Chickenhawk Announce Name Change

Chickenhawk have changed their name to Hawk Eyes.

Message from the band:

"We used to be called Chickenhawk, but we decided it was time for a name change. Death to Chickenhawk, long live Hawk Eyes!

We're still the same band, still doing what we do, so anybody already into the Hawk vibe need not fear! Anybody not familiar, hi, please read the bio' and put our music in your ears to get with the program.

To celebrate this change we've launched this new website. Have a browse round to find info on all of our upcoming dates, free downloads, videos and lots more. Links to other 'Hawk' related websites can be found below, please check them out and say hello or email us on contact[at]hawkeyesmusic.com

Keep your eyes open for some more Hawk related news in the next few weeks about future releases and gig announcements as well!

Hawk Eyes out....
x "

Chickenhawk Meet Boxing Legend Frank Bruno

A video of Chickenhawk's Artrocker magazine shoot with Former World Heavyweight Boxer Frank Bruno, can be viewed here or by clicking read more.

The video is part of Jägermeister's Icebreaker series, which sees bands meeting their hereos.

The Blackout, Young Guns and Chickenhawk Confirmed For Nottingham's Hit The Deck Festival

The Blackout, Young Guns and Chickenhawk have been added to the line-up for Nottingham's Hit The Deck Festival, which takes place on April 17th across three venues; Rock City, Rescue Rooms and Social.

Hit The Deck Festival takes place on Sunday April 17th.

Full Line-Up:

The Blackout
Cancer Bats
Comeback Kid
The Ghost Inside
Kvelertak
Grave Maker
Social Suicide
Young Guns
Chickenhawk
Kiss Corona

Further information can be found at hitthedeckfestival.com.

New Chickenhawk Video

Chickenhawk's new video for 'Son of CERN' can be viewed by clicking read more or on Rock Sound's website.

Album Review: Chickenhawk - Modern Bodies

With a mix of dirty tharsh punk and mighty metal riffs, Chickenhawk return with 'Modern Bodies' and sees the band developing their sound towards being more structured yet more chaotic, as 'Scorpieau' shows; noisy guitars, thrashing drums and loud vocals. From start to finish the bands adrenaline-filled noise-rock takes over with tracks like 'Son Of Cern' and 'My Name Is Egg' being dominated by the aforementioned riffs.

However the band also show their ability to adapt to a (slight) math-rock side, as 'The Pin' and 'Hate This, Do You Like It?' shows but this isn't quite obvious on first listen, as the bands wall of noise proves to be a distraction. Whilst 'Kerosene' is broken in to several pieces, but does not differ from the bands core sound.

Free Chickenhawk Song

A free song from Chickenhawk, 'Scorpieau' can be downloaded here.

'Modern Bodies' is released on November 1st through Brew Records.

New Chickenhawk Album

Chickenhawk will release a new album, 'Modern Bodies' on November 1st through Brew Records.

30th September UK TOUR w/ We Are The Ocean & Brides @ The Joiners, Southampton, Hampshire
1st October UK TOUR w/ We Are The Ocean & Brides @ The Forum, Tunbridge Wells
2nd October UK TOUR w/ We Are The Ocean & Brides @ ARU, Cambridge
4th October UK TOUR w/ We Are The Ocean & Brides @ Academy 2, Oxford
5th October UK TOUR w/ We Are The Ocean & Brides @ Clwb Ifor Bach, Cardiff, Wales
6th October UK TOUR w/ We Are The Ocean & Brides @ White Rabbit, Plymouth, Southwest
7th October UK TOUR w/ We Are The Ocean & Brides @ Cavern Club, Exeter
8th October UK TOUR w/ We Are The Ocean & Brides @ Orange Box, Yeovil
9th October UK TOUR w/ We Are The Ocean & Brides @ Academy 2, Liverpool
11th October UK TOUR w/ We Are The Ocean & Brides @ Fibbers, York
12th October UK TOUR w/ We Are The Ocean & Brides @ Corporation Nightclub, Sheffield

Brides, Chickenhawk, The Ghost Of A Thousand and Our Last Night to Support We Are The Ocean

Brides, Chickenhawk, The Ghost Of A Thousand and Our Last Night will be supporting We Are The Ocean on their UK tour lat this year.

