Live Review
Live Review: Rock N Roll Circus Sheffield 2025 – A City, A Big Top, A Five-Day Celebration
Sheffield’s Don Valley Bowl once again became home to the UK’s most unique festival this summer, as Rock N Roll Circus stretched its wings across five nights. What started life as a curious marriage of circus flair and live music now feels like a fully realised Sheffield landmark. This year’s event showcased it all: rock giants, pop …
Live Review plus Gallery: Ringlets (NZ) deliver an evening to remember, supported by Macho Macho (NZ), Bennetts Grove and Special Features at the Petersham Bowling Club.
The Petersham Bowling Club is an iconic venue in the inner west of Sydney. Slated for development into multi-million dollar apartments, the local residents rallied around to keep the institution going – a little cosy green in the middle of a densely populated urban area. It’s unusually pokie-free (none of those infernal gambling machines taking …
live review: bloodstock open air festival, catton hall. 10/08/2025
So, on to the final day and my morning was starting with a huge slab of Modern Deathcore by way of The Cartographer on the New Blood Stage. With guttural roars and animated vocals it was the perfect way to jump headfirst into a full day of Metal. The tent was suitably rammed for the …
Live Review: Supergrass / Sports Team / Ellur – Piece Hall, Halifax 16.08.2025
A virtual sell-out crowd filled Halifax’s historic Piece Hall on Saturday night as Supergrass rolled into town on the 30th anniversary tour of their landmark debut I Should Coco. The setting – a beautiful open-air square framed by stone arcades – was matched by an atmosphere that was buzzing long before the headliners took to …
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.