rock/metal live review
Live Review: The Rockaway Beach Festival – Sunday 07.01.2024
Rockaway Beach knows its audience well. It’s Sunday morning and people are already congregating at the vinyl market stalls looking for that elusive record that they’ll probably pop on a shelf and never play. The soft play area is still closed though. What better way to spend Sunday lunchtime than in the company of crooner …
Live Review: The Rockaway Beach Festival – Saturday 06.01.2024
The soft play area is still cordoned off. Nobody wants a ruptured hernia when there is so much more great music scheduled. Saturday on the Reds stage starts with Trout from Liverpool. Playing shimmering songs with more than a nod to Newdad – it’s a gentle soundtrack for the Bognor brunch gang. Then London punk …
Live Review: The Rockaway Beach Festival – Friday 05.01.2024
Who do you think you are kidding Mr Butlin…a festival in early January? The decorations have only just come down but the glitterball in Bognor shines brightly – hmmm maybe delay that dry January for a while yet. Armed with a wonky trolley load of pale ale, camera batteries and loose change for the arcade, …
Live Review: Arctic Numpties / Pennine Suite / New Divide – The Leadmill, Sheffield 16.12.2023
The Leadmill came alive on Saturday night with a diverse range of musical acts, showcasing the vibrancy of the local and regional music scene. Kicking off the evening was New Divide, an alternative pop band hailing from Manchester. The crowd was treated to a six-song setlist, featuring original tunes and covers that encapsulated their genre-blending …
Live Review: Decapitated / Obscura / Inferi / The Materia – Club Academy, Manchester 15.12.2023
What better way to spend some time in our beloved intimate basement surroundings of the Manchester Club Academy than with an evening of brutal Death Metal, and with my head, body and soul still reeling from catching this tour as an ordinary ‘punter’ four days earlier in the even more cramped and imposing Key Club …
Live Review: Belphegor / God Dethroned / Atrocity / Monastery – The Corporation, Sheffield 12.12.2023
It was time to head south on this wintery Tuesday evening for what was promising to be an evening of brutal extreme metal courtesy of a four-band bill at The Corporation in Sheffield, and with doors not being until 19.00 I was caught putting two and two together and surmising that the evening would be …
Live Review: Don Broco – Corn Exchange, Cambridge 08.12.2023
By Fearghal McGlinchey On the 8th of December, the Cambridge Corn Exchange welcomed the electric energy of Don Broco’s “The Birthday Party” tour. I’ve personally seen Don Broco twice before – first at Alexandra Palace in London back in March & then at Leeds Festival at the end of August, both times the crowd were …
Live Review: Halestorm / Black Veil Brides / Mothica – Wembley Arena, London 09.12.2023
The Legendary Wembley Arena and its long history in hosting iconic music events with the likes such as Queen, The Rolling Stones, The Beatles and even David Bowie to name a few of the biggest music names to walk through its doors, it’s not surprising that Izzy Hale felt right at home and on form …
Live Review: As December Falls – Scala, London 30.11.2023
By Henry Groves As December Falls were out on tour for their album released in July ‘Join the Club’. The band formed back in 2014, and was made up of Bethany Curtis (vocals), Ande Hunter (guitar) and Timmy Francis (bass). As this was the 17th show of a 20-date European tour, you would have excused …
Live Review: Michael Schenker Group / Night Demon – O2 Ritz, Manchester 28.11.2023
With a whopping fifty years under his belt, Michael Schenker was embarking on his latest tour in order to celebrate the feat, and with it, he had brought his trusted comrades as well as the support band Night Demon from across the pond. As Night Demon hit the stage it was only too plain to …