AND ALSO THE TREES – CASTLE & FALCON, BIRMINGHAM, SUNDAY 24TH MARCH 2024

And Also The Trees are a bit of an enigma or mystery. The band formed in 1979 in Inkberrow, Worcestershire, a village thought to...

THE GASLIGHT ANTHEM, EMILY WOLFE @ THE UNIVERSITY OF WOLVERHAMPTON AT THE HALLS, WOLVERHAMPTON 23/03/2024

As Emily Wolfe arrives onstage, she does so with Hole's "Celebrity Skin" playing. It's easy to pigeonhole things. We all do it, whether we admit...

MR BIG, JARED JAMES NICHOLS @ KK’S STEEL MILL, WOLVERHAMPTON 22/03/2024

“I wish” reasons Jared James Nichols, “that I could play here all night.”. He would, too, you’d guess. There's something about him on stage,...

BROWN HORSE / OLLIE COOK @ HARE & HOUNDS 2, BIRMINGHAM, THURSDAY 21st MARCH 2024

I grew up in the sixties, the offspring of parents who were economic migrants from Ireland, so I was weaned on a diet of...

JUDAS PRIEST, SAXON, URIAH HEEP @ RESORTS WORLD ARENA, BIRMINGHAM 19/03/2024

It is 67 minutes before 12 oclock, when “Livin’ After Midnight” starts, and the last song begins with the closest Judas Priest will get...

DAN STUART & TOM HEYMAN @ KITCHEN GARDEN CAFÉ, BIRMINGHAM, MONDAY 18TH MARCH 2024

Accompanying Dan Stuart on this trek of the UK is US singer-songwriter, Tom Heyman (formerly of Go To Blazes) who released `24th Street Blues` last...

THE STRANGLERS @ THE HALLS, WOLVERHAMPTON, SATURDAY 16TH MARCH 2024

I first saw the stranglers at Stafford Bingley Hall on 30th May 1978, I was nineteen and took my seventeen year old brother with...

FEEDER, CHILLI JESSON @ O2 INSTITUTE, BIRMINGHAM 16/03/2024

On May the 20th 1999, I went to watch Feeder play at the Wulfrun Hall in Wolverhampton - it was the second time I'd...

LEAVES EYES / NORTHTALE / METALITE @ THE ASYLUM, BIRMINGHAM, THURSDAY 14TH MARCH 2024

I arrived at the venue just before Nordic metal quintet Metalite took to the stage. They released their concept album `Expedition One` in January and...

REVIEW: FILTER @ O2 ACADEMY 2, BIRMINGHAM, FRIDAY 15TH MARCH 2024

American rock band Filter started life in 1993 in Cleveland, Ohio, by singer Richard Patrick and guitarist and programmer Brian Liesegang. They formed when...

THE LONGEST JOHNS @ 02 INSTITUTE 2, BIRMINGHAM 15/03/2024

Sometimes, whether you like it or not, you have to start in the most obvious place. So, tonight, when The Longest Johns launch into,...

WILLE AND THE BANDITS, HAUNT THE WOODS @ HARE AND HOUNDS, KINGS HEATH 14/03/2024

There is a moment tonight, when Wille Edwards, front man of Wille And The  Bandits, sings “Make Love”. The hook line in the song,...

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