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GRIFTER CONFIRMED FOR BLOODSTOCK!!!
Grifter are extremely pleased to announce we will be appearing at this year’s Bloodstock Festival to be held at CattonPark, Derbyshire from August 8th – 11th. We are honoured to be playing the Sophie Lancaster stage on Sunday the 11th. Also playing this year’s festival are legends such as Slayer, King Diamond, Lamb Of God, Voivod, Anthrax, Exodus, Accept, Devildriver, Death Angel and way too many more to mention here.
Grifter are ready to start the recording of the next album which will appear later in the year on Ripple Music on CD and…VINYL!!!! Guinness splatter vinyl no less!!! The working title for the album is “The Return Of The Bearded Brethren” and will feature artwork from up and coming tattoo artist Jamie Campbell. Tracks fro the album will include Braggard’s Boast, Black Gold, It’s Not Me It’s You, She Mountain, Princess Leia, Fire Water, American Paranoiac Blues, The Return Of The Bearded Brethren, Bow Down To The Monkey and a cover of Black Sabbath’s Fairies Wear Boots that has become a popular fixture of the live set.
Forthcoming Grifter Live Dates
Sunday May 26th – The Green Baize,Weston-Super-Mare…Twisted Delusions 2 festival
Saturday June 8th – The Black Heart,Camden with support from Stubb and Mother Corona
Friday July 26th – Gulliver’s,Manchester with support from XII Boar, The Bendal Interlude, Widows and Blastronaut
Saturday July 27th – The 2 Pigs,Cheltenham with support from Smoke Pilot and Welcome Back Delta
Friday August 2nd – The Hog And Hosper,Pontypool
Saturday August 3rd – TBC
Sunday August 11th – BLOODSTOCK!!!
Saturday October 19th – The Wharf, Tavistock…Tavisrock charity all dayer
Friday November 29th – HARD ROCK HELL!!!
MORE GRIFTER SHOWS!!!
We’re very pleased to announce we will be playing a brace (that’s two) shows in July.
Friday July 26th, we’ll be at The 2 Pigs in Cheltenham with our very good friends Smoke Pilot and local sleazy heavy rockers Welcome Back Delta.
Saturday July 27th, we’ll be at Gulliver’s in Manchester courtesy of Submerge Promotions with an awesome supporting line-up of XII Boar, The Bendal Interlude, Widows and Blastronaut.
GRIFTER SPECIAL OFFER!!!
Happy new year everyone. We thought we would start this year off with a bit of a giveaway!!!
Back in May 2012 excellent new label Stargun Music issued their first album, a compilation entitled Sonic Titans featuring the cream of the UK crop…XII Boar, Trippy Wicked, Goat Leaf, The Bad Channels, Stubb, Steak, Enos, Slabdragger, The Sons Of Alpha Centauri, The Neon Tigers and, of course, Grifter.
We have 13 copies of this album going begging in our posession so the first 13 people to order either a t-shirt (both designs still available), a copy of our album or a CD/T-shirt bundle will receive a free copy of Sonic Titans…over an hour of free kick-ass music!!!
1ST SHOW OF 2013…THE WINTER WARMER WEEKENDER IN BRIXTON!!!
We’re very pleased to announce that our first show of 2013 will be at The Windmill in Brixton on Saturday February 2nd courtesy of the fine people at When Planets Collide. This is an impressive 2 day event that the guys are putting on featuring some killer bands such as Black Moth, Groan, XII Boar, Enos, Iron Witch, Gurt and War Wolf…14 bands in all over the 2 days!!!
GRIFTER HEADLINE SCRUFFY MURPHY’S “WINTER WARMER” ALL DAYER!!!
We are very pleased to announce that we will be headlining the “Winter Warmer” all dayer at Scruffy Murphy’s in Birmingham on Saturday November 10th. The day features a line-up of incredible acts including Shebrew, Desert Storm, XII Boar, Steak, Ashes Of Iron, Ten Foot Wizard and one more act TBC. It’s an honour to be asked to headline this show, particularly with the high quality of the other acts playing. It promises to be a killer day!!!
GRIFTER ON METAL HAMMER CD!!!
We are very pleased to announce that Grifter’s track “The Voices” taken from the Catacomb Records EP “The Simplicity Of The Riff Is Key” has been included on this month’s Metal Hammer covermount CD. Also on the CD are tracks by up and coming UK bands and Grifter buddies Desert Storm, XII Boar, Mother Corona, Gonga, Steak, Thorun and many more.
Grab yourselves a copy and check out some awesome bands.