WOW… what a two day hangover!! THANK YOU to each and every festival goer, band, crew, venue and event partner that came together to revel in the sunshine and enjoy a full on day celebrating live music in Camden Town. As an independent festival organiser, it truly is special for us to see so many…
Today we announce Brighton indie rockers British Sea Power and cult, progressive metal band SikTh, whose festival appearance is their only London show this year!!“The last show we played with SikTh at Camden Rocks was an incredibly intense and intimate show. Hope we can bring that energy to this one. We didn’t want to play London for a…
Our annual Camden Rocks Festival band submit competition is OPEN: http://po.st/CRF18bandsubmit Submit any band to perform mainstage at KOKO London, alongside Maximo Park Official, PIL, Twin Atlantic and more, and be in to win tickets for doing so! The more submissions a band gets, the more chance of grabbing a slot at the festival! So…
Today we are pleased to announce that Mallory Knox, rock rappers Crazy Town and British rap metal band Hacktivist join the Camden Rocks Festival line up! “Camden Rocks is one we’re really looking forward to,” say Mallory Knox ahead of the festival. “We fondly remember playing venues such as The Barfly all the way up to The Roundhouse…
Camden Rocks Festival are proud to announce the first 60 acts for our 2018 lineup! Featuring Mercury-prize nominees Maxïmo Park, post-punk originators Public Image Limited (PiL), Twin Atlantic and many more below. The festival will see over two-hundred high energy bands performing in Camden venues big and small, all along the one mile stretch of…
We are taking submissions for bands to play our regular Camden Rocks Presents gigs, which take place at a variety of Camden music venues! Apply through our band submissions tab here.
Next years Camden Rocks Festival will take place on Saturday 2nd June 2018! A limited number of early birds are on sale at a discounted price here. Throughout the year we showcase new and established bands at our regular Camden Rocks Presents shows. Follow our Camden Rocks Present Facebook and Camden Rocks Presents page for…
Stage times for Camden Rocks Festival 2017 have been released! Free festival programmes will be available on the day containing a clash finder style timetable and festival map. Times subject to change. Please follow our twitter for any last minute changes to the schedule. Click to enlarge. Right click to download.
Today we confirm Swedish rock giants Royal Republic and Leeds’ Pulled Apart By Horses, who just released their new album ‘The Haze’ to high praise from the likes of Kerrang, Q, Upset Magazine, DIY, NME, Uncut and many more. Also joining the bill are some of the best up and coming acts; The London SS,…
We are thrilled to announce FEEDER as the headliners of this year’s festival! Alongside another 30 bands today confirmed to join the line-up on June 3rd. With a career including 25 Top 40 hits, over five million record sales, including three Platinum and two Gold albums, FEEDER returned from hiatus last year in tremendous style….
Today we announce Merseyside’s indie rock legends, The Coral and Sheffield’s Reverend and The Makers, and more will join the 2017 festival line-up! Dubbed simply “amazing” by the NME in a glowing four star review for their triumphant seventh album ‘Distance Inbetween’ in 2016, The Coral will play an exclusive London performance at Camden Rocks…
Today we announce Sheffield’s recently reformed indie pioneers Milburn join the line-up, alongside Camden’s own Carl Barat & The Jackals, The King Blues, The Rifles, The Membranes and many more!!! Speaking ahead of The King Blues’ appearance, frontman Itch says, “We are ridiculously excited to be playing at Camden Rocks this year. Camden was where…
Awake from your Christmas party slumber, we’re back with our first announcement for Camden Rocks Festival 2017! First to be announced out of what will be a 250 band bill are punk legends The Damned, stoner rock giants Orange Goblin, and The Ruts DC. They’ll be joined by Hey! Hello!, The Urban Voodoo Machine, Young…
Stage times & final line up released! Free festival programmes containing clash finder style stage times will be available in the wristband exchange on the day.
Camden Rocks Festival have just announced Californian skate-punks Zebrahead, power-rock force Black Spiders, and, revered for their brutal live shows, Nottingham’s HECK to join the 2016 bill alongside London’s acclaimed noise-pop connoisseurs Yuck, Finnish glam-metal giants Reckless Love, and many more. Reckless Love say, “Camden Town is truly a special place for Reckless Love as…
It is with great sadness that we announce that both Escape The Fate and We Are The Ocean have had to cancel their scheduled performances at Camden Rocks Festival 2016. In a statement, Escape The Fate said: Due to insurmountable scheduling difficulties with a US tour we’re regrettably having to pull out of our performance…
The line-up for Camden Rocks Festival 2016 just got even bigger, with Las Vegas rockers Escape The Fate joining the bill today alongside some massive names, and rising new talents, in rock, indie, metal and punk. Having already confirmed The Cribs, Carl Barat & The Jackals, Glen Matlock (Sex Pistols), Billy Bragg, SikTH, Johnny Foreigner,…
We are delighted to announce our highly-anticipated headline act for the 2016 all-dayer, the UK’s most vital indie-punk trio, The Cribs. Set to close the festival on Saturday June 4th at the Electric Ballroom, this is the band’s first London show since their earth-shattering performance at a sold out Camden Roundhouse last year, following their seminal 2015…
Another batch of killer acts have just been added to this year’s festival, including Yashin, Penetration, Sonic Boom Six and Johnny Foreigner. Further bands also confirmed today include: The St Pierre Snake Invasion, Symmetry, Sky Valley Mistress, Grumble Bee, JOANovARC, Blurred Vision, Desperate Measures, The Fallen State, Duchess and Emily Lee. We will also have…
We’re delighted to announce further bands to join the event today, including Libertines legend Carl Barat & The Jackals, rising UK rockers Creeper, original Sex Pistol Glen Matlock and singer-songwriter and left-wing activist Billy Bragg. Billy Bragg will be in conversation about his new lyric book “A Lover Sings” with Daniel Rachel, acclaimed author of…
The first 60 bands have been announced for the fifth anniversary edition of Camden Rocks Festival! Remember there’s a further 140 bands to be announced yet so be sure to stay tuned for further announcements. You can sign up to our mailing list here to receive festival announcements straight to your inbox. Returning for its…
The first announcement of Artists performing at Camden Rocks Festival 2016 is coming…. NEXT WEEK! Sign up to our mailing list or keep an eye on our Facebook page to be the first to hear news of the announcement.
