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If you are looking for good time rock and roll, then you can’t get much better than Wilson. So a Friday night gig in Glasgow playing in what essentially amounts to being a basement seems like a guarantee for a good time.
Continue reading “Wilson w/ Reigning Days, Donnie Willow and Twin Heart”
There’s a certain frustration to watching The Wildhearts. Not because of the band themselves, but because of what should have been. That blend of Metallica‘s riffs and Cheap Trick‘s hooks could have been the biggest thing to come out of the UK in the 90’s. Christ, I’ve lost count of the number of bands that have borrowed/stolen from them. And yet, record company uselessness and personal implosions meant that the best alternative rock band we have, never quite reached their potential.
Heavy metal is generally not seen as a smooth or classy genre. There’s a lot of grunting, screaming and throwing your body into people. Yet when Faith No More stroll onto the stage of the O2 Academy dressed all in white and surrounded by flowers, there is definitely an air of sophistication to proceedings. It’s hard to imagine that just the night before this band was playing in front of the muddy denizens of Download festival. They are far too clean.
The ABC is crowded with an unusual audience as While She Sleeps and Cancer Bats roll into town. There’s the heavy metal fans, the ones I recognise from countless gigs in Glasgow and will see at countless more. There’s the scene kids, who travels in packs and who I may well have seen before, but blend into one giant blob of baseball caps and shorts. Then there’s the new folk, the people who look slightly out-of-place and aren’t really into heavy metal. However, they have come out tonight because bands like While She Sleeps are getting big and it is awesome to see.
Continue reading “Live Review: While She Sleeps and Cancer Bats w/ Hundreth and Oathbreaker”
There aren’t going to be many bills that can compete with just how metal Behemoth’s current touring party is and therefore, it is nice to see them playing a venue the size of Glasgow’s O2 ABC. The beer might be overpriced and it’s not actually sold out, but it show’s that extreme metal doesn’t have to exist solely in the underground.
Continue reading “Behemoth w/ Decapitated, Grand Magus and Winterfylleth.”
Sometimes I sit down to write a review and realise that there is probably not much point. Today was one of those days. On Sunday night I went to see Ginger Wildheart in Glasgow and had a rather fantastic night. However, me writing about how awesome Ginger is seems a bit pointless. If you wish to know my opinion on the man and his music you can find it here, here and here, as well as a few other places if you want to delve a bit deeper. I’m a huge Ginger fan and therefore repeating myself is now going to be that interesting. Of course it was awesome, he’s always awesome.
Continue reading “A Look at Music Venues Via Ginger Wildheart”
Having dropped the best album of their career, Feed the Rhino made the decision to hold off on starting their UK tour. Instead, they waited a few months before rolling into Glasgow with their electrifying live show.
Continue reading “Feed the Rhino w/ Night Verses and Baby Godzilla at Ivory Blacks, 21/10/2014”
Heights are dead. Not in the sense that Alex Monty and co have actually keeled over and slipped off their mortal coil, but in the sense that the band are saying goodbye. Anyone who has paid attention to my blogs for the last few years, will be well aware that I have a great deal of affection for this band. In a UK where there are more hardcore bands than ever before, they stood out as something a bit special and I am genuinely gutted to see them go. However, the opportunity to go and see them live one last time – they played their last ever show in London last night and were in Glasgow on Saturday – was something I wasn’t going to miss.
Continue reading “Heights w/ Echoes, Swallows and Flakes at Classic Grand, Glasgow, 4/10/14”
Some bands are made to play small dingy clubs, others are meant to fill arenas. While I’m sure Nine Inch Nails would destroy your average club, their set at the Glasgow Hydro shows that they are very much in the later camp. It was hardly a surprise to see Trent Reznor return to the Nine Inch Nails model, after taking several years out on hiatus during which he won an Oscar, but the return of the band that made the man was still greeted with joy by fans. Nine Inch Nails are a band that transcend genres, being as equally loved by fans of Joy Division and Depeche Mode as they are fans of Slayer and Black Flag.
So I went to see The Wildhearts in Glasgow on Sunday night and wrote a review for WOW 24/7 which you can check out at the link below. Enjoy.
http://www.wow247.co.uk/blog/2014/04/16/the-wildhearts-live-review/
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