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From Friday 03 November 2006

Bring Me The Horizon – Concorde 2, Brighton

Due to circumstances beyond my control, I managed to completely miss the first band on the bill tonight, and unfortunately didn’t even catch their name, so apologies to whoever they were – I’m sure you kicked ass. Very poor show on my part. Right, so the Concorde 2 then. It’s

Monday 16 October 2006

Paramore – Leeds Cockpit

Kerrang! hail Paramore as the saviours of rock, and upon arriving at The Cockpit today, it’s obvious how much control Kerrang! and such publications have over who does what in the music industry. This is pretty much the biggest queue I’ve seen waiting to get into The Cockpit,

Sunday 01 October 2006

The All-American Rejects – Brixton Academy, London

On paper, tonight’s show has an absolutely stellar line-up. With one of the biggest mainstream rock acts in the world today and two brilliant up and coming bands from the US, this show should by all rights have been a complete sell-out. It really is a shame then, that when

Monday 25 September 2006

The All-American Rejects – The Refectory, Leeds

I love The Format, and when I say ‘love’, I mean ‘LOVE’. I’d been looking forward to this for a long, long time. Oh my word was I let down. Any emotion from the songs was removed – the vocals were clear and strong, but the music was

Sunday 17 September 2006

Rise Against – Manchester Academy 3

Right. The circumstances which lead to Rise Against playing Academy 3 rather than anything larger need mentioning, before we go any further. The gig sold out weeks and weeks ago, but Nizlopi (yep, the band that became ‘famous’ for singing about earthmoving equipment?) were booked into Academy 2

Wednesday 06 September 2006

Say Anything – Sheffield Leadmill

The first thing I feel at liberty to mention, is that Sheffield has a massive lack of Subways. After trailing around what seemed like most of the city, myself and gig buddy Spud were forced to dine at Burger King rather than something we actually wanted to eat. So

Friday 25 August 2006

Alexisonfire – A Boat on The River Thames

Well that was something altogether different. Somewhere on the North Bank of the Thames at six thirty this evening was a group of 100 or so dedicated Alexisonfire fans waiting to board a boat. Why? Only because they were about to spend the evening drinking, dancing and cavorting with

Dashboard Confessional – The Borderline, London

It’s a well established fact in this scene that when you go to a Dashboard gig, you go for a singalong. You go to stand in a hall with hundreds of other emotionally crippled teens to wear your heart on your sleeve, sing your lungs out as loud as

Wednesday 23 August 2006

Taking Back Sunday – 93 Feet East, London

I first caught Taking Back Sunday‘s live show back in 2003 just after the release of ‘Where You Want to Be’. To put it bluntly, I was left feeling under whelmed, not only with the material on their second album, but they were clearly still struggling to find

Monday 14 August 2006

Out Of Spite IX – Leeds Josephs Well

Before I?m slapped with a fish by the internet at large, I?d like to quickly point out that the following review is basically a summation of my general experience at Out Of Spite IX rather than an in-depth and critical look at the bands on show ? I didn?t