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...
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...
Sumo Cyco/Skarlett Riot The Craufurd Arms, Milton Keynes – 15/3/2018 Since their latest album Regenerate hit the masses it’s been all systems go for Lincolnshire heavy rockers Skarlett Riot. A newer more purposeful sound and the feeling the band...
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...
Santa Cruz and Skarlett Riot Rescue Rooms, Nottingham – 5/12/17 Just outside of Nottingham’s Rock City and part of the same complex is the Rescue Rooms, a small club-bar venue that has made quite a name for itself since its gig debut in 2003....
Kobra And The Lotus / Brutai The Craufurd Arms, Milton Keynes – 23/11/2017 Not many smaller venues are so perfect as the Craufurd Arms. A fine bar out front is complimented by a dream of a small venue tucked away out back. The sound is sharp...
