UK fuzzed-up alternative rockers SWEET HOUDINI have thrown down their new single and video, Dominatrix. Watch the video, here – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihmthHCGItQ . The Brit noise makers have big plans for 2024. For now, we asked the guys to fill us in with a bit of background detail: What’s the full …
Read More »The Answer, Wild Heart Tour – Club Academy Manchester 15/11/2023
On a wet and miserable midweek November evening, there is probably no better cure to any hump day blues than going to see The Answer. Continuing the live support of their latest album “Sundowners“, with their Wild Heart Tour, tonight is Manchester’s turn to see the Northern Irish band perform, …
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Welsh prog heavyweights KARMEN FIELD have just unveiled their superb new video for the track, Benighted – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9l37cTb5Nmk . The song is taken from their killer debut album, Black Star Emperor . With the band on the rise, we spoke to them to find out more: What is the full …
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 »Terrorvision ‘TV30’ By Request Show with The Bar Stool Preachers – Gig review – Bradford 03/11/23
Terrorvision ‘TV30’ By Request Show with Support from The Bar Stool Preachers, St Georges Hall, Bradford 03/11/23 Britpop rockers Terrorvision celebrate 30 Years of bouncing hard and tonight’s gig starts with a big cheer and a sold-out home show at St. Georges Hall, Bradford. The Bar Stool Preachers Brighton-based ska-punk rockers …
Read More »Glenn Hughes and The Damn Truth at Academy 2, Manchester, – gig review 29/10/23
Glenn Hughes is celebrating his Deep Purple years, we try to find out if lady is still saying Burn...
Read More »Dom Martin – Buried in the Hail Tour – Yardbirds, Grimsby, 26 October 2023 – Gig review
Multi-award-winning Blues/Rock/Americana/Roots artist Dom Martin is touring his latest album ‘Buried In Hail’. Yardbirds Rock Club in Grimsby is the host, and in its newly refurbished surroundings there are plenty of tables on its ground level come balcony area for the fans who like to be seated and there’s even more …
Read More »Samantha Fish and Jesse Dayton at the O2 Ritz, Manchester on 22/10/23, Gig Review
There is a Deathwish happening at the Ritz in Manchester, Charles Bronson isn’t here so something Fish-y must be going down..
Read More »Black Stone Cherry at Rebellion, Manchester, Gig Review 3/10/23
Alex and Ant head to Rebellion Manchester to find out if Black Stone Cherry are still blaming it on the boom boom...
Read More »The Damn Truth – UK Tour – review with Alex Spy at The Brudenell Social Club 16.10.23
Blues rockers The Damn Truth returned to the UK for a six-date headline tour as well as being special guests on Glenn Hughes’s 50th Anniversary ‘Burn Album’ Tour. Alex Spy is the main support. Alex Spy (Huddersfield) and drummer Stephen Derych (Rotherham) make up the two-piece. Heavily influenced by Muse/Royal …
Read More »Jared James Nichols UK headline tour with special guest DeWolff and Silveroller
Blues powerhouse Jared James Nichols brings his UK Headline tour with special guests DeWolff and Silveroller to Bradford’s Nightrain in support of his new self-titled album. If you want blues rock and roll in all of its guises, then tonight you got it. The Netherlands brings its own psychedelic formula in …
Read More »LoE and Maebe at the Trades Club, Hebden Bridge, 20/10/23
LOE (Last Of Eden) are playing their recent album in full, we head to the hills to find out what it is all about...
Read More »Ba’al – Live Review Grand Central, Manchester 17/09/2023
Ba’al, Prognosis, 4GEN7 Live Review Grand Central, Manchester Live music on a Sunday night has now become a weekly occurrence at GC, and tonight was offering a tasty line up of Ba’al, Prognosis, Idio, and Sparrowhawk. However, there is a late-in-the-day cancellation from the latter 2 bands, and so the …
Read More »RadaR Festival 2023 – Day 3 – Review
RadaR Festival – Day 3 – Review The final day kicks off for me with a parking spot right outside the venue – what a result! In previous years the festival had been located in Guildford in a venue that had incredibly elaborate chandeliers in the main room but it …
Read More »RadaR Festival 2023 – Day 2 – Review
I’ll readily admit I was goosed after yesterday but still managed to get my weary bones out of bed as there are bands I really want to see. I am instantly entranced by Graywave as their emotive echoey vocals pour over their melancholic music. It’s brooding shoegazey post-rock and is …
Read More »RadaR Festival 2023 – Day 1 – Review
The foremost progressive metal festival hits Manchester...
Read More »Mike Tramp – Songs of White Lion Tour, Nightrain, Bradford 22.08.23
The seal has been broken and the cat is out of the bag! Mike Tramp of White Lion fame unleashes his ‘Songs of White Lion Tour’ Embarking on a 10-date tour of the UK, Mike Tramp tells us that this will be his final run as a ‘power-duo’ with Marcus …
Read More »Joe Stamps of Ba’al and Hecate Enthroned – Interview
Steve Tottle, our reviewer and lover of all that is dark and brooding musically, recently interviewed the extremely affable Joe Stamps. Joe Stamps frontman of Ba’al (blackened post-metal band from Sheffield, UK) and Hecate Enthroned (English symphonic black metal), discuss everything from lyrical inspiration, and new music in the making …
Read More »The Damn Truth & Empyre-gig review-Buckley Tivoli-27th July 2023-Planetmosh
The Damn Truth at The Tivoli Venue Buckley 27th July 2023 From over forty years of watching live bands it takes a lot to impress me but the set from Canadian based The Damn Truth was an almost out of body experience at the Tivoli in Buckley. The crowd and …
Read More »Enquire Within – Interview
UK bruisers, ENQUIRE WITHIN, are back with a stunning single and video, Final Seal, out now via Devil’s Clause Records. Watch the video, here – https://youtu.be/rkg-S1cSRsM . With the band on the up, we caught up with the guys to find out more: What is the full band line-up, who …
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