Occasional showers dart across Cardiff but it’s, otherwise, a fine late afternoon in the Welsh capital with early subtle flavours of the approach of autumn beginning to appear.
The band that is too Country for Rock and too Rock for Country kick off their massive Be Right Here tour in Glasgow before they meander through the UK and Europe then back over the water to the good old US of A.
Ever the heavyweight haulier Rockharz trucks on through the halfway point of this year’s journey and into the end of the week and the festival’s third day.
Well as we enter into the Catacombs and we try and not have to eat Faces on the way in, we know that the underworld awaits us all, in other words I am back at the Limelight tonight for death metal legends Nile who are back in town and bring a packed bill with them tonight
Now that the kids have all gone back to school, Belfast is experiencing a rare day of sunshine and it’s a hot sticky evening in the city.
Saturday, September 31st, 2024, marked a night of sweat, sleaze, and rock ‘n’ roll at Billy Bootleggers in Nottingham. This gritty, intimate venue, known for its raw energy and love for rock music, played host to the headline act, Kickin’ Valentina, as they brought their “Star Spangled Fist Fight” tour to town.
Due to travel, I missed TX2’s performance, but I hope to catch them at another show. I did manage to see Avatar, who I believe are one of the best live bands out there. A man in a black mask carried a box to the stairs leading up to the drums.
Wrestling and heavy rock music have always been a match made in heaven with some of the world’s biggest rock bands often collaborating with wrestlers for their intro music.
Minneapolis, Minnesota transformed into “Metalapolis” as Metallica took over the city for two nights at USBank Stadium
Kicking off their first UK tour, there couldn't have been a more apt venue for Czech metalheads The Agony to start at than the famed Cart And Horses, North East London's very own birthplace of titans Iron Maiden.
Every year, the Stonedead Festival manages to capture the raw, untamed spirit of rock 'n' roll, drawing fans from all over the country, to the tiny market town of Newark, England.
Heading over for the final day of Bloodstock, Birmingham's Alternative favourites Straight for the Sun were in full swing over on the New Blood Stage, waking Bloodstock up with energetic melodics and upbeat fusions.
The rescheduled show finally hits Belfast nearly a year later, decent crowd in here tonight for this on a bank holiday Monday, a double dose of California punk tonight, first up….
Saturday night, it’s cold raining and what shall I do? I know I shall warm myself up standing amongst the sold out crowd waiting to see the Undertones and the SawDoctors. Thankfully the rain stopped in time for a good sized crowd to settle down to the first of two strong Irish acts.
Visualise a metalheads’ utopia if you will. One in which the hard rocking foresight of celebrated British sci-fi author Douglas Adams – remember plutonium rock band Disaster Area, so loud that they play their instruments from orbit?
Before they begin their set, the vocalist for Must Kill tells us that “headbanging is encouraged,” there are going to be a lot of sore necks in the morning.