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From Monday 03 July 2023

LIVE: The Mars Volta @ Troxy, London

Outside it’s a sticky Sunday night, but the real heat is coming from the anticipation inside Troxy.  Within the hallowed walls of the renovated 1930s cinema, its pastel lit art deco windows creating an elegance at odds with the slightly mushy carpet, there’s a palpable buzz for

Friday 30 June 2023

LIVE: Download Festival 2023 – Sunday

To quote Anakin Skywalker, “I hate sand”, and the dustbowl that Donington Park has become does nothing for the mood of a tired, surly, dehydrated crowd . Still, with a host of international acts taking the stage today, it would be remiss if the crowd didn’t pull themselves together

LIVE: Download Festival 2023 – Saturday

Dust. That’s the name of the game. On the hottest day of the weekend, with not a drop of rain in site and tens of thousands of people making tracks towards the water and merch lines now fighting for their life, Donington has gone from a verdant green field

Wednesday 28 June 2023

LIVE: Download Festival 2023 – Friday

If you weren’t wearing sun cream before, you certainly are now. Day two starts the true heat of the weekend, along with an even larger crowd than the shorter day yesterday attracted. The merch lines are getting longer, the afternoons are getting sweatier, but there’s an energy in the

Tuesday 27 June 2023

LIVE: Download Festival 2023 – Thursday

British etiquette dictates that when it’s miserable outside we complain that we miss the heat, and the second the warm weather arrives we complain that it’s too hot. That’s just the way it goes. With that said: how about that heatwave? Softly nestled between two torrents of rain sat

Monday 19 June 2023

LIVE: Coheed and Cambria / Soul Glo @ O2 Forum Kentish Town, London

Coheed and Cambria are, above all, one hell of a rock band. Sandwiched between their Download and Hellfest appearances was a very special London date and, ignoring the gimmicks, they proved once again why they’ve earned their reputation as one of the world’s greatest prog-meets-metal acts.   The big

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