Maid of Stone Festival 2025 – Blues-Soaked Rock to Glam Anthems
If Maid of Stone 2025 offered any profound truth, it was surely this: the universe possesses a mischievous sense of humour. For weeks, the...
Jakko M. Jakszyk – Son Of Glen
The backdrop to this album is a US airman meeting a dark-haired woman singing in an Irish showband in Germany. Decades later, the son...
Double Vision Delivers Hook-Laden Atmospheric Rock
As their name subtly suggests, Double Vision are a well-known and very talented Foreigner tribute band hailing from the US, but this self-titled effort...
Steve Hackett – The Lamb Stands Up
Steve Hackett’s Genesis Revisited albums and subsequent tours have been extremely successful, not only because he’s reprising some great music, but also because his...
Blasts ‘n’ Slams Delivers a Night of Goregrind Mayhem in Manchester
Hammerhead Events put on their ‘Blasts ‘n’ Slams’ event this summer in Manchester, a stupid and slammy goregrind show with artists from all over...
Manchester finally has tea with King Diamond
King Diamond is not a regular visitor in the north of England so this was a special occasion for the denizens of Manchester who...
Dark Angel descends upon Manchester
Celebrating almost 40 years of Darkness Descends as well as the life of Jim Durkin, who passed away earlier this year, Dark Angel has...
Tangerine Dream – From Virgin To Quantum, Coventry Cathedral
When German band Tangerine Dream appeared on the scene in the early 1970s, their main interest was in experimenting with pure sound. They weren’t...
Nad Sylvan – Monumentata
Nad Sylvan’s career in music extends back more than four decades. Still, it’s only been since the early 2010s that he’s come to public...
INGLORIOUS – V
Welcome back, Inglorious, a band once tipped as ‘the great white hope of British rock.’ In 2022, the band decided to go on hiatus...
