Well, direct support for Papa Roach is Ho99o9 who make themselves noticed with a pretty impressive sized banner but no real connection to this crowd. The energy on stage is there but the general combination of sounds in a hip hop and unpredictable and unclear metal fusion ideas fail to get a single person in […]
Undertone, Cardiff’s little basement venue is the destination for tonight as post-hardcorers Canvas promote their recently released album Worry. Due to work and the delay to all the trains (thanks football and Arriva Trains Wales…), I arrive at the venue almost at the end of local and opening band Defeatist. What I did catch though […]
Indie-pop five-piece, Coasts, took to Camden’s Electric Ballroom last night, turning the venue into an electronic dream-fest, debuting songs from their new sophomore album, ‘This Life, Vol.1 ’. Storming on stage to the sounds of thunderous applause and the eardrum bursting screams of everyone in the venue, Coasts began their set with the synth-fuelled ‘Modern […]
If you can rely on one thing in life, it’s terrible weather in Manchester. Just on the short walk from the station I get soaked and it’s a relief to duck into the small but welcoming Rebellion club. Main support tonight comes from South African/British alt rock trio New Volume and their catchy, hook laden […]
After a 35 minute delay due to the necessity of erecting a barrier for this sold out show, The Bottom Line still take to the stage with full force as the Imperial March (Star Wars) theme starts up before opening with their latest single I Still Hate You, as the crowds reception is nothing short […]
The dark confines of Southampton’s The Joiners are just beginning to fill as Basingstoke pop-punk outfit We Deny take to the stage. Their set is twenty minutes of easycore riffing and singalong choruses, belted out with bravado by vocalist Loren Mancini who takes ownership of the stage for this brief time. Their tried and tested […]
Opening up the show are pop-punkers Homebound! Their guitars are very Neck Deep-esque, and for most of the first half of the set, it is hard to hear the vocals but after a quick technical issue break, we get down to business with easy to hear and pretty good vocals. They are very energetic and, […]
Soon after doors open a huge wall of sound rises through the house speakers to a fairly empty room as THECITYISOURS takes the stage by storm putting on a massively impressive show to kick things off, while the Islington Academy gradually starts to fill. A cover of Labrinth – Earthquake has people singing along, although […]
Following the release of their third album, ‘The Water‘, and almost exactly two years since their last show in London, San Cisco brought all their glittery Australian surf/ psychedelic/ indie/ pop/ rock grooves to The Garage. San Cisco are a great live band. This is an indisputable fact. From the moment they came on stage […]
As the house lights go down for openers Starset, 2 lit up screens on each side of the stage illuminate the room while a deep rumbling bass tone fills the O2 Forum for a lengthy duration, causing the onlookers to give up chanting their name while eagerly awaiting any sign of life on stage. Now […]
The weight of expectation must be lying very heavy on the shoulders of Marmozets. Having burst onto the scene with their magnificent debut album The Weird and Wonderful in 2014, they have been absent for nearly 2 years following Becca’s recovery from a serious knee injury. It now transpires that they have not been idle and that […]
Pennsylvania indie-rockers Tigers Jaw have returned to UK shores for a headline run in support of their fantastic new album Spin. I went along to catch their date at Southampton’s best-known sweatbox The Joiners. The job of getting things started on a drizzly Friday night is given to local ‘dirty pop’ outfit Faux, who certainly […]
In a month were festivals suffered on a large scale, we don’t need to point fingers, Fat Lip Festival took over 2 venues in Bristol for its inaugural year & did so in the loudest way it knew possible. Entering the tiny venue of The Lanes as As Flames Rise began their set, it very […]
As the final day of 2000 Trees 2017 began people trundled, hungover from their tents to enjoy the last of the great bands on offer. The Winter Passing It’s always hard opening the last day of a festival. As people relaxed and recovered from their hangovers in the Axiom tent. The Winter Passing did a […]
As the sun continued to shine on Friday, 2000 Trees truly kicks off as the main stage opens and the full 10,000 capacity of the festival is reached. Ducking Punches The singer-songwriter tinged punk rock artist opened the main stage at this years 2000 Trees, with a brilliant energetic and emotional performance. With clever stage […]
