rock/metal live review
Live Review: Parkway Drive, Leeds O2 Academy, 10.04.2017
Parkway Drive are a force to be reckoned with. No matter your opinion of them, nor your standing on the metal scene- whether you know their songs or you don’t, catch them live and you’ll just know you’ve been in the presence of something special. Tonight it’s the turn of Leeds to be show what’s …
Live Review: You Me At Six, Tonight Alive – Doncaster Dome, 7.4.17
You Me At Six have, as lead vocalist Josh Franceschi puts it “done everything we wanted, and now we’re just doing it for fun.” Considering the band are set to headline Reading And Leeds’ second stage come August, it’s quite the bold statement in regards to the bands goals. They’re here for the fun and …
Live Review: Royal Republic, Manchester Academy 2, 31.03.17
A brief summary of some of Sweden’s most successful exports: ABBA, IKEA, assorted fuit ciders (see Rekorerlig, Kopparberg) and more recently, Royal Republic, who seem to have done a lot of capering around our great isles of late. Their world is clearly something else, fast paced, and high energy, sharp suits and jokes that just …
Live Review: Creeper + Support, Leeds University Stylus, 28.03.17
Everyone is talking about Creeper. Their debut album was released only last week, and yet they’re already headlining venues like Leeds’ Stylus- spurred on by the overwhelmingly good reception their first full length offering- Eternity, In Your Arms- has received. Support for this tour comes firstly from Puppy. Their unexpectedly dark, metal-tinged grunge eases tonight’s …
Live: With Confidence, The Key Club Leeds – 28/02/2017
This Aussie quartet have a lot to live up to given their Sydney based genre counterparts, 5 Seconds Of Summer have hit such heights over the past few years and With Confidence have now got to the point of hitting overseas for their own UK headline tour. Having been over here a few times in …
Live: Wednesday 13, The Key Club Leeds, 24/2/2017
A grey Friday evening in the midst of February seems on the surface like a fitting day to see a show entitled Undead, Unplugged. However, below the surface, what awaits Wednesday 13 fans this evening is a night filled with humour, honesty and a real connection between artist and fans- alongside a great deal of …
Live Review: Elyne – Mulberry Tavern, Sheffield 13.1.17
Elyne, a Post-Hardcore band from Ravenna, Italy embarked on a UK tour (well, three out of four did) touring with To Kill Achilles and Scream Blue Murder but even with only three of the band, they gave their all and gave the crowd exactly what they needed to hear. In between songs, frontman Danny (who was …
Live Review: Bullet For My Valentine, Killswitch Engage and Cane Hill, Manchester Academy, 4.12.16
In the way of inspiration, there is so much that gets people into music, or that influences musicians to pick up an instrument and start to play. In terms of albums, every album released will be important to someone, somewhere for their own reasons. However, for a band with a stature such as that of …
Live Review: An Evening With Black Stone Cherry – Sheffield City Hall, 28.11.16
“An Evening With” is becoming an ever more popular way of touring, Halestorm graced us with their “Evening with” last year, but only playing two dates across the country (Liverpool and London). This Black Stone Cherry tour is colossal in comparison. 13 dates in the UK, including two dates at London’s Shepherds Bush Empire. Not …
Live Review: Lacuna Coil – Manchester Academy 2 – 16.11.2016
It’s Wednesday evening and Manchester Academy 2 has a look of a mental asylum about it. We are all welcomed to Lacuna Coil’s sanatorium; masked mannequins are hanging from the ceiling and two large metal fences are awaiting the patients to perform around it. The bill this evening is entirely European, and first …