rock/metal live review
Live Review: Blood Red Shoes – The Garage, London 14.06.2022
It almost feels like stalking. I’ve certainly followed Steven Ansell and Laura-Mary Carter around over the years. From that captivating moment when I first heard Getting Boring By The Sea some fifteen years ago I was smitten by their edgy, wall of sound and the inventive spark between them. There was the Blood Red Shoes …
Live Review: Del Amitri – Barrowland Ballroom, Glasgow 10.06.22
Following the release of their seventh studio album Fatal Mistakes last year, Del Amitri performed the perfect playlist of new material and nostalgia to a grateful Glasgow crowd. Del Amitri’s three-night run of sell-out shows at the iconic Barrowland Ballroom in December, including a night just for NHS workers, had to be postponed due to …
Live Review: Blood Red Shoes / Ciel / Glu – Chalk Venue, Brighton 15.06.2022
Blood Red Shoes finally made it back for a homecoming gig in Brighton after being cancelled at the beginning of the year for a night of guitar riffs and energetic electronic grudge The Duo originally formed in 2004 and consists of band members Laura-Mary Carter and Steven Ansell and have released six studio albums to …
Live Review: Pond – Manchester Academy 2, Manchester 18.06.2022
By Olivia Kenny Manchester’s Academy 2 was flooded with energy on Saturday night when the Australian psych-rock band Pond took to the stage for the last night of their UK and European Tour. The band played a good mix of tracks, going back to their early releases with a medley of Moth Wings, Eye Pattern Blindness and Giant …
Live Review: Download Festival 2022 – Friday
The hallowed ground of Donington Park has been lacking in those who enjoy the heavier side of life for the last few years so when the hoards of emos and metalheads descended to the East Midlands, it finally felt an ounce of normality had returned to the world. FRIDAY Bury Tomorrow were one of earlier …
Live Review: Nine Inch Nails – O2 Academy, Glasgow 15.06.2022
Sold Out within minutes of tickets coming on line, they were not cheap, but how do you put a price on a show. How do we value our entertainment? Some things need to be done at any cost and the packed venue in Glasgow was full of expectant fans demanding to extract every ounce of …
Live Review: Download Festival – Castle Donington, Derby 10.06.2022 – 12.06.2022
After what has seemed like an eternity, Download had finally opened its gates once more on the hallowed turf of Donington Park and armed with my trusty homemade grid, complete with various highlighting and tactical notes on my must sees and plans for the days, I completed the monumental hike from the car park to …
Live Review: Download Festival – Castle Donington, Derby 10.06.2022 – 12.06.2022
My first festival press coverage and definitely not my last (hopefully) Download did not disappoint! An absolutely amazing spectacle of some of the best live acts in rock today. To be honest, to cover the entire festival over three days is pretty much impossible, thankfully other colleagues from the magazine also attended, and I’m sure …
Live Review: Slam Dunk Festival North – Temple Newsam, Leeds 03.06.2022
By Claire Hodgkins At a slightly later date than previous years, Slam Dunk Festival was back and made its return to the grounds of Temple Newsam. What was meant to be an overcast day, turned out to be a scorcher in Leeds – much to the delight of alternative music lovers. Amongst the acts, we …
Live Review: Drive By Truckers / Jerry Joseph, Vicar Street, Dublin 11.06.2022
As they say ‘Good things come to those who wait’ and fans of Drive By Truckers had to wait patiently for almost three years to get to see them perform live because of that dreaded ‘C’ word (covid, by the way) and last Saturday night at Dublin’s Vicar St venue these southern American rockers rolled …