After an acclaimed string of performances opening for his beloved Stiff Little Fingers, Norn Iron-born singer-songwriter-musician Ricky Warwick is back on headlining duties with his incredible band The Fighting Hearts. First up in a run of 12 shows in 15 days in 3 home countries, is Scotland, where Warwick spent …
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It’s impressive enough that Dinosaur Pile-Up frontman Matt Bigland is back onstage performing again after such a horrific few years with his health – more impressive is the fact that he is not merely going through the motions and dialling it in. Instead, he is performing like it is his …
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Whitebottom Farm, August 2025 Friday review, HEREReview and photos – Rob and Danni WilkinsWaking up to a dry but cloudy day we spent the first part of the morning exploring the adjacent country park before heading to the Trooper Stage for the first of two “Jam with Jack’s”, another Firevolt …
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Whitebottom FarmAugust 2025Four years ago, a festival appeared with a stellar line-up of many of the top NWoCR bands of that time. A line-up so great that it was quickly derided as impossible and some kind of con.It wasn’t. Instead, it was the birth of an intimate gathering that has …
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Scotland’s capital city in August is not for the faint-hearted. Already bursting at the seams with tourists, the world-renowned Fringe Festival adds thousands more to the cobblestone streets, making navigation through the hundreds of hipster artists a challenge in the city. Thankfully, The Dead Daisies are on hand to cleanse …
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With a lengthy overnight bus journey down to Wales to headline Saturday night at Steelhouse Festival, Blackie Lawless and W.A.S.P. are not hanging around. Although no support acts are advertised, the 8 pm start catches some punters off guard, and several are still arriving 20 minutes or so after W.A.S.P. …
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With the advent of Alice Cooper moving his show into arenas, tonight’s show in Edinburgh was a throwback to the early 2000s, when it was more the norm to catch the ringmaster of the Grand Guignol in smaller, more regal surroundings with more history than the cold and impersonal offerings …
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Eight years after laying waste to a tiny pub in Edinburgh on the closing night of their UK tour (followed by after-show karaoke shenanigans that, thanks to a hair-raising version of Queensrÿche’s ‘Queen of the Reich’ by UTA vocalist Brittney Slayes, are now firmly ensconsed in folklore because this is …
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In a week where the use of AI in music was back in the headlines, thanks to Sir Elton John branding the UK government as “absolute losers” over their plans to exempt technology firms from copyright laws, a Finnish 60-something, along with his band of seasoned gunslingers, and a 57-year-old …
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Although criminally underrated British rockers UFO would enjoy varying degrees of success after their acrimonious departure from the band in 1978, the Michael Schenker period from 1974 until 1978 is rightly referred to as the golden age of UFO. A five-year period that delivered three bona fide classic albums in …
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