There was a huge buzz within Irelands Metal community surrounding tonight’s gig following its announcement.

The streets outside Rock City were throbbing with expectation, a gathering storm of boots on concrete, muffled conversation, and the faint metallic tang of winter still resident in the air.

It started long before the first note was struck, as all memorable shows do. O2 Academy Birmingham had the look of an arena prepared for a siege rather than a gig.

Review by Hugh Spence for MPM Well this is a night (day) I’ve been looking forward to long before it was even announced that Blaze Bayley would be coming back to Ireland, back when he announced that he was going to tour for the 25th anniversary of Silicon Messiah I was delighted, then I spent months checking social media every …

Review by Gary Spiller for MPM A good friend of mine, in the music industry, once said, with wise insight, to me that you only get one shot at a debut show so it’s worth giving it absolutely everything. He’s totally correct and this evening in the heart of Bristol we have not one but two Stateside bands making their …

By the time we reached the Motorpoint Arena that familiar low thrum was already in the air, despite the cold drizzle which has seemingly plagued the UK for everyday this year.

There's probably no cooler musician than Orianthi on the road right now, the Australian guitarist and singer exuding a megawatt glow from the moment she steps onstage.

“It’s a dream tour that’s taken a long while to happen” sagely notes Simone Simons the legendary frontwoman of Epica midway through a spellbinding set

There are moments in a music fan’s life that feel less like events and more like rites of passage. Sitting down to watch Megadeth: Behind The Mask ahead of its general release was exactly that. Forty years of band. Forty years of film in the making. And for me, thirtyfive years of fandom. I’m not quite old enough to claim …

Good Evening, this is my first show of 2026” announces Ricky as he takes the stage. First solo show yes, but certainly not the first performance.

Well, here we are in 2026 and the Gig Mobile hits the road again on the first of many trips this year. It’s a cold one with temperatures in and around the freezing mark but its dry so the huskies can stay wrapped up in their kennel for another while.

Review by Damien Doherty for MPM It’s that time of year again when the world descends on Dublin to commemorate the late great Phil Lynott. And it’s a big one this year, being the 40th Anniversary of Philo’s passing. Organiser Lloyd Barber has laid on a splendid affair with gig’s at the Button Factory and the 3Arena on the 3rd …

Christmas fever has taken over Belfast City Centre this weekend as the panic sets in for the last of the gift shopping. Things are a little more laid back in East Belfast however where It’s night three of four for the third run of Ricky Warwicks’ annual shows at the Sanctuary Theatre.

It’s Christmas Party night in Belfast Rock City judging by the number of groups wandering about with bottles of beer, dressed to kill and ready to rock’n’roll all night and suffer all the next day. 

Steel Panther didn’t so much play the Sylvee as turn it into a neon-lit shrine to bad decisions, Aqua Net memories, and jokes that absolutely should not be repeated to your HR department.

Jon Otway has never fitted neatly into anyone’s idea of how a pop star should behave, look, or even survive, and that is precisely why he is still here, still touring, still selling merch, and still smashing microphones with his forehead nearly five decades after most sensible people would have taken the hint and stopped.