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 [...]
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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 [...]
Paul McCartney & Friends – Royal Albert Hall, London – 29th March 2012
It’s not every day you get to see members of The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, The Who and The Jam playing together on the same stage! But that is exactly what happened tonight as Sir Paul McCartney brought his friends on stage at the Royal Albert Hall to jam on Get Back. Sir Paul is [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Touche Amore + Pianos Become The Teeth + Departures @ HMV Institute – 23rd March 2012
Westwood is in the house! Well he will be but that’s not why I’m here. Tonight it’s all about Departures, Pianos Become The Teeth and Touche Amore as the take over the Institute for the next couple of hours for what promises to be one of the best shows of year. Scottish emotional hardcore types [...]
Enter Shikari + Young Guns + Tek One @ Wolverhampton Civic Hall – 20th March 2012
With their third album “A Flash Flood Of Colour” debuting on the UK Album Chart at number 4 and an extremely busy 2011 Enter Shikari are still writing songs and according to Zane Lowe songs like “Sssnakepit” are “the hottest in the world.” The range of influences from punk metal to electro dub is what [...]
Lianne La Havas + Marques Toliver @ Birmingham Glee Club – 12th March 2012
Tonight looks like yet another coup for Birmingham’s Glee Club as a packed house gathers to see the extremely hotly tipped Lianne La Havas do her thing on the tiny Glee stage. After appearing on Jools Holland’s TV show long before any album is even released (it comes out this summer), the buzz surrounding the [...]
