Live Review
Ben McKelvey opens for The Overtones at Sheffield City Hall
Being a support act on a major national tour is like a GCSE exam in ‘first impressions’ – you’ve got to be good and not scrimp on your revision if you want pass with flying colours. The penalty for doing it wrong is an embarrassing even humiliating walk of shame stage right. Friday night saw …
Live Review: Kula Shaker – Albert Hall, Manchester, 10.12.2016
Kula Shaker, named in honour of one of the twelve alvars of Southern India, are a band that need no introduction and the almighty tour they are currently on is testament to that. However, this is not just any tour – it is the 20th Anniversary of their debut album K tour. K reached UK no. …
Live Review: Honeyblood – Saint Luke’s Glasgow 8.12.2016 Plus Gallery
After releasing a seemingly impossibly perfect second album, Honeyblood complete 2016 with a triumphant homecoming show. The Honeyblood partnership of Stina Tweeddale and Cat Myers take to the stage to the eerie chanting of “never die, never die” and launch straight into the thunderous, and magical, ‘Ready For The Magic’. Then they launch into ‘Love …
Live Review: Bullet For My Valentine, Killswitch Engage and Cane Hill, Manchester Academy, 4.12.16
In the way of inspiration, there is so much that gets people into music, or that influences musicians to pick up an instrument and start to play. In terms of albums, every album released will be important to someone, somewhere for their own reasons. However, for a band with a stature such as that of …
Live Review: Bayonet, The Leadmill, Sheffield, 02/12/16
Bayonet have good cause to be in a celebratory mood tonight as they take to the stage at the Leadmill in Sheffield. Having bounced around the Sheffield scene playing many a venue and taking their infectious blend of indie pop on the road to other lucky towns and cities, they’re playing a sold out gig …
Live Review: The Van T’s – Stereo Glasgow, 2.11.16 Plus Gallery
The Van T’s show that they’re a hard act to follow with a scintillating support slot at Stereo. 2016 has been a weird – and sometimes distressing – year, but it’s been a pretty successful one for The Van T’s. Along with the release of their critically acclaimed EP ‘A Coming Of Age’ in July …
Live Review: An Evening With Black Stone Cherry – Sheffield City Hall, 28.11.16
“An Evening With” is becoming an ever more popular way of touring, Halestorm graced us with their “Evening with” last year, but only playing two dates across the country (Liverpool and London). This Black Stone Cherry tour is colossal in comparison. 13 dates in the UK, including two dates at London’s Shepherds Bush Empire. Not …
Live Review: The SSS / The Vellas / Sundance, Sheffield City Hall, 26/11/16
The SSS have got good reason to feel proud tonight. Having last seen them play a double bill alongside fellow Sheffield upstarts the Wired at the iconic Leadmill, tonight I am witness to them sell out Sheffield City Hall’s cavernous ballroom in their own right. Ahead of them we get two slightly-further-down-the-queue-to-fame support acts in …
Live: Farro – The Key Club Leeds, 18/11/16
It’s hard to avoid the Paramore subject even after six years, there are still going to be people who are interested in what Josh Farro is doing because they were/still are a fan of Paramore. Even the posters advertising the show in Leeds read “ex-paramore” at the bottom. But you would be mistaken to think …
Live Review: Lacuna Coil – Manchester Academy 2 – 16.11.2016
It’s Wednesday evening and Manchester Academy 2 has a look of a mental asylum about it. We are all welcomed to Lacuna Coil’s sanatorium; masked mannequins are hanging from the ceiling and two large metal fences are awaiting the patients to perform around it. The bill this evening is entirely European, and first …