The festival season in the UK and Europe has grown at a rapid pace over the last few decades or so and has become a vitally important part of the live music calendar. Before treading the boards at such big-name festivals as Download, Sweden Rock, Rock AM Ring, Graspop, and …
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The Depo, PlymouthThursday 25th May 2023Review and photos – Rob WilkinsSo many gigs in the last two years seem to have been rearranged after cancellation due to the Covid crisis that it made a change to attend one cancelled for a different reason, the original date in Reef’s tour being …
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O2 Academy, Bristol21st May 2023Review and photos – Rob WilkinsAnother year, another Steel Panther UK tour! Looking back, for the last five years at least there are reviews stating that “the joke is wearing thin” and that “it’s time to give it a rest”, yet, when I arrive at the …
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So, after a quick drive to Barnard Castle to make sure that their eyesight was suitable enough to drive, Essex-based When Rivers Meet, aka Aaron and Grace Bond, got the all-clear and turned the Rapidsmobile North, and set off for Glasgow and the latest in a long line of stellar …
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Any suggestions that after a rocky few years, the live entertainment industry is back to normal can be dispelled by a quick glance at gig listings. Yes, things are better. But even if one gig is listed as “postponed” or, worse, “cancelled”, that is one too many. Multi-national power metal …
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I’m relatively new to Polyphia having only discovered them last year but was so blown away by what I heard that I had to include 2022’s ‘Remember You Will Die’ in my best albums of the year review. When I heard they were coming to Glasgow I had to see …
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It’s always something of a rare excitement when someone well-known comes to Warrington, and getting to see the sheer technical mastery of Kenny Wayne Shepherd, and the delight he seems to take in it, makes that excitement completely worth it. There’s no support for them tonight, so there’s very little …
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After the regulation postponement due to the C-word, the UK leg of Sabaton’s long-awaited “The Tour To End All Tours” finally got underway with a packed-out opening night in Leeds. To be honest, perhaps “The Tour To Finally Silence The Critics” might have been more of an apt title, but that …
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The Fleece, BristolSaturday 15th April 2023Review and Pics – Rob Wilkins/CeltographyPart one of a two-part weekend sees us heading to Bristol to catch Massive Wagons on their “Triggered” tour alongside The Virginmarys at the compact and bijou Fleece in Bristol. For anyone reading this that hasn’t had the pleasure of …
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There’s something surreal about catching a Wednesday 13 show in April. October through December, with the dark, spooky nights – perfect sense. But a sun-kissed Glasgow in April? That’s a bit like The Addams Family hitting the beach in July – unheard of. Swapping the sunshine and glorious clear skies …
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