Phil Pountney, Author at Backseat Mafia

live review: stiff little fingers, ricky warwick and the fighting hearts. the barbican, york. 18/03/2025

The Barbican was full of legends tonight and the crowd didn’t disappoint either. When Ricky Warwick and the Fighting Hearts hit the stage the gathered ensemble was modest to say…

View Post

View Post

News: fortress festival 2025 is officially sold out

FORTRESS FESTIVAL 2025 Officially SOLD OUT! Among the headliners of the biggest black metal event in the UK will be Agalloch with an exclusive 2025 European show Still to be…

View Post

View Post

album review: benmont tench: the melancholy season.

This is an album of absolute luxury. Each track on ‘The Melancholy Season’ is decadent and opulent, the vocals from Tench are soothing and velvety throughout while the strings that…

View Post

View Post

album review: the wildhearts – satanic rites of the wildhearts

The Wildhearts are back with an absolute barnstormer of an album, ‘The Satanic Rites Of The Wildhearts’, and it is a belter. The album has it all and progresses through…

View Post

View Post

live review: the wildhearts, jim jones allstars, dirt box disco. the leadmill, sheffield. 07/03/2025

Unfortunately due to an epic equipment failure I came away from tonight’s gig without any salvageable shots but, as the old saying goes, the show must go on. So sit…

View Post

View Post

slayer announce two huge uk shows for the summer

SLAYER will return to the U.K. after six years, performing their biggest headline shows ever in the country with special guests Amon Amarth, Anthrax, Mastodon, Hatebreed and Neckbreakker. These shows…

View Post

live review: brand of sacrifice, fit for a king, motionless in white. o2 victoria, manchester. 21/02/2025

Tonight, the Transatlantic world of Core had been brought to the O2 Victoria Warehouse in Manchester and it well and truly shook the building and all that stood within its…

View Post

View Post

bloodstock announce a new addition to their arsenal, bloodstock’s winter gathering

ANNOUNCING…. BLOODSTOCK’S WINTER GATHERING!! Be part of BLOODSTOCK history!! Will you be one of the very first to bear witness to BLOODSTOCK’S WINTER GATHERING this December?! This brand new, one-day…

View Post

View Post

black sabbath to play one last gig and they will be joined by an all star line up for a one day charity festival

Ozzy Osbourne will be joining Black Sabbath for one last time and it will see the first time that the original Black Sabbath line up has been together in 20…

View Post

View Post

live review: the poisoned ascendancy tour 2025. bullet for my valentine, trivium, orbit culture. co-op live arena, manchester. 30/01/2025

A double celebration of landmark albums was on the cards in Manchester tonight and carving open the evening with a massive Swedish sledgehammer was the unequivocally crushing Orbit Culture and…

View Post

Pages