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SAXON’s Biff Byford confirms he’s battling bowel cancer, not prostate cancer, following surgery and upcoming chemotherapy. Despite treatment, select 2025 tour dates remain on. Fans rally behind the metal legend as Wheels of Steel prepares for its final UK run.
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Bradford is turning the volume up to eleven this Yorkshire Day! Rock icons Graham Oliver’s Army, Terrorvision’s Tony Wright, and Ey Up Maiden are hitting Nightrain for a night of pure Yorkshire metal mayhem. Expect blistering riffs, epic singalongs, and a celebration of rock royalty in the UK City of Culture! 🤘🔥
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Saxon have cancelled 10 summer 2025 shows, including Wacken Open Air and Öland Rock, as frontman Biff Byford undergoes emergency surgery. Here’s what fans need to know about the cancellations, reschedules, and remaining tour dates.
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“If your backs are embroidered come down to the front….”
And come down to the front they did, as 5000 ‘denim and leather’ clad rockers descended upon the Newark Showground for the sixth “monster show” that is Stonedead.
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Get ready, rock fans, because Stonedead Festival 2024 is days away now and gearing up to be the ultimate rock
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Following months of speculation and anticipation, the team at Stonedeaf Productions are proud to reveal the headline act for the now sold out Stonedead 2024. The already stellar line-up of this, the sixth festival, featuring KK’s Priest, Ugly Kid Joe, Doro, Eclipse, Bonafide, The Bites, Tailgunner and The Hot One Two. Topping the bill, there could be no other band than the mighty Saxon
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Saxon release the third single, “The Pilgrimage”, taken from their new album, Carpe Diem (OUT February 4thvia Silver Lining Music).
See the new video and get tour tickets.
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“I wanted to write a song about Covid, about the people that have died, and give my perception of how it seemed to happen” offers Biff Byford. “Certain aspects of it all are quite mysterious, and of course, it hasn’t finished yet, has it?
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Carpe Diem The New Album by Saxon out in February. Biff talks about the writing process.
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Father/son power-house Heavy Water release the heartfelt single ‘Tree In The Wind’ today, which is taken from their debut album, Red Brick
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