A german band with an english leader (Cliff Jackson), stepped across the seventies with accents of kraut/psychedelic/progressive and hard rock to finally stay in the collective unconscious like a german Wishbone Ash.
Epitaph still has the good idea for making well crafted records.
Epitaph über alles ? Wait and see…
Bad boys from the south of London and the East End, little rascals and Speakeasy’s residents (one of the most mythical London clubs) Heavy Metal Kids hit the headlines in the 70’s with their ballsy rock, in a bad mood and with a big mouth. His immense frontman, Gary Holton, created the hooligan rock just before the punk wave.
Patchwork of influences (pub rock, Faces, bluesy hard rock…glam). Heavy Metal Kids could never go over Holton’s passing (caught upon excesses in 1985) but our overindulgent rockers have risen from their ashes : built around Cosmo and Keith Boyce (guitarist and drummer from the good old days) and Justin McConville, a very interesting substitute for Gary Holton, the old kids from the London slums have made the promise to kick our asses.
For our great pleasure…
Established in the dreamlike hints of the “Swinging London” just in time for that crucial year 1970, Stray is a seventies model, near impassable as regards bluesy/hard rock/psychedelic genre. Del Bromham, established leader, still young after 70 years, is delighted to invade our lands, at last. Stray ? So british…
Late in the 70’s because of a political regime that is out of line with rock n roll, Spain is proud to have Baron Rojo in the very beginning of the 80’s.
The Red Baron (Manfred Von Richthofen german aviator’s nickname) from the Castro brothers, Armando and Carlos, always has the devil in the flesh and murderous impulse since “Larga Vida Al Rock & Roll” (first raid in 1981) and “Metalmorfosis” (international recognition in 1983).
Away from the Belgian stages far too long (two concerts in Heavy Sound Festival in Brugge then Poperinge respectively in 1983 and 1984), the spanish bomber will celebrate, in our festival, forty years in intensive shelling just before a long tour across the South American stadium. The number one Hispanic/Latino hard band definitely deserve to be the Friday’s headliner
