Hard Rock Hell V

scudzilla

The fifth installment of the Hard Rock Hell series takes place Dec 1st-4th in Prestatyn, North Wales (2hrs on ferry, 60 mins on train from Dublin)

Line up so far is

Ace Frehley (Headlining Sat Night, 90 min set, 1978 solo album in entirity plus Kiss classics)
Magnum
Therapy?
The Quireboys
Wolfsbane
Tyketto
Reckless Love
Girlschool
Tygers of Pan Tang
Praying Mantis
Raven
Witchfynde
Black Spiders
Bonafide
Little Caeser
Dan Baird Network (Georgia Satellites)


Most of the top acts still to be announced

www.hardrockhell.com

I'll be driving over from Dublin so if anybody wants a lift i got space for 2, just share ferry costs

scudzilla

Takes place on a Holiday Camp, great atmosphere, and cheap beer

Few pics from last year

RayCon

scudzilla wrote: »

Ace Frehley (Headlining Sat Night, 90 min set, 1978 solo album in entirity plus Kiss classics)

:eek: That would be ****in cool to see :cool:

Just Like Heaven

Way cool festival, line ups are a bit hit and miss but for what you pay it's a great weekend. It being where it is, is handy enough for getting the ferry from Ireland too.

scudzilla

fewtinsoffroth wrote: »

Way cool festival, line ups are a bit hit and miss but for what you pay it's a great weekend. It being where it is, is handy enough for getting the ferry from Ireland too.

Would agree for HRH 1 & 2 but 3 & 4 were awesome line ups, 3 had WASP, Monster Magnet, Terrorvision, Queensryche. 4 had Helloween, MSG, Airbourne, UFC, Uriah Heep.

Over 60 bands, 3 stages, can't go wrong wit the great atmosphere

Just Like Heaven

scudzilla wrote: »

Would agree for HRH 1 & 2 but 3 & 4 were awesome line ups, 3 had WASP, Monster Magnet, Terrorvision, Queensryche. 4 had Helloween, MSG, Airbourne, UFC, Uriah Heep.

Over 60 bands, 3 stages, can't go wrong wit the great atmosphere

Oh okay i might have been mixing it up with Hammerfest, they're all the same. Do they still do the one in Ibiza?

scudzilla

fewtinsoffroth wrote: »

Oh okay i might have been mixing it up with Hammerfest, they're all the same. Do they still do the one in Ibiza?

Yeah, Hard Rock road trip, i'd consider that...if it wasn't Ibiza

scudzilla

More bands added

Black Stone Cherry
Voodoo Six
Million Dollar Reload
Voodoo Johnson

Another headliner is due to be added soon and quite a few of the main stage acts still to come :D

Furious-Red

Hopefully that means BSC will pop over here for a gig

scudzilla

Furious-Red wrote: »

Hopefully that means BSC will pop over here for a gig

Airbourne did last year, played The Olympia 2 das after HRH.

If they don't why not come over to HRH? We got 2 places left in the car

Orange Goblin just been added

scudzilla

Line up for this is now finalised

Thursday

Girlschool
Tygers of Pan Tang
Simon McBride
Praying Mantis
Demon
SilverJet
Kontraband
Cardinal Synne

Friday

Magnum
The Wildhearts :D:D
Therapy?
Lizzy Borden
The Treatment
Wolfsbane
Sahg
Airrace
Pallas
Voodoo Johnson
Voodoo Six
Anzi Destruction
Bonafide
Kobra and the Lotus
Vier
Vega
Exit


Saturday

Ace Frehley
Black Stone Cherry
Michael Monroe
The Quireboys
Huron
Orange Goblin
Tyketto
Reckless Love
Crash Diet
Black Spiders
Witchfynde
Bronz
Agincourt
Dealer
Hammerhead
Little Caeser
Dan Baird Network
Hellfighter
The Rocket Dolls

There's also about 3/4 more to be announced, not major names though

Line up filled up quite nicely, one of the best run festivals i've ever been to.


Edit : Just been informed that it's a solo Ginger show with 'special guests', apparently for some sort of legal reasons they can't call it a 'Wildhearts' show

scudzilla

Furious-Red wrote: »

Hopefully that means BSC will pop over here for a gig

Just announced a Whelans show for 1st Dec

Motley Crue

The temptation would be there, from me anyway, to go to this just to hear Ace sing 'Back In The New York Groove' and see how that place will explode when he plays that song....:D

scudzilla

Motley Crue wrote: »

The temptation would be there, from me anyway, to go to this just to hear Ace sing 'Back In The New York Groove' and see how that place will explode when he plays that song....:D

So come then, it honestly is a fcukin cool festival, so laid back and cheap (3quid a pint cheap;))

scudzilla

I've just won a return ferry trip over to Holyhead for car & 4 passengers wit Nova :D

I'll be using this to go over for HRH, as there's only my wife and I going there's room for 2 more, FREE of charge, just €20 towards petrol.

scudzilla

Just heard that Ace Frehley has pulled out, 5 days before he was due to headline, bust his wrist or some crap.

Not arsed really though as it just means Black Stone Cherry will probably headline.

The organisors are also looking at bringing in another 'available and inthe country' band, 2 names are favourites, Alter Bridge and Motley Crue!!!!!!

dcr22B

My Lord, Pontins Prestatyn, summer of 1988! My first holiday listening to "Appetite for Destruction" on my Walkman!

Never knew a rock festival would be played there!

scudzilla

dcr22B wrote: »

My Lord, Pontins Prestatyn, summer of 1988! My first holiday listening to "Appetite for Destruction" on my Walkman!

Never knew a rock festival would be played there!

Yeah, I been to loads of festivals since '85 and this is probably the best organised I've ever been to.

There's 2, Hard Rock Hell (more older rock/metal) is in December and Hammerfest is in March.
For next March's Hammerfest Anthrax, Skindred, Paradise Lost and shed loads more have been confirmed, check our the websites.

Cheap enough to get to from Dublin and nothing like bein able to return to yer chalet at 5pm for a crap, food and more