Back to this year's festival season, and get this one in your diaries, Uxfest 2006. As the name might suggest, to those of you who live on the Metropolitan Line anyway, this used to take place in Uxbridge and was a benefit event organised by volunteer music fans. This year the whole thing has moved into Zone 1 and will take place at the Carling Islington Academy - though the charity and volunteer bit remains unchanged, as does the full on heavy rock music policy.
Uxfest organisers tell CMU: "By the kids, for the kids has always been our motto, but we've just grown up a bit. The rowdy teenager Uxfest has fled the nest and moved out to go it alone in the big city. Still powered by penniless volunteers with a love of the big music, Uxfest 2006 is bigger, harder, faster than before, but still cheap, fun and for a cause. Yes, Uxfest isn't in Uxbridge anymore, but would an Uxfest by any other name still rock as hard? Uxfest represents heavy music new and old from the UK (and sometimes further a field!) from comedy ska to death metal and everything in between".
The line up currently includes Skindred, Murder One, Exit Ten, Biomechanical, B*Movie Heroes, Head On, Architects, Outcryfire, PDHM, Engel, Profane, Forever Never, Sylosis, No Warning Shot, Shellshock, Mumrah, Eths, Kingsize Blues, Inner Rage and Fireapple Red, with one more tba.
Tickets in advance are a tenner and are on sale at http://www.ticketweb.co.uk. More info at http://www.uxfest.org. Press info from [email protected].