Let me tell you something, my fellow metal maniacs (is that trademark now? I hope not!): if you weren’t at Shepherd’s Bush Empire last night, you missed a resurrection worthy of Valhalla.

Review by Ritchie Birnie for MPM Right, all you budding guitarists, all your praying to three headed fret gods, Allah and the All father has borne fruit  and the unbelievable has happened, one stage and two guitar maestros in Joe Satriani and Steve Vai have come together to rock your world and leave your grasp on reality in tatters. Before …

Nine Inch Nails last played Dublin on the 22.08.07 at Marley Park and played Belfast on 21.08.13 Custom House SQ, Belfast, so it’s been a while.

“'Cause why get less if you could get more?” enquire headliners Royal Republic, in their signature track ‘Getting Along’, as darkness descends upon the middle day of this year’s Call Of The Wild.

With its original incarnation in 2019 Lincolnshire’s Call Of The Wild Festival is industriously ensuring a deserved reputation as one of the leading lights amongst the UK’s grassroots rock festivals.

There’s something about walking into Shank Hall that feels like slipping into a secret you’re lucky to know.

Maynard James Keenan knows how to throw a birthday party, especially when it’s for himself. The Sessanta 2.0 Tour stopped in St. Louis on a warm May evening, and it wasn’t just a concert—it was a ritual.

Every so often an act comes along and you know that in years to come you want to be able to say that you were there at the beginning. 2025 brings us just such an act, all hail Noble Jonson.

What a month it’s been for nostalgic bands returning to Belfast to remind us all of our glorious youth. This gig is a special return to Belfast for the 30th Anniversary of their cracking and youthful debut album ‘I Should Coco’. Supergrass last played Belfast five years ago at the Ulster Hall in 2020.

British metalcore meets mathcore heavyweights Employed to Serve just dropped their newest album Fallen Star and had a hefty tour to boot. Along with them, supports took shape in the increasingly popular Church Road Records favourites Burner and Celestial Sanctuary. 

Having played in Dublin’s 3 Arena the previous night, Bryan Adams has arrived in Sunny Belfast. It’s a beautiful warm day and the eager fans are gathering to queue already at the front of the SSE.

It was a beautiful warm evening in Belfast as we eagerly approached the Limelight for our nostalgic trip down memory lane to see the effervescent Terrorvision. 

stacked line up on a roasting Tuesday night in Belfast, off to the big city again, and a decent enough queue for this early doors gig, which is great to see, up first....

Chicago’s historic Riviera Theatre was swallowed in a maelstrom of metallic rhythms, sweat-drenched bodies, and thunderous rebellion as industrial godfathers Ministry stormed through their hometown alongside two foundational forces of the genre: Nitzer Ebb and Die Krupps.

Well, this is a turn up for the books, no not the gig, the sun, lovely night here in Belfast and what a lineup tonight, first up we have the lads from XIII Doors from Shannon, they have been on the up with an album out and some great reviews and now a slot support with the legend himself, Michael Schenker

Ahead of a busy summer of touring across a good-sized percentage of Europe – from Sweden to Romania and a good few points in between – New Yorker Sari Schorr and her band are getting warmed up with a slew of UK dates.