Given that Finnish Queen of Metal Tarja last played in Scotland as a member of Nightwish – the band that she departed in 2005 – it’s fair to say that her long-awaited (and delayed by you-know-what) appearance in Glasgow was a tad overdue. Named after 2019’s studio album ‘In The …
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Having supported major league names such as Kiss, and Guns N’ Roses (in Europe, and the US) as well as opening for newer names like Rival Sons on their last UK tour, Californians Dirty Honey are incredibly well-traveled for a band still in the fledgling stages of its career. The …
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Late January and another quick blast up the motorway from Devon to Cardiff, for an intriguing double headline gig featuring two very contrasting bands, The Darkness, and Black Stone Cherry.The arena is pretty full when the lights go down and openers Danko Jones take to the stage to get everyone …
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Weather-wise, the months of January and February can be pretty unforgiving in the UK and Europe. For starters, it will be dark and bitterly cold regardless of the country, and chances are that the UK will be wet and miserable. Hardly the time to be putting in the miles on …
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After laying waste to Dublin and Belfast with three soon-to-be-legendary gigs, Trivium made the short, blustery journey over the sea to Scotland for the opening night of the UK mainland leg of their rescheduled ‘Dead Men & Dragons’ tour. And in these worrying times of overseas bands being forced to …
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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 …
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“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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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The day after Rocktober in Bristol, I found myself passing by that way again on the Motorway, en route to Swansea for my first sight of the restored venue, The Patti Pavilion, and three superb bands on a stellar line-up. Opening the evening were the slick-sounding Collateral. I have seen …
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