It’s about 5pm, 24 degrees, and I’m sitting looking out to sea, trying to see past the world’s longest pier. At just over a mile long, it’s pretty hard to make out the end; its slightly obscured by the industrial buildings on the other side of the Thames.
Now that the festival is into its second half, I’ve reached the point where I’m not entirely sure what day it is anymore. This morning, after two days of much metalliferous variance, it certainly feels like Friday is the new Saturday.
For “The Last Will and Testament Exclusive Summer 2026 Concert Series”, Opeth selected venues across Europe befitting the complexity and dynamics of their music, venues that wouldn’t be on the tour schedule of many bands.
As we make our way into Belfast the city is busy due to the Fleadh however, with only a few diversions we make it to the Limelight in good time.
With the limbering up of the opening day of this year’s edition of Rockharz completed in the most successful of fashions the festival now undergoes a full stretch to an even fuller day of metal fury. From nine bands to a much fuller fifteen can only mean one thing and that is a much earlier call to the starting line.
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds made a surprise appearance on the roof of Brighton's legendary independent record shop, Resident Records, performing an impromptu set for fans below.
There were fireworks over the Thames last night as The Kooks delivered a spectacular show at London's historic Old Royal Naval College.
More than 45 000 people gathered at the Rowing Canal in Plovdiv last weekend to celebrate the eighth wonder of the world - music.
The twelve months since last year’s edition of Rockharz have passed by in the proverbial blink of an eye. Once more we meet up with friends and our kin under the watchful gaze of the omni-present Teufelsmauer, the ever-stoic unique guardian and associated landmark of this festival.
Fans of indie icons Razorlight were treated to renditions of classic tunes as they've never heard them before as Johnny Borrell and Andy Burrows played a surprise intimate show in central London.
I saw God last night, standing outside a small venue in Glasgow with a T-shirt that read if you want to witness heaven in person step inside and he was not wrong.
Review by Phil Rozier for MPM Did you ever hear of that scientist fella called Einstein? He was before my time but apparently, he was pretty clever at calculations and assumptions. He even came up the theory of relativity. Thinking that the laws of physics were true if applied to the same entity, if in the same space and time, …
The scorching heatwave continues in Norn Ireland as we make our way to the big smoke to see the immense Garbage. I was 19 (showing my age) when the band first burst onto the scene with singles from their debut self-titled album.
Growing up in the NYC area, I’ve been a Bon Jovi fan before there was a band called Bon Jovi. In 1983 my local radio station used to play the song “Runaway” from this unsigned artist and I instantly became a fan. Over the decades I’d see the band a dozen times in concert.
It's been a long time since Sammy Hagar toured the UK and even longer since it could have been classed as a 'solo' jaunt, his last one in support of the 'Standing Hampton' album in 1982.
This is a big one, its been 9 years since System of a Down has played the UK or Europe, but it's been 24 years since System of a Down played in Ireland at Ozzfest in 2002, so it's been 24 years since i was lucky enough to see them so this gig has been a long time coming.