Enter Shikari • Slam Dunk Festival • The Offspring • Rou Reynolds

 Enter Shikari • Slam Dunk Festival • The Offspring • Rou Reynolds

Enter Shikari's Rou Reynolds speaks of his band's excitement at being booked to headline Slam Dunk 2023

The band announced the news in the wake of their appearances on the main stage at Reading and Leeds festivals at the weekend. The quartet have also released the video for their new single, The Void Stares Back, recorded in collaboration with Wargasm. 

Speaking about the band's Slam Dunk booking, Shikari frontman Rou Reynolds says,

"I’ve been intoxicated by the idea of headlining Slam Dunk again ever since our Take To The Skies celebration headline set back in 2017. It’s such a great festival, always nails its bills, and has the added bonus that us lads can actually cycle to the Southern date, being that Hatfield is a neighbouring town to us!

"In fact, essentially, this will be our biggest 'hometown' show ever, now that the festival has grown even more. I cannot wait. In fact, I will not wait. I demand we play this tomorrow!

Now in its 16th year, Slam Dunk is a 60,000 capacity independent rock festival taking place across two days at Temple Newsam in Leeds and Hatfield Park in Hertfordshire.

With 2023 tickets due to go on sale later this week, organisers have made their biggest ever line-up announcement featuring 22 artists in the first wave.

It also includes two exclusive reunion shows, including one for a band that last graced the Slam Dunk stage back in 2006

When is Slam Dunk 2023 taking place?

The festival takes place across a single weekend, with one day of performances at each of the sites.

Its 2023 edition will be held at Hatfield Park on Saturday May 27 and Temple Newsam on Sunday May 28.

Which reunited bands will be performing?

Cardiff pop-rockers Kids In Glass Houses will be staging an exclusive reunion show celebrating the 15th anniversary of their highly-praised debut album Smart Casual.

Aled Phillips, of Kids In Glass Houses, said: “Slam Dunk 2008 fell a day before Smart Casual was released and marked the start of a pretty unforgettable journey for our band. It feels very fitting that 15 years later to the day we can come back and celebrate a special part of our career at Slam Dunk 2023.

"We hope to see some familiar and new faces there and can’t wait to get back out onto stage again. It’s been too long.”