die at Dawn - Ep
Jairus - Build My Gallows High
Yamaharahara - Yamaharahara

Best Songs:
Bring Me the Horizon - Crucify Me
Canterbury - Gloria
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Fri 6 Aug – Hevy Music Festival 2010
SATURDAY, DUDES ;)

Instead of camping, and since the festival was about 10 minutes away from my home, I got day tickets and arrived with my mate an hour or so before the first acts. The first great thing about Hevy was how short the queue was when we got there. Although the weather was a bit crap at first, it brightened up once we were inside and it wasn't a confusing site so finding our way around was easy.

The first act we saw were Predicting the Fall, opening the Local Heroes Stage on a pretty cloudy Saturday Afternoon. I'd downloaded their EP free off their site a few weeks before, so I roughly knew the choruses and hooks from the set as it went along. On record, the singing was not a strong point, so I was hoping that live they would do more. And to be honest, they did, they certainly made me laugh. After a few songs, the guitarist told the vocalist he was 'full of win', before fucking up the opening to the next song. …

January:
15/01/10: AEF Farewell Show @ Stripes, Folkestone
Line-up:
Take Courage 8/10
AEF! 8/10
ChaseMotive 6/10
Alaska 5/10
Still Dreaming 6/10

February:
09/02/10: Lostprophets @ Winter Gardens, Margate
Line-up:
Lostprophets 9/10
Kids In Glass Houses 8/10
Hexes 6/10

March:
22/03/10: Trivium @ The Leas Cliff Hall, Folkestone
Line-up:
Trivium 9/10
Chimaira 7/10
Whitechapel 10/10 *
Rise To Remain 2/10

April:
15/04/10: PERFORMED at Strangley Addictive @ The Cricketers, Dover
Line-up:
Strangely Addictive
Sixs & Sevens

30/04/10: Lostprophets @ The Leas Cliff Hall, Folkestone
Line-up:
Lostprophets 7/10
The Blackout 8/10

May:
13/05/10: PERFORMED at Strangely Addictive @ The Cricketers, Dover
Line-up:
Strangely Addictive

July:
01/07/10: PERFORMED at Strangely Addictive @ The Cricketers, Dover
Line-up:
Strangely Addictive

August:
06/08/10-08/08/10: Hevy Music Festival 2010 @ Port Lympne Zoo, Lympne

SATURDAY:
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This list comprises of all the bands I know I've seen, whether it be as headliners, supports or at a festival. It is not a definitive list; some bands I've seen more than once but don't know how many times and I'm sure there's plenty of bands I've missed. But hopefully I've not missed too many...

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3 Inches of Blood
7 Seconds
50 Caliber

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A
Abigail Williams
Adele
Agnostic Front
Airbourne
Alexisonfire
Alkaline Trio
All Shall Perish
All We Have
Almost Home x2
Amen Ra
Amon Tobin
Anaal Nathrakh
Aphex Twin
Apocalyptica x2
Arch Enemy
Army of Flying Robots x2
As Friends Rust
At The Gates
At The Gates
August Burns Red
Awoken x2
Azriel x16


b
Bane x2
Bear Vs. Shark
Beecher x8
Beneath the Massacre
Betray These Angels
Blackalicious
The Black Dahlia Murder
Blak Twang
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1/1December 2001
Wembley Arena, London
Stereophonics with Feeder

1/2August 2003
Parklife, Gillingham
The Barbs and King Adora

2/3November 2003
Earls Court, London
Stereophonics with Tim Burgess

1/4March 2004
Wembley Arena, London
The Offspring with Rufio and The Start

2/5October 2004
Astoria, London
Goldie Lookin Chain with I don't remember who.

3/6October 2004
Hammersmith Apollo, London
HIM with Cathedral and The Esoteric

4/7December 2004
Earls Court, London
Muse with The Zutons and The Secret Machines

1/8January 2005
Camden Barfly, London
XFM X-Posure Live
YOURCODENAMEIS:MILO with Cherubs, Clor, Metro Riots, Dogs, Maximo Park and Eastern Lane

2/9March 2005
Puregroove Records, London
Nine Black Alps

3/10April 2005
Luminaire, London
Xtra Mile First Birthday
Reuben with Frank Turner and Million Dead

4/11April 2005
Astoria, London
My Chemical Romance with Open Hand

5/12April 2005
Astoria, London
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Hi all
I hope this finds you all well. I'm about to head off for a week of partying and hope that everyone else has exciting plans in mind with the bank holiday weekend fast approaching. If you don't, I can't recommend the below highly enough to help fill your days with sunshine and fun...

01: Meet Me In St Louis/Secondsmile tour - starts this week!
02: Welcome House Of Brothers - tour, EP, Radio One
03: Live date round-up
04: Record Label Shmecord Label
05: 4 or 5 Magicians for Alcopop! - Radio One, tour

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01: Meet Me In St Louis/Secondsmile tour - starts this week!
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Meet Me In St Louis and Secondsmile are off on tour in celebration of their brand new split 7 release. 7 days of partying for these 7 inches of beautiful rock music is promised, and we hope to see as many of you as possible along the way.

24.05 - Cardiff, The Barfly
25.05 - Sheffield, The Corporation
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