Review: Tygers of Pan Tang – Live Blood Mighty Music (April 26th 2024) Reviewer: Jason Hopper The Tygers have returned with ‘Live Blood‘, a cracker of a live album recorded while the band was on tour supporting their latest release ‘Bloodlines‘ (review here). The recording was made at The Patriot venue in Wales UK during […]

Review: Tygers of Pan Tang – Bloodlines Mighty Music (May 5th, 2023) Reviewer: Jason Hopper I am admittedly late to the party when it comes to Tygers of Pan Tang. I discovered them by reviewing ‘Majors & Minors‘, a best of collection of their most recent four albums (review here) and now I have the […]

The 8th Breaking Bands Festival is taking place at their spiritual home of live music, the Stoke Prior Sports & Country Club, Bromsgrove just a 20 minute drive from Birmingham and Worcester. This year the festival format changes once again and returns to the traditional 3 days of live music that was seen back in 2019 before the pandemic put […]

Robb Weir is never a man to take what he has for granted. Having led Tygers Of Pan Tang since their first album through a number of line-up changes, he recognises that the current Tygers are probably the strongest since they were at the forefront of the NWOBHM. The original band, who made four albums for MCA Records, survived the unexpected departure of Jess Cox to run Neat […]

Review: Stonedead Festival 2022 August 27th, 2022 Reviewer/Photographer: Dan Mann This was my third Stonedead Festival (missed the first one), and with each one there is another jump in quality. With an incredible line-up on offer it was one of those “when am I going to eat?” festivals! The stage was bigger, with video screens […]

Those Damn Crows will be very special guests at Stonedead 2022.  After a successful 12 months that’s seen the band tour extensively and gain a prestigious main stage slot at Download, the Crows are on an upward trajectory and Stonedead are thrilled to be a part of it. The announcement follows on from the addition of Kickin’ Valentina to the line-up. The band have been creating a storm of attention the last few months in […]