The weather may be unpredictable but it was a dead cert that this particular night in Belfast 35,000 people were going to turn up to a night of incredible music. The Vital festival was hosting one of the biggest shows of the year at the Boucher playing fields as none other than the Foo Fighters were taking the stage. Before …
With Ozzy Osbourne’s unfortunate cancellations of shows for 2019, guitarist Zakk Wylde has had some time to hit the road on his own. He ripped across the country with the Generation Axe Tour
IDLES - Bristol native, English punk rockers gave one of the most energetic and spectacular performances Glastonbury fields has ever seen.
How many times has this band been branded with the name supergroup? Does it annoy you? Is it overused? Well in this case I have to say probably because they are way better than that moniker.
Slipknot’s “Knotfest Roadshow” made huge news throughout the metal community when it was announced back in March. That twenty-nine cities run is now in full swing and Pinnacle Bank Arena in Lincoln, Nebraska
The third and final day of the 2019 Rock And Blues Custom Show had come around in a flash and looking at the line up had all the hallmarks of being another great day.
We arrived back at the top of the mountain for day two of Steelhouse about 20 minutes after the arena opened.
For me Day 2 of the Rock and Blues Custom Show was where, to coin a phrase, for me, the shit got real. There was a steller line up of bands across all the stages
In recent years, even before becoming a journalist of sorts, I’ve had multiple opportunities to catch Aussie rockers Airbourne in venues across Ireland and at festivals in the UK
Sunday evenings can be a bit of a drag as thoughts turn to the beginning of a new week and a return to work, but tonight those thoughts were banished in the Voodoo
July 25th 2019 will be a day that long remains etched in my memory, not just because it was stupidly, ridiculously hot, but because it was the day that I made my first visit to the Rock and Blues Custom Show
For those who aren’t familiar with the Steelhouse Festival, it’s a small, 5000 capacity, single stage, family friendly affair, now in its ninth year
If ever the phrase ‘caught between a rock and a hard place’ was an appropriate description of a day - Saturday 3rd August exemplified it for the local Belfast metal community.
The organisers had really done themselves proud this year for the main stage headliners were real rock royalty, to say I was excited to finally see one of my favourite bands ever is an understatement
Last Thursday night kickstarted a 4 day extravaganza of scintillating live music for this reviewer as after going to see the incredible talents of Wisconsin born Blues rocker Jared James Nichols,
The line up for Day 3 at Ramblin’ Man, pretty much dictated that we’d be camped out for the day by the Blues Stage. The day itself could quite easily have been subtitled “Girl Power