Category: Live Reviews

Review By Darren McIntyre Images by Scott Anderson Bywater Call are a powerhouse 7 piece southern soul, roots rock band from Toronto, Canada. In 2023 the band played 96 shows in 10 countries, 89 cities, 19 US States & 3 Canadian Provinces and performed a live stream for famed German TV Show [more…]

Review by Darren McIntyre. Images by Scott Andreson Hugh Cornwell doesn’t just walk onstage—he materialises, bringing decades of punk bite, new wave swagger, and that unmistakable Stranglers cool straight into the bones of St Luke’s. On the Glasgow stop of his Come & Get Some UK Tour, the punk icon proves exactly [more…]

Five at the O2 Arena, London – 20th November Photos and Review by Damien Harvey There are concerts that entertain, and then there are concerts that transport you. On the 20th November at the O2 Arena, Five managed the latter. Their third consecutive sell-out date at London’s most iconic venue was more than [more…]

Bedford Esquires 20/11/25 All photos by Carol Henson (aka LadyGigger) and review by Dave G Martin for Jace Media It’s a Thursday night, and the hall here at Esquires is rammed; it holds about three hundred, and let me tell you, there is not a lot of space. Firstly, this is fantastic [more…]

Images By Ken Jackson Review By Jace Media Music There are intimate gigs… and then there are nights like this. Bywater Call’s show at The Tuesday Night Music Club in Coulsdon didn’t just sell out—it felt like the entire room had been charged with some kind of musical electricity the moment doors [more…]

Frog and Fiddle, Cheltenham Review and Photography by Brian Cherrison On a typical dark November evening worsened by a day of torrential rain & local horse racing traffic clogging up the roads, a hardy group of rock fans gathered at the Frog & Fiddle in Cheltenham for the first night of Nightmare [more…]

Where – Yardbirds, Grimsby When – 14th/15th November 25 Review and Photographs by Linda McDermott Saturday 15th November 25 Day Two at the Rockmantic Weekender at the Yardbirds in Grimsby had a lot to live up to after such a strong opening day yesterday. Five fantastic bands set the bar high and [more…]

Review and Images by mark and Mathew Pitfield On a wet and windswept Sunday evening, The Drill Hall in Lincoln played host to an experience far more transporting than anyone could have expected. The French collective Nouvelle Vague, renowned for their bossa nova reinterpretations of post-punk and new wave classics, took to [more…]

Review By Darren McIntyre The Damn Truth are a critically acclaimed 4 – piece rock n roll juggernaut from Montreal, Canada who I am proud to call friends that are just building a reputation as one of the finest rock acts to grace the stages of any rock n roll venues around [more…]

Review By Darren McIntyre Parker Barrow are a blues-infused Southern rock outfit from Nashville, Tennessee, who originally came to our attention in 2023 with the release of their debut album, Jukebox Gipsies. The band take their name from Bonnie Parker & Clyde Barrow, who were the infamous bank robbers in the 1930s [more…]

Where – Yardbirds, Grimsby When – 14th/15th November 25 Review and Photographs by Linda McDermott Friday 14th November, 25 The Yardbirds in Grimsby is well known for its live music scene, and tonight it’s the perfect setting for the first of two nights celebrating some brilliant grassroots rock bands. There’s already a [more…]