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From Friday 02 September 2016

LIVE: Reading Festival 2016 [Friday]

Donning unnecessary rain jackets and an excitable enthusiasm, we were once again on hand to catch the action at this year’s Reading Festival. Boasting another varied line-up across the event’s ever-increasing number of stages, the team dipped and dived through tens of thousands of punters to catch some of

LIVE: Create To Inspire / Napoleon @ The Joiners, Southampton

The Joiners is the beating heart of live music in the South and tonight is no exception. The sweatbox venue hosts two of the UK’s hottest young hardcore bands for what feels like a homecoming coronation. Every track from Napoleon’s ‘Newborn Mind’ showcases the bands immense proficiency for technical hardcore, in an

Wednesday 31 August 2016

LIVE: Lower Than Atlantis / Milk Teeth / Strange Bones @ O2 Academy 2, Oxford

Ahead of their performances at Reading and Leeds Festival, Lower Than Atlantis took to the stage at Oxford’s O2 Academy 2 for a so-called Reading warm up show. Well, warm it certainly was as the venue was stiflingly hot and it only took about three minutes of waiting for

Tuesday 30 August 2016

LIVE: Good Charlotte @ O2 Forum, Kentish Town

It’s been 5 years since Good Charlotte hung up their boots for the foreseeable. There’s been various side projects come and go in that time with varied levels of success, most notably 2014’s ‘solo’ album for Benji & Joel ‘The Madden Brothers’. There are those that said that was

Saturday 27 August 2016

LIVE: Ieperfest 2016 @ Ypres, Belgium

Once again, we made our yearly pilgrimage to the long-running Belgian hardcore festival, Ieperfest. In between eating some fine vegan food, drinking the best Belgian beer, soaking up the sun, and dancing to the Vengaboys during the after party, we managed to catch a wide array bands. From extreme

Friday 26 August 2016

LIVE: Deez Nuts / TRC / Grove Street Families / Confessions of a Traitor @ Fighting Cocks, Kingston

Confessions of a Traitor frontman Stephen MacConville is already jumping around the small sweaty pit that is the Fighting Cocks, goading punters and attempting to stir the early arrivals. The band do metallic hardcore well – searing riffs, heavy breakdowns and a predator like frontman, all the ingredients to

Thursday 25 August 2016

LIVE: The Dillinger Escape Plan @ The Old Blue Last, London

Eleven seconds. When that’s the amount of time it takes for a show to sell out, it’s destined to be special. Not surprising considering the dedicated fan-base noise-masters The Dillinger Escape Plan have honed over their nigh on twenty-year career, nor their recent decision to call it a day

Monday 22 August 2016

LIVE: Motion City Soundtrack / Dinosaur Pile Up / The Xcerts / Lacey @ The O2 Ritz, Manchester

With a near twenty year long career that created six albums and featured countless headline and festival appearances almost behind them, it came down to this, three final UK tour dates and three final chances to say goodbye. With their ‘So Long, Farewell’ heading for Australia and Japan, Motion

Wednesday 17 August 2016

LIVE: Descendents, Bouncing Souls and more @ Rebellion Festival 2016

Celebrating its 40th Anniversary as a festival, Rebellion is the largest punk gathering in Europe. Located at the delightful Winter Gardens in the centre of Blackpool, I head off for the Thursday hoping to see some new punks, some old punks, and stick two fingers up to society and

Friday 29 July 2016

LIVE: The Wonder Years / Laura Stevenson / Clarity / Trash Boat @ The Dome, London

It’s been a while since The Wonder Years headlined in the UK. The release of the seminal ‘No Closer To Heaven’ in 2015 spawned a high profile support slot on the Enter Shikari tour, but a chance for them to truly celebrate its material has taken longer. Yet tonight