We are pleased to announce that TBFM are joining the Circus! TBFM will be at this awesome event all weekend and on the run up to the festival we will be running some very special shows online including band interviews, possible in studio live sets and bringing you all the gossip as it happens. The organisers said... "We at The Rock & Metal Circus are pleased to be working the all the TBFM crew and we ca ...

As a rock reviewer I love it when a band stand out from the crowd and genuinely surprise me. Some even make me drop the other projects I am working on to concentrate on their material. One such act are female fronted rockers Skarlett Riot. This is a four-piece hard rock band that TBFM introduced me to recently and I instantly took a shine to their work. The bands 'Villain' EP has seen them gain a huge amoun ...

TBFM's Phil Allely caught up with Skarlett of Skarlett Riot ahead of their debut album release on 25th March 2013... Hi firstly thanks for chatting to us at TBFM. Can I ask how the band formed and how the name came about? No problem! We've been Skarlett Riot for 2 years now. We all met in school years, Danny (Guitar) & Luke (Drums) are brothers. After jamming cover songs, we decided after a couple of ye ...

IKE Productions proudly presents Macmillan Fest 2012 on 1st September at Rescue Rooms in Nottingham. The event has been set up to raise money for Macmillan Cancer Support registered charity number 261017. 26 bands will play on 3 stages throughout the day and tickets cost just £7 if bought in advance from Alt Tickets website or £10 on the door.  ...

BLOODSTOCK OPEN AIR are proud to announce the line up for this years Jagermeister Stage. A mix of semi-acoustic acts will grace this year’s stage to bring exclusive performances to the metal masses. ANDRASTE are a 6 piece folk metal act hailing from Manchester with influences firmly rooted in traditional British folk and various forms of extreme metal, they’ll be adding an acoustic twist for their performan ...

- By SJRoxx After some last minute alterations the ‘Roxx Crue’ arrived in Notts and not Derby for the Noize Level Critical/RACPA Festival. What a fantastic line up of sleazy rock bands we had to entertain us, two of which, New Generation Superstars and Silverjet had actually played at our ROXX bar. I was looking forward to seeing all the bands, especially Wrathchild who I’d not seen since 1989!!! Unfortunat ...

- by Big Pav CHASING DRAGONS hosted their EP launch at The Empire in theirs and mine home town of Leeds. Not only were Chasing Dragons performing, they had four more upcoming bands from Leeds and the surrounding areas: IDLE CREEP, PSYCHOBABYLON, GOODBYE SKY HARBOUR and SKARLETT RIOT (a band of note themselves). It was a warm chilled affair and guitarist Zebs introduced himself and of course knew our own Ste ...

Born in the summer of 2010 in North Lincolnshire, Skarlett Riot are a brazen four-piece female fronted Hard rock unit who deliver the melody and grit of Halestorm and Courtney Love fused with the muscular garage rock’n’roll guile of early Guns N Roses. Spitting out fiery riffage and infectious hooks, the northern noiseniks boost a sound that is both truly captivating and anthemic, packed to the brim with at ...