rock/metal
Live Review: Blind Channel / Ghøstkid – La Scala, London 04.04.2024
By Henry Groves To many people, Blind Channel will be known for appearing in the 2021 Eurovision Song Contest where they represented Finland. Since then, they have been trying to make a name for themselves away from the competition and this year have tried to push that further afield. With the release of their latest …
Track: Jaws The Shark – Got It Made (feat James Veck-Gilodi from Deaf Havana)
Multi-instrumentalist Jaws The Shark (real name Olly Bailey), has shared his brand new single, ‘Got It Made’ featuring Deaf Havana’s lead vocalist James Veck-Gilodi. The track follows his previous single ‘California‘. Bailey explains how Got It Made came to be: “I remember writing the main intro riff for it by just subconsciously playing around with an acoustic one day sat on my sofa, something caught …
Track: Rats-Tails – Flowers
Formed in South East London by vocalist/guitarist/songwriter Courtney McMahon after she rediscovered her love of performance through singing in a David Bowie covers band, Rats-Tails are a regular and much-loved feature on the London grassroots circuit. The band have returned to share their first single of 2024, with new track ‘Flowers’. About the track singer …
Live Review: The Hives / Bad Nerves – Manchester Academy, Manchester 06.04.2024
If you’re into frenetic 90 miles an hour garage punk rock with hooks at every turn, then I can’t think of a better pairing than newcomers Bad Nerves and Swedish indie punk icons, The Hives. Opening the show are rising Essex punks Bad Nerves, who deliver an intense set of power pop melodies above a …
Live Review: Simple Minds / Del Amitri – The 02 Arena, London 21.03.24
Simple Minds brings new energy to the 02 arena with a hits laden nostalgic tour date. Back in 2020, the band was 10 days into a world tour when the rest of the tour dates were cancelled because of Covid, and now the band is back in full force. Frontman Jim Kerr grew up in …
News: Five Weeks Until The Mighty Incineration Festival Brings Its 10 Year Anniversary Edition To Camden Town, London
With just five weeks to go until the formidable Incineration Fest hits London again in its ritualistic annual pilgrimage of all thing’s Black and Death on the extreme metal soundscape it’s time to start getting excited, very very excited. In a little over a month we will be treated to four stages of madness spread …
News: Pale Wizard Records Release 50 Year Anniversary Tribute To Sparks With ‘Kimono My House – 50 Years Later’ Album
Sparks first became a household name in the UK in 1974 when their iconic song ‘This Town Ain’t Big Enough for Both of Us’ hit number two in the singles chart. Their Top of the Pops BBC TV performance of the song is remembered vividly by everyone who saw it, bringing brothers Ron and Russell …
Track: Big Special Drop Something Special With New Track ‘Black Dog / White Horse’
Big Special have shared a new track, Black Dog / White Horse which is their latest single to be taken from their forthcoming debut album Postindustrial Hometown Blues, due on the 10th of May via SO Recordings. The track follows on from ‘Butchers Bin‘ and the first single ‘Dust off / Start Again‘ On the track …
Live Review: Slash Featuring Myles Kennedy And The Conspirators / Mammoth WVH – O2 City Hall, Newcastle 31.03.2024
It may seem like Slash is everywhere these days, whether its getting back to his original role in Guns N Roses or even performing with Ryan Gosling at the Academy Awards, there is a new blues cover album on the way and along with Myles Kennedy and The Conspirators there is the world tour ongoing …
