So much has been made of Download festival’s unerring ability to attract rain clouds that this year will go down as one of the driest in recent times. The festival has worked very hard on not only how it deals with passing monsoons but also how it interacts...
Sick N Beautiful /Kane’d The Portland Arms 30/5/2018 It’s tough playing a midweek gig. Getting people to come out when they’ve got to be up for work the next morning. It’s even harder when that midweek happens to be just a few days...
Ferocious Dog/Hands Off Gretel Holmfirth Picturedrome 11/5/2018 It’s quite a surprise to find Ferocious Dog and Hands Off Gretel playing in a town best known as the location for long running sitcom Last of The Summer Wine. The Picturedrome...
Camden Rocks Presents: The Soap Girls/Katalina Kicks/The Bongo Club/Juice Box/The Kings Parade The Monarch 5-2-2018 Part of a series of gigs showcasing acts before Camden Rocks proper The Monarch plays host to five bands tonight kicking off with...
The SoapGirls play a small run of dates including the Monarch in London on Wed 2nd May, as the first part of their Stink Likes Punk Tour, before heading to Europe. Armed with unforgettable melodies and catchy choruses, The SoapGirls energy,...
Evanescence Nottingham Arena – 3/4/2018 Mixing rock music with classical isn’t a new idea by any means and usually the results are confined to cleverly packaged recordings and maybe, just maybe, a single well choreographed show. It’s a set piece...
Butcher Babies/Eyes Set To Kill/Klogr Rescue Rooms – 20/2/2108 There’s a lot to like about the Rescue Rooms. It’s a venue that can handle pretty big acts but still has the feeling of intimacy you lose in the big arenas. Tonight it plays...
Arch Enemy/Wintersun/Tribulation London Koko – 11/2/2018 One of London’s most beautiful venues The Koko has managed to take it’s Victorian splendour well into the twenty first century proving age is no barrier. Just what its builders...
It’s always a nerve wracking time when a club night switches venues. Forced to move by the closing of the popular Colosseum venue Club Antichrist has been residing...
We all know about the big bands, the ones with a reputation for pulling a crowd. Download festival this year sports the likes of Rob Zombie, Motionless In White and Ministry to name but a few. Many people say they have a lot of gaps to fill so here...
