I arrived at the Glee Club on Tuesday night feeling a little bit apprehensive. It’s been a while since I’ve listened to The Futureheads, bar the brushing up i’d been doing prior to the gig, and I was only ever really aware of the singles then to be honest. Amongst all the posing indie bands [...]
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Parkway Drive + The Ghost Inside + Miss May I + Confession @ HMV Institute – 8th April 2012
As the majority of the UK gorges themselves silly on Easter chocolate, a few thousand have escaped the clutches of the Easter bunny and have filled out Birmingham’s HMV Institute to almost breaking point as Confession, Miss May I, The Ghost Inside and the almighty Parkway Drive entertain the masses on this fine Sunday evening. [...]
Helmet @ HMV Institute, Birmingham – 7th April 2012
Tonight’s show for grown-ups has been moved from the Library to the Temple Bar on the top floor of the Institute due to poor ticket sales, whilst some teeny bopper draw called Cher Lloyd entertains the youth in the main room; instantly making me question the state of the nation. However, the more intimate venue [...]
Cher Lloyd @ HMV Institute, Birmingham – 7th April 2012
Cher Lloyd was in town on this Easter Saturday and I for one was interested to see how she would fare in a real concert setting. All the “brats” were there with their parents, and the bar was running out of Coca Cola. I was very pessimistic about Cher Lloyd before tonight as I’d heard [...]
Cast @ Birmingham O2 Academy – 5th April 2012
Just quite how the songwriting brilliance of John Powers hasn’t been saluted by nationwide municipal statues and first-class stamp covers remains a mystery to many. Although, perhaps not quite as mysterious as how that ‘Lisa Simpson giving oral sex‘ embarrassingly crap Olympic logo ever got endorsed! Powers’ canon of work through the years of The [...]
The Destroyers – Hole In The Universe Album Launch – Prince Of Wales, Moseley – March 30th 2012
The lunatically rammed beer-garden audience shivered in reality late March chilly breezes eagerly awaiting the debut outing of The Destroyers‘ album ‘ Hole In The Universe.’ See the YouTube video: it’s a sort of Mick Skinner/Streets alt.reality Brum pub worm-hole event-horizon/grandad’s lost his marbles homage. Ever ready for the fourteen piece mega-mayhem miners of the [...]
Jack Bruce @ Birmingham Town Hall – 29th March 2012
Stan Lees plays lead acoustic Spanish guitar celebrating Django Reinhardt’s Gypsy Jazz legacy with deliriously dextrous virtuosity and captivating wit. With Paul Woolliscroft on slick rhythm accompaniment, they cantered through a brief set of cover instrumentals enigmatically wrapped within elaborate interpretations. Polka/Tango flavours of The ‘Harry Lime Theme’ perhaps? Spot-the-tune continued with a suspiciously coy [...]
Sharks + Crowns + The Catharsis @ The Rainbow, Birmingham – Tuesday 27th March 2012
Usually when you go to see a band, it’s pretty easy to name two or three comparable ones within seconds of the first notes ringing out. With Sharks, I really struggled to pick the most apt comparison, even after they left the stage. The reason for this, however, is that rather than being an act [...]
Korn @ Birmingham Academy – 26th March 2012
There were two types of fans at the O2 Academy in Birmingham tonight – the die-hard alternative metal heads who were waiting for Korn‘s classic hits and the Nu-Metal heads who don’t know what to do with themselves now nu-metal is out of fashion. So, what Korn do, they work with big dance music acts, [...]
Black Veil Brides + D.R.U.G.S. + Reckless Love @ Wolverhampton Civic Hall, 24 March 2012
Clad in black, leather and chains, black spiked hair, oh and don’t forget the face-paint – tonight in a warm Wolverhampton, all the way from Hollywood, California, comes the crazy world that is the world of the Black Veil Brides. It’s the highly anticipated re-scheduled date, after lead singer Biersack had an argument with a [...]
