aaamusic | On 25, Jan 2012

Hit The Deck Festival 2012 adds more bands!

New additions: Cancer Bats, Rolo Tomassi, I Am The Avalanche, Bat Sabbath, Bury Tomorrow, The Dangerous Summer, TRC, Heights, Spycatcher, Straight Lines + more

 

Nottingham’s six stage indoor festival, Hit The Deck, have announced their second wave of line-up additions for the 22nd April event. The latest bands on the bill are; Cancer Bats, Rolo Tomassi, I Am The Avalanche, Bat Sabbath, Bury Tomorrow, The Dangerous Summer, TRC, Heights, Spycatcher, Straight Lines, Verses, William Bailey (acoustic), Campus, Arse Full Of Chips and Perry Bryan (acoustic).

 

Here’s what a few of the new faces on the lineup have to say about their additions…

 

“We’re so fucking stoked we’re playing Hit The Deck again! Last year was fuckin way too nuts for us to stay away.  We need way more stage dives to top last year.  Round two jumping off the bar!  After the gig we”ll have a massive cheesey chip hang at the hole in the wall chip shop!” – Liam Cormier, Cancer Bats

 

“We’re really excited to be playing this year’s Hit The Deck festival. The line up looks fantastic and we can’t wait to catch up with bands like Cancer Bats. We always love playing in Nottingham and expect this to an incredible day and show.” – Eva Spence, Rolo Tomassi

 

“We are fully stoked to be a part of the festival. Nottingham is the only show of the Brand New tour that we are not playing, so its nice to make up for that. Also it will be nice to finally share the stage with out labelmates, Straight Lines. Stoked to hang with man Soupy from The Wonder Years, happy they’ve been doing so well!” – Vinnie Caruana, I Am The Avalanche

 

Hit The Deck promoter Amy Biggin, adds. “We’re r

eally excited to be bringing back Cancer Bats to Hit The Deck and welcoming I Am The Avalanche to Nottingham for the first time, and I’m sure Rolo Tomassi & Bat Sabbath are guaranteed to be crazy! “

 

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Hit The Deck 2012 takes place on April 22nd 2012 at Nottingham’s Rock City, Rescue Rooms, The Forum and Stealth venues.

Bands already announced and scheduled to appear at Hit The Deck 2012, are: Kids In Glass Houses, Deaf Havana, The Wonder Years, Of Mice & Men, We Are The In Crowd, The Swellers, Every Avenue, Shadows Chasing Ghosts, Wolves Like Us, Yashin, Silent Screams, Imperial Leisure, Blackstorm and Juinius, with many more still to be announced.

Speaking of his bands headlining slot of Hit The Deck, Kids In Glass Houses frontman, Aled Phillips, says, “We’re stoked to be headlining Hit The Deck, it will probably be our first festival of 2012 so we’ll be ready to smash it. We heard great things about this years festival and know next year will top it!”

http://www.alt-tickets.co.uk/alttickets/home_hit_the_deck_festival_2012.html

 

For more information on the event, please see:

http://www.hitthedeckfestival.com/

http://www.facebook.com/hitthedeckfestival

http://twitter.com/hitthedeckfest