07) The Bamboozle Festival set to return in 2023
New Jersey’s The Bamboozle Festival will return in 2023 for the first time in over a decade. The event is currently scheduled to kick off on May 5-7th for it’s 20th anniversary. More information on the festival can be found here.
Founder John D’Esposito comments:
“We’re back. The clowns are safe and home where they belong. 2023 can’t come soon enough. Let’s get it.“
08) Shadows Fall to tentatively return to the stage for reunion gig
Shadows Fall drummer Jason Bittner recently appeared on Who’s Your Band. During the discussion, the drummer revealed the group has a show scheduled for later this year.
Bittner expressed the following in the above video:
“It’s not me. I’ll tell you that right now — it’s not me. Some other guys have another new band that they just announced not too long ago [Living Wreckage], so they’re obviously preoccupied doing other things. With the pandemic, there’s plenty of time sitting at home that I would think that there would be plenty of time to write other material too. But, hey… I don’t wanna point any fingers; I’m not gonna push any buttons. What I can tell you is that we tried to get together last year for a reunion. We have a date again scheduled for this year. That’s all I can tell you right now. We’re not gonna say we’re still gonna be on hiatus, but we’re not gonna say we’re active either. We wanna just try to play a show. That’s the point of right now — can we play a show first, and then everything else that comes after that, like talk of writing a record or talk of writing an EP… We’ve already talked about this — we said, if anything, we would write an EP first. We wouldn’t write a full-length; we’d probably just four-song increments or something.”
