Well things have been a little hectic here at Triaxis Towers so this blog is a little delayed in coming out to you lovely people.
August 14th and Triaxis descended upon Catton Hall, Derbyshire to spend the weekend embroiled in a swathe of metal in all its forms. It was an excellent opportunity for us to see some of our favourite bands perform, to meet other unsigned acts, swap stories and to pick the brains of those signed acts that we have admired and who have influenced us.
Friday, we decided to go and see the bands that each of us had an interest in, so split into teams and headed off to the three stages to see what was on offer. We managed, between us, to see bands such as Arch Enemy, Pythia, Gods of Hellfire, Saxon, Katatonia and a few more. CJ and I also managed to meet up with some of the fabulous folk that frequent
UKMU forums and put faces to the names that we know so well.
Saturday was again an opportunity to network in the VIP area, and also a chance to do a pre-gig interview with the lovely Vix, the Angel of Metal. You can view our interview
here.
Again we split into groups and headed off to see what was on offer on the three stages, and between us caught the performances of Wolf (lovely bunch of guys), Kreator, Apocolyptica, Blind Guardian and Cradle of Filth on the main stage. The unsigned stage held a few good bands again, like Switchblade Scream, Inner Eden and our friends Hunted.
CJ, Gio and Krissie of Triaxis with Johannes Axeman and the tech guy from WOLF and the lovely Katie Bruce
Sunday came around very quickly and that meant our turn. So we prepared as best we can at a camp/camper van site and headed off to the back of the Unsigned stage to prepare to go on, just in time to have a quick catch up with our fellow South Wales based pals, Annwn. Then came our turn.
We put the nerves into check, kicked ourselves into gig gear and just did what we normally do… give it 110% and rock out.
(photo thanks to Anthony May)
The crowd were awesome, we asked them to clap they did, we asked for horns and got a sea of them, we couldn’t have asked for more. 30 minutes came and went in the blink of an eye and we would have happily done another 30mins if we could have. Thank you to everyone who came to Bloodstock and stopped by the tent to see our set that day, we really do appreciate it.
(photo thanks to Al Talbot)
After spending some time on the merch stand and chatting to some fans old and new, off we went to do more interviews including one with the awesome DJ Beerman, from Top Rock Radio (you can download his BOA podcast
here).
As the night wore on, we had a few drinks… which resulted in some interesting pictures that you will find on the
Triaxis facebook page, and the photo album
here, we also managed to catch the perfomances of Turisas, Amon Amarth, our friends Eden’s Curse and the fantastic Europe (and yes they eventually did sing
that song).
All in all, a busy but fantastically fun weekend… we just wanted to do it all over again.
(The merchstand: Photo thanks to Womble)
If you want to view the videos from our set that day you can find them here on our
YouTube page, although I've embedded New Day in the bottom of this blog for you lovely folk. We took so much footage I’ve maxed out my hard drive… oops, so there will be a video of our time at Bloodstock coming soon. As soon as it is hosted I will link it in another blog.
Until next time