Posted on February 19, 2010 - by Editor

SLAM DUNK FESTIVAL 2010 FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT!

May 2010 bank holiday weekend sees the annual return of SLAM DUNK FESTIVAL in the UK with this year’s event planned to be bigger and better; doubling in size. Due to the growth, the Leeds site and format remains unchanged, though the festival grows with the addition of another site, this time in London, the day before.

The site for the London date has been confirmed at the Hatfield Campus of The Univesity Of Hertfordshire. This is just north of London, with a 21 minute direct train from Kings Cross, and being on a junction of the A1, it has excellent transport routes. The site allows the same capacity and format as Leeds, so the festival now has the capacity of 10,000 people over the 2 days. The same bands will play both days, and the first batch of confirmed acts announced:

Confirmed Acts:
New Found Glory (UK 2010 festival exclusive), The King Blues, Capdown (exclusive UK reunion show), Four Year Strong, Set Your Goals ,RX Bandits, Out Of Sight and Every Avenue confirmed More bands being added and more announcements to come all throughout Feb and March 2010.

SLAM DUNK FESTIVAL  (40+ bands to play/be announced over 7 stages)

Saturday 29th May: ‘Slam Dunk Festival South’, University of Hertfordshire
7 stages, 5000 capacity

Sunday 30th May: ‘Slam Dunk Festival North’, Leeds University
7 stages, 5000 capacity

Festival Promoter Ben Ray says “I am extremly pleased that the success of previous years has allowed me to launch Slam Dunk South which allows even more people to get the chance to see so many quality bands.  I think people enjoy the fact that it isn’t just one or two big stages and instead people can move freely between 7 stages, all with music they like, and see everyone from large international bands to great new UK talent. I really think I owe a lot to the small upcoming UK bands!”

SLAM DUNK actually started as a rock club night in 2001 at the legendary Cockpit in Leeds and specialised in the pop punk / emo / ska punk / hardcore genres, and the brand also promoted shows by some of the most popular of the bands in the genres across Leeds.

2008 saw the format change from a one stage festival to the multi stage festival at Leeds University it is today. 2009 saw the festival grow even more to a total of seven stages and with an overall capacity of 5000.

The list of previous bands includes Paramore, Fall Out Boy, Thursday, The Academy Is, Kids in Glass Houses, Hundred Reasons, Boys like Girls, The Blackout, Twin Atlantic, The Ghost of a Thousand, Devil sold his Soul, Attack! Attack!, Zebrahead, Sonic Boom Six, Fightstar and many more.

SLAM DUNK Festival Official Information:
Tickets are £25 per day
Official box office: www.lunatickets.co.uk
Website: www.slamdunkmusic.com (please note new site)
Presale: To people that have registered on www.slamdunkmusic.com – 10am, Saturday 20th February. General sale Monday 22nd February – 9am