The autumnal equinox has passed, and the hours of darkness are, day by day, increasing in their ascendancy.

Another day and I’m back at the Utilita Arena. Antipodean band, CROWDED HOUSE are here as part of their GRAVITY STAIRS UK tour.

Alice Cooper at the Utilita Arena, Birmingham just the thought of it makes me smile, as I make my way along the dreaded M6 to Brum.

A full moon shines down on the streets of Camden on a chilly October evening. It is spooky season, and The Black Heart is in full Halloween mode, bedecked with skeletons, cobwebs and corpse-filled cocoons.

Kerbdog are certainly not the only band with a story where timing, a changing music industry landscape, or perhaps just bad luck, caused issues for them hitting the heights that for me their music deserved.

Well what else would you be doing on a Tuesday night sure, its a two gig set up tonight, with both the Limelight 1 and 2 hosting bands, we are in the bigger room tonight for Lacuna Coil, and by the looks of it I would say we are about 75% full, 700 odd in here so not a bad turn out!

Rock City is always a hotspot for legendary gigs, and Friday night was no exception. The historic venue played host to two heavy-hitting blues-rock acts that proved the genre’s raw emotion and virtuosity are alive and kicking.

It’s been a couple of years since Anvil last visited our city. This time the Canadian 3 piece are playing in Belfast’s Limelight 2.

It’s Humpday night in Wolverhampton, and it’s clear the heavy metal faithful have come out in force for what promises to be an epic night of stoner, doom, and distorted riff worship.

We’ve never had Rebel Club on a boat before!” declares Rebels’ frontman Wayne Doyle midway through their headline set onboard Bristol’s unique Thekla venue.

Hidden away down a small side street in North East London there is a quaint and unsuspecting pub called The Victoria which holds a dirty little secret.

There’s something about a blustery Autumn Sunday and going to see a live show. It’s that time where nights are drawing in earlier and there’s that scent of chilliness starting to creep in - going to a show that’s about to knock your block off around this time of year adds to the realization that it’s yet again, been a killer year for music - with more to come to catapult 2025 into shape.

Going to a sold out show is always something to look forward to. Last Saturday was no different.

Over the years I’ve been lucky enough to catch Apocalyptica on more than one occasion. The latest being when they toured “Cell-0” in 2020 on a Co-headline tour with Simone Simmons and the Symphonic Rock band EPICA.

Rammstein front man Till Lindemann has embarked on his first ever solo tour through the United States and made a stop at the Myth Nightclub in Maplewood, Minnesota. Twin Temple and Aesthetic Perfection rounded out the bill.

According to Sir Terry Pratchett, in his best-selling Discworld novel ‘Mort’, magicians have calculated that million-to-one chances crop up nine times out of ten.