In my youth I’ve visited The Assembly Rooms, and more recently The Flower Pot, but this is my first time to The Hairy Dog.
And what a way to ‘pop my cherry’ with tonight’s amazing ‘Triple Header’ of Phil Campbell and The Bastard Sons supported by These Wicked Rivers and Earl of Hell. The icing on the cherry pie, is that Phil Campbell and The Bastard Sons are playing a Motörhead set.
New one day event being put on by The Rock Dublin radio station and called Metal Rampage takes place over the May Bank Holiday weekend.
After two cancellations due to Covid-19, the Twin City Takeover finally rolled into Minneapolis, Minnesota and filled the Target Center for a night of music.
Not being the superstitious type, heading out on Friday 13th held no more fear than any other day. In fact, I used to live at No.13 and my daughter was born on the 13th, so in reality it’s been a lucky number for me.
Tonight, sees another visit to Nottingham’s Rescue Rooms. This time we have Finnish band ‘The Von Hetzen Brothers’ bringing their eighth album to the shores of the UK.
It’s a sign of the times when the bands you grew up with in your formative years announce Farewell Tours. Bodies get old and achy; voices begin to struggle as the natural aging process takes its toll.
Hailing from California the heart of Southern Blues (sic), this 5 piece are making big waves amongst the scene.
When you hear that ‘THE’ voice of a band that you followed in their early days is playing close by, it’s an event that makes you sit up and take notice, a bit like a Meerkat.
When this latest installment of Nozlite, the younger sibling of the well-respected Nozfest, was announced by promoter Jodie Bowie it immediately grabbed our attention.
It’s great to be back. A capacity crowd heading to the lengthy queues at various entrances, filling the air around North Wall Quay in Dublin with that pre-gig buzz so missed over the last 2 years.
The Royal Albert Hall is one of Great Britain’s most recognizable and treasured buildings, it sits with its toes touching the south west corner of Hyde Park, and was opened by Queen Victoria in 1871.
On this 28-date rescheduled European leg of the tour, they are only playing two in the UK, tonight at The Manchester Academy and tomorrow in London at The Brixton Academy. In fact, after the re-jig tonight is the first date of the tour.
The Blues are a genre of music that gets a bit of a rough time. It’s not all full of adultery and dogs dying. In fact, it can be uplifting and downright ‘ornery’. Having been a fan of the ‘Blues’ for decades now, I heard that JST (Joanne Shaw Taylor) was playing close by.
Tonight, sees the first outing together in over a fortnight for MPM Tog Manny and myself. I’ve had an Easter Shutdown to work through followed by a few days away at my Nephew’s Wedding.
Just over 2 years of waiting and it finally comes…. William DuVall comes to the O2 Academy, Birmingham.
It’s is a much smaller venue than he is obviously used to, entertaining vast crowds fronting Alice In Chains and other projects, but his die-hard fan have waited so long, and he did not disappoint.
On a beautiful sunny Belfast day the sun is shining and the birds are singing, they don’t know what they’re in for.