Wednesday 26 September 2018

Competition time!

*** Win two tickets to an FM show of your choice ***

THIS COMPETITION IS NOW CLOSED.

We're having a great deal of fun touring across Europe with Saxon and Raven... It's not all hard work! We want you to join in by getting your thinking caps on...

FM in Frankfurt - 20 Sept 2018 - Saxon Thunderbolt Tour - with guest keyboardist Didge Digital


We set the milometer to zero on our splitter bus at the start of this mammoth trek. Your job is to work out how many miles (or kilometres) will be on the clock when we get back to London after our last show with Saxon in Manchester.

FM mileometer London 19 Sept 2018


Comment below or email your answer to us (please put "FM Mileage Competition" in the subject line).

The person who guesses the closest figure to our final mileage tally will receive two tickets to the FM headline show of their choice. In the event of a tie a winner will be selected at random from the tied entries.


Click the poster below or see the FM Live page for all the dates.

Closing date: Sunday 21 October 2018.

Get your calculators out!

Saxon / FM / Raven / Wayward Sons - tour poster Sept-Oct 2018


FM return to Portugal in January

FM will be heading back to Portugal next January to play at Cascais Rock Fest.

Line-up for the two-day festival at Salao Preto e Prata | Casino Estoril:

Friday 25 January 2019
Stage Dolls
Hardline
FM

Saturday 26 January 2019
D-A-D
Gene Loves Jezebel
Alcoolemia

Tickets are on sale now at Ticketline.

Please see the FM Live page for details of all our upcoming shows.

FM at Cascais Rock Fest - Portugal - 25 Jan 2019


Monday 24 September 2018

Lyric video for "Too Much Of A Good Thing" from Atomic Generation

Lyric video for "Too Much Of A Good Thing" from the FM album ATOMIC GENERATION - released via Frontiers Records on 30 March 2018.

Get your copy on CD/LP/MP3 at http://radi.al/AtomicGeneration.



Wednesday 19 September 2018

Holmfirth Picturedrome - rescheduled date

We are pleased to confirm the rescheduled date for our show at Holmfirth Picturedrome is Saturday 16 February 2019.

Tickets for this date are available now from Ticketmaster.
Tickets for the original date remain valid for this rescheduled show.

For details of all our upcoming shows please see the FM Live page.

FM at Holmfirth Picturedrome - 16 February 2019 - poster


Friday 7 September 2018

FM confirmed as Special Guests for Saxon Thunderbolt Tour

We are delighted to be confirmed as Special Guests on the Saxon Thunderbolt Part 3 Tour starting 19 September and we wish Dave Meniketti all the best for a swift recovery.

Please note we are busy trying to reschedule our 5th and 6th October dates at Cambridge Junction and Holmfirth Picturedrome.

We look forward to seeing you in Belgium, Germany, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, Italy, France, Spain, Netherlands and the UK!

Please see the FM Live page for booking info.

Saxon - FM - Raven - Wayward Sons - Sept-Oct 2018 - tour poster


Press release from Saxon:

It is with great regret that we announce the San Francisco rockers Y&T will not be joining us on the Saxon Thunderbolt European Tour this Autumn as previously announced.

Y&T guitarist Dave Meniketti has a serious back injury that has meant he cannot travel to Europe for the shows.

Dave Meniketti states:

“It is with great disappointment that I announce Y&T's decision to withdraw from Saxon's upcoming fall Europe/UK tour”

As many of you already know, I severely injured my back in July and have been under the care of a sports doctor/back specialist ever since. After I received two rounds of cortisone injections to reduce the inflammation, we all had high hopes I'd get "back on the field" in time for this tour. But as many people know, recovering from this kind of back injury takes time. 

Given the advice of my doctor and the urging of everyone around me, really, the only course of action for my long-term health is to stay home and properly complete my recovery. This decision has weighed heavily on me--and believe me, I'd much rather be on tour playing for all of you--but getting on an 11-hour flight and sitting for five weeks on drives of up to 10+ hours every day in a van traveling 11,000 miles/18,000 km would be a reckless approach at this stage of my recovery. I can't risk another setback like I experienced last month when I played a show against my doctor's advice.

I apologize to the fans and to our buddies in Saxon for any inconveniences and disappointments that this has caused. We're big fans of Saxon and consider them to be one of the best live straight-ahead rock bands out there, so we're all disappointed to miss what surely would've been a great time on tour with them.

For my part, and for Y&T going forward, I'm on the mend and can't wait to get back up on stage later this year. To our amazing fans in Europe and the UK, again, my apologies. We'll be back in 2019”


Saxon have added UK rock band FM to the bill as Y&T’s replacement for all the shows.

Biff Byford “We were gutted to hear of Dave’s injury and we wish him all the best in a full recovery very soon. We are pleased to announce FM are joining us now on all the dates. We are old friends and it’s going to be fun touring with them”

NWOBHM Stalwarts Raven open the bill on all European shows and up and coming UK stars Wayward Sons open the UK shows.