It’s like the valley’s equivalent of a Vegas residency!” jokes Cardinal Black’s subliminal six-stringer Chris Buck ahead of yet another sold out show at Crumlin’s Patriot venue.
When it comes to horror movies, every great movie and villain never seems to die. They raise up from the dead and create a brand-new nightmare for fans.
One of the odder tour packages hit the Target Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota last week. Metal veterans Five Finger Death headlined the bill that also featured two country acts, Brantley Gilbert and Cory Marks.
Some days at work are tough, real tough. Then there are those days when you hand is forced into acknowledging that somebody didn’t adhere to the strict advisory regarding not feeding the gremlins in the post-midnight hours.
Out on the icy streets a brumal wind cuts with a razor-sharp kukri-like keenness. Under the glitzy shimmer of the festive illuminations hordes of shoppers swarm the plentiful shops homing in upon their desired.
MPM’s two ‘Old Muppets’ are heading back to Nottingham to sample some festive cheer and general merriment. Manny has recovered from his Friday night exploits on level 10 in the car park, without the need for physiotherapy or traction, so all in well.
This is a band I’ve literally grown up listening to, the same age as myself, and in their infancy my mates and I were also trying to forge a fledgling musical career.
With Christmas just over a week away, and lucky me having just finished work for the year, this is currently mine and ‘Statler’ Manson’s last trip together to Rock City for the year.
Bang on 19:30 we get the Leigh Harline and Ned Washington classic Disney tune, ‘When You Wish Upon a Star’. Originally sung by Cliff Edwards but made famous by Disney’s Jiminy Cricket in Pinocchio, ( it was recorded in 1939 and won the Academy Award for best original song in 1940, Disney’s first Oscar
It’s cold, bone-chillingly cold. Rumours of icebergs floating about in the River Avon are a bit premature but it’s heading in that direction upon the thermometer! However, a red-hot show awaits at Bristol’s O2 Academy with Stateside genre-blurring rock outfit Electric Six, hollering out of Michigan, in town.
You know its Christmas when it is time for the Gun show just as easily as you know its St Paddy's day when SLF play the same venue.
So, on a freezing cold Sunday night, it was a classic hard rock affair, with both the Graham Bonnet Band and the Dead Daisies playing in The Limelight in Belfast!
Fully 48 hours after the final notes of ‘Tell Me’ crushingly reverberate about Bristol’s Rough Trade my ears are still ringing! There’s not so much quiet in the hours that follow but a complete lack of sound; nothing seems to be able to fill the void quite like Saturday night.
What better way to spend a cold December weekend than in the company of like-minded music fans and some fabulous bands.
Magnum is a band of the people without a shadow of doubt. Evergreen high-quality pomp-rockers they retain an unwaveringly loyal fanbase to this day even though criminally underrated by the music industry at large.
Tonight, is the first show of the UK leg of an extensive European Tour, the bands have delighted fans across Europe since hitting the road at the start of November. These are the final six shows before they head back to the USA for Christmas.