Live Reviews

Review: Brothers Osborne – O2 Academy, Glasgow

After performing at the multi-national Country 2 Country Festival in March 2024, where they appeared in the main support slot to the headliner Old Dominion (although, most in attendance will confirm that the headliners had a tough act to follow), Maryland-duo Brothers Osborne made good on their promise to return …

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Review: Del Amitri – Perth Concert Hall

  The beautiful glass-fronted Perth concert hall looks warm and welcoming surrounded by twinkling Christmas lights, bar staff visible, lined up, ready to start sticking some money in the tills. Unfortunately, despite the queue snaking around the street by 6.30, the doors remain stubbornly closed til 7, and it is …

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Review: The Damned – Cambridge Corn Exchange

If you were to ask the average fan of The Damned to name their favourite record, it will more than likely be a toss-up between two; 1980’s The Black Album and 1982’s Strawberries. Both albums helped the London punk legends seek further success within the punk rock community, thanks to …

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Review: GUN – Barrowland Ballroom, Glasgow

As much a regular Christmas fixture as train strikes, memes suggesting that “You can’t say Merry Christmas anymore”, and guys leaving Christmas shopping until Christmas Eve, GUN are back at The Barras for their annual knees-up. This time around they come bearing gifts in the guise of a new studio …

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Review: Skindred – Palace Theatre, Bridgwater

Palace Theatre, Bridgwater,Saturday 9th November 2024Review and photos – Rob WilkinsThe last few weeks have been full on with gigs and just the night before we had been at the rather genteel Phoenix theatre in Exeter for the silliness and escapism of Punk Rock Factory, but tonight we battled through …

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Review: Delain – The Garage, Glasgow

So much has happened in the 8 long years since Delain last performed in Scotland. The UK and the US went head-to-head in the hold-my-beer stakes of electing morons into public office; standing in squares spaced 2 meters apart in car parks for the privilege to buy toilet roll and …

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