Give It a Name

Give It A Name
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Genre	Rock, Post Hardcore, Punk, Emo
Dates	May Day Bank Holiday Weekend
Location(s)	London, England Birmingham, England Manchester, England (2006 Only)
Years active	2005 - present

Give It A Name, sometimes abbreviated to GIAN, is an annual British emo music festival, held on or around the May Day Bank Holiday. The first festival took place on May 2 2005 at Alexandra Palace, North London. In 2006, Give It A Name became a paired, two day festival, taking place at the MEN Arena, Manchester, and Earls Court, London. 2007 will see the festival even more extended, this year to three days and five different locations. Give It A Name tends to feature post hardcore, emo and pop punk bands.

Give It A Name 2005

Main Stage

Saturday
Funeral for a Friend Coheed & Cambria Finch Rise Against Alexisonfire Mae Fightstar The Lucky Nine MC Lars Me without You

Give It A Name 2006

Main Stage

Saturday - London Sunday - Manchester	Sunday - London Saturday - Manchester
My Chemical Romance The Ataris Atreyu Thrice Panic! At the Disco Underoath The Bled	Lostprophets Taking Back Sunday Angels & Airwaves Goldfinger We Are Scientists Aiden Silverstein

Side Stage

Saturday - London Sunday - Manchester	Sunday - London Saturday - Manchester
Billy Talent Men, Women and Children Drive By Paramore The Honorary Title Taint	Hundred Reasons Say Anything Classic Case Bayside Gym Class Heroes The Blackout

Give It A Name 2007

Main Stage

Friday - London GLASSJAW - Birmingham	Saturday - London AFI - Birmingham	Sunday - London NEW FOUND GLORY- Birmingham
TBA	TBA	TBA

Side Stage

Friday - London TBC - Birmingham	Saturday - London TBC - Birmingham	Sunday - London
Side Stage Line up TBA	Side Stage Line up TBA	Side Stage Line up TBA

These are the following confirmed dates for Give It A Name 2007:

April 20 - Koln: Palladium / E-Werk
April 24 - Paris: Elysée Montmartre
April 25 - Paris: Elysée Montmartre
April 27 - Birmingham: NIA
April 27 - London: Earls Court
April 28 - Birmingham: NIA
April 28 - London: Earls Court
April 29 - Birmingham: NIA
April 29 - London: Earls Court
April 29 - Glasgow: SECC

Interesting events

• On Sunday 30th April 2006 at one of the Earls Court GIAN dates, Taking Back Sunday vocalist Adam Lazzara accidentally hit bassist Matt Rubano in the face with a microphone, which he was spinning around. Matt suffered mild concussion, and received an injury to his head which required many stitches. He went off stage for about five minutes then came back on to finish their set. Incidentally, during the band's last song a day earlier at the MEN arena, the pedal to the bass drum broke and the band had to stall whilst a replacement was found.

• At Give It A Name 2005, the band Fightstar got a mixed reception of cheers and boos (and even a few shoes thrown at the stage), but played on regardless.

• Also at Give It A Name 2005, Dallas Green from Alexisonfire joined Rise Against during their set to sing the song Heaven Knows from Revolutions Per Minute.

• At Give It A Name 2006, wiL Francis from Aiden joined Goldfinger on stage to sing the song "Open Your Eyes".