SIX HOUR SUNDOWN featuring vocalist Lauren Harris - the daughter of IRON MAIDEN legend Steve Harris - have been confirmed for the 10th edition of the Download Festival, scheduled for June 8th - 10th at Donington Park in the UK. In addition, the band has announced a string of new live fates for the UK. Their schedule is now as follows:

April

7 - The Boston Arms - London, UK (headline show)
14 - Rock City - Nottingham, UK (headline show)
19 - Islington Academy - London, UK (supporting ZICO CHAIN)
22 - The Green Star - Stoke On Trent, UK (SAAS fund raising event)
26 - Nambucca - London, UK (headline show)

May

25 - Sonisphere Festival - Madrid, Spain
26 - Getafe Open Air - Getafe, Spain

June

8-10 - Download Festival - Donington Park, UK

BW&BK; scribe Carl Begai recently caught up with Harris to discuss her career thus far, her new band, and plans to release a new album. An excerpt is available below:

Having grown into the band dynamic, Harris’ new musical direction stomps all over her pop-rocked debut, Calm Before The Storm. Six Hour Sundown won’t be mistaken for a metal band any time soon, but the new music is much more guitar oriented, well rooted in the ‘80s if the songs ‘Jekyll And Hyde’ and ‘Angels’ are any indication.

“I was involved in some of the writing for Calm Before The Storm, but a lot of it was written long before I was involved,” Harris reveals. “When I did come in, some of the material I wasn’t initially involved with was rearranged and rocked up, and when that happens you can’t really change the song from what it is. With the new material, I suppose it was a case of my influences coming in. Richie and I did most of the writing together. Olly came in later and he was part of a few of the songs, so it was a long process of people coming in and out. When Richie left, Olly and I continued writing.”

Harris concedes that Calm Before The Storm was, at its heart, a vehicle to get her name out there.

“Yeah, definitely. With the first album, like I said, a lot of the songs were done before I was even around. Some of them were written four years previous to me getting involved. It’s actually very accurate to say that.”

Some people might consider Harris’ debut a case of taking the easy way through the front door. Now, however, she can be held accountable – for better or worse – for everything that goes down from here on out.

“I’m happy for it to be my fault now, to be honest (laughs). I guess with the first album, because we were put out with Maiden and Within Temptation and bands like that, I kind of felt because of the type of music I was doing that I probably would have done better if I’d gone out with someone more mainstream. That’s why it was a bit of a battle. I’m a bit uncomfortable with playing some of the songs on Calm Before The Storm to those audiences anyway, really. With Six Hour Sundown, it’s completely me, where I co-wrote every track on the album and it’s the direction I want to be going in.”

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Check out the official video for the band's first single, 'Jekyll & Hyde', below. More on Six Hour Sundown at the band's Facebook page.