Hello, hope everyone is doing well out there! 

Things have been very busy at Godsticks HQ, and if you've been following our social media pages recently you've seen us recording lots of new music ideas, for our new album! We'll be sure to give you more about that soon... 

But now that things are much more back to normal in the world, we can finally give you some live gig news! On the first weekend of July we'll be playing at not just one, but TWO U.K festivals! Our first stop is Prog For Peart; the charity prog festival held in Abingdon, Oxfordshire, raising money for brain cancer research in memory of the late great Neil Peart. We'll be playing on Saturday July 2nd at 4:00pm - info and tickets are available here: www.northcourtmusic.com/progforpeart.html 

(Dan and Gavin recently joined ProgAxia and some of the members of the other great bands playing at PFP for this cool video interview looking ahead to the festival - check it out here: https://youtu.be/ZF5lOi2HInI ) 

Then the next day, we'll be heading up to the Newark Showground to play at Tech Fest! It was originally meant to take place in 2020, so naturally we are so excited to finally get our chance to perform there! We'll be playing on the second stage on Sunday July 3rd at 2:00pm - info and tickets are available here: www.uktechfest.com 

We have many more exciting festival appearances coming up in 2022, so make sure you give us a like and follow on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram to see all the latest news and reminders!

Darran Charles talks to guitarguitar about Godsticks album Inescapable, his favourite guitar to play with live and his live rig set-up. Check out the interview here: https://www.guitarguitar.co.uk/news/140965/

Back in February 2020 when life was normal we released our 5th studio album, and those kind enough to pre-order it from Burning Shed received a bonus disc called ‘Motion’ which featured 3 acoustic tracks. We hadn’t recorded any acoustic songs since ‘Emergence’ so it was a nice opportunity to dust off the ‘ol Martin Guitar and see if our finger callouses were still up to the task. 

Today the songs on that bonus disc are available for streaming and download. One is a new track called ‘Motion’, one is acoustic version of ‘Surrender’ and the other is a piano/vocal version of ‘Breathe’. Those last two songs are from 'Inescapable' and it was an interesting experience stripping them down to their bare components and seeing if they still sound cool. We think they do and hope you can find some time to check them out! https://godsticks.lnk.to/motion

See our Gigs page for more details.

We would like to announce that we have made the very hard decision to once again postpone our UK tour. With Wales currently in the middle of a lockdown and England just about to enter one, we feel that moving the shows to a later date when we can assure the safety of everyone involved in the shows, and attending them, would be the best course of action. So, here are the new dates: 

September 9th 2021 - Fuel Rock Club, Cardiff 

September 10th 2021 - Gullivers, Manchester 

September 11th 2021 - The Black Heart, London 

As usual, all current tickets purchased will still be valid for the new dates and we hope you will hold on to yours. But if anyone would like to request a refund, please contact your venue/ticket provider. We are very sorry to change things around again, and we hope everyone out there is staying safe!