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All you need to do is answer the following question:

Which band headlined the Saturday night of the inaugral HARD ROCK HELL in December 2007? Send your answer via the contact us link at the top of the Baconmusic website.

Please include your full name, address and e-mail address in your message.

HARD ROCK HELL takes place at Pontins Prestatyn between Thursday 2nd and Saturday 4th December. For more information, visit www.hardrockhell.com

Please note that the competition tickets do not include accommodation.

The competition closing date is 31st October.

Winners will be contacted by e-mail shortly after the closing date.

Baconmusic is giving away a pair of tickets to the festival.

Using the ‘Contact Us’ form at the top of the Baconmusic homepage, please answer the following question:

In what year did TWISTED SISTER headline the inaugural ‘Hard Rock Hell’ festival in the UK?

Please include your name, e-mail and address in your message. Winners will be informed on Monday 9th August.

The BLOODSTOCK OPEN AIR METAL FESTIVAL 2010 will take place at Catton Hall, Derbyshire from 12th – 15th August.

Weekend tickets are on sale now at www.bloodstock.uk.com

BAND LINE UP SO FAR
OPETH : CHILDREN OF BODOM : FEAR FACTORY : TWISTED SISTER : MESHUGGAH :
OBITUARY : ROSS THE BOSS (with Scott Columbus) : RAGE : ANDROMEDA : BEHEMOTH : DEVIN TOWNSEND : DORO : LEAVES EYES : SUFFOCATION : CANNIBAL CORPSE : KORPIKLAANI : GWAR : AMORPHIS : GOJIRA : SONATA ARCTICA : GORGOROTH : BLOODBATH : BLACK SPIDERS : EDGUY : ENSIFERUM : ONSLAUGHT : SNAKEBITE :
HOLY MOSES : BENEDICTION : ENFORCER : KILLING MACHINE : MITHRAS : THE PROPHECY STEELWING : REGARDLESS OF ME : WITCHSORROW : EVILE : BONDED BY BLOOD : MORDECAI
PURIFIED IN BLOOD : DESECRATION : POWERWOLF : HOSPITAL OF DEATH

www.bloodstock.uk.com

*UPDATE 9th AUGUST – Competition now closed, thanks for all of your entries. The winner will be e-mailed today**

Using the ‘Contact Us’ form at the top of the Baconmusic homepage, please answer the following question:

In what year did ‘I Want To Know What Love Is’ top the UK charts?

Please include your name, e-mail and address in your message. Albums will be sent to the winners in August.

Rock icons, FOREIGNER, really Can’t Slow Down and have added an appearance at London’s prestigious iTunes Festival to their 2010 accomplishments.

2010 has proved a busy year for the multi-platinum selling band: they released the critically acclaimed album Can’t Slow Down, which includes radio hits – When it comes to Love and Fool For You Anyway and by the end of the year, will have completed over 100 live dates on 2 continents.

FOREIGNER have now been added to the iTunes line-up, and will perform at London’s legendary Roundhouse on Sunday, 25th July.

The itunes festival runs for the entire month of July – that’s 31 nights of music, featuring over 60 diverse artists in a supremely intimate venue. Foreigner’s performance will be available to download exclusively from iTunes 48 hours after the show and the highlights of this year’s festival can been seen on ITV 1 & ITV 2, as well as being broadcast on XFM.

Of their forthcoming iTunes Festival appearance, founder member, Mick Jones, says “The band are thrilled to have the opportunity to play the iTunes festival – we’re really looking forward to the intimacy of the Roundhouse. The heat is on us to give a killer performance and play the best we can for the live recording on iTunes and we’re ready to roll!” Kelly Hansen adds “I think it’s great to record and release a live show immediately. It may not be perfect, but it separates the men from the boys. Too many groups now get away with murder and aren’t really performing “live”. This itunes presentation will capture a moment in time, at this awesome, historic venue. And it will also capture, the naked energy that makes every live show unique!”
Tickets are free for fans of iTunes and customers of iTunes. Tickets can be applied for on the Festival’s facebook page. For more information go to:- www.itunesfestival.co.uk or www.facebook.com/iTunesUK or www.twitter.com/itunesfestival

FOREIGNER will also perform at the High Voltage Festival in Victoria Park on Saturday 24th July.

Everyone knows more FOREIGNER than they think… classics such as “Cold As Ice”, “Waiting for a Girl Like You” and the number 1 hit “I Want to Know What Love Is” are the reason the band have racked up more than 70 million album sales worldwide! Their mix of blustery blues and impeccably crafted pop continues to captivate generation after generation of music fans.

