Four Korean rock bands will be in the UK from April 24 – May 4, you don’t wanna miss this!
While K-pop continues to garner attention around the world, little is known about Korea?s other music scenes.??Korea Rocks presented by Hyundai Card Music hopes to help change this by showing people that Korea has a rock ?n? roll scene that ? well, to put it in the simplest terms, ?rocks!?
Korea Rocks will showcase some of the top talents in the country?s rock music scene during a UK tour that will include appearances at the Focus Wales and Liverpool Sound City music festivals and club shows in Kent, London, and Manchester. ?Wristbands or tickets will be required for the festival shows at Focus Wales and Liverpool Sound City, but the Korea Rocks club gigs in Kent, London, and Manchester will be?free concerts!
The lineup for the first Korea Rocks features:
Psychedelic garage rock/punk act Galaxy Express (2011 Musician of the Year / 2009 Best Rock Album winner at the Korean Music Awards)
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Post hardcore/post-rock act Apollo 18 (2010 Rookie of the Year at the Korean Music Awards)
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Hard rock / alt-rock act Gate Flowers (2011?Rookie of the Year / 2011 Best Rock Song winner at the Korean Music Awards)
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Groovy psychedelic soul/pop act?Goonamguayeoridingstella ? but you can just call them ?Goonam? if you?d like (nominated for Best Modern Rock Album at the 2012 Korean Music Awards)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BC1myVkmNAA
Here are the tour dates:
April 24: Kent, England @ Tunbridge Wells Forum
April 26: Wrexham, Wales @ The Bank (Focus Wales)
April 27: Wrexham, Wales @ Yales Caf? Bar (Focus Wales)
April 28: London, England @ Barfly
May 1: Manchester, England @ Night & Day Caf?
May 3: Liverpool, England @ Studio 2 (Liverpool Sound City)
May 4: Liverpool, England @ Kazimier Gardens (Liverpool Sound City)
If you’re in the UK you should definitely try to go to these shows! We’ve been wanting to see these bands live for the longest, so make sure to come back and let us know how they were (even though everyone knows they’re gonna be kickass!) Have fun!