Live Reviews – R o c k 'N' L o a d

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The Faim // Woes // Charming Liars // Live Review // Oh Yeah Centre // Belfast

An early start and god forbid a school night too for a stellar line up gracing the Oh Yeah Centre, Belfast, for the arrival of Aussie Pop-Rock starlets The Faim, Woes (UK) and Charming Liars (UK/USA) for a qual...

StoneDeaf Festival 2019 // One Day // One Stage // One Monster Show // Live Review

This was to be my first time at the StoneDeaf Festival and I was really looking forward to it; despite only living a short distance away, I somehow missed it last year. Now I’ll be totally honest, I’ve alway...

Stiff Little Fingers – Therapy? – New Model Army – The Toy Dolls – Live Review – Custom House Square

The sun is still beating down with staggering strength on Custom House Square as gates open, with seemingly every contingent of alternative culture gathered together for a rather varied evening of music. Aging...

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The Foo Fighters // Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes // Live Review // Belfast Vital

The weather may be unpredictable but it was a dead cert that this particular night in Belfast 35,000 people were going to turn up to a night of incredible music. The Vital festival was hosting one of the bigg...

Bloodstock Open Air // Ronnie James Dio Stage // Live Review // Day 3 Pt. 3

CRADLE OF FILTH It might be afternoon but the fire torches are lit and with the sun burning in the sky behind it feels as though Dani Filth has brought the fire from the very bowels of hell itself, with him....

Bloodstock Open Air 2019 // Sophie Lancaster Stage // Live Review // Day 3 // Pt. 3

Blood Red Hourglass https://www.facebook.com/bloodredhourglass/ A few people had now had their fix from the Cradle of Filth set and many were heading for the Sophie Lancaster stage for a second helping of h...

Bloodstock Open Air 2019 // Hobgoblin New Blood Stage // Live Review // Day 3 // Pt. 3

Golden Core https://www.facebook.com/goldencoreband/ So I kinda had to have a double take when I walked into the pit of the New Blood, I could hear the deafening guttural vocals across the PA with no vocali...

Bloodstock Open Air 2019 // Sophie Lancaster Stage // Live Review // Day 3 // Pt.2

Wheel https://www.facebook.com/wheelband/ Rolling up in black hooded capes and next on stage are Wheel, a four piece prog metal band all the way from Helsinki. Getting straight into their set, their intri...

Bloodstock Open Air // Ronnie James Dio Stage // Live Review // Day 3 // Pt 2

SOILWORK Serving up your Sunday lunch main course this Swedish 5 piece are determined to fill you to the brim with their tasty Melodic Death Metal. Announcing the song 'Full Moon Shoals' From their la...

Bloodstock Open Air 2019 // Sophie Lancaster Stage // Live Review // Day 3 // Pt.1

Resin https://www.facebook.com/resinonline/ Morning has broken and first contenders of the day are Leicester based band Resin. A five piece, these guys also have support from a string quartet to create an ...

Bloodstock Open Air // New Blood Stage // Live Review // Pt.2

Bastard This four piece immediately radiate angst and a savagery that screams ‘was not breastfed as a kid’. Duelling vocalists they share out responsibility to envelope the New Blood tent in an angst ridde...

Bloodstock Open Air // Ronnie James Dio Stage // Live Review // Day 3 // Pt.1

ALL HAIL THE YETI Day 3 of the main stage music and LA metal band All Hail The Yeti sound the Bloodstock alarm clock with 'The Sound of Mourning' to get the crowd's fists up in the air and the ears wide ...