2013 Favourites // Hit The Deck Festival Feat. Don Broco

We take a look back at some of the best gigs, festivals and bands of 2013. Next up is Hit The Deck Festival. Est.1987 headed down to the Nottingham leg of the two day festival and as well as catching up with some bands to chat about the festival we also saw some amazing live sets. Click below to read out live reviews featuring Mallory Knox, Vinnie Caruana, Never Shout Never and festival headliners Don Broco amongst others and find out how you can read our interviews with bands including Pure Love, We Are The In Crowd and Bleed From Within...

Hit The Deck Nottingham // The Review

HIT THE DECK is over for another year but boy did we have a lot of fun. Est.1987 headed down to the Nottingham leg of the two day festival and as well as catching up with some bands to chat about the festival we also saw some amazing live sets. Click below to read out live reviews featuring Mallory Knox, Vinnie Caruana, Never Shout Never and festival headliners Don Broco amongst others and find out how you can read our interviews with bands including Pure Love, We Are The In Crowd and Bleed From Within...

Hit The Deck Nottingham - The Interviews // Pure Love

 Pure Love has a reputation that precedes them when it comes to their live show so it was no surprise that they were headlining Rescue Rooms in Nottingham. 

Jim Carroll took time out before the show to chat with us about playing live, working on the follow up to "Anthems" and Pure Love show injuries. 

To read the full interview and see what we thought of their live show click below...

HIT THE DECK // Festival Preview

With a little over two weeks to go the anticipation is building for Nottingham and Bristol's Hit The Deck Festival. Taking place over the 20th-21st April weekend acts such as Don Broco, We Are The In Crowd, Pure Love and We Are The Ocean (to name but a few) will take to the stage.

Hit The Deck will now not only take place across Nottingham’s Rock City, Rescue Rooms, Forum and Stealth venues on April 21st, but also in Bristol the day before on April 20th for the first time, at the o2 Academy 1 & 2, Thekla, Fleece and Exchange venues. The addition of Bristol for the 3rd year of Hit The Deck makes the festival the biggest to date. 

To see the line-up in full, maps of the venues, where you can get tickets and an interview with Don Broco click below...

Don Broco // Interview with Rob Damiani

Don Broco has had a phenomenal past year; a string of hit singles taken from their  acclaimed album (“Priorities”) & now the Bedford quartet are rounding up on a sell out tour. So, here at Est.1987 we donned our “Don Broco Push Up Squad” vests & headed down to catch their Manchester show- the biggest headline show in the bands career. The tour culminates in tonight (well if we don’t count the extra four dates the band has added due to popular demand) and we caught up with lead singer Rob Damiani...