Artist: fightstar

BBC Radio 1's Big Weekend is an annual musical festival with bit of a twist. Every year, the 2 day event takes place in a different town, with past locations including Dundee, Preston and Maidstone. This 2009, Radio 1 will be bringing their Big Weekend to Lydiard Park, Swindon, on Saturday 9th and Sunday 10th of May. Tickets to the event are free, and are obtained through a random lottery on Radio 1's website (registration has now closed). Lucky winners will blag a pair of tickets to their selected day (Saturday or Sunday), with Swindon residents receiving [...]

A dozen new names have been announced for Download Festival 2009, stretching from the pants-crappingly exciting to the...err...pants-crappingly shitty. Oh. Joining the line-up at Donington Park will be the Thrash Hits-favoured Bring Me The Horizon , Irish AC/DC support The Answer , the meat-loving Fightstar , post-Darkness survivors Stone Gods , Staind, the Corey Taylor-produced Facecage, the punctuation-abusing Go:Audio, the bafflingly-popular Shinedown , Static-X and their incredible haircuts, London rockers Auger Bane, Danish rockabilly metallers Volbeat, and some further nu-metal revivalism in the form of Sevendust. Some interesting names [...]

Earlier today, MetalHammer.co.uk reported that the initial line-up for this year's Reading & Leeds Festivals had been leaked on the forum of Punktastic.com . They were - understandably - quite cynical as to whether or not this was the genuine article, or a cleverly put together fake, but Thrash Hits has received information from another source that stating that this is indeed the initial line-up that Festival Republic are going to officially announce at 7pm tonight. Although the poster itself that started all this rumour mongering is clearly a mock-up, and in no way the [...]

Video: Fightstar on Red Bull Bedroom Jam Check out a short clip of the making of Fightstar 's new video " Mercury Summer " here .

Charlie: "You know you can buy the Bodean's sauces to take away? What pisses me off is that you can't get the hot buffalo chicken sauce because that is the best. They keep it from you! They don't let it out. I've moved on from ribs. I do the pulled pork sandwiches and the hot chicken wings." Classic beef burger Joint of pork is my favourite meat. No one pork dish would top the burger but as a meat it has a very diverse registry. It has [...]

Next up on Red Bull Bedroom Jam we have a special edition of the webcast with Fightstar in the studio for a live interview whilst the energetic and unmissable Forever Wednesday will be performing a live set. Watch the video of the making of Fightstar's new video "Mercury Summer" . Fightstar on Red Bull Bedroom Jam - Making the video! Forever Wednesday are renowned for writing some of the biggest and catchiest new sounds, taking [...]

Hello! We decided to run another singles roundup as the promo list is as long as a giraffes neck at the moment! So sit back, relax and enjoy our reviews of upcoming singles! - The 405 Ak-Momo - Greasy Spoon (23/03/09) The latest single by Ak-Momo, Greasy Spoon, is the first song i've ever [...]

"This is our biggest sounding record and we've done it with our bare hands, just blood, sweat and tears the whole way." As dramatic as it sounds, Fightstar vocalist and guitarist, Charlie Simpson could almost be accused of underestimating the challenges the band faced during the recording of 'be human', their third album and first self-funded release. The bulk of recording for 'be human' took place at Treehouse Studios, Bown's studio, a small wood cabin in a field just outside Chesterfield in Derbyshire. They recorded between August and [...]

The Blackout have announced that they have been forced to cancel their appearance with Bullet for My Valentine and Fightstar at Teenage Cancer Trust's first rock night at the Royal Albert Hall . A statement from the band said: "The Blackout have unfortunately had to withdraw from Teenage Cancer Trust's show on Saturday 28th March. While in LA shooting the band's music video, bass player Rhys Lews became ill and was admitted to hospital. Rhys is currently still in LA, and his [...]

The video to "Mercury Summer" , the new single from Fightstar album 'Be Human' , is now up on the bands Myspace page. Despite being added less than 24 hours ago, it's already notched up almost 15,000 plays across the web! Watch "Mercury Summer" video: Fightstar on amazon.co.uk Fightstar on amazon.com The first single from the album, [...]

Mighty British rockers Fightstar have finished their third studio album, Be Human , so have announced a UK tour. They will be touring from 22 April 2009 with up-and-coming British acts, Laruso and In Case Of Fire and hunky frontman Charlie Simpson has been spouting all sorts of crap about how brilliant everything is. Do you need the exact words? Do you? Really? Be Human will be released on 20 April 2009 through Search And Destroy/PIAS with a single, 'Mercury Summer' [...]

Daniel Wright is vocalist and guitarist with up-and-coming Berkshire pop-punks, DissolvedIN . They've had a good second half of the year and 2009 could be a very good year for them so read on! What was your highlight of 2008? Sharing the stage with Fightstar , Story of the year, Atreyu and touring with Finch , To be honest 2008 has been fun. I feel that we have achieved a lot for the amount of time we [...]

First up Busted, sorry I mean Fightstar. Actually anyone who has seen or heard Fightstar will know that there's is no similarity, whatsoever. In fact, Charlie Simpson seems to want to forget that Busted ever happened at all. Although, apparently some people do still have Busted on their iPod's. A going concern now since 2003 and now working on their third album, Fightstar are loud and powerful, although not really my cup of tea. They start out their set sounding like the Foo Fighters or Nirvana but end up trying to be Metallica. [...]

Fightstar lanzará un disco de rarezas, B-sides y versiones en vivo que se llamará Alternate Endings . Dentro de las 15 rarezas que tendrá el álbum también podremos escuchar covers de The Flaming Lips, The Cure, Deftones y Judas Priest. Alternate Endings será editado el 11 de agosto y acá tienen el tracklist: Floods (Live Acoustic) From Radio 1 Session Where's the Money Lebowski? New, original track for the album Waitin' For Superman (Live Acoustic) (Flaming Lips cover) From Radio [...]

IODA Promonet Special Week 14!!!! --- Our American Cousin - How's This For A Diploma? [EP][2006 - No Sleep Records] Album Notes Their debut EP, entitled How's This for a Diploma ? was recorded with producer Joshua Browning at Black Lodge Studios in Eudora, Kansas over scattered days and nights in the snow and rain and volcanic magma. For fans of American Football, Moneen, At The [...]

• Fightstar - Lost Like Tears In Rain
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• Our American Cousin - Think I May Have an Ego?

As if the bungling blunder of getting drunk and groping your former colleague's girlfriend wasn't bad enough, why prolong the agony by electing to give interviews about an incident that might be best for those involved if they forgot it, and that has already been forgotten by the rest of us? Still, for what it's worth Charlie Simpson claims "nothing happened" between him and Emma Griffiths , currently in the role of Matt Willis, Charlie's old mate in Busted. He was, you see, very very drunk: “I was so excited. Fightstar had been [...]

Stereogum has been posting the ugly instances of collective stupidity at the Reading Festival. Fans have pelted bottles at performers . First Brendan Urie of Panic! at the Disco gets knocked in the face by a bottle and now it appears that My Chemical Romance have also been targeted for felling via bottle blows from irate (see: drunk) “fans.” Without passing judgment on the quality of musical output of these groups, bands getting intimate with the wrong end of hostile Brits' flying missiles is all fairly idiotic and reminiscent of [...]