Long-lived lords of Los Angeles drone-psychedelia The Warlocks bring the darkness and the volume to a tiny cupboard somewhere in Southampton.

The terrible trio have a new album in the offing, and so Future of the Left cope manfully with small crowds and broken amps as their tour kicks off in Southsea.

Plucky genre-mashing Canucks Cancer Bats return to Portsmouth for their third appearance, and totally own the stage on their first headliner.

Still very much in business despite never quite meeting their hype, … And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead return to Portsmouth with a pocketful of chaos.

Helmet-wearin’ arch-top-pluckin’ oddball bluesman legend Bob Log III arrives in bohemian Brighton; won’t someone please put their boob in his drink?

Despite a dwindling crowd and playing co-headline with dated one-hit-wonders The Rasmus, Backyard Babies give it all they’ve got by the British seaside.

Close your eyes and let yourself go; Japan’s post-rock maestros Mono conjure the cold majesty of nature in a dingy Brighton seafront club.

Double-decade veterans of death and gore metal Cannibal Corpse slay four hundred sweaty metalheads with their downtuned grind and blast-beat assault.

Delayed but undeterred by the British weather, New Jersey retropunks The Gaslight Anthem run through their Springsteenish tunes to a packed house in Portsmouth.

The Wedgewood Rooms play host as Architects and Misery Signals roll into Portsmouth to dish out the metal smackdown in the depths of the winter.