Airbourne Strutting on stage to Survivor’s Eye of the Tiger, opening band Taking Dawn a four piece from LA, give all the impressions of a promising prospect; yet as they leap into ‘Like a Revolution’ it becomes clear there is a serious problem with the sound. Something is way off engineering-wise as all I can discern is a tinny, clashing noise radiating from the stage with just tiny glimmers of glitter by way of lead guitars breaking through the din periodically during each song.


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The Datsuns It's Valentine's night in the sweaty box of rock that is the Dragon Bar, and for a few worrying moments it promised to be a pretty lonely one for me in the audience. Luckily my fears were unfounded, as moments later, Birmingham's dedicated gig-goers started shuffling in from the cold and straight for the bar...


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