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Cock Sparrer/The Bar Stool Preachers/Foreign Legion – Cardiff, The Globe – 1...
We’ve got a double hit of punk old and new for you this weekend. Tomorrow, Nev Brooks pulls up a pew and indulges in some serious banter with the father and son team of Colin and Tom McFaul, frontmen...
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HRH Sleaze – Sheffield, O2 Academy – 2 September 2017
Last weekend, the guys at Hard Rock Hell premiered the most recent addition to their expanding range of themed weekend festival packages, with their first bespoke event dedicated to things at the...
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HRH Sleaze – Sheffield, O2 Academy – 3 September 2017
Sheffield may be best known as Steel City, but earlier this month it was transformed into Sleaze City when the Hard Rock Roll team unveiled their latest themed weekender. Always proud of the fact that...
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The Dowling Poole – Bedford, Esquires, 8 September 2017
There is a corner of Martin Haslam’s heart that shall belong forever to the music of Willie Dowling and Jon Poole, be it the two albums they have produced together, or through their work with the likes...
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Role Models/The Loyalties /Shush/Billy Liar – Camden, The Black Heart - 2...
What else would any self-respecting music writer be doing on a Saturday night than heading into the black heart of London Town to revel in the joys of sharing a sweaty room with hundreds of like-minded...
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Voodoo Six/Skam/The Dukes of Bordello – Sheffield, The Corporation – 16...
Voodoo Six are currently ripping up stages across Shit Island in support of their brilliant new album, ‘Make Way for The King’. And they’ve brought Uber faves Skam along for the ride! Woohoo, sounds...
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Jaret Reddick – Manchester, Gorilla Bar – 20 September 2017
It’s not every evening that a music journalist gets to meet, never mind review, a rock star on whom they openly admit to having had a crush when they were a teenager. That is exactly what happened to...
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Energy/Miss Vincent/Nelson/Gazing – Glasgow, Audio – 1 August 2017
We’re not quite sure why it’s taken so long to get around to publishing this review… it’s sort of being floating about in the ether for a while! But, anyway, here it is, as our very own panda in...
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KMFDM – Wolverhampton, Slade Rooms - 8 September 2017
If metal is, at its core, the sound of industry, as Rich Hobson postulates, then why, he wonders, is industrial metal so overlooked as a key influence on the modern zeitgeist? Which makes it all the...
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MassMatiks/Youth Killed It – Glasgow, The Garage – 17 September 2017
She’d been a wee bit quiet for a while… but, when she wakes up, beware! In the second of her double of dose of live reviews this fine Saturday, Hannah Reid once again travels back into the dark heart...
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Boomtown Fair – Winchester, Matterley Estate - 9 August 2018
When it comes to festivals, many of the biggest names in the business purport to be something much more than just a music event – they are a sensorial experience, something that transcends live music...
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Boomtown Fair – Winchester, Matterley Estate - 10 August 2018
With the first day of Boomtown pulling together the best bands of Rebellion, Rich H looked to the rest of the weekend to delve into the heavier aspects of Boomtown’s 2018 offering. Having dodged the...
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Boomtown Fair - Winchester, Matterley Estate - 11 August 2018
Rich H and his lovely lady entered into day three of Boomtown on the back of an evening of disasters. Between the tent flooding (only so long you can dodge the rain, after all), sleeping in the car,...
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Florence Black/The Moon Birds/Everyday Heroes/Vella – Pontypridd, The Muni –...
This was one of those gigs where you discover something. Having only seen two of the four bands previously (Florence Black and Everyday Heroes), our professor of rock ‘n’ roll was hoping to catch all...
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Vōdūn/Voodoo Blood/Nomad – Manchester, Rebellion – 18 September 2018
It was another trip to Manchester this past week for what promised to be something very much our travelling gigaholic’s kind of thing - female-fronted doom rock - and those bad people from Vōdūn are...
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Boomtown Fair – Winchester. Matterley Estate - 12 August 2018
And thus, we hit the final day of both Boomtown 2018 and our coverage, as well as the big build-up to the festival’s closest metal-mainstream headliner in the form of nu metal heroes Limp Bizkit. First...
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The Quireboys/H.E.A.T./Aaron Buchanan & The Cult Classics/ Those Damn Crows –...
Another long trip down to London saw our resident DJ team up with one of our talented new recruits to take in The Quireboys, who are celebrating the tenth anniversary of their release, ‘Homewreckers...
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Halestorm/Jet Fuel Chemisty – Belfast, The Telegraph, 20 September 2018
With the Über bosses away enjoying some early Autumn sunshine in Malta, it fell to the Team Belfast's other dynamic duo of JD and our resident shreddd to venture out into the chilly Belfast air and...
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Leprous/Agent Fresco – Manchester, Gorilla – 22 September 2018
A train guard strike severely hampered our regular gigaholic’s usually fairly easy journey over to Manchester, with a combination of train cancellations meaning that the few services running were all...
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Pain of Salvation – Manchester, Club Academy - 12 September 2018
As far as critical reception goes, Rich H reckons that this decade has by and large been largely owned by bands who live on the fringes of the prog camp. From Gojira to Mastodon, Code Orange to...
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