Wembley Arena. It’s one of the biggest and most beloved venues in the whole country. It’s a venue that bands far and wide have most likely proclaimed that “our dream is to play there” sometime in their career. And for the bands that are lucky enough to step foot on …
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Pop quiz, hot shot. You are standing at the urinal in the tiniest of toilets at a venue, taking care of business, and the headliner’s frontman comes in, stands at the next urinal over, and answers the call of nature. What do you do, hot shot? You know who it …
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Nothing MoreSiMSiameseSWX Bristol17th Feb 2024Some years ago my partner and I were sheltering in one of the tents at Download, escaping one of the many torrential downpours. We had no idea who was next on stage, but sometimes the unknown turns out to be a revelation, and we were blown …
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2024 sees Bowling For Soup celebrating their 30th anniversary as a band, and not only are the celebrations set to last all year long, but they find the much-loved band from Texas performing the largest headlining shows of their career. And then there is the small matter of an appearance …
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December 2nd, 2022, Joanne Shaw Taylor performs at The Queens Hall in Edinburgh. February 18th, 2024, Joanne Shaw Taylor performs at the Queen Margaret Union in Glasgow. Rather fitting that both times Joanne Shaw Taylor has recently ventured North of the wall, she has performed in venues with such regal …
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Dirty Honey/Baby Said Tramshed, Cardiff 13/02/2024 I lost count of the number of people imploring me to go and see Dirty Honey on their UK tour, so I bit the bullet and made my way up the motorway to Cardiff and the Tramshed to do just that. While I could …
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Given the combined decades of experience from Cambridge’s perennial road warriors The Treatment and Boston, Mass five-piece Rubikon, it’s fair to say that chances are neither act will have experienced a tour quite like this one. Performing as part of a triple bill that features Buckcherry in the headliner position, …
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While not as packed with the same cinematic tropes of a “…a dog and a beer on opening day at Wrigley Field…”, there still is a sense of romanticism surrounding the opening night of a tour. The lack of grainy footage on YouTube, for one, is always a plus, and …
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With Hillbilly Vegas it is a case of never judging a book by the cover; the “cover” in this case being the band name itself. “Hillbilly Vegas” gotta be Southern rock, yeah? Or maybe a crossover of Southern and country rock? Wrong on both counts. Although the band does indeed …
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First gig of 2024 and it’s a BIGGIE! Starting the journey to Cardiff in a minor snowstorm wasn’t on the agenda but by the time I get there, it’s a bitterly cold but sunny day, and the queue to get in stretches right around the block already! I take the …
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