April 1st: Time for practical jokes and spoofs, and possibly some traditional April showers. It was also the opening night of what has become the annual Bowling For Soup UK Acoustic Tour by BFS frontman Jaret Reddick and bassist and generous timegiver to Rocksins Erik Chandler. I was fortunate enough to attend the London show…
Slap bang in the middle of the mammoth two month “The Summoning” tour, Glamour Of The Kill rolled into Cardiff’s Clwb Ifor Bach on Thursday night with barely any tickets left at the door. The first band to take to the stage was Blow Goat, who although at first was a little slow to get…
The last night of the Metal Hammer Razor Tour steamrollered into the Camden Underworld on Friday night, having thrilled sell out and near sell out crowds at every show up and down the country for the past week. How would the final night of the tour go when Rocksins went along to see it? Read…
What happens when you combine one of the leading lights of shock rock / metal with a rabid sold out Brixton Academy? You get Rob Zombie‘s first London live show in sixteen years. Unfortunately for all of us Mr Zombie was a little late in taking the stage, and the hoards got a little restless….
A Day To Remember are one of the hottest bands of recent years with a reputation for putting on a great live show. What happened when Rocksins’ went to check out ADTR live at The Brixton Academy? Read on to find out. Due to the shortish nature of the support band sets, come 9.15 and…
Skin are a band that by all accounts, deserves so much more than they’ve got. A band who have the songs, have the likeability and above all have the pure, undiluted passion – just look around at one of their gigs (well, you can’t any more) and you’ll see this passion being shared with a…
Jagermeister have a long decorated history of association with metal from over the years ago, so when Jager and Metal Hammer team up to put on a UK tour thats a) full of some of the best British alternative and metal bands going today and b) 100% free thanks to Jager, you’d be very silly…
Six months after they came to rock our shores with their short tour in May, Fozzy returned to the UK for a 2 week stretch covering the whole of the UK (you can read Rocksins’ review of Fozzy’s London show and my exclusive interview with Chris Jericho from that tour here). Myself and my buddy…
People of Birmingham and surrounding areas, where were you last Thursday 4th November? I can tell you this much, you weren’t in the HMV Institute witnessing the dazzling Foxy Shazam. Unbelievable but sadly true. In a venue that was optimistically a quarter full, Foxy Shazam put on one the best performances that I have seen…
As my friends and regular visitors to my personal website (mysweetshadow.co.uk) know, I am something of a Bowling For Soup hardcore fan. So, when they announced that their latest UK tour was kicking off in my new place of residence Cambridge at the Corn Exchange, it was pretty much guaranteed I was going to be…
[ad] This show was the second show of the day for Fozzy, having played a matinee show earlier in the day with some different support bands. I was somewhat late arriving in the venue nearly an hour after the doors due to interviewing Fozzy frontman Chris Jericho (that interview can be read in a mega…
“We are bringing death metal into the fine halls of culture” announced Mikael Akerfeldt at one point during the second half of tonight’s performance. He was not wrong. Looking around the almost sold out Royal Albert Hall in the middle of a ten minute long Death Metal epic was a very surreal experience. I’m sure…
