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It's been a bit quiet on this site lately - mostly because everyone tends to go social media these days! 
We have plans to update this website in the near future. So for now, visit our social media pages for the latest updates
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Wretched Toad play Breaking Bands Festival 2016

 

Wretched Toad are honoured to announce that we will be playing Breaking Bands festival in May 2016 as sub-headliners to the brilliant Reign of Fury on Friday 26th May 2016. This festival sold out last year and 2016 stands to be bigger, better and louder than ever!

 
 
BREAKING BANDS FESTIVAL 2016

27th-28th-29th May 2016

(Wretched Toad sub-headliners Friday 26th May)

Stoke prior sports & country club, Bromsgrove

 

Tickets: http://breakingbandsfestival.com

 

Bloodstock Open air festival 2015 

 

Well... what a year this has been for Wretched Toad! From last December where we did the first heat of Metal 2 the Masses, to Sunday night where we had the tremendous honour of closing the New Blood stage at Bloodstock; it has been a crazy, extremely busy few months and a real learning experience to boot. We saw some great bands over the weekend, in particular fellow M2TM LDN winners Skarthia - who absolutely smashed it - and Sumer and Zocalo did cracking sets too.

Big Toad love to the Toad Roadies (Toadies?) Marilyn Colouring Ford, Steve Forster and Sarah Adams for helping us spread the word, working incredibly hard promoting, giving away our EP/album teaser (about 180 of them!), lanyards and orchestrating the madness in the crowd!! We are also hugely indebted to Richard Spriggs... we couldn't have done any of this without you helping us out and working so hard, filming, taking pictures, promoting...we love ya dude! We did a fair few interviews too, which was great experience for us as a band and thank you to all who gave us your time to promote our band.

Thank you so much to the people who came to see us - it was a sight to behold seeing bubbles flying around the crowd from our Toad bubble machines, people dancing, moshing, throwing around the 'TOAD PIT' made by the one and only Dave Bedlam (we really hoped someone would get in that for a crowd surf!). Cheers to Paul McMonnies for wearing the Toad sticker as a badge of honour and cheers to those who bought shirts too - we sold way more than expected and it was incredible to see people wearing them!

 

 

We did have the slight nightmare scenario of our singer getting ill and losing his voice before the festival and it just getting worse... and worse as Sunday approached. He did us proud by soldiering on and not only getting through the show but actually changing up melodies on the spot and sounding better as it went along. The show was so fun and the crowd were outstanding - we were loving it! The backstage crew were a pleasure to work with - everyone was so friendly, welcoming and professional - you really helped put us at ease so massive thanks to you too!

It's still sinking in that this has actually happened... we played BLOODSTOCK!! We must once again thank Mick Wood and of course Simon Hall for believing in us enough to put us on as the last band of the weekend on the New Blood stage. It was incredible!!

Bloodstock Festival was the best thing we've ever done, hands down! We love you all, till next time... CRRRROOAKKK!!!

Metal 2 The Masses London 2015
 

Wretched Toad would like to say a huge huge thank you to all involved in the M2TM LDN 2015 competition, we are absolutely shocked, humbled and blown away to have won. With the sheer quality of bands it could've gone to anyone in the final. Huge thanks to everyone involved especially the legends that are Mick Wood and Simon Hall for their unrelenting support for unsigned bands in the alt/metal scene and for giving us all this incredible opportunity! It was an epic journey and we met some great people and the standard of bands was incredible.  Massive congratulations also go to Skarthia for sharing the win with us. We look forward to the next stage in our journey, the mighty BLOODSTOCK!!!

 

Check out the awesome bands we had the pleasure of sharing a stage

with at the final;

 

www.facebook.com/HalberdBandUK

 

www.facebook.com/OverthrowUK

 

 www.facebook.com/OutrightResistanceBand

 

www.facebook.com/Skarthia

 

www.facebook.com/wychhoundband

 

 

Jon wins the Empire Guitars Bloodaxe!

 

Throughout the Metal 2 The Masses London Empire guitars were checking out all the guitarists in all the bands, as they had built a beautiful custom-made guitar especially for this competition to be awarded to the best guitarist. We are pleased to announced that our very own Jon from Wretched Toad was bestowed that honour! We are incredibly proud of our guitarist right now, especially as there were so many incredible guitarist in the mix. Thanks to Empire Guitars and Noon Seymour-Rutherford for this honour. We are humbled once again!

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