w/ Brides and Chickenhawk
SEPTEMBER
30th SOUTHAMPTON Joiners
OCTOBER
1st TUNBRIDGE WELLS Forum
2nd CAMBRIDGE ARU
4th OXFORD Academy 2
5th CARDIFF Clwb Ifor Bach
6th PLYMOUTH White Rabbit
7th EXETER Cavern
8th YEOVIL Orange Box
9th LIVERPOOL Academy 2
11th YORK Fibbers

w/ The Ghost Of A Thousand and Our Last Night
12th SHEFFIELD Corporation
13th LEEDS Cockpit
14th NEWCASTLE Academy 2
15th ABERDEEN Warehouse
17th GLASGOW Cathouse
18th MANCHESTER Academy 3
19th BIRMINGHAM Academy 2
21st NORWICH Waterfront
22nd LONDON Kings College
23rd NOTTINGHAM Rescue Rooms
24th COLCHESTER Art Centre

Trash Talk, Chickenhawk, Outcry Collective and March Of The Raptors London Show

Trash Talk, Chickenhawk, Outcry Collective and March Of The Raptors will play The Purple Turtle in London on August 20th.

The Blackout, F*cked Up, We Are The Ocean and More Announced For Gulifest

The Blackout, F*cked Up, We Are The Ocean, Chickenhawk, Young Guns, The King Blues, And So I Watch You From Afar, Turbowolf and Futures will be playing the Rock Sound Cave at Gulifest, which takes place between July 16th and 18th.

Chickenhawk Announce Festival Shows

Chickenhawk have announced various festival appearances including performances at The Great Escape Festival, Camden Crawl and NASS.

Dates can be found by clicking read more below.

Live Review: The Computers, Outcry Collective and Chickenhawk – Clwb Ifor Bach, Cardiff - 25/03/2010

As I walked into Clwb Ifor Bach, something told me that tonight’s gig would be a low key affair. The legendary Cardiff venue was using the downstairs room, a room in which tonight’s openers ChickenHawk were mid way through their set, entertaining around 20 people. It’s a shame because they did sound pretty good, and for the couple of songs I managed to catch, they held my attention well and impressed me enough at least to check out what they had to offer on record when I got home.

Main support is Outcry Collective, a band that have gathered quite a bit of momentum recently, having just confirmed a slot on the upcoming Young Guns tour in May it seems as if everything is going well for them, but tonight just isn’t their night. Don’t get me wrong, it wasn’t as if they were bad, but the crowd just seemed completely uninterested, anything that frontman, Steve Sitkowski said went down like a lead balloon, no matter what he did to try and liven proceedings up, it just didn’t work, and as a result, I think their overall set suffered. That being said they were reasonable enough, stand out track was ‘Saviour Stranger’ I love that song anyway so to see it live was always going to be a success for me.

Chickenhawk UK Tour

Chickenhawk have announced a UK tour with The Computers and Outcry Collective this March.

15th - Plymouth White Rabbit
16th - Exeter The Cavern
17th - Bristol The Croft
18th - Nottingham Rock City (Club Night)
19th - Middlesborough Uncle Alberts
20th - Glasgow King Tuts
21st - Manchester Roadhouse
23rd - Sheffield Corporation
24th - Birmingham The Flapper
25th - Cardiff Clwb Ifor Bach
26th - Bournmouth Ibar

Chickenhawk Premier New Video

Chickenhawk have premiered the video for 'I hate this, do you like it?' from their new EP, 'A.Or Not?' which is released on Wednesday via Brew Records.

Album Review: Chickenhawk - A. Or Not? EP

Leeds band Chikenhawk new EP, the oddly titled 'A. Or Not?' is 3 songs of favourable experimental rock. 'I Hate This, Do You Like It?' starts off with a crazy guitar riff that leads into a fast-paced rock affair. On first listen it doesn't sound anything unoriginal but underneath the bands experimental side comes out, as they combine a metal structure with a progressive side.

'Son of Cern' follows suit and shows the bands messy, angry side with drums that hit with full force and guitars that dominate throughout. Add to this a strange yet effective electronic part towards, add to the bands performance and overall impression of the EP.

'NASA vs ESA' has somewhat grungy guitars and on the whole sounds messy but strangely it works. As it progresses the guitars spiral into complete chaos, as Chickenhawk show hint at their hardcore side but keep their experimental side; backing vocals that sound like they're from little girls come out of nowhere.

You have to give it to Chickenhawk for stepping out the box and being, to an extent, being unpredictable. 'A. Or Not? EP' takes a few listens to get use to. The band at first sound all over the place, but after awhile you become familiar with their style of prog-metal. It is structured but keeps hold of it's hectic spine, think Rolo Tomassi but without the soft female parts.

3.5/5

'A. Or Not? EP' by Chickenhawk is released on Brew Records on 9th September.

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Sean Reid