Category LIVE
With club gigs now taking off, UK bands are certainly piling on the number of tours now that the autumn has arrived, despite a fair number of international bands pulling the plug on their tours unfortunately. With a healthy turnout… Continue Reading →
As the nights are drawing in and gigs are steamrolling with much warranted frequency, I found myself in the back streets of Manchester, sourcing out an infamous back alley on which Aatma resides. As it is a new venue… Continue Reading →
It’s back to the Portland Arms for an evening of different styles, opening with Akilla, a melodic death metal band from Cambridge. Well, they may come from Cambridge but what I heard was Scandinavia and I don’t mean Abba. The… Continue Reading →
Stating the obvious, it’s been a rough old time since my last gig in March 2020 and it was fitting that I decided my first attempt at a gig in the Covid world would be my favourite festival. A new… Continue Reading →
I know I’m not alone in welcoming the shift from enforced impersonal video streams of concerts to live performance. Frankly I wasn’t really bothered who it was I went to see first in the post-soulless era but it was good… Continue Reading →
This was a fairly last-minute gig, that my shooter suggested we attend, plus it was free entry as part of the Sheffield Music Trails event that was taking place at various venues across the city. Added to that this was… Continue Reading →
My first club gig in about 18 months couldn’t have got started with a better line-up, but like the ridiculous journey I had to the Lake District for the Northern Darkness Festival it seems the traffic Gods brought down to… Continue Reading →
At last, it’s great to be back and about bloody time. Some Dutch courage no doubt helped those of us still not 100% certain about shedding the masks and dispensing with the social distancing, which totally went out the window… Continue Reading →
Glancing out of the hotel window was enough to know that the second day was going to be a damp affair. However, with bands not starting until 6pm it gave our group a chance to head out. But first, no… Continue Reading →
A second festival in as many weeks (I was at Bloodstock the previous weekend) has been unheard of in the last 18 months giving me call to venture to the Lake District for a truly unique occasion set within the… Continue Reading →
Wardruna are something of an enigma. Over recent years, they have grown from a very niche act into an international name regularly selling out large venues with their interpretation of Norse folk (a label which does not really do their… Continue Reading →
We are all missing live music right now, none more than the bands we took for granted. Help is at hand in Stranger Times courtesy of woolly hat wearing Norse weirdoes Vulture Industries. Having already persevered through lockdown and playing… Continue Reading →