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live review: bloodstock open air festival, catton hall. 09/08/2025
My Saturday got off to a battering start with the absolutely brutal Cage Fight and from the off they absolutely crushed everyone in the field around them. From the moment they unleashed ‘Oxygen’ it was obvious that this quartet had evolved since their last time on the Sophie Stage back in 2022. Monteith managed his …
Live Review: Vona Vella – Come Together Festival, Newcastle. 20.08.25
Vona Vella preview new tracks from their next album at Come Together in Newcastle
Live Review: Leeds Festival 2025, A Masterclass in Scale, Diversity, and Organisation
Bramham Park once again hosted one of the UK’s most anticipated weekends of live music as Leeds Festival 2025 took place from 21–24 August. With a renewed site layout, and a carefully balanced lineup, this year’s edition managed to feel both monumental and refreshingly well-organised. Headliners Deliver on Scale and Spectacle Friday night saw Travis Scott perform his only …
Live Review +Photo Galleries: Amigo The Devil (solo) with special guest, David Talley at Altar Bar, Hobart 21.08.2025
On a beautiful Hobart winter’s Thursday, Amigo The Devil (aka Danny Kiranos) brought his ‘murder-folk’ brand of song-writing to the stage of Altar Bar. One year on from his previous tour to Australia, he once again returned, this time hitting bigger stages and ensuring he made it to every corner of the country. A crowd …
live review: bloodstock open air festival, catton hall. 08/08/2025
Starting where I left off with the Sophie Stage and a mid-morning start by way of Atmospheric Black Metal band Ofnus who absolutely blew me away. The vocals throughout were absolutely enthralling while the guitars from Hunter and Ponsford were technical and enchanting in equal measures. While the set was a brief encounter the band …
Live Gallery: The Stamps Bring Their Debut Album to a Packed Vine Street Room
From chairs to pillows on the floor, the crowd creates its own architecture of closeness, echoing the Stamps’ own tight-knit bond.
live review: bloodstock open air festival, catton hall. 07/08/2025
After having successfully traversed through a downpour that Noah and his Arc would have potentially been stumped by and Poseidon would have undoubtedly been proud of I eventually made my way onto the hallowed grounds of Catton Park, a headbangers Utopia if you will, just in time to be launched head first into the Punky …
Live Review: Smashing Pumpkins / White Lies / Rocket – Piece Hall, Halifax 12.08.2025
Words: Jim F / Pictures: Huw Williams It was a brilliant, almost life-affirming night in Halifax as The Smashing Pumpkins rolled into town to play to a sold-out Piece Hall crowd of 6,000 last Tuesday. The warmth of the summer evening matched the warmth the audience showed all three acts, turning this historic courtyard into …
Live Gallery: The Used Celebrate 25 Years with a Full-Album Marathon at Liberty Hall, Sydney 17.08.2025
25 years in and The Used still tear Liberty Hall apart
Live Gallery: Dillinger Escape Plan Prove Why They’re the World’s Most Dangerous Live Band Enmore Theatre, Sydney 16.08.2025
Ho99o9 brought the riot, Dillinger brought the demolition—Enmore Theatre won’t forget this one.