Music News & Reviews from the Rock, Metal, Blues, Prog, Punk & Jazz Genres as well as stage and festival shows
Pre-Save / Pre-Order Now The UK’s own Southern Rockers, Sons Of Liberty, are delighted to announce their return to the fray with their first new music for two full years. The new single ‘Time To Fly’ will be released 1 September 2023. The track is […]
NewsQuite some expectations here, with Michael C. Hall (better known as TV anti-hero Dexter Morgan) taking on the vocals role with his bandmates Peter Yanowitz (drums & guitar) and Matt Katz-Bohen (guitar & keyboards). Formed, initially, in 2018 under the name Princess Goes to the […]
Gig reviewsAlbum review, album released September 2023. Caught off guard again! When you sit and think about it, Reg is definitely a wily old dog! The phone dings, and there’s a message from him, I can’t see the message and therefore bluff it, so I open […]
Album reviewsPierce The Veil have returned after a six year hiatus and have taken over Manchester Academy tonight, on their sold out return tour. The emos are flooding in and the energy is wild, some of us may be in our late 20s now but the […]
Gig reviewsLegendary alt-rock/indie-pop songwriter Jamie Lenman is delighted to announce the details of ‘Lenmania III: LenManchester’—ten acts across two stages over seven hours of heaven! Specially curated by Lenman himself, the annual all-day festival is set to return on 18th December 2022 for a very special […]
NewsIndie-rock band Mother Mother recently played two days sold out gig in London, O2 Kentish Town – after rescheduling during Covid season – and I was there to review and record the event with my photo camera. Mother Mother is a band I had not […]
Gig reviewsThe Australian Rock band Black Aces have finally landed in the UK on their eight day tour, stopping tonight at Gulliver’sManchester. Fiefdom Kicking off the start of the night are Manchester’s own, Fiefdom. The first thing to say about these guys is that they don’t […]
Gig reviewsThe Guildhall is unusually full, but when I realise that The Cruel Knives is Sid Glover and Rob Ellershaw‘s latest band (it had somehow escaped me) and given the huge following Heavens Basement had in Southampton it all falls into place. They open with ‘Overdose’ […]
Gig reviewsDamnation Festival kicked off in full swing in Manchester, at the BEC Arena the first time the festival has taken place in 17 years outside of Leeds. With a jam packed line up of 24 bands, three stages and your typical clashes this was a […]
Gig reviewsThe eminently talented and highly popular Samantha Fish returns to the Midlands to ply her trade of explosive blues rock. Since I last saw her she has changed her band line-up and her now regular touring band comprises Ron Johnson on bass, Matt Wade on […]
Gig reviewsPromoting their latest album, Rise, The Rasmus concluded their UK tour with a spectacular 2 hour gig in London at the O2 Kentish Town. The band performed with new guitarist Emilia ‘Emppu’ Suhonen and was supported by the Italian female-fronted Overlaps. Overlaps were an excellent […]
Gig reviewsCats in Space haven’t actually been around that long, formed in 2015 by guitarist/songwriter Greg Hart and drummer Steevi Bacon, they are unusual in that they are not a super group as such, they are a band of musicians who got together to write and […]
Gig reviewsThe O2 Ritz, Manchester is full tonight and the building is prepared for an intense night of Trash! Nothing could make the night better than kicking it off with New Orleans’ own Crowbar courtesy of the insane legend that is Kirk Windsteinand his ‘Troops of […]
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