Liverpool Sound City returns for it’s 5th year and they team up with the cities premier Alternative club ‘The Krazyhouse’ to present two nights of the best up and coming indie, rock and metal bands, let the bodies hit the floor!
Foreword: Liverpool has always delivered amazing bands for as long as I’ve been listening to [...]

As I leave Wrexham for Rock City it’s humid, warm, and bloody uncomfortable. Fortunately, I miss the nightly traffic chaos on the approach to the Birkenhead Tunnel and park right outside my main venue for the night, the small but beautifully formed Kazimier club. Paloma and Delphic are the big hitters tonight, but I ain’t [...]

Day 1
With the major financial support of the Wales Arts Council, Focus Wales 2012 proved to be a worthwile showcase for new Welsh talent as well as encouraging acts to attend from as far away as Australia and Japan. With just four venues situated very close to each other and a user-friendly timetable, Focus Wales [...]

26, 27, 28, 29 July 2012, Cherry Hinton Hall
Cambridge Folk Festival is one of the premier music events in Europe and one of the longest running and most famous folk festivals in the world. It has become hugely popular attracting ten thousand people, many of whom return year after year.
The Festival is renowned for its [...]

Max Raptor & Hildamay @ Wrexham Central Station. 1 March 2012
It’s been a fairly busy and satisfying live music month starting with new UK talent performing in little old Wrexham town (north Wales).
The band is Max Raptor whose debut punk rock album, Portraits, impressed so much when heard last year. The four-piece are from the [...]

Manchester Academy, 26 April 2012
We only cover live acts that we already know or you have released great albums. With Adelaide, Australian 3-piece band Tracer it was a wonderful new heavy rock album (SPACES IN BETWEEN) that demanded my presence at the Manchester Academy to witness what promised to be a great live band in [...]

No Justice
“Parisians Gaspard Augé and Xavier de Rosnay - aka Justice - first came to attention half a dozen years ago with their mashed-up noisy remixes for the likes of Franz Ferdinand and their re-do of Simian’s We Are Your Friends. Since then, the duo released 2007’s seminal debut, and toured the globe with [...]

12 January 2012, Manchester Academy 1.
Formed in 2008, the hard-rocking ’supergroup’ Chickenfoot features the talents of vocalist Sammy Hagar (Van Halen, Montrose), bass player Michael Anthony (Van Halen), drummer Chad Smith (Red Hot Chili Peppers), and guitar virtuoso Joe Satriani. Formed out of a series of impromptu jams at Hagar’s club, Cabo Wabo Cantina, in [...]

Harvest Sun Promotions & Static Gallery…
Lanterns on the Lake
plus support from
The Big House / TJ & Murphy
Thursday 19 January @ The Static Gallery.

There are still things that piss me off about gigs like this, and tonite it’s a bearded chap with a blue balloon who is more intrested in chatting to the girl he is [...]

Shed Seven
Liverpool Academy 1, 5 December 2011
The band has been around for a while and still manages to attract large crowds wherever they play. I’ve not been a fan and have never witnessed a live performance until this event. Hell, I don’t even possess one of their recordings, but I am curious…
Shed Seven are a [...]