Live Reviews

Making good on their promise to come back “real soon”, Californian purveyors of rock & soul Robert Jon & The Wreck are well into their extensive three-month-long tour of the UK & Europe, seven months after their last visit to these shores. Reflecting the buzz surrounding this band, the venues …

Tuesday, 14th December 1982, Newcastle City Hall, a 14-year-old started a musical obsession that would last a lifetime. I remember the sense of excitement as the lights dimmed, knowing my favourite band was about to hit the stage, I remember that feeling because it never changed over the last 40 …

When you see an advert for a new festival, run over three days in an intimate indoor venue, with 20 bands for a grand total of thirty quid, it is pretty much impossible to stop yourself from pressing that “buy” button. Some guys called “Midnight Tornado” were apparently responsible for …

One of the most pleasing aspects of the last few years – as difficult as they have been – has been the steady rise of blues/rock/Americana duo When Rivers Meet. The husband and wife team of Grace and Aaron Bond use the internet and social media in such a masterful …

After a lot of travelling around the South West and a series of gigs in larger venues, it was refreshing to return to what drives me as a music fan. A small, intimate local venue with some bands that are lesser-known and, often, on the verge of becoming much bigger …

With latest album ‘IMPERA’ landing at the coveted number one spot in the US Billboard Top Albums chart with the biggest sales week of 2022 at that time, and much the same story in mainland Europe (number one in four countries including the crucial German territory, number two in the …

Opening day of the baseball season is a frequently used image in the medium of cinema; usually when some old-timer gazes wistfully into space and utters how something reminds him of “Opening day at Wrigley Field, with a hot dog and a beer…”. It conjures up memories of times gone …

Some bands seem to crop up on your radar with pleasing regularity. Tours and festival appearances meaning it feels just weeks since you saw them last. Others, somehow seem to evade you for years, or in this case decades, since, despite being a band whose music I love, I had …

Two trains of thought when it comes to Amigo The Devil playing one of the smallest (and most awkwardly shaped venues) in Glasgow: one would be that it was a baffling decision considering that it is so small and the stage is practically at floor level thus rendering a view …

“So how many of you is this your first gig after all this bullshit??” several hands are raised and many cheers are heard “Oh, really? Very nice, I hear the venue’s been open for a whole year” Devin Townsend is back and on fine form, but we’ll come to that …