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.
A chilly autumn evening did little to dampen the enthusiasm of concertgoers for the first official gig on James’ UK and Ireland Arena tour, which kicked off in Leeds on Thursday 25 November.
After a delightful Sunday roast with friends I make my excuses and leave. I have a night of excitement ahead of me, so leaving the wife at the friends, I quickly drop in at home, pick my camera gear and then head off to the West Midlands once again. This time the destination is the O2 Academy just on the side of the A38 in the middle of darkest ‘Brum’.
Following the blinding sets the previous day, topped by the incendiary Wildhearts, the gathered masses shook their fuzzy heads and climbed out of warm beds not long occupied to embrace the second day of the festival.
So, I get the call from the ‘boss’ asking me if I’d like to cover a show in Nottingham. Without checking the band, I said why the hell not, it was at Rough Trade, a record shop in Nott’s which I knew had a venue above, so it’ll be somewhere new to visit.
After several attempts to get Those Damn Crows to appear at ‘Rockin the Bowl’, sadly, to no avail, the Rockin’ the Bowl team decided to put on a special night dedicated to those who ‘volunteered’ to man the event, and without which it would be a non-starter.
With replacement singer Joel Peter from Bootyard Bandits the band came to prove a point...they are one of the best live acts in the UK.