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From Tuesday 17 April 2012

Live: The All American Rejects at the Garage

There was a time when THE ALL-AMERICAN REJECTS were borderline huge, smearing themselves all over the charts and finding themselves being played in bedrooms all around the globe. A fair few years have passed, and the AAR guys want that status back. The only thing is, their new album

Friday 06 April 2012

LIVE: Takedown 2012 Review

Don Broco After a year out, Takedown festival returned to the eyes and ears of music fans in Southampton with a vengeance this March. At 2pm, the Monster Energy stage saw DEAD! Kick off he day, and the local quintet looked perfectly at home playing what was actually only their second

Thursday 15 March 2012

Live: The People The Poet – London Lexington

It’s been a while since TIGER PLEASE last played London. In that time they’ve recorded with Gil Norton, written half an album and more recently announced a complete overhaul, ‘TIGER PLEASE’ are to be no more and as such, tonight’s show is intended as both a farewell to that

Monday 05 March 2012

Live: Norma Jean – Camden Underworld

From the outset, this show was always going to be a face-melter. Last time NORMA JEAN hit up the capital city in support of ARCHITECTS at the legendary Koko, they were dangerously close to upstaging the headliners. When the Atlanta metalcore titans announced

Thursday 06 November 2008

Funeral For A Friend – London Kentish Town Forum

With the imminent closure of the Astoria, it looks like the Kentish Town Forum will be in the running for the title of London’s premier mid-sized gig venue. Tonight is suitably packed, although much of the crowd look disinterested when Attack! Attack! take to the stage. They perform well,

Thursday 30 October 2008

You Me At Six – Brighton Komedia

It’s a sell-out tonight upstairs at Komedia and the hall is considerably packed. Farewell do a grand job heating the room up, and despite some questionable vocals from their keyboardist, they’re almost perfect. The sound really is crisp in the venue, which makes the likes of ‘Zelda, First

Wednesday 24 September 2008

Twin Atlantic – Brighton Engine Rooms

Brighton’s Engine Rooms is a horrible, horrible venue. It’s dirty, the beer’s ninety percent water and there is absolutely no air conditioning. Still, they do get some cracking gigs, with tonight being no exception. Local boys Stars and Sons open, and they’re an impressive enough act. Their happy-go-lucky piano

Saturday 10 May 2008

Give It A Name – Sheffield Arena

So the first thing that hit us when we arrived? Where is everyone?! Sheffield is quiet, very quiet – oddly quiet. The venue is cordoned off for most of the seating areas and standing is hardly packed out. A shame as GIAN day one deserves better. Mexicolas are an odd

Tuesday 26 February 2008

Enter Shikari – Astoria, London

I think it’s pretty safe to say that there really are only two types of people in this world. Those who get Enter Shikari, and those who don’t. For many, they just don’t fit. They aren’t this genre, they aren’t that. They are however, fortunate as tonight London’s

Wednesday 28 November 2007

Biffy Clyro – Brixton Academy, London

It’s been a long road to Brixton for Biffy Clyro. While they’ve released four critically acclaimed albums, each gaining moderate success, it’s only with the release of this year’s ‘Puzzle’ that the mainstream has stood up and taken notice of the Scottish threesome, and the sheer size of