Here Are The First Round Of Finalists For Fireball’s Hottest Band 2019 Competition

The first round of successful applicants for Fireball’s Hottest Band 2019 Competition in association with Kerrang! has been announced!

Narrowed down from a massive 350 entries nationwide are 30 ace bands, who are set to play across four regional live heats in Sheffield, London, Newcastle and Birmingham.

The winning bands are… Red Winter, Without Andrew, The Human Project, Counting Coins, Deadset Dream, W.O.R.M, Northern Horizon, Deadbeat Paradise, Digits, Thieves of Liberty, LoGox, Too Close For Missiles, The Lagan, WACO, The Famous Class, These Five Years, Mick O’Toole, The Run Up, Death By Shotgun, Black Water County, Sinful Maggie, Wood & Nails, Lightblue, Blick Black & The Chilihollers, One State Drive, Worry, and Brixton Alley.

Congrats to you all!

Fireball UK Brand Ambassador (and Haggard Cat mega-dude) Matt Reynolds says: “Things are really starting to hot up (pun intended) now as we prepare to go into the live heat stages of Fireball's Hottest Band Competition. This is where I start to get really excited for the Fuelling the Fire tour because it's the first time I get a look in at what really shapes the tour for the year: the local scene in each city.

“I also finally get to see who's going to be our opener for each show! From the sheer quality of all the entries so far I can tell I'm about to delve into a whole lot of amazing underground live acts over the coming weeks - it's going to make it so hard to pick the finalists; it's a tough job, but someone has to do it!”

Fireball’s Hottest Band Competition 2019 Live Heats look like this:

September 2
London O2 Academy Islington
+ Special guests TBA
(w/ The Lagan, WACO, The Famous Class, These Five Years, Mick O’Toole, The Run Up, Death By Shotgun, Black Water County, Sinful Maggie)

September 5
Newcastle O2 Academy
+ Special guests TBA
(w/ Northern Horizon, Deadbeat Paradise, Digits, Thieves of Liberty, LoGox, Too Close For Missiles)

September 6
Sheffield O2 Academy
+ Special guests Sweet Little Machine
(w/ Red Winter, Without Andrew, The Human Project, Counting Coins, Deadset Dream)

September 7
Birmingham O2 Academy
+ Special guests Templeton Pek
(w/ Wood & Nails, Lightblue, Blick Black & The Chilihollers, One State Drive, Worry, Brixton Alley

The dates for Fireball’s Fuelling The Fire Tour are on sale now and will run as follows:

Deccember

2 London O2 Shepherd's Bush Empire
3 London O2 Shepherd's Bush Empire
5 Glasgow O2 Academy
6 Newcastle O2 Academy
7 Bristol O2 Academy
9 Manchester O2 Ritz
10 Sheffield O2 Academy
12 Birmingham O2 Academy
13 Oxford O2 Academy
14 Bournemouth O2 Academy

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