What do you do when you put an album release show on during the height of British Summertime? You go beach vibes, that’s what. So for one night only, it’s Hawaiian shirts, shorts, inflatables and lei, those necklaces of flowers given in Hawaii as a token of welcome or farewell. It’s a scorcher outside and
It’s the final countdown… Day #4 of the Tech-Fest weekend begins with an Oat Milk Latte and fortunately today the line isn’t one you need to endure. It’s bean to cup goodness of the highest order and is exactly what you need after that 3am rendition of “Hotel California” by Eagles. People walk past our
Saturday may be a day with showers on the weather forecast but the beauty of Tech-Fest is that the stages are inside interlinked hangers with a merch and bar area between them meaning that the weather isn’t a factor that counts against enjoying any of the bands. After yesterday’s Metal buffet, today is a shade
Ignore talk about Friday being the first day proper of Tech-Fest because there were capacity crowds for Deathcore brutes Bound In Fear and Progressive Metal masters Exist Immortal last night. This morning starts of painfully early because having been a freezing cold night in Newark, come the morning it’s roasting hot in the tent. Still, a
The annual journey to the Mecca that is Newark Showgrounds for Tech-Fest may have been disrupted for two years but with tickets carried over and a great selection of bands on offer, we couldn’t be more ready for years incarnation! Four days of wall to wall Metal of every flavour is just what the Doctor
An event that at one point we feared may never happen, tonight at London’s iconic Camden Underworld marks a special moment in the long history of hard hitting Sacramento, Californian Noise Metal act Will Haven. Originally planned for 2021, this 20th Anniversary show for their seminal third album “Carpe Diem” will be the first time
After a phone call warning of something unterward about to go down at The Facebar in Reading tonight, the cops have setup a perimeter and blocked all entrances and exits. Emergency Vehicles have been primed and readied to clean up the debris as the venue is set to be reduced to rubble by four bands
“Sun is shining, the weather is sweet, yeah… Make you wanna move your dancing feet now, To the rescue, here I am, Want you to know, y’all, can you understand?” ~ Bob Marley.
It has been too long since our last live review and so a trip to The Facebar in Reading on a bank holiday weekend for a night of Punk and Metal from a trio of well respected bands is gratefully received in these parts as The Freudian Session reunite with My Latest Failure but sadly
Tonight is the final show of the “Life Is Pain” headlining tour that has seen Liverpool Nu-Metallers Death Blooms play with a different opening act at each stop. A venue upgrade from The Black Heart to The Boston Music Rooms for tonight and 7 of 12 shows sold out for this tour acting as confirmation
