The Knight and Day festival will be held at Kyral Castle on December 30 and 31, headlined by Australia’s biggest metal exports Parkway Drive and Polaris. They’ll be joined by 18 other acts across the two days including The Chats, Make Them Suffer, Void Of Vision and Windwaker.Fans will be encouraged to dress up and get into the spirit of the medieval surroundings, and there will also be an alehouse, three acoustic stages and other activities throughout the castle site.Parkway Drive frontman Winston McCall said the festival was an “absolutely perfect” opportunity for the band to play live again.“I’m sure every band on the bill feels this, but it’s this huge f**king release and relief,” he said.“Not only have we felt a lack of something, but the audience haven’t been able to go to a gig of any kind for two years, so its going to be electric to say the least.“All the bands are going to be bringing absolutely everything and I know the audience will be bringing absolutely everything, so I’m very excited to see what the day brings.”The headlining slot will be Parkway Drive’s first show in two years after the Covid-19 pandemic derailed the band’s final shows for latest album Reverence, which included an national arena tour with US hardcore stars Hatebreed.McCall said being unable to play live was a major readjustment as the band had been constantly gigging for 17 years.“I honestly can’t remember the sensation of standing on a stage, it’s been that long,” he said.“I have memories and images but the emotional connection I have to what it feels like and the rush (of playing live), it’s left my body.”“We were planning to take 12 months off in 2021 anyway … but all of sudden not being able to tour or gig is such a trip.”McCall said he and the band had used the downtime for plenty of surfing, and he had near-death encounters with a brown snake and shark on his birthday earlier in the month.They’ve also used the time to write new material, but McCall said the band won’t be debuting any songs at the festival and instead playing “nothing but bangers” from their back catalogue.“We’re in the age of the internet and I hate playing something, then someone filming a sh***y YouTube version of it,” he said.“Then you later want to change it around and you don’t get that first impression of what the song should actually sound like.“So bangers have been prescribed for within the castle walls.”The festival will be rescheduled to April 8 and 9 if it is unable to proceed due to Covid-19 restrictions.McCall said he and the band were determined to put on a memorable performance given it could be one of the few chances they get to play live in the current climate.“It’s hard to even plan this now because its still far away and we’re used to things being up-ended in the space of 12 hours,” he said.“But fact we get to play in a castle and in Australia, and it is literally our comeback after a two year hiatus, they all really unique elements and something we really want to capitalise on in the moment,“It could be the last show we ever play and the world could end two days later, anything is possible.”Tickets: knightanddayfestival.com.aukiel.egging@news.com.au
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