All Time Low Album Details.

All Time Low have recently announced a whole new set of details regarding their soon to be released album ‘Don’t Panic’.

Only a few months ago, about the time of the release of their single ‘The Reckless and The Brave’, the band announced that they are no longer signed with Interscope records. The boys’ most recent album was produced under Interscope, and the album failed to impress many of the fans. The band have now said that they don’t think the label was for them as there was no one there who fully supported the band’s ideas and what they wanted to do, so they decided it was best to part ways.

The band created the newest record ‘Don’t Panic’ as an unsigned band but are going back to their roots and are releasing it under Hopeless Records, a label they were signed to before Interscope, the first label that they were ever signed to.

In the past week, the fans have been given a track listing,

1. The Reckless and The Brave

2. Backseat Serenade (featuring Cassadee Pope)

3. If These Sheets Were States

4. Somewhere In Neverland 

5. So Long Soldier (featuring Anthony Ranen)

6. The Irony Of Choking On A Life Saver

7. To Live and Let Go

8. Outlines

9. Thanks To You

10. For Baltimore

11. Paint You Wings

12. So Long, and Thanks For All The Booze

Album Artwork,

And an album trailer, following an end of the world theme, and featuring previews of two previously unheard songs, ‘Outlines’ and ‘Somewhere In Neverland’.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUbmmLqI-q4&feature=player_embedded

Pairing up with their good friends Glamour Kills, pre-order packages were also made available to buy. There are seven packs to choose from, including things like t-shirts, crewnecks, poster packs and signed CD’s, (available to buy from www.alltimelow.com). And if you don't pre-order, the album will be available in stores and on iTunes on the 9th of October.

5 Seconds Of Summer/Lewis Watson Acoustic Performance.

Around 150 teenage girls is what you would have found if you were at Hyde Park last Sunday, the 26^th of August, all waiting to catch an acoustic set from teen heartthrobs 5 Seconds Of Summer and Lewis Watson, a good turnout for a small gig only organised and announced a few days prior.

The boys of upcoming Sydney band, 5 Seconds Of Summer and British singer Lewis Watson arrived at the area near the War Memorial at Hyde Park at around 12 o’clock, sending girls running to try and meet the boys or just to secure a good spot.

5 Seconds Of Summer were up first, singing their first released original song, ‘Gotta Get Out’, most girls sitting watching almost speechless, stunned that they were only metres away from Luke Hemmings, Calum Hood, Ashton Irwin and Michael Clifford, drummer Ashton, encouraged girls to help the band out and sing along.

Next from 5SOS was a Justin Bieber cover, ‘As Long As You Love Me’, the fans getting more involved, singing the rap in the song, as the band sat and watched.

Another original was next, ‘Everything I Want’, and their set was finished with ‘Jasey Rae’, an All Time Low cover, also a fan favourite.

Lewis Watson was up next, all the way from Britain on a short, few week visit to Australia. Lewis also performed 4 acoustic songs, including ‘Nothing’, ‘Calling’, ‘Once More’ and ‘Bones’.

After Lewis’ performance, 5 Seconds Of Summer left quickly, said to be heading back to the studio, leaving many disappointed girls having missed out on the opportunity to meet them. Lewis stuck around, determined to meet every single person who wanted a photo or to get something signed.

Lewis hung out with the fans for at least an hour, getting photo after photo, signing One Direction phone case after One Direction phone case, getting gift after gift from his fans.

I think that the day turned out as a great success, with all fans seeming to be extremely impressed with the acoustic performance, even if they did miss out on the chance to meet the 5SOS boys.

Soundwave 2013 Line-up.

The long awaited Soundwave 2013 line-up has finally arrived and it most definitely did not fail to impress. Celebrating a ten year anniversary of the festival for metal, punk and rock lovers, the line-up has topped anything we have ever seen previously.

Festival organiser, AJ Maddah, has managed to please most with the line-up this year. Metal heads were happy with the news that Metallica are being brought down to the festival as headlining act. 

Other headliners including Linkin Park, The Offspring, Paramore and Blink-182, drummer Travis Barker boarding a plane for the first time in 4 years to fly down for the festival.

Myself along with many other pop punk lovers were extremely impressed with the line-up, a whole string of pop-punk bands attending the festival, a very similar set to those featured on this year’s Vans Warped Tour.

At the festival, I’m most looking forward to seeing All Time Low, having missed their most recent shows in Australia, Counter Revolution 2011, also through Soundwave touring. I’m also keen to see Pierce The Veil, Sleeping With Sirens, Paramore, Blink-182, The Wonder Years and Sum 41.

The second announcement, announced just over a week after the first, added another set of huge names to the line-up, including Slayer, Cypress Hill, Bullet For My Valentine, Bring Me The Horizon and The Amity Affliction.

The festival is predicted to sell out in record time, 85% of tickets for Sydney, Brisbane and Melbourne being sold through pre-sale within 24 hours of being on sale. The remaining tickets go on sale to the general public on Thursday 23^rd August.