Gig Review; Bagpipe jazz band capture mood of Egyptian revolution
Ta Mere Review – Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club (Shore Leave) “This one goes out to the hero’s of Tahrir Square” cries Sean MacGloin as he picks up his bagpipes and backed by the band, launches into a scintillating rendition of “Walk Like an Egyptian”. The capacity crowd erupt, buoyed on by two Egyptian-looking women who...
The Cavern Club – 50th Anniversary Since The Beatles Debut.
Its 50 years since The Beatles first graced The Cavern Club in Liverpool. Before we get into the history though, here’s a clip of them in that very venue one year later in 1962. It took them nine months from originally playing this venue to come to the attention of Brian Epstein though, when he...
Victoria Beckham Turns Down Spice Girls Reunion
Rumours are flying that Victoria Beckham has turned down a reunion with the Spice Girls at the opening of the 2012 Olympic games. The News of The World is reporting she turned it down despite David Beckham and Simon Fuller doing their best to try to persuade her. The reason behind the refusal…well she wants...
Sister Act Theatre Tickets – Whoopi Goldberg Causes a Storm
Sister Act ticket sales have gone through the roof in 2010 since Whoopi Goldberg signed up to perform at the London Palladium Theatre. Seatwave and Viagogo are now really the only place to get many tickets (unless you go to touts on eBay!) – though of course try Ticketmaster first. Seatwave.com Currently has tickets on...
Gig Review – Race Horses
The Big Chill, Sailor Jerry Stage, 7th August 2010 At a festival that boasts a line-up of over a hundred top name bands one would not expect the highlight to come from an unsigned group playing on a miniature stage in a leafy glade. But this is no reflection on the quality of the other...
U2 Back – With Three new Songs
Bono’s back injury had put them out for a bit – and for me, that was good. I’ve always been off by the preachy nature of the band. Far too early on in their career they were cultivating their image as superstars without really ever having the catalogue to back it up. What surprised me...
Love Parade 2010 Tragedy Sees End of the Festival
The tragic news is well known – 19 people have been trampled to death at the Love Parade festival in Duisburg, as festival goers were forced through a narrow tunnel as the only entrance to the event. Angela Merkel has promised an intensive probe into the causes and until the results of that nobody should...
Blood Red Shoes: O2 Academy, Newcastle
Without any extra fanfare, Blood Red Shoes, the Brighton two-piece specialising in aggressive, minimalist garage rock, take to their instruments and blast out “Don’t Ask”, the opening track of new album “Fire Like This”. There is no extended intro, no build-up beyond drum sticks raised in the air in anticipation. The performance is super-tight: Laura-Mary...
Arctic Monkeys: Metro Radio Arena, Newcastle
There's always a danger that bands who take to Newcastle's Metro Radio Arena stage may find themselves dwarfed by the cavernous hall, reminiscent of a WW2 bomb shelter despite being less than 15 years old. Arctic Monkeys have spent their brief career slowly building up to this moment - a full arena size tour -...
Kids In Glass Houses, Attack! Attack!, Straight Lines: Wedgewood Rooms, Portsmouth
Sitting down to write this review I wasn’t sure just how to start it. There were ideas, sure, but they wouldn’t translate onto the page. I had writer’s block. Hard. Then I glanced down at my notes and saw one word drunkenly scrawled across the top of my pad, underlined four times: “NOISE”.
Enter Shikari: O2 Academy, Newcastle
With the new album Common Dreads keeping the fans thoroughly satisfied, Enter Shikari had to produce a preformance that lived up to expectation.
Frank Turner: Newcastle University
Over the past three years or so, I’ve seen ex-Million Dead man Frank Turner play live a lot. In fact I’ve seen him play, ooh, at ten gigs including tonight, with only two being non-headline appearances.
