rock/metal live review
Live Review: Stone Broken / Mason Hill / The Fallen State – 02 Institute, Birmingham 15.05.22
By Claire Hodgkins After several rescheduled dates, it’s safe to say fans were all fired up for a night at the 02 Institute with local rockers, Stone Broken. Opening the show were five piece Barnstaple based band, The Fallen State. Playing to a packed out venue, the band wasted no time in ensuring the crowd …
Live Review: State Champs / Between You & Me – O2 Institute, Birmingham 18.05.2022 Plus Gallery
Our night begins with the Aussie sensation that are Between You & Me and boy, do they know how to start a show the right way. Their stage presence is clear from the moment they walk out on stage and everyone at this Birmingham show is lapping up what they’re putting down; the energy on …
Live Review: Twin Atlantic – O2 Institute, Birmingham 19.05.2022 Plus Gallery
Tonight is the final night of Twin Atlantic‘s tour celebrating 15 years of their album ‘Free‘ giving us songs from the album as well as their greatest hits and ‘Edit Me‘ is a great way to start as the crowd are finding their feet for the night. This album has stood the test of time …
Track: Grave Lines – Carcini
With their third album ‘Communion’ due later this year via New Heavy Sounds, London’s Grave Lines have shared the first track ‘Carcini’ to be taken from the album. With some of the finest vocals in doom courtesy of Jake Harding, ‘Carcini’ is a sinister track of drawn-out and heavy guitars dragged over cymbal heavy drumming. …
Live Review: Incineration Festival – The Roundhouse, The Electric Ballroom, The Underworld, The Blackheart, London 07.05.2022
So, my annual expedition down to old London town for the mighty Incineration Fest had been thwarted in recent years for obvious reasons, although this year it was back, billed to be bigger and better than ever and with the addition of The Roundhouse to the venue list, it had all the makings to live …
Live Review: Osees / Top Left club – Chalk Venue, Brighton 08.05.2022
Californian psychedelic rock, fuzz-laden sounds come to Brighton to a sold-out Chalk Venue and the dedicated fans were in for a treat! ‘Osees’ formed in California in 1997 and have over 20 albums under their belt and are renounced for their raucous chaotic live shows. The band was formally known as Thee Oh Sees, after …
Live Review: The White Buffalo / L.A. Edwards – O2 Forum Kentish Town, London 26.04.2022
With their Dark, rhythmic Country Rock tonnes, ‘The White Buffalo’ finally return to The Kentish Town Forum in London to showcase more of their recent songs from ‘On the Widow’s Walk’ album. To accompany the headliners Californian based ‘L.A. Edwards’, who recently released a new single ‘The Crow’, fitted in nicely with their sun kissed …
Live Review: Helloween / Hammerfall – Manchester Academy, Manchester 04.05.2022
As is becoming an annoying tradition of late, the traffic over the Pennines to Manchester was ridiculous, and this coupled together with an early door time meant that I arrived at the Academy with Hammerfall in full flow. On entering the Academy I was hit with a wall of bodies, it was well and truly …
Live Review: Moncrieff / The Quiet Man – Academy, Dublin 23.04.2022
On the 23rd of April, Waterford artist Moncrieff played his largest Dublin headliner to date with support from The Quiet Man. Support came from The Quiet Man and it was absolutely phenomenal. He took the stage with only himself and his piano and poured his heart out to the crowd for 35 minutes. Although his …
Live Review: Ride – O2 Ritz, Manchester 28.04.2022
When Ride announced their return to the live arena in 2014, after nearly 20 years away, I don’t think anybody was prepared for just how good those shows would be. Indeed, the Albert Hall show in May 2015 was so awesome, that it precipitated me compiling a list of my Top 20 gigs of all …