Wednesday night in Manchester with a room full of Emos old and young, this is going to be interesting. You’re in a room surrounded by a crowd of people half of which can kneel to the ground ready for a pit and those who need a knee brace. But nonetheless everyone here is ready! Within […]
Avatar with Veil of Maya & Mastiff – Manchester Academy.
Times have changed, instead of playing in Satan’s Hollow to Manchester’s local metalheads, Avatar have blown up to a whole new level with a sold out show at The Academy. Mastiff are first up on tonight’s line up, and there is just something about them that gives this charming personality. It’s a casual attitude that […]
Black Star Riders with support from Michael Monroe & Phil Campbell and the Bastard Sons – KK’s Steelmill, Wolverhampton.
So much black in view, everyone was in black but the imagery on the t-shirts was very well split between all three acts due on tonight. KK’s Steelmill has become one of THE venues to go to for music of all types – tonight it was rock, rock and more rock! The room wasn’t quite […]
Planet Rock – Winters End 2023, Trecco Bay. Day 3.
Looking around the venue on the Sunday ‘morning’ there are certainly some there who may have drunk slightly more than they anticipated they were going to the previous evening (again?), some even have facial bruising, gained apparently by successfully face planting whilst falling off the benches situated outside the venue, damned good effort Sah! Onto […]
Katatonia with Solstafir & Som: Twilight Burials – Manchester O2 Ritz
Going into this review is going to be a weird one, you have three bands here that kind of differ from each other in quite a few ways but also bring each other together at the same time. We have Solstafir along with Katatonia supported by Som; Katatonia have taken remorseless doom and they make […]
Planet Rock – Winters End 2023, Trecco Bay. Day 2.
Saturdays festivities started with The Forged Hearts, who hail from Northern Ireland. They describe themselves as a ‘female fronted, classic rock inspired band’ and had travelled just to be at Winters End. The first two tracks (I Touched The Fire and Stupid Games) rattled the addled brain cells of those pissheads who were still hanging […]
Planet Rock – Winters End 2023, Trecco Bay. Day 1.
“Any festivals you want to cover, particularly in the first few months of the year, then let me know?” Those were words from Reg that led me to Planet Rocks Winters End Festival, a little all in one rock festival, held in Porthcawl, Wales. Where? Well that was my first reaction when I heard Trecco […]
IMPERIAL AGE – The Dome, London
Do you ever get that feeling when things do not seem to work out, whatever good you try to do? This is what Imperial Age must have felt while organising their last, almost four years in the making, tour, after Covid (twice), the Russia-Ukraine war (more below) and (ongoing) visa problems that kept the band […]
Black Flag & Total Chaos – O2 Ritz, Manchester
American punk band, Black Flag are back in the UK on an insane 7 day UK tour. Tonight they take over Manchester’s O2 Ritz with special guests Total Chaos to start the night with a bang. With an insane 19 song set list this is going to be a night of classic punk rock to […]
British Lion, Airforce and Voodoo Six live at the Islington Assembly Hall.
I like metal, goth, and everything rock or alternative in between but truth be told, I am not always up to speed with what is out there, sometimes I get stuck in my little bubble, so going out there taking pictures of live events, is helping me make up for that. So, when I got […]