Live Reviews

Review: Steelhouse Festival 2023 – Sunday

Black Stone Cherry, Steelhouse FEstival

Hafod y Dalal Farm Ebbw Vale Sunday July 30th Review and photos – Danni Wilkins/Rob Wilkins/Celtography Friday review, here Saturday review, here More information on Steelhouse Festival can be found here.  It is said that the Eskimo have a multitude of words for snow. I’m pretty sure that Welsh hill …

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Review: Steelhouse Festival 2023 – Saturday

Hafod-y-Dalal FarmEbbw Vale Saturday July 29th Friday review, here.Review and Photos – Danni Wilkins/Rob Wilkins/CeltographyI wake after a sound sleep, woken occasionally by the sound of passing showers on the motorhome roof, and somewhat nervously open the skylight blind. To my surprise I am dazzled by the sun rather than …

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Review: Steelhouse Festival 2023 – Friday

Whilst this review covers the first “official” day of Steelhouse Festival 2023, for a large proportion of the crowd, the festival starts a day earlier on the Thursday, if you are lucky enough to own a campervan. I arrive well before the 6pm opening time to find myself one of …

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Review: Hollywood Vampires – OVO Hydro, Glasgow

A jam-packed Summer schedule of high-profile UK rock gigs (Maiden, Kiss, Muse, Springsteen, Def Leppard/Mötley Crüe) was brought to an end by a run of gigs by the self-proclaimed “Best bar band in the world”: the Hollywood Vampires. A slightly modest description to say the least considering that Alice Cooper …

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Kiss – OVO Hydro, Glasgow 2023

It’s Groundhog Day. Again. No one really thought that when Kiss played the UK in 2019 that would be the “End of the Road”? Did they? Next, you’ll be spouting that people believed Mötley Crüe when they signed their “Cessation of Touring” agreement in 2014…if you can’t trust Crüe, then …

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Review: Def Leppard/Mötley Crüe – Glasgow Green

With the Def Leppard/Mötley Crüe US stadium tour being such a roaring success it was only a matter of time before promoters across the Atlantic booked the same package for the UK. And even with the Glasgow Summer playing true to form and unleashing rain of biblical proportions, spirits from …

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Review: Amanda Shires – King Tuts, Glasgow

In the history of why-on-earth-book-a-popular-artist-into-such-a-small-venue, booking Amanda Shires into King Tuts would score pretty damn high on the why-o-meter. Sure, the venue has a history (*insert mandatory “Oasis were discovered here” quote right about now), and the number of established acts (Biffy, REM, Coldplay, Beck, The Strokes, MCR, Muse, etc) …

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