A trip from Northern Ireland for this one, personal story here, when I was 10, I borrowed “Journey to the Center of the Earth” on cassette, and this is the album in question being played tonight, and it’s my first time ever seeing Mr Wakeman, so the excitement is unreal!
Back to the time when death metal was a modern notion, New York legends Suffocation are pioneers of the genre since their inception in 1988. A few years of hiatus stood between that time but boy did they come back with a bang!
So, the FOZZY road train slams into Nottingham’s, ROCK CITY, no, not the loveable Hat wearing comedic Muppet but the American Heavy Rock band fronted by the enigmatic wrestling showman that is Chris Jericho, he, along with his band of musical cohorts, founding member, Rich Ward on Lead guitar and war paint, Billy Grey also on guitar, P.J.Farley on bass guitar and beanie and topless, tattooed Grant Brooks on drums have brought their Spotlight UK tour to Nottingham.
The reason for the pre-tea-time start is there are three bands performing at Rock City this evening, and we must be out early to let ‘the kids’ in afterwards.
Eyes fully opened and mind well and truly expanded. It’s very rare for me to begin a review with a concluding comment, but here it’s utterly necessary.
Well, here we go, first gig for me in 2024, and we have a triple threat match, local lads “If it Bleeds”, Scottish legends “Party Cannon” and from down the road the thrashtastic “Gama Bomb”
Picture this, it’s midweek, a cold, rainy Wednesday evening and to top it off, it’s Valentine’s Day. Perfect for those with loved ones but also perfect for those who want to mosh the goddam world away - Enter Shikari are here in Manchester bringing us their A Kiss For The Whole World tour as a special Valentine's treat. Forget ya flowers and chocolate, the St Albans lads have got it covered.
Concussive, seismic waves are being felt across continents, the seismographs are going daft in Edinburgh, and wild in the thousands of other stations dotted around the globe, the epi-centre pinpoints a likely suspect at, 52°57′22″N, 001°09′13″W, Nottingham’s very own 'Rescue Rooms'
It is the first night of the UK/EU tour and I am sure the cold has already faded these L.A. sex bombs tans, it also wiped away any frost from the sold out crowd as they put on a show that arena headliners could only dream of.
Its rare to have such a big act as Blaze Bayley play in a small town as Omagh but on this peaceful Sunday night things are about to get wild.
Thunder have been a favourite band of mine for decades. ‘Laughing on Judgement Day’ and ‘Back Street Symphony’ are amongst my favourite albums back from a time, pre-grunge which ultimately killed off real rock music, and cut down many bands in their prime, seemingly overnight, sadly
The Arcada Theater in St. Charles, IL is a vaudeville style theater that was built in 1926. While it still has the look and feel of the 1926 theater, the sound and acoustics are modern and sound fantastic. It is a small theater with a 900-seat capacity hosting over 250 events annually.
This is how you kick off a tour, hark back to the 80s where every tour opened in Glasgow, sell out a venue that is a run down, used to be a porn theatre and put on a blistering set that blows away everyone in the crowd.
Luke Morley rolls into town to promote his solo album Songs From the Blue Room and the Glasgow crowd welcomed him back with open arms and in delight to see him and Chris Childs on the same stage again.
Bring Me The Horizon are without a doubt riding the crest of a wave at the moment having had an awesome year in 2023, headlining a day at the Download Festival and a number of successful Tours. Tonight Dublin welcomes the band back after a crazy 13 year wait, far too long lets be honest.
On what is one of the coldest nights of the winter thus far we trek Somerset-wards for our first gig of the new year. With the mercury recording figures in the negative the much-revered British Lion await us in the friendly surrounds of Frome’s Cheese And Grain.