Hidden in plain sight The Globe is certainly one of the Welsh capital’s quirkier venues. Housed in a former first-floor cinema, above a row of takeaways that the vibrant Albany Road is locally well known for, The Globe has garnered a quality reputation for putting on the best up and coming acts. This evening’s bill is no exception.
So having spent a busy day at Casa Manny, I’m now on my way back to Rock City, this time for the Super group formed by Australian Dave Lowry, The Dead Daisies.
I first saw The Cure on the Wish tour on 3rd December 1992, and here I am almost exactly 30 years later at the SSE Arena in Belfast.
The HU are a Mongolian Folk Rock band, formed in 2016 in Ulaanbaatar, the capital of Mongolia, and as a trivia point, is the coldest capital city in the world.
It’s been over ten years since we last saw Quo live in the flesh but walking down the hill to the BIC the memories of a lifetime of following comes tumbling through the chill fog of a December evening.
There is something very relaxing about a long drive with music playing and todays playlist is based on many the bands I’m due to see over the next few days here north of the border in Troon.
It’s not very often that a debut album comes along and is so very strikingly good that the dynamic shifts on a sizeable scale.
Tonight’s show is a triple header, kicking off with an American Rapper I’ve not heard before, ZERO 9:36, the sort of thing I imagine my son would be into, he’s already commented on the next band, ASKING ALEXANDRIA, saying he still listens to the first two albums, ‘Stand up and Scream’ and ‘Restless and Relentless’, says they are two sick albums.
Tonight we are treated to one of Rock’s most underrated voices in an intimate setting that has taken three years to happen but it was worth the wait.
The former Motley Crue, Dead Daisies and The Scream (amongst others) frontman is out doing an acoustic tour and promoting his book Horseshoes and Hand Grenades and we are gifted an incredibly intimate evening full of laughs, insight and some banging tunes.
This will be an emotional one, a happy emotional one, because this is a trip back to one of those moments in your personal history with a date that’s engraved into your subconscious forever, like your first kiss, the birth of your child, the death of a loved one.
When first seeing the lineup for this show I initially thought there must have been some mistake, It\s a co-headlining Tour for Amorphis and Eluveitie but in reality Dark Tranquility are another headline band in a support slot and openers Nailed To Obscurity are certainly no slouches either
Some three and a half years since last playing Cardiff’s Tramshed the critically acclaimed Joanne Shaw Taylor, rightfully lauded as a leading light of the British blues scene, makes a most welcome return to one of the Welsh capital’s premium mid-sized venues.
Floor Jansen posted on her socials, only a couple of days ago, that she has been told she is now cancer free after her recent operation to remove a cancerous tumour.
Even with the first frost proper of Winter having a good nibble hard-rocking antipodeans Wicked Smile and Cassidy Paris roll into Swansea determined to bring their particular rock n’ roll sunshine to the chilly UK.
Always almost impossible to categorise, Opeth have always cut their own singular path through the choppy waters of life as a band, their blend of Progressive and Death Metal mixed with elements of folk, jazz and classical music setting them apart.