Back in the pre-internet days (shit, back in the days when there were only three TV channels) most spotty adolescents with a penchant for a bit of Rock music could be found glued to their radio from 10pm to midnight on Friday nights. Those two hours provided the only real …
Read More »Review: Shinedown / Asking Alexandria / Zero 9:3 – Cardiff International Arena
One of the first major gigs I took my new girlfriend, and now wife, to, way back in 2012, was Download Festival. That weekend we came across a band called Shinedown that we both enjoyed and a few months later found ourselves heading off to watch their headline tour date …
Read More »Review: Joanne Shaw Taylor – Queens Hall, Edinburgh
“Are you all sufficiently depressed…then we’ll carry on…it is called the Blues…” Putting the emphasis on the word “is”, the Midlands born and bred (now relocated to Nashville) force of nature that is guitarist/vocalist Joanne Shaw Taylor brings the audience back to reality after just nailing them to the wall …
Read More »Review: Mother Vulture – ‘Mother Knows Best’
“…we spent a long time getting the album to where we felt it was ready to come out…” – Brodie Maguire, Mother Vulture guitarist. There must have been considerable pressure on fast-emerging UK upstarts Mother Vulture to release their debut album earlier this year while they were kicking in doors …
Read More »Interview – Brodie Maguire of Mother Vulture
Here at DGM Towers, we have rather a soft spot for Mother Vulture. Our Welsh Wizard and site co-owner Rob Wilkins caught them in Cornwall back in July 2021 at one of the first gigs back from the lockdown and waxed lyrical about the four young maniacs who tore the …
Read More »Review: Within Temptation/Evanescence – OVO Hydro, Glasgow
You know that GIF from the Titanic movie? The one with the old woman uttering “It’s been 84 years…”…well everyone in attendance tonight knows exactly how she feels. Postponed a gazillion times because of the C-word, the Evanescence/Within Temptation joint co-headlining ‘Worlds Collide’ tour is finally underway and blowing UK …
Read More »Introducing: 50 Year Storm
Newquay-based Alt-synth rock trio 50 Year Storm are set to release their rather lovely new single ‘Autumn Song’ on November 18th and Emma Limn (drums) was on hand to talk us through the origins of the band, as well as talking about some of her own musical memories. Connect with …
Read More »Review: The Rasmus – The Ritz, Manchester
It being Halloween, and also absolutely throwing it down, makes for very good mood-setting for seeing a band that were just barely on the precipice of the pop-punk and emo sound when it was big, as well as giving you the feeling they certainly won’t let you down: Finnish multi-platinum …
Read More »Interview: Tim Sult – Clutch
Clutch have been a favourite band of mine for many years now so when the opportunity arose for me to interview lead guitarist Tim Sult I naturally jumped at that chance, and then couldn’t think of a thing to ask him. What was meant to be a zoom call ended …
Read More »Review: Tuk Smith & The Restless Hearts – ‘Ballad of A Misspent Youth’
Aerosmith’s Joe Perry famously said that listening to Deep Purple’s ‘Highway Star’ was like that first shot of coffee in the morning. Pure adrenaline. A mantra former Biters frontman Tuk Smith seems to have adopted with the debut album from his new vehicle Tuk Smith & The Restless Hearts. Opening …
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