Event Reviews

The major rock and metal festivals and events …reviewed

IKillYa – Limelight 2, Belfast 03/05/2014

IKILLYA

The last time New York’s IKillYa played Belfast, they nearly didn’t – as the venue they were scheduled to appear at closed just a few days before they were due to grace its stage. Fortunately, in the true spirit of metal camaraderie, another promoter stepped into the breach, a few …

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Damaged Stock 2014 – 26th April 2014

Damaged stock 2014 @EvilScarecrowUK@Rock_City_Notts@epilepsyaction@emperor_chung@DamageScape@tentontabby@ObzidianMetal@Pandemik_666 Outside lurks daylight, in Rock citys basement however, it s dark and Riff Bastard have descended upon the stage to entertain the crowd hiding like vampires with a taste for metal, its time to awaken, it’s time to feed. Its Damaged Stock 2014 and all proceeds …

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Kvelertak – The Cathouse, Glasgow – 22/04/2014

.@Kvelertak , @woundsband and @empressad show in Glasgow reviewed by @AnybodyBC for @Planetmosh Tuesday, the 22nd of May, the day just after the long Easter weekend, when everybody’s getting back to work and  still not feeling in the mood for the return to the grind. Oh well, Glaswegians had a …

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Scott Stapp and Voodoo Six, London, 23 April 2014

@Planetmosh reviews @ScottStapp and @VoodooSix show at the Electric Ballroom, London, April 2014.   Thoroughly encouraged by how good this gig was going to be I arrived at the Electric Ballroom full of expectation.  Having been the lead singer of Creed one of the ten most successful US bands of the 2000s, …

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By Any Means – Limelight 1, Belfast 19/04/2014

By Any Means Gig Poster - Limelight April 2014

Birthdays and anniversaries are important milestones, often forgotten at peril (which probably partly explains why my ex-wife is just that!), and so Belfast hardcore heroes By Any Means decided to mark five years together with a suitably celebratory bash at the city’s most famous rock venue. Chosen to open proceedings …

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The Wildhearts ‘ROCK’ Rock City + Support

@Planetmosh @TheWildhearts  @HeyHelloMusic @VHBROZ When I saw how big the que was outside of Rock City in Nottingham, I just knew straight away we were in for a good night! Getting there fairly early, I made my way into the venue and settled myself down. I’d found a great spot to see everything, …

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Status Quo – O2 Dublin – 12/04/2014

This wasn’t my first foray to a Status Quo concert. It was however my first time to see the ‘Frantic Four” line up that released the ‘real’ Quo albums (Hello, Dog of Two Head and Piledriver to name a few), that heralded heavy blues rock. No “whatever you want” or …

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DevilDriver – Limelight 1, Belfast 07/04/2014

Devildriver

.@PlanetMosh reviews DevilDriver, @BleedFromWithin and @Sylosis in Belfast On the only previous occasion on which DevilDriver played Belfast – a month short of eight years ago – the local Free Presbyterian intelligentsia (the Norn Iron equivalent of the US’ moral minority/religious right) picketed the outdoor festival which they were headlining: …

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Foreigner / Europe / FM

FM are the opening band on the current Foreigner UK tour, they had just 30 minutes to get the crowd on their side, and they did this with ease. It was good to see a nearly full venue for FM, as it proves that they can still pull a crowd, …

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