Live Review: Last Train Home Festival – Darlington 02.09.2023

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It’s an early start for us. Whilst The Key Club is a fantastic venue with a brilliant atmosphere it’s small, narrow and there’s no pit so for a band as incendiary as His Lordship there’s a need to be at the front. Local band Jejune open procedings and deliver a great set of energetic rock …

All words and pictures by Steve White – All Rights Reserved. Now in it’s sixth year Darlington’s Last Train Home Festival has built a well deserved reputation for bringing some of the best new music across various genres, as well as comedy, to this part of the North East. Organised and promoted by Tracks Darlington, …

Two bands with members that, in one combo or another, have been stalwarts of the punk scene for 40+ years pretty much guarantees that tonight’s gig was going to be one of full on rock n roll packed with plenty of well recognised songs. Vocalist Eugene Butcher formed the short-lived Desperate Measures in his native …

By Steve White Last week John released Nocturnal Manoeuvres, their third album and probably one of the best albums that will see the light of day in 2021. So tonight’s gig at The Georgian was potentially also going to be a highlight of the year. I wasn’t prepared for just how good it would be. …