Highlights from Camden Rocks Festival 2015 are live!
A limited number of super early bird tickets for Camden Rocks Festival taking place on Saturday 4th June 2016 are now available for just £20 (subject to booking fee) here.
The date has been set for Camden Rocks Festival 2016 to take place on Saturday 4th June, 2016. Watch this space for news of early bird tickets and first line up announcements.
Post Camden Rocks blues? Hoorah – Hey! Hello!, Alive With Eyes and Ginger Wildheart are at The Underworld on Thursday 11th June! Tickets are a steal at £10 (subject to booking fee) and available here
We’re just about coming round to recovering from Camden Rocks 2015 and would like to take this opportunity to extend our thanks to everyone involved in turning Camden Town in to a mile long trail blaze of live music on Saturday. 200 bands of new and established status who all supported the festival in the…
Camden Rocks Festival 2015 has now officially sold out across all ticket outlets. There will be no tickets available for sale on the day. If you have already purchased your ticket please see information on our wristband exchange here.
We’re very excited to bring you a Camden Rocks Festival first from our event partners Dr. Martens – an awesome 1985 Laylan Daf Sherpa van with in-built photobooth stationed in the North Yard of the Stables Market (behind Proud)! Festival goers will be able to get in to the van and get interactive and there…
Sheffield metalcore bruisers, While She Sleeps have been announced as the final addition to the Camden Rocks Festival bill! They’ll play before recently announced headliner Bullet For My Valentine on the Dr. Martens & Team Rock partnered Electric Ballroom stage. They’re announced alongside newcomers including Red House Glory, Flies + Flies, The Touch, No Sugar,…
Stage times for Camden Rocks Festival 2015 have been released! A clash finder style timetable will be also available in the free festival programmes handed out at the festivals wristband exchange. CLICK TO ENLARGE:
We’ve been sitting tight on this for months, now we can finally announce the secret headliner for Camden Rocks Festival 2015! They’ve been away from London for two years recording a new album and this is their only London show of 2015. For a band used to playing arena sized gigs around the world, the…
The time has come. Think you know who it is? Our Secret Headliner will be announced on the Camden Rocks Festival Facebook page at 9AM this coming Monday 18th May! It’s going to be the bands ONLY London show of 2015. Be there on time for the announcement and don’t miss out on tickets before…
Camden Rocks are proud to announce that Orange Amplification will once again be the official backline sponsors of the 2015 festival, providing the amplification for seventeen of the twenty most iconic music venues in North London! The premier amplifier company will be powering the sound across all seventeen of the electric stages with an array…
Anybody remember this guy from last year? The Kraken Hunter is back!!! With The Kraken Rum the Official Spirits Sponsor of Camden Rocks Festival, special Kraken Black Spiced Rum cocktails will be available festival wide and The Kraken Rum will also be taking over Proud Galleries hosting a ‘Think Ink’ stable with sampling of their…
Ever been desperate for a cigarette but not wanted to miss your favourite song at the gig? Problem solved! For Camden Rocks vaping leader UK Ecig Store will have vaping areas in five of the key venues on the festival circuit, kitted out with gourmet e-liquid flavours, beginner kits, advanced vaping products, electronic shisa and…
Think you’ll still be standing after 12 hours of live music? Want to continue the revelry in to the wee hours? The last band playing Camden Rocks finishes at midnight but fear not, there are not one but two after shows!! Tickets for these after shows need to be purchased separately to your festival ticket….
Finnish multi-instrumentalist, living, breathing rock and roll legend, Michael Monroe will be strutting his kickass rock band all the way to Camden Town to join us this May 30th. The glam punk hero who first shot to fame as front man for Hanoi Rocks, shows absolutely no sign of slowing down. His last album was…
We’re please to announce a round of hand-picked up and coming artists to join the Camden Rocks Festival Bill! You can preview these artists via our Spotify and You Tube playlists for an idea of which bands to catch live on the day. Asylums Trampolene Billy Bibby (Ex-Catfish & the Bottlemen) Goldray Despite My Deepest…
The line-up for 2015’s Camden Rocks festival has got even bigger, with names including Newcastle indie trio Little Comets, genre-hopping party starters Sonic Boom Six and more joining in the fun. Sonic Boom Six will be showing a different side to their sound this year, with singer Laila K saying: “After killing it last year…
In this latest announcement we are *dred* excited to be able to announce that Welsh radical rockers Skindred have confirmed their addition to the bill! “On Behalf of Skindred I can honestly say that we are honoured to be playing Camden Rocks,” says singer Benji Webbe. “We are bringing a killer set and we will…
Camden Rocks are delighted to announce that influential post-punk band New Model Army and Sex Pistols legend Glen Matlock have been confirmed to join the festival. Along with hotly tipped Birmingham upstarts JAWS, Yorkshire post-hardcore mob Glamour of the Kill and London via Australia two piece blues rockers The Graveltones adding further fuel to the Camden Rocks fire. Former Sex…
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