STONE FREE FESTIVAL update
With this year’s Stone Free Festival at London’s O2 Areana just under a month away, more exciting additions to the line-up have been announced, in addition to the full running order for the weekend.
We’ve also been chatting to some of the bands who are playing the festival – watch out for our feature in the next few days. Meanwhile, as they say, FYI…
On Saturday STONE FREE FESTIVAL will be headlined by legendary German rockers Scorpions bringing their full production for their only UK show this year, with thrash titans Megadeth also giving their only UK performance of the year and sleazy Californian good-time rockers Buckcherry joining them in the main arena.
The Indigo at The O2 on Saturday features headliners Orange Goblin and Stone Broken – the latter one of the hardest working live bands in the country. Meanwhile the Orange Amps Stage on Saturday will have the likes of British hard-rock bands Aaron Buchanan & The Cult Classics and and Daxx & Roxanne whilst Sundaywelcomes the thunderous Black Country natives The Bad Flowers and the dynamic soulful Scots The Rising Souls.
In the arena on Sunday, joining prog-rock royalty YES featuring ARW, who are celebrating their 50th Anniversary will be former Supertramp frontman Roger Hodgson, the hugely acclaimed Liverpool band Anathema and some hard blues rock from Joanne Shaw Taylor.
In Indigo at The O2 on Sunday, former Poison and The Winery Dogs guitar hero Richie Kotzen will be closing the stage, performing tracks from his prolific catalogue. Also appearing will be NYC 80’s hard-rockers Tyketto and The Wildhearts frontman Ginger Wildheart.
The Fullline up and stage times are as follwos:
SATURDAY The O2 Arena
21.15 – Scorpions
19.30-20.45 – Megadeth
18.25-19.05 – Buckcherry
17.30 – Doors open
Indigo at The O2
22.30-close – Shot Through the Heart
17.15-18.00 – Orange Goblin
16.00-16.45 – Stone Broken
15.00-15.30 – Warrior Soul
14.00-14.30 – Triggerfinger
13.05-13.35 – The Picturebooks
12.15-12.45 – Pete Spiby & the Beat Alls
11.30 – Doors open
Orange Amps Stage
16.45-17.15 – Aaron Buchanan & The Cult Classics
15.30-16.00 – Daxx & Roxanne
14.30-15.00 – Dirty Thrills
13.30-14.00 – Anchor Lane
12.45-13.15 – Killit
12.00-12.30 – Nitroville
All Bar One – The Speakeasy Lounge
16.40-17.00 – Tiffany Stevenson
16.15-16.35 – Abigoliah Schamaun
15.50-16.10 – Fin Taylor
15.30-15.45 – Garrett Millerick MC
14.00-15.30 – Lord Sinclair’s Klassic Rock Quiz
12.00 – Acoustic acts (to be announced)
11.30 – Doors open
Cinema 13:00 – Wayne’s World
SUNDAY
The O2 Arena
20.15 – YES ft. ARW
18.45-19.45 – Roger Hodgson of Supertramp
17.45-18.25 – Joanne Shaw Taylor
16.50-17.30 – Anathema
16.00 – Doors open
Indigo at The O2
16.00-16.45 – Richie Kotzen
14.45-15.30 – Tyketto
13.45-14.15 – Ginger Wildheart
12.50-13.20 – Jared James Nichols
12.00-12.30 – Godsticks
11.30 – Doors open
Orange Amps Stage
15.30-16.15 – The Bad Flowers
14.15-14.45 – The Rising Souls
13.30-14.00 – Fire Red Empress
12.45-13.15 – Vambo
12.00-12.30 – StoneWire
All Bar One – The Speakeasy Lounge
10.30-close – Aftershow
16.40-17.00 – Glenn Wool
16.15-16.35 – Chris Betts
15.50-16.10 – Bec Hill
15.30-15.45 – Garrett Millerick MC
12.00 – Acoustic acts (to be announced)
11.30 – Doors open
Cinema 13.00 – Barbarella
As well as performances from world-class bands, all the festival extras will also be back this year including the beer garden, where the Orange Amps Stage will be your soundtrack to the afternoon. To gently ease us into each day, Richer Sounds will be providing some of the best upcoming acoustic acts in the country at The Speakeasy Lounge as well as Saturday’s Vinyl Fair, a fabulous Saturday Night After Show Party and Rock Royalty VIP packages.
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Feature by Mike Ainscoe. You can find more of Mike’s writing on Louder Than War at his author’s archive and his website is www.michaelainscoephotography.co.uk
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