Live Review
Live Gallery: Rising Festival – The Damned, Witch & Vaccum, Forum Theatre, Melbourne, 09.06.2023
Feature photograph: Ian Bickerstaff
Live Review plus Gallery: Dark Mofo Festival, Trentemøller, MAC 02 Centre, Hobart, 18.06.2023
Last night, Anders Trentemøller and his full band played the last night of the musical part of the Dark Mofo Festival in the vast cold cavern that is the MAC 02 hall. A performance so immersive and cathartic it made the venue feel like an intimate cavern, and heated up the interior like a solar …
Live Review: KISS – Utilita Arena, Newcastle 06/06/23
It’s finally time for the End of the Road Tour to make its way through the UK, following the KISS announcement that their last ever live stage performance will take place at Madison Square Gardens this year in New York after 50 years in the industry. So, with only a handful of UK dates on …
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 the end of the line, and that ‘carrot’ came in the form of the absolutely crushing Bleed From Within and the mighty Amon Amarth, even …
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 in the vast Donington arena it was stifling. The water points were gridlocked, and it took almost an hour of queueing to become victorious and …
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 to find a good vantage point I managed to catch the tail end of Stray From The Path and their brand of American Hardcore Punk. …
Bearded Theory – Did The Festival Live Up To The Hype?
Words and Pics by Andi Callen – All Rights Reserved Bearded Theory was touted by many to be THE line up of the summer, Glastonbury not included. And with a roll call including The Pretenders, Gary Numan, Public Service Broadcasting, Primal Scream, Echo & The Bunnymen, Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs, Interpol, Gogl …
Live Review and Gallery: Dark Mofo Festival – NYX, Odeon Theatre, 15.06.2023
NYX provided a stunning performance in a exclusive Australian appearance at the Dark Mofo Festival. It is this kind of fare that makes this Festival so special: something quite unique and brilliant, something innovative and creative that reflects the smorgasbord of delights typically presented by Leigh Carmichael, Festival Director, in his last ever year as …
Gallery and set-list: Lorna Shore / Ingested -The Academy, Dublin 14.06.2023
American Deathcore act Lorna Shore tore apart The Academy in Dublin as they played a night for their Pain Remains tour and openers on the night were Death-metal boys from Manchester Ingested. Photos Abigael Paquet. Ingested Photos: Lorna Shore photos & set-list: Sun//EaterCursed to DieOf the AbyssTo the HellfireWelcome Back, O’ Sleeping DreamerSoulless ExistenceInto the …
Live Review: Be Your Own Pet – Moth Club, London 07.06.2023
“Back from the dead!” announces Jemina Pearl as she begins the second consecutive night leading Be Your Own Pet in Hackney. Judging by the ragged band of fans before her the previous night was a suitably raucous resurrection of the Nashville punks who first started their love affair with London some 17 years ago. London …