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From Friday 16 June 2023

LIVE: Ice Nine Kills / Skynd / Lansdown / Defying Decay @ Kentish Town Forum, London.

A child in a yellow raincoat, holding a red balloon on a string, waves enthusiastically to the crowd as circus music swells. Behind the child creeps a sharply dressed man in a wild clown wig . They dance around, seemingly unaware of the smoke machine billows surrounding them. Let

Saturday 10 June 2023

LIVE: Slam Dunk Festival 2023 @ Hatfield Park

Sold-out and stacked with some huge names, 2023 marked the now iconic Slam Dunk’s biggest event to date. Fans sardined in caused plenty of teething problems on the day, but did the music deliver? Silly question, of course it did. Words: Aaron Jackson and Yasmin Brown

Friday 09 June 2023

LIVE: Machine Gun Kelly @ The Royal Albert Hall

The Royal Albert Hall welcomed a new kind of monarch through its storied doors; the ever-divisive and much contested Gen Z King of Pop Punk, Machine Gun Kelly, who took to his throne on a warm Wednesday night, addressing his peroxide and pink adorned public. As the gilded hall fills,

Thursday 08 June 2023

LIVE – Codefendants / Melvinator / Get Dead @ The Old Blue Last

Let’s make one thing clear: this is not a NOFX show. That would come a couple of days later at the site of the mighty Slam Dunk South. Rather, this is a sampler of where the members of NOFX are heading now, a celebration of their strengths and chance

Tuesday 06 June 2023

LIVE: Stillbust Secret Show @ Out of Key Studio, Gloucester

Where did you spend your Saturday night? We spent ours on an industrial estate in Gloucester watching the return of local heavy punk misfits Stillbust. It’s been a decade since their last show and in line with their DIY attitude they decided that rather than playing a standard venue,

Wednesday 31 May 2023

LIVE: Spanish Love Songs / SUDS @ The Lexington, London

Between the pandemic lockdowns and subsequent tours being nixed by multiple band members contracting Covid-19 itself, it’s been three years and an entire album cycle since Spanish Love Songs last played in the UK. Actually, it’s more like three years, three months, one week and four days.

Friday 26 May 2023

LIVE: Steel Panther @ O2 Kentish Town Forum, London

There’s one question that pounces to mind before seeing controversial eighties larpers Steel Panther live: while their lyrics are comic, are they now a bit of a joke? They’ve won Loudwire’s ‘Live Act Of The Year’ award twice, but recent reviews have suggested that their whole ‘excessively crude’ schtick

Friday 12 May 2023

LIVE: Electric Callboy @ Eventim Apollo, London

May 1st, 2023. Fade in, and cut to the head shot of the Eventim Apollo sign, in bold red letters reads: Electric Callboy. This would explain why some are dressed in vibrant 80s sportswear that came directly from their merch store, why there appeared to be tiny

Tuesday 02 May 2023

LIVE: The Damned @ Alexandra Palace, London

“The good news is we’re still alive, the bad news is it’s quite loud and you might lose your hearing…but who cares? It’s rock n roll!” Captain Sensible, clad in his trademark red beret, smiles triumphantly as he almost apologises for The Damned’s presence. But, for this crowd at

Thursday 27 April 2023

LIVE: Paramore @ The o2, London

From behind the barriers to high up in the gods, anticipation builds in the depths of the o2 as a sea of hair dye and band tees fills the room. The crowd spans generations, but their smiles and emphatic sense of excitement have brought them together to create an