Over the last couple of years, it seems as though more and more British bands have been stepping up to bigger stages, with the likes of Architects in particular really seeming to hit their stride in recent times. Enter Shikari are another such band, having packed out arenas and topped festival bills across the country…
After a rather excellent first day that saw chaotic sets the likes of Hollywood Undead, Frank Carter and the Rattlesnakes, Billy Talent and Lowlives bring a much-needed dose of rock to proceedings, the second day of this summer’s Leeds Festival looked set to be a bit more of a relaxed affair, with a Main Stage headline…
Having first appeared all the way back in 1999 as a sister event to the famous Reading Festival, over the last near two-decades, Leeds Festival has grown to become one of the biggest events in the UK festival calendar, encompassing a huge variety of acts across multiple genres. We trekked up north this year to…
Over the last few years, there seems to have been a great number of so-called ‘US radio-rock’ bands starting to make bigger and bigger waves over on European shores, with the likes of Shinedown and their ilk now sitting comfortably towards the top of festival bills and playing ever-increasingly huge tours. Halestorm are one such…
Ever since first taking place all the way back in 1999 as a spin-off sister-event to the by then well-established Reading Festival, it’s safe to say that Leeds Festival has by now grown alongside its elder sibling to become one of the biggest annual events in the UK’s music festival calendar. With the 2018 edition…
If you were to look back over the landscape of rock music since the turn of the millennium, then chances are you’d likely come across The Gaslight Anthem, and more specifically their second studio album The ’59 Sound. Lauded by critics at the time of release back in the summer of 2008, the record would…
Of all the young metal bands who made their breakthrough in the early to mid 2000’s, few have had quite as tough a time as Welsh outfit Bullet For My Valentine, who arrived kicking and screaming with an early run of genre-defining albums like The Poison and Scream Aim Fire, only to gradually slip into…
When your day job involves packing out arenas and festivals alongside the likes of Alter Bridge and Slash, putting out a deeply personal mostly-acoustic album inspired by classic blues and country music might sound like a bit of a stretch, but that’s exactly what Myles Kennedy has come up with. Rumours of the frontman actually…
Words by Jack Fermor-Worrell. Photos by Cait Maxwell. If you were a fan of pop-punk back in the mid-2000’s, then chances are you might remember the Get Happy Tour – a package fronted by Texas rockers Bowling For Soup and featuring the likes of Son Of Dork, Wheatus, The Bloodhound Gang and more as supports…
As frontman for The Gaslight Anthem, singer Brian Fallon has made a career out of crafting massive blue-collar rock anthems in the vein of greats like Bruce Springsteen and playing them to fanatical audiences across the world. When that band went on hiatus a couple of years ago, he also delighted fans by releasing a…