Hit The Deck festival returns for 2015

By Scott Munro
( Metal Hammer )
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Skindred, Frnkiero And The Cellabration, While She Sleeps and Cancer Bats among first acts to be confirmed

The Hit The Deck festival will return to Bristol and Nottingham this year, organisers have confirmed.

The indoor event takes place across five venues in each city on April 25 & 26. And among the first batch of artists to be confirmed on the bill are Skindred, Frnkiero And The Cellabration, While She Sleeps and Cancer Bats.

Other artists announced are A Great Big Pile Of Leaves, Allusondrugs, Ashes, As It Is, Beasts, City Of Ships, Dead!, Dead Harts, Decade, Devil Sold His Soul, The Early November, Idiom, Junius, Rolo Tomassi, The Swellers, Thomas Nicholas Band, Tim Vantol, When We Were Wolves, You Blew It and Zoax.

More bands will be announced in due course and tickets will be made available via alt-tickets.co.uk.

Scott Munro
Scott Munro
Louder e-commerce editor

Scott has spent more than 30 years in newspapers, magazines and online as an editor, production editor, sub-editor, designer, writer and reviewer. Scott joined our news desk in the summer of 2014 before moving to the e-commerce team in 2020. Scott maintains Louder’s buyer’s guides, scouts out the best deals for music fans and reviews headphones, speakers, books and more. He's written more than 11,000 articles across Louder, Classic Rock, Metal Hammer and Prog and has previous written for publications including IGN, the Sunday Mirror, Daily Record and The Herald, covering everything from daily news and weekly features, to video games, travel and whisky. Scott's favourite bands are Fields Of The Nephilim, The Cure, New Model Army, All About Eve, The Mission, Cocteau Twins, Drab Majesty, Marillion and Rush.