Review: Austin Meade – Almost Famous Snakefarm Music Group (November 7th 2025) Reviewer – Chris O’Connor I should begin by admitting that I came to ‘Almost Famous‘ as a complete newcomer to Austin Meade’s music, with no real frame of reference for his earlier work. My initial reaction, if I’m being candid, was that this sounded […]
Review: The Commoners, Support from Candar. Rescue Rooms, Nottingham (December 12th 2025) Reviewer / Photographer – Dan Mann I was really looking forward to catching Canadian rockers The Commoners again. Saw/ photographed them earlier in the year when they rocked the stage at Call OF The Wild Festival. But before their appearence, we had support […]
Review: Mean To You – Zero Self-Released (December 6th 2025) Reviewer – Chris O’Connor I approached ‘Zero‘ expecting a fairly typical Melodic Rock record, but Mean To You quickly dismantle that assumption. Rather than settling into a single lane, the album repeatedly surprises, fusing weighty Classic Rock foundations with flashes of Thrash Metal aggression, unexpected […]
Review: Sabaton & The Legendary Orchestra (The Legendary Tour) Motorpoint Arena, December 6th 2025 Reviewer / Photographer – Dan Mann Blimey, where does one start when it comes to this gig? A packed Motorpoint Arena, filled with the Sabaton faithful, an orchestra playing Sabaton songs before the headliners, this was quite simply… off the scale! […]
Review: Jared James Nichols, Support Dan Byrne Rescue Rooms, December 4th 2025 Reviewer / Photographer – Dan Mann Unlike the poster shows, the evening’s support was rising NWOCR vocalist Dan Byrne, label mate of Jared James Nichols. It was a small audience in the Rescue Rooms, the crowd size was apparently something Jared wanted on […]
Review: Dream Theater – Quarantième: Live à Paris Inside Out Music/Sony Music (November 28th 2025) Reviewer – Chris O’Connor For those – like myself – who have followed Dream Theater across the arc of their formidable career, the return of founding drummer Mike Portnoy felt nothing short of seismic. Though Mike Mangini proved himself a […]
Review: The Raven Age & Empye Islington Assemby Hall (November 30th 2025) Photographer – Phil Honley This was the last night of The Raven Age’s ‘The Monarchy Tour‘ celebrating a decade of the Raven King and to invite Empyre to open each night for them was an added bonus. I really like Empyre and drop […]
Review: Quireboys, Soho Dukes, Matty James Cassidy Saltbox, Nottingham (November 30th 2025) Photographer – Dan Mann Is it really 35 years? When they say time flies, they weren’t bloody kidding! I remember back when the Quireboys were still called the Queerboys, and Spike co-hosted a rock night at Gossips on Dean Street in Soho. And […]
Review: Soho Dukes – Nighthawks, Acrobats And Everything Under The Moon Cargo Records – (November 28th 2025) Reviewer – David Brighouse Hailing from London and the South-East, Soho Dukes were formed in 2017. Since then, they’ve gigged tirelessly and boisterously, and released two albums independently, ‘Bar Fights & Tuppeny Uprights’ (2021) and ‘Golden Age Of […]
Review: Black Dog Moon – Hell and Back Independent (November 28th 2025) Reviewer – Grant Foster Sometimes, just sometimes, you get to hear an album and it’s like, ‘’What the fuck was that?!’’ But in a good way. And the more you listen to it, the more evident it is you have something special on […]
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