Steelhouse Festival Announcement: Wolfmother, Inglorious, Wednesday 13, Hillbilly Vegas, The Raven age and Jayler added.
Buy Tickets Now Steelhouse – the rock and metal festival on top of a Welsh mountain – has announced yet more bands to play the 2025 edition. The line-up consists of a wide range of artists from across the rock spectrum. This, the third round […]
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The Chords UK ‘But Then Again: The Best Of’, and more out on 2LP + CD and 3CD in April.
The Chords UK, the alt-rock heroes helmed by Chris Pope, will release the mammoth 44-track ‘But Then Again: The Best of The Chords UK’ on 2LP [plus bonus CD], 3CD and digital formats on 4 April 2025 on EPOP Records. The collection’s full release will […]
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Stone Foundation: ‘The Revival of Survival’ Tour 2025 follows release of 11th album.
TICKETS 8-piece Soul band Stone Foundation have announced a major tour of the UK, Eire and mainland Europe to follow therelease of their eleventh studio album, their first since 2022, on 28th March 2025 through 100 Percent Records. ‘The Revival of Survival’ Tour which will take in […]
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Forbidden / Tortured Demon – Manchester Rebellion
Tortured Demon First up are Manchester’s own – Tortured Demon. They’re local and proud, but seasoned enough from the road to know how to put on a good show, having already toured with fellow UK thrashers Evil and Xentrix (who are watching the gig tonight). […]
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Mushroomhead / Dymytry / Silenzer – Birmingham O2 Institute2
Silenzer First up, we have Austrian 5-piece Silenzer. It’s clear from the off that they have high energy, enjoy playing, and have decided to make the most of their support slot on the Mushroomhead tour. Most of the tracks come from their 2022 album ‘X’, […]
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Dead Posey w/ Ugly Club, Gullivers NQ, Manchester.
“Just to prep you, it will most likely be a departure from the norm in terms of genres” Rob advises me over Messenger, in reference to our upcoming adventure into Manchester. For we’re used to having our ears blasted and senses flattened by extreme metal […]
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Idles’ energy, empathy and politically charged anthems annihilate Cardiff castle.
The music industry is full of amazing female artists so it’s refreshing to see Idles’ opening support slot at Cardiff castle going to pop auteur, Angélica Garcia. Her experimental versatility is clear to see as she draws from her impressive back catalogue and immediately holds […]
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The Darkness with the Southern River Band – The Castle Sessions at Warwick Castle, July 4th 2024.
It’s the 4th of July and it’s likely there’ll be some fireworks on and off the stage as The Darkness descends on historic Warwick Castle for another of the Castle Sessions. Seeing The Darkness in broad daylight might seem a little contradictory but there were […]
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Smashing Pumpkins and co. ride a wave of nostalgia on a night of air punching anthems at Cardiff Castle.
Not even the anticipated torrential rain could spoil the vibe at Cardiff castle as a very busy early crowd prepare to greet openers, Teen Mortgage. This two piece are no strangers to the big stage and set about instantly delivering riff after riff as they […]
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Sirenia with Temperance & Symphonity at Manchester Academy.
Saturday night in Manchester means only one thing today which is a night of symphonic metal to really get your weekend started. However…. Unfortunately, first band Symphonity had a start time of 7:20 which made the first half of the set extremely quiet which felt […]
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Static Lives with Urban Theory & Sietch at 33 Oldham Street, Manchester.
33 Oldham Street is a new upcoming music venue in the heart of Manchester ready to open its doors to new bands. and tonight that involves Sheffield born Static Lives on their first headline tour. For a music venue you can tell it’s brand new […]
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Bruce Dickinson / Black Smoke Trigger – Manchester Academy.
Black Smoke Trigger Initiating proceedings tonight is a four-piece hard rock outfit from New Zealand. Straightforward, driving mid-tempo guitar with stomping beats was the vibe, and they achieved this well, the Sunday night crowd quickly warming to them during their solid but brief set. At […]
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Martin Turner at the Robin 2 along with Small Changes.
Martin Turner returned to the Robin 2 to play the Live Dates Volume II album in its entirety plus some additional favourites. This was a very early start for a Sunday gig, with doors opening at 4pm and before Martin and the band take to […]
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