The Cancer Bats - Lock Up stage

This ground-pounding hardcore quartet, fronted by Liam Cormier, were relentlessly aggressive, leaping from side-to-side on the stage and roaring directly at the audience. 

They’re a straight edge group, but with the blade of a knife, taking the crowd hostage whilst they slowly develop Stockholm Syndrome and fall in love with the aural onslaught. Cormier announced that they were the “spirit of apocalypse”, and they certainly unleashed a hellishly brilliant show – so good that you may just have to repent.

James Wright