Phil Pountney, Author at Backseat Mafia

Live Review: Jack Askew – Northern Guitars, Leeds 29.06.2023

I always feel overwhelmingly privileged when I discover fresh and emerging new artists on the livemusic scene, and when I heard that a local singer songwriter id been following for…

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Live Review: Amon Amarth / Bleed From Within – The Civic Hall, Wolverhampton 14.06.2023

Who could resist a little 220-mile road trip on a glorious Wednesday afternoon to get the juices going, especially when there was a brutal ‘carrot’ as an incentive dangling at…

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Live Review: Download Festival 2023 – Castle Donington, Derby 11.06.23

The final day of this epic rock voyage and it was a fairly stripped back affair for me. The heat was truly oppressive from the off and wherever you stood…

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Live Review: Download Festival 2023 – Castle Donington, Derby 10.06.23

As I entered the arena for the third time my battle plan required me to initially set up camp on the Opus Stage, so as I was winding my way…

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Live Review: Download Festival 2023 – Castle Donington, Derby 09.06.23

As I entered the arena for day two I decided to take myself to the Dogtooth Stage in preparation for Pupil Slicer and in doing so I managed to catch…

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Live Review: Download Festival 2023 – Castle Donington, Derby 08.06.23

So, after a ninety-minute journey had morphed into a six-hour journey I hiked the path that was well trodden and finally landed on the hallowed turf of Donington Park, and…

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Live Review: Carcass / Conjurer / Slimelord – The Warehouse, Leeds 30.05.23

As I entered the blackened Warehouse, I had no sooner secured my vantage point than we were being blasted with the brutal deathened doom of Leeds bruisers Slimelord, and considering…

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Live Review: Incineration Festival 2023 – London 13.05.2023

As the clock struck midday, I stepped out of the black cab, raised my head and I was met with the comforting sight of The Underworld on the horizon, the…

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Live Review: Cannibal Corpse / Dark Funeral / Ingested / Stormruler – Manchester Academy, Manchester 21.04.2023

As I forged my way across the Pennines, I was extremely excited for the evening that stood before me, an eclectic mix of metal sub genres and an evening of…

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Live Review: Inferno Festival – Oslo, Norway 09.04.2023

As we descended on the Rockefeller complex for one last dose of festival magic we were obliterated right from the very start with some raw and diabolical Norwegian Black Metal…

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