Nottingham’s Rescue Rooms has seen its fair share of packed-out rock shows, but this was something else. A sold-out venue, a crowd buzzing with anticipation, and a line-up built for destruction.
"I'm not sure about that beginning, we haven't even rehearsed it yet" says a tongue-in-cheek Pete Townsend following a false start to perennial classic 'The Real Me'.
Review & Photography by Manny Manson for MPM The De Montfort Hall is buzzing. It’s a sell-out, and the crowd is ready. The Darkness have rolled into Leicester as part of their Dreams on Toast 2025 tour, bringing with them a night of glam-rock excess, falsetto acrobatics, and sheer unfiltered joy. Support comes from the legendary Ash, a band who …
The Corrs thanked the Royal Albert Hall for a "pivotal" moment that sent their career soaring, as they performed in aid of Teenage Cancer Trust.
The fourth night of a brilliant week of Teenage Cancer Trust at the Royal Albert Hall saw the original (mod)fathers of the whole event, The Who, take to the stage.
Having built a career on doing exactly what they want and flying in the face of all that's expected of them, it shouldn't be a surprise to anyone that The Sex Pistols chose to play in the grandeur of that most venerable concert hall in the country, The Royal Albert Hall.
530pm, and I’m early for the show. What to do, what to do? Find some food? Go for a beer? I’ve got an hour to kill. But I’m too excited to venture too far from the venue.
The WC Social Club in West Chicago felt like a pressure cooker on March 20, 2025 — and I was right in the middle of it.
“I’m gonna be singing Stiff Little Fingers for the next week!” says the man, as we file out into the Bristol night air, next to me out of nowhere.
When a mysterious show was announced last week for London's 100 Club by a band called The SPOTS - true fans knew what was happening,
After spending the previous evening in the excellent company of Phil Campbell And The Bastard Sons a glorious Sunday dawns for part two of the Welsh Westcountry ‘invasion’.
The third deepest natural harbour, after Rio and Sydney, I’m proud to call Falmouth my hometown. This one-time home of the Packet Ships, the first major harbour along the Western approaches of the English Channel, was where, in 1805, the news of Nelson’s death at Trafalgar first made landfall.
It seemed like The Temperance Movement were all poised to break into the superleagues when in 2020 singer Phil Campbell announced he was standing down and going his own way.
Has there ever been a more apt tour name than “about time” ? Two bands that have managed to avoid the UK for a very long time, no matter how loud we raised our voices on this side of the pond but finally the dam burst and we are treated to two bands at the height of their powers and who provided us with sheer entertainment that has been worth every second of the wait.
It’s a cold yet dry night in Belfast as we walk past the Rory Gallagher statue on the way to the Voodoo for tonight’s gig.
Opening for Spike at the Old Cold Store was no small task, but Rhiannon Hill, vocal powerhouse from Kira Mac, took it in her stride.