Another off-piste venture for BrumLive finds us in the Queens Hall at Leicester University to see and hear Dutch Uncles in their expanded strings-enabled guise. Sometimes it is just a sheer pleasure to turn up and see a band. They are as happy to play as their audience is to see and hear them. Dutch […]
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Dutch Uncles + Outfit @ Queen’s Hall, O2 Academy Leicester, 3rd December 2013
Another off-piste venture for BrumLive finds us in the Queens Hall at Leicester University to see and hear Dutch Uncles in their expanded strings-enabled guise. Sometimes it is just a sheer pleasure to turn up and see a band. They are as happy to play as their audience is to see and hear them. Dutch […]
Papa Roach to Play O2 Academy
Papa Roach will be showing off their monster live reputation on their headline UK tour in December. This will be their first headlining tour since 2009 and kicks off in Portsmouth on December 1st finishing at Brixton Academy, London on Dec 10th. They will be bringing Middle Class Rut and American Fangs along as support. […]
Free Radio Live @ LG Arena, Birmingham – Saturday 30th November 2013
This review very nearly didn’t happen as I fell at the first fence! Somehow I had convinced myself despite written proof to the contrary, that this event was at the NIA and not the LG. So after few minutes of puzzling the box office staff at the NIA I finally worked out that I was […]
Gary Numan @ Wulfrun Hall, Wolverhampton – Tuesday 19th November 2013
Gary Numan closes his hugely successful Splinter tour tonight in Wolverhampton. The venue is packed out with different generations of Numan fans. The critically aclaimed new album has given Numan his first top 20 album chart spot since the Warriors album in 1983, and definitely one of his best in a long time. Tonight’s opening act […]
Stereophonics @ LG Arena – Tuesday 19th November 2013
Prior to Stereophonics taking to the stage, a number of videos are played including Kasabian and Red Hot Chili Peppers but the most interesting is the choice of The Kills track U R A Fever which sees dry ice released over the crowd. As the arena goes dark, the sound of a helicopter blares through […]
Editors + British Sea Power @ O2 Academy, Birmingham – Saturday 16th November 2013
En route to tonight’s near to sell out show, it suddenly dawned on me that this is as close to a homecoming show as Editors get. Rather selfishly, my feeble brain starts to calculate, with some dread, the length of the inevitable congregation of parasites -me included- scrambling for guest list tickets. Sure enough, it […]
KT Tunstall @ Symphony Hall, Birmingham – Wednesday 13th November 2013
KT Tunstall seems to have made a conscious decision of late to veer down her own path and ignore, perhaps, what people are expecting of her. Her latest album, Invisible Empire, is a far more stripped back album with no big radio-friendly singles and is, dare I say it, all the better for it. Tonight […]
The National @ The Apollo, Manchester – Monday 11th November 2013
Brooklyn indie rock band The National have been slowly but surely building a dedicated fan base across the globe for almost 15 years now and, following the success of their last two albums, are now playing to the biggest UK crowds of their career. Not really a tour, but four shows across two venues, this […]
Frightened Rabbit + Lanterns On The Lake @ The Institute, Birmingham, 11th November 2013
Divine intervention, or something like it; not what you would expect in Birmingham on a Monday night in a cramped, packed, sweaty venue, and definitely not something you would expect in a crowd where a typical minority could not have cared less for what was on stage. Not that there is too much of the […]
Kodaline @ The Institute, Birmingham – Friday 8th November 2013
The queue stretched far around the corner from the doors of the HMV Institute half an hour before they opened. A sign of the great anticipation of what was to come, as Dublin’s band of 2013 came into town. This was a crowd of people out to love every minute of what was about to […]
Dillinger Escape Plan @ Slade Rooms, Wolverhampton – Thursday 7th November 2013
Ever since I caught their half an hour set at Download festival a few years ago, I have to admit, I’ve wanted to see The Dillinger Escape Plan play a smaller venue. They have been widely acknowledged as one of the most energetic live bands on the planet right now and even if you’re not […]
Boomtown Rats @ O2 Academy, Birmingham – Wednesday 6th November 2013
It’s a strange animal, the Boomtown Rat: they rose to prominence in the wake of punk, but were more ‘Springsteen rock’ than ‘Lydon punk’ so became disliked by punks for being fake; they became more successful than all of their peers, but were not pop enough to keep the fickle public satisfied; and they were […]
Mark Lanegan @ The Institute, Birmingham – Saturday 2nd November 2013
It isn’t often that you see rows of seats at the Institute, but they are filling up fast for so early on a Saturday evening. The first support act is Lyenn, a musician based in Brussels and New York who creates thoughtful and sparse music swapping between an acoustic guitar and a mandolin. His vocal […]
Vista Chino + Monster Truck @ The Institute, Birmingham – Thursday 31st October 2013
Monster Truck took to the stage quite early for a week night gig, so unfortunately I missed their first couple of songs. However, before I even walk through the doors to the Library you can feel and hear the heaviness that is being created by the Canadian four piece. They clearly tip their hats to […]
