Shiley Acres played host to the 3rd annual Earth Rocker Festival this past weekend. This year’s festival featured Killswitch Engage, Cro-Mags, Fireball Ministry, and as with every show at Shiley Acres The School of Rock. Fans braved the heat and filled the venue for a great day of music featuring co-headlining sets by Killswitch Engage, who made their debut at Shiley Acres, and Clutch who have made the venue the home of their annual Earth Rocker Festival. The co-headling tour will run thru August 4th when it wraps up in Worcester, MA.
Getting things started for the day were The School of Rock, who the Shiley’s always have as part of their lineups. This gives the students a chance to play in front of a live crowd as well as share the stage with some of the top touring bands passing thru the area.
First up on the touring package were Fireball Ministry and Cro-Mags who both got the crowd warmed up for the day.
Killswitch Engage Setlist: Strength of the Mind, This Fire, The Arms of Sorrow, My Curse, I Am Broken Too, Alone I Stand, Beyond the Flames, Unleashed, Hate by Design, Always, My Last Serenade, This Is Absolution, Rose of Sharyn, The End of Heartache, In Due Time, and Holy Diver (Dio cover).
During Clutch’s brief hiatus from touring the band took time to hit the studio to record what they are calling the Weathermaker Vault Series. The guys plan to release singles from the recordings over the course of the summer and have given little details to the material that will be released. So far they have released two singles from the recordings, both being covers. The first to be released was Cactus’ “Evil” followed by ZZ Top’s “Precious and Grace,” which the guys performed as part of their headlining set.
Clutch Setlist: H.B. Is in Control, Ghoul Wrangler, How to Shake Hands, In Walks Barbarella, Red Horse Rainbow, Precious and Grace (ZZ Top cover), The Regulator, Gimme the Keys, Willie Nelson, Noble Savage, The Face, Smoke Banshee, 50,000 Unstoppable Watts, Book of Bad Decisions, and A Quick Death in Texas.
Encore: Electric Worry / One Eye Dollar, and Rats.
7/8 — Quebec City, QC — Festival D’ete%
7/11 — London, ON — Rock The Park#
7/12 — Syracuse, NY — SI Hall
7/13 — Inwood, WV — Shiley Acres
7/14 — Myrtle Beach, SC — House of Blues
7/16 — Fort Wayne, IN — The Clyde
7/18 — Sioux City, IA — Hard Rock & Casin
7/19 — Cadott, WI — Cadott Rock Fest#
7/20 — OshKosh, WI — Rock USA#
7/22 — Tulsa, OK — The Brady Theater
7/23 — St. Louis, MO — The Pageant
7/25 — Bethlehem, PA — Sands Event Center
7/26 — Asbury Park, NJ — Stone Pony Outdoors
7/27 — Montreal, QC — Heavy MTL#
7/28 — Bangor, ME — Impact Festival#
7/30 — Huntington, NY — The Paramount
8/2 — Pittsburgh, PA — Stage AE Outdoors
8/3 — Port Chester, NY — Capital Theater
8/4 — Worcester, MA — Palladium Outdoors
8/7 — Las Vegas, NV — Psycho Las Vegas^
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