Two years in the making, the time was nigh for Frank Turner and his band of merry Sleeping Souls to grace the boards at O2 Academy Brixton – easily the largest venue on his never ending tour. After being forced to postpone their tour multiple times due to COVID-19, they were finally able to commence…
“It’s great to be back ladies and gentlemen – many of you are at home not wearing pants, or if you’re in the UK not wearing trousers”, quips Bowling For Soup frontman Jaret Reddick mere minutes into his band’s set. In most scenarios, this would be an incredibly strange statement to hear, even from the…
Frank Carter & the Rattlesnakes performed at Brixton Academy the other weekend and nobody showed up….or so the Daily Mail would probably have you believe if Frank Carter had tried to feed some hungry children. No, the performance in the empty room at Brixton Academy is a result of a band making the best of…
Wednesday February 26th marked the first day back in Bristol for alt-rock superstars New Years Day, after having been away for years. The five-piece band originally formed in Anaheim, California, and the release of their latest album Unbreakable in April earlier this year marked their fourth studio album to date. Having recently finished an epic…
The last time I saw Those Damn Crows (9) was in a packed out Dogtooth Stage at Download 2019 and this sold out tour of intimate UK venues has been much the same, but before we talk about them it’s worth just mentioning support band Florence Black. If you like Black Stone Cherry, you will…
For the best part of 6 years, I have followed The Lounge Kittens. I have been fortunate enough to see them many times starting with small shows, all the way through festival slots and on their biggest headline tours. I have had the privilege off working with them through various different sites over the years…
It has been an interesting past year for Babymetal. While continuing to tour relentlessly after the success of their sophomore effort Metal Resistance, the group was hit by the departure of Yui Mizuno in late 2018 due to undisclosed health reasons, and the core group reverted to a duo of Suzuka Nakamoto and Moa Kikuchi….
I was all set to review tonight’s Dream Theater show at London’s Hammersmith Apollo (on the 21st of February 2020) in the traditional way. The tour sees them playing their acclaimed concept album, Metropolis Pt 2: Scenes From A Memory, in full, along with a selection of other songs. Tonight’s show is the first of…
Doo-wop isn’t usually a genre you’d expect metal fans to care about. But after their debut album got all kinds of attention, Twin Temple have become metal fans doo-wop band of choice. Now Twin Temple aren’t exactly your standard doo-wop band, the band describe it themselves as Satanic doo-wop. This isnt just a gimmick to…
Out on the road for one of the final ‘must-see’ and completely sold out tours of 2019 are Knocked Loose, and unless you’ve been living under a rock for the last year, you’ll know that they’ve been making waves in the metal and hardcore communites with the release of their sophomore album “A Different Shade…
