The Kris Barras steam train reaches Nottingham for the penultimate show in this short run. Islington tomorrow has the honour of being the last night.

The five octave range Blues Goddess returns to Scotland and as always puts on an incredible live show. She never fails to deliver.

Four dates into the UK leg of his ‘Movin’ On’ album launch tour and the cursed luck of the touring musician has struck. Virtuoso South African bluesman Dan Patlansky has been struck down with a king-sized dose of the lurgy, “[I] woke up this morning with total laryngitis.

Beaux Gris Gris, Pronounced “Bo Gree Gree”, gave the collective who ventured out on ‘Hump Day’ a night to remember as they watched and enjoyed a group of 5 talented musicians play a 2 1/4hr set consisting of 23 songs.

Bad Nerves return to Dublin’s Olympia Theater where they supported The Darkness last December. The band are new to my ears, and I managed to listen to some tracks on the way to the show.

Yet again, Rock City is the place to spend bath night. Another Sunday another gig, this time it’s the Legend that is Johnny Marr, ending a short run of his ‘The Spirit Power’ tour, this run of shows being to promote his latest offering, the fifth solo album alongside the fifteen studio albums he’s played on as part of other bands.

With a twenty year absence from Belfast, the British space-prog rockers Hawkwind landed in the Mandela Hall to perform from their new album Stories From Time and Space.

It's surprisingly warm and dry in Dublin as the crowd queues up over an hour before the first band hits the stage outside the sold out Academy for a night of uplifting German power metal.  

It’s a cold miserable Bath night as I puddle jump across a went Nottingham. The Midlands is being hit with wave after wave of low-pressure systems making it feel like winter than spring time. The weather is in keeping with depressed dressing of the stage once we get into the venue.

Triple bill tonight in the big city, and a decent door time on a Sunday night with the first band on at 8pm, and it was clear to see the difference walking in and the place was busy at 7:30, Sylosis haven't hit these shores in 10 years

The English Riveria in springtime, a steely wind blusters off the English Channel whipping up white horses on the drab, clouded waters of The ‘Bay, belying Torquay’s generally mild microclimate.

There are guitarists and there is Joe Bonamassa. The New York born, California based musician has proven himself to be pretty untouchable, his talent with a six-string born of a natural affinity to his instrument and countless years of dedication to his craft.

Slash ft Myle Kennedy & The Conspirators are certainly no strangers to these shores and it’s great to see them visit Dublin again on this latest Tour.

Into a fifth consecutive week of touring the European continent so this incredible trio of powering outfits, who each offer their own slant upon the modern forefront of the more rapid side of metal, hit English shores.

It was the Metal event of the year, three titans onstage together for a UK tour for the first time, the perfect package billed as 'Metal Masters 2024'.

Southampton rockers Creeper have always had a knack for playing venues far smaller than what their popularity would suggest, but this short, twelve night run of gigs is proper throwback time for the band, who have chosen relatively tiny places to play in cities they don’t often visit; the result, as frontman Will Gould stated on Twitter, of fans crying out on various social media platforms.