Founder member Mick Jones - lead guitars and vocals – is joined by Kelly Hansen on lead vocal (ex Hurricane); Tom Gimbel (long term touring with Aerosmith) on guitar, saxophone, flute and backing vocals; on keyboards, Michael Bluestein (Stevie Nicks, Enrique Iglesias and Anastacia); Jeff Pilson (ex Dokken, Dio and MSG) on bass; and on drums, Jason Sutter (Chris Cornell, Smash Mouth).
Can’t Slow Down is out now on earMUSIC (Edel’s international rock and pop label) as well as CD the album is available as a digital download as are the singles When it comes to Love and Fool For You Anyway.

Watch the video in 2 parts below:

Part 1

Part 2

The BLOODSTOCK festvial, takes place at Catton Hall, Derbyshire on the weekend of the 14,15 & 16th of August.

With a terrific line-up, boasting the likes of EUROPE, CARCASS, ARCH ENEMY, CRADLE OF FILTH, SAXON, BLIND GUARDIAN, APCALYPTICA, AMON AMARTH, ENSLAVED, CANDLEMASS, MUNICIPAL WASTE, THE HAUNTED, KREATOR and SODOM….amongst many others of course, BLOODSTOCK is sure to be one of the festival highlights of the summer, and now ranks with the best metal festivals in Europe.

For full festival details, visit www.bloodstock.uk.com

Baconmusic will be bringing full coverage of the Bloodstock festival. Watch out for a full festival review, exclusive photographs, and exclusive video interviews.

BE THERE!

With a terrific line-up, boasting the likes of EUROPE, CARCASS, ARCH ENEMY, CRADLE OF FILTH, SAXON, BLIND GUARDIAN, APCALYPTICA, AMON AMARTH, ENSLAVED, CANDLEMASS, MUNICIPAL WASTE, THE HAUNTED, KREATOR and SODOM….amongst many others of course, BLOODSTOCK is sure to be one of the festival highlights of the summer, and now ranks with the best metal festivals in Europe.

For full festival details, visit www.bloodstock.uk.com

To win a pair of tickets, please register as a new user on Baconmusic, and send a message to me, (James) with the answer to the follwing question, plus your FULL NAME and FULL POSTAL ADDRESS. So here’s the question:

WHICH BAND HEADLINED THE SATURDAY NIGHT OF THE VERY FIRST BLOODSTOCK OPEN AIR FESTIVAL IN 2005?

THE CLOSING DATE IS MIDNIGHT ON 31ST JULY 2009

The winner will be informed by e-mail, and tickets will be sent directly by post.

Best of luck!

Baconmusic will be bringing full coverage of the Bloodstock festival. Watch out for a full festival review, exclusive photographs, and exclusive video interviews.

BE THERE!

Part One: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIg6SV8UObc&feature=channel_page

Part Two: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BJsVHES9Qs

BEST LIVE GIG:

1. Danger Danger
2. Journey
3. Billy Idol
4. The Maccabees
5. Ratt

BEST ALBUM:

1. Judas Priest – Nostradamus
2. Testament – The Formation of Damnation
3. Whitesnake – Good To Be Bad
4. Cavalera Conspiracy – Inflikted
5. Kings of Leon – Only By The Night

BEST SONG:

1. Judas Priest – Prophecy
2. Motorhead – Rock Out
3. Amon Amarth – Live For The Kill
4. Whitesnake – Lay Down Your Love
5. MGMT – Kids

BEST BAND:

1. Firewind
2. Judas Priest
3. Kings of Leon
4. Motorhead
5. Alestorm

BEST NEWCOMER:

1. Alestorm
2. H.E.A.T.
3. MGMT
4. Stone Gods
5. Glasvegas

BEST DEBUT ALBUM:

1. Alestorm – Capt. Morgan’s Revenge
2. Cavalera Conspiracy – Inflikted
3. Voodoo Six – First Hit for Free
4. Stone Gods – Silver Spoons and Broken Bones
5. One Way Mirror – One Way Mirroe

BEST MUSIC DVD:

1. Paradise Lost – The Anatomy of Melancholy
2. Gamma Ray – Hell Yeah! The Awesome Foursome, Live in Montreal
3. Arctic Monkeys – Live at the Apollo
4. Firewind – Live Premonition
5. Within Temptation – The Black Symphony

BEST VIDEO CLIP:

1. Airbourne – Runnin’ Wild
2. Children of Bodom – Blooddrunk
3. Dan Black – Hypntz
4. Motorhead – Rock Out
5. Eluveitie – Inis Mona

BEST UK FESTIVAL:

1. Bloodstock Open Air
2. Hard Rock Hell
3. Firefest
4. Reading & Leeds
5. Glastonbury