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March 1, 2024 No Responses

Live Review: Vandoliers, Less Than Jake and Bowling For Soup at London’s Eventim Apollo – Plus full gallery of the show!

“We are Bowling For Soup’s favourite country band,” screams Vandoliers’ guitarist and frontman Joshua Fleming before launching into a set containing “a country song, a punk song, a punk song and a country song.” Like a version of Hayseed Dixie on...

February 15, 2024 No Responses

MADNESS, one of the only bands I’d happily endure the London O2 for. A live review from Christmas 2023.

MADNESS/THE LIGHTNING SEEDS LONDON 02 ARENA The Lightning Seeds prepare a huge oven-ready throng of fez-doffing party people with a welcome best-of set, and as it proves, it’s the only one of the night. The sublime ‘Sense’, ‘Pure’...

February 5, 2024 No Responses

EATER circa 2024 get some teeth. Live review from The Face Bar Reading.

EATER/JO JO & THE TEETH/JULIET AND THE RAGING ROMEOS THE FACE BAR READING The welcoming warmth of a bustling Face Bar crowd gives Juliet And The Raging Romeos a positive reaction to their uniquely Punk without being Punk delivery. Jo...

February 5, 2024 No Responses

Barefoot In Brum

One of Birmingham’s finest blues rock outfits, Blue Nation were in their hometown to celebrate the hugely anticipated EP launch for ‘Reflections’ their new release. Fans travelled over land and sea – Frenchy, James and Amanda, we see you and...

January 10, 2024 No Responses

Live Review: Bring Me The Horizon at Cardiff Utilita Arena

It’s been a long time since the Sheffield outfit played in a tiny gig in the basement of a Bath pub and my mate ended up breaking his ankle two songs in. It was hard to believe that way back...

December 29, 2023 No Responses

SLADE rolled back the rock years to deliver a masterclass in giving the crowd exactly what they wanted and exactly when they wanted it. Live review

SLADE/SONS OF THE SEVENTIES 02 OXFORD For people of a certain age (like me), there is something worryingly reassuring about an early curfew, and tonight, we were heading down the bustling Cowley Road at nine thirty-five. It was wonderful. This...

December 29, 2023 No Responses

BIG SPECIAL live at the world famous Dublin Castle in Camden Town from May 2023 reviewed.

BIG SPECIAL THE DUBLIN CASTLE CAMDEN Black Country duo Big Special have packed out the sweaty back room of the Dublin Castle, and there’s a worthy reason, they’re mint. Cards on the table, we only chanced upon this band and...

December 11, 2023 No Responses

East End Street Punks COCK SPARRER pull a road trip Christmas cracker in Leeds. THE LIVE REVIEW.

COCK SPARRER/KNOCK OFF PROJECT HOUSE LEEDS Street Punk originators Cock Sparrer are playing (the last-minute Rebellion saver aside) their only UK date of 2023 at the shiny new and uber-impressive Project House in Leeds. The venue’s adjoining Galleria bar...

December 3, 2023 No Responses

Victory Night

‘I lost my way, I hope you’re happy.’ So, on the 24th November I found myself back at The Flapper, to celebrate the news that this extremely popular establishment will forever remain a pub and live music venue. After a...

November 15, 2023 No Responses

Noise, Noise, Noise…….

Is for heroes, my friends, according to The Damned, and that is the crux of the show tonight, four bands descending on the home of metal, to delight and destroy in equal measure.So, after giving myself a hernia climbing all...

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