For the second year running Ash have managed to put on a show at Belfast’s historic Ulster Hall with the aim of promoting local Northern Ireland talent on the run-up to the holidays. This time the festive show coincided with a string of dates promoting their latest album Race the …
Read More »Haint – Terminally Evolved EP review
Belfast’s powerful 3 piece Haint Deliver a hefty 5 tracks of great music If you like your music heavy, progressive, with lots of melodies, and yet still doomy and dark, then Haint and their new EP is made for you. Gifting us 5 tracks and just over 26 minutes of …
Read More »Solothurn – Servitude EP review
Belfast once turned out the Titanic, now we have the equally titanic new band Solothurn Originating from Belfast, Solothurn are a new band comprised from several other Northern Irish bands, and an ex member of Nick Olivieri’s Mondo Generator. Describing themselves as “Alt-Metal” and citing influences such as Alice in …
Read More »The Raven Age, Limelight 2, Belfast, 11/11/23- gig review
From the opening notes to the final encore, they were technically excellent and delivered a heady mix of perfect harmonies and soaring guitar solos all rolled into heavy, well crafted songs.
Read More »Stiff Little Fingers – Announce UK Tour In March 2019
Stiff Little Fingers are pleased to announce a 14-date headline tour in March 2019, including the traditional date in Glasgow’s iconic venue Barrowland Ballroom on 17th March. With a career spanning over more than 40th years, Stiff Little Fingers‘ live shows always become something special, a unique event that never disappoints and the annual …
Read More »Stiff Little Fingers – Announce UK Tour In Spring/Summer 2018
STIFF LITTLE FINGERS ANNOUNCE UK TOUR IN SPRING/SUMMER 2018 Stiff Little Fingers are set to embark on a 12-date headline tour in March of 2018 with special guests Ruts DC. The band will also be playing 3 large outdoor summer shows with a rotating bill including The Selecter, The Beat and …
Read More »Alter Bridge, Ulster Hall, Belfast, 8th Oct 2017
After selling out shows in Dublin and Belfast back in June, such was the demand for tickets from local rockers, Alter Bridge returned to Belfast on Sunday night to play a welcome second show as part of The Last Hero Tour. In contrast, it was opening act As …
Read More »Monster Truck, Limelight 2, Belfast, 13/3/17
Opening the show tonight are German duo The Picturebooks. A few technical issues do nothing to dampen the band’s enthusiasm. Supporting Monster Truck will help gain them a new following. After a short set, highlights were ‘Bad Habits Die Hard’ and ‘Your Kisses Burn Like Fire’. If they seem like an …
Read More »The Graham Bonnet Band – The Limelight 2, Belfast – 19-11-2016
“Since you’ve been gone, since you’ve been gone; I’m outta my head…” Who? What? Where? Sorry! Got a little distracted there for a minute. What can I say? When you’ve grown up listening to the iconic British rock band Rainbow then you were probably excited when the news of the …
Read More »Fireland – Fireland III: Believe Or Die
On the 17th October 2006, my 16 year old self walked into the Mandela Hall in Belfast to watch none other than the kings of cheesy, power metal; DragonForce. It was on this night that my teenage ears were also introduced to the support band who were none other than …
Read More »Status Quo – The SSE Arena, Belfast – 28th October 2016
In music history there were not too many bands that could get away with wearing double denim. 90s Irish pop group B*witched count as one but no one was able to rock the look more than British rock legends Status Quo. The Quo boys have always been highly regarded and respected …
Read More »Alien Ant Farm – The Empire Hall, Belfast – 21st October 2016
Ahhh 2001, what a time to be alive, especially for someone who was born in the 90s (myself included) to which not only had the early stages of puberty had begun but so had the stages of listening to better music. Linkin Park, Sum 41, Papa Roach are to name …
Read More »Indominus – Legion Within
There’s nothing that excites a reviewer more than when a new band appears on the music scene with some fresh material. That can be said about Indominus, a death metal band hailing from Northern Ireland, forming at the beginning of 2016 and features members of the late ForChristSake. With such …
Read More »Drakonis – As They Rot
It’s been a long day at the office, you get home, put your feet up and breathe a sigh of relief knowing that the day is over. While you are nice and relaxed you decide to put on some music, only instead of the soothing sounds of Mozart you are …
Read More »Screaming Eagles Announced as Support to US Rockers Buckcherry
SCREAMING EAGLES ANNOUNCED AS SUPPORT TO BUCKCHERRY – BELFAST & DUBLIN – OCTOBER 2016 Screaming Eagles will be special guests of top US rockers Buckcherry on the Irish leg of their 15th Anniversary World Tour. The shows will take in Belfast (Limelight 2) and Dublin (Whelans) on October 12th & 13th …
Read More »Mastodon – The Limelight 1, Belfast – 14th August 2016
Summer time. To some it’s about sun and holidays, to others it’s heading to festivals, enjoying music and getting muddy. Every year thousands gather to a field in Walton-on-Trent, England for the annual Bloodstock festival. This year the festival attracted acts like Gojira, Slayer and Twisted Sister (for their final U.K. …
Read More »The Dead Daisies – Limelight 1, Belfast – 21 July 2016
It’s not every day that you see history made, but tonight it happened. While it may not have been a record-breaking number of appearances at the venue, The Dead Daisies bassist Marco Mendoza became the first artist to take to this hallowed stage on four separate occasions with four different …
Read More »Biffy Clyro – Belsonic Festival, Belfast – 25th June 2016
History was made over the past week as millions of people took to the polls to decide whether the United Kingdom would remain in the European Union. With the votes counted and the results in it had been decided that we were to leave. Those who voted to remain were …
Read More »Bring Me the Horizon, Belsonic, Belfast, 16/06/2016
Every year metallians watch for the Belsonic line-up announcement in the hope that one or two rock/metal acts might make it onto the bill, along with whatever generic chart bubblegum music that is currently trendy. This year was no exception, with a change of venue to the much larger outdoor location …
Read More »The Answer – Belfast, Limelight 1 – 3 June 2016
Time is relative. For some, it passes slowly and as inexorably as the tides lap against a shore. For others, it speeds past like a bullet from a gun, bearing down on its inevitable end. For Northern Ireland’s hardest working hard rockers, The Answer, the past decade has been something …
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