The 10th anniversary Christmas Jam promised to deliver an excellent night of music from many genres of rock and it did not fail to deliver.

As people are still getting used to gathering together again at venues, some may understandably still be a bit nervous. It would maybe take something special to bring them out to a venue like the Limelight, Belfast.

Saturday morning at Great Yarmouth and the sun decided to show up again as seagulls the size of small cars strut around the campsite. Emerging from the late-night reveries, the assembled masses started gathering for another day of loud guitars, communal singing and the embracing of old friends and new.

On opening door number 13 of the Metal Planet Music advent calendar, I find a couple of tickets for The Darkness with Massive Wagons at Rock City.

We all love a party especially around the Christmas period and even more so when you have three great bands on the card.

Having seen Myles on his solo ‘Year of The Tiger’ album tour back in 2018, when this tour was announced I knew I wanted to cover it. Sadly, due to prior engagements I’m having to travel further afield than normal to get to see him.

It’s the relatively short trip to Nottingham tonight, for my partner in crime MPM Tog Manny and myself. It’s not the usual haunts of Rock City or The Rescue Rooms, but arguably one of the best named venues on the circuit, ‘Percy Picklebackers Dive Bar’ situated in the Lace Market area of Nottingham.

The tendrils of darkness have pushed across the land hastening the westwards retreat of light ahead of the nighttide. It's the time of year when the hours twixt dusk to dawn are in ascendancy.

Tis a wet, shitty night in Belfast and the huddled masses have gathered for a bit of Christmas cheer in the form of the Mighty Alestorm, Gloryhammer and the badass Bootyard Bandits.

With the Limelight 2 you always know you will be in for a bit more intimate gig and you know that the barrier between performer and audience is a little bit more amorphous. With the right band or performer that means that the event can feel fully rounded and add to the enjoyment.

The roaring riptides of rock ’n’ roll cast a favourable light upon Londons O2 Academy Islington as Bad Touch took to the stage on the second to last date of their ‘Better Late Than Never’ tour.

I've been waiting for this weekend all month; work has been intense to say the least and my brain feels like butter. I've switched my laptop off, my boots are on, and I am running, literally running for the train. Badgerfest 2021 is here, and I am squeaky excited.

When you finally get a chance to break your cabin fever, which has been going on for far too long, where do you go? To see Eagles of Death metal of course!

After over three weeks of my enforced absence, courtesy of the dreaded lurghi, myself and MPM Tog Manny are back on the road. Albeit a rather snowy one, after an afternoon of the free-falling white stuff.

On a frost-bitten Saturday night in Camden Town, London, Kip Winger turns to his percussion accompanist and support act Robby Rothschild and says, “I told you about this crowd didn’t I?

Now this is a Live Concert review but I thought it worth-while throwing a few lines down covering the last 40yrs of NMA, many thanks to the vast online sources in digging this up.