Category: Live Reviews

Review By Phil  Ingham  The atmosphere in and around the AO Arena in Manchester on 15th April 2025 was one of excited anticipation. This wasn’t just any Ghost gig (or ‘ritual’ as it is better known amongst the Ghost fandom) but the worldwide debut appearance of Tobias Forge’s latest front man iteration, [more…]

The Portland Arms, Cambridge April 8th 2025 Review By Smudge Smith Wednesday night in Cambridge brought some of the best the UK has to offer the tour package of The Karma Effect and Silveroller. The Karma Effect have recently released their second album through Earache Records and as part of the deal [more…]

Review and Images By Fraser Allen As a young teenager, I would spend hours alone in my room listening to music. I had a small audio cassette rack which contained a selection of albums, including Motörhead’s Ace of Spades, AC/DC’s If You Want Blood, Led Zeppelin 4, and The Cage by Tygers [more…]

Support – To Nowhere Where – Trillians, Newcastle When 10th April 25 Review and Photographs by Linda Mcdermott It’s Thursday night and I’m in Trillians in Newcastle, which is a great pub that puts on live music most of the week. Tonight, there are two great grassroots bands playing and admission is [more…]

Matt Pearce And The Mutiny and the Jack Hutchinson Band – The Tuesday Night Music Club (8 April) Written by Nigel Foster and shared with his kind permission. Images By ken Jackson Part One ….. Mr Richard Dunning on behalf of the Health and Safety Executive I write to advise you that [more…]

Review and Images By Scott Anderson There are some gigs that linger long after the final note has faded, and Erja Lyytinen’s performance at Glasgow’s intimate venue on a crisp Monday night was undoubtedly one of those. Armed with her guitar, a fresh batch of songs from her latest album Smell The [more…]

Review and Images by Paul James Ah a good old Sunday evening concert right before work the next day. This was not going to stop the fans of Masters of Reality or the support acts coming out tonight. I had wanted to document and capture Master of Reality as I had heard [more…]

Venue – KK Steelmill, Wolverhampton Saturday – 4th April 2025 Review and Photographs by Linda McDermott Mayor Fest Saturday takes place at KK Steelmill in Wolverhampton, a great venue that has had some amazing bands grace its 40-foot stage. Today there was a fantastic lineup, with bands to please all tastes, plus [more…]

Date: 5 April 2025Venue: The Sugar mill, Stoke-on-Trent Review and Images By Paul McWilliams  There are gigs that deliver what you expect—and then there are gigs that exceed every expectation, grab you by the collar, and remind you why you fell in love with live music in the first place. Wayward Sons [more…]

Review and Images By Paul McWilliams There are some gigs where everything just clicks — the energy, the venue, the band — and you walk away knowing you’ve just witnessed something special. That was exactly the case on April 5th at The sugar mill in Stoke-on-Trent, where Derby-based trio MuddiBrooke took to [more…]

Camden Underworld – April 4 2025Review And Images By Fraser Allen It was an unusually warm early April day in London, and the temperature in the sold out Camden Underworld was already ramping up. I was looking forward to seeing London funk-metallers, In Search Of Sun and had been listening to their [more…]

Review and Images By Scott Anderson Better Joy are a 4 piece band hailing from Manchester that only formed in 2023. They have a contemporary, familiar, classic sound, which reminds me of the heady days of 80’s Indie music. An uncomplicated sound that is a breath of fresh air in today’s music [more…]