Kerrang! Tour 2016 – Day Four – Glasgow

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Kerrang! Tour 2016 – Day Four – Glasgow

The afternoon gets off to a rough start as we bump into a panicky ROAM on the snowy streets of Glasgow, who have a broken kick pedal and have very little time to find a new one. Argh.

Inside the venue, Biters frontman Tuk does his best to woo Kerrang! with a Kiss-themed Valentine’s note before the Big Day tomorrow. It’s kinda sweet, if you like that sort of thing. Check out his romantic side here.

Clearly still feeling the love, Biters invite two members of the crowd up onstage tonight to chug pints of beer, though it doesn’t end especially well as one particularly rowdy fan lobs his into the crowd. It nearly hits us, but it’s fine, because beer.

Instrument malfunctions all taken care of, ROAM have no problems winning over this evening’s audience, revealing what they’ve been getting up to backstage with dressing room buddies Biters before the set (which we can’t repeat) and kicking off a huge wall of death. Pop-punk walls of death aren’t quite the same as the usual ones, but it’s effective all the same. Job done.

Tonight’s massive venue does Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes a lot of favours, as fans whizz past him on the floor during the 45-second Jackals, while guitarist Dean shreds on top of the audience for Devil Inside Me. It’s actually exhausting watching this every night – we’re stumped how they keep it up.

After spending the day on mandatory vocal rest, Sum 41’s Deryck looks and sounds even more excited to be in Glasgow tonight, with an opening one-two-three of Over My Head (Better Off Dead), Motivation and The Hell Song, and another killer (no filler) set, jam-packed with hits. So relieved we’ve got a day off tomorrow before Newcastle…