Awful weather, but once inside the Wedgewood Room, the cacophony of sound from these three bands made you forget all about the outside. Spyres are huge on Spotify, time to shine live too
Our second visit to Beautiful Days festival. Having really enjoyed 2024, decided to come back again. Fast becoming our alternative to Glastonbury as it's so nice, a great size for viewing and yoga available too!!
Tonight, I'm checking out another find from Beautiful Days festival, The Scratch and I fear they rattle the ghosts of this old church venue!! It's a cold, wet night outside, but these Irish lads will soon warm us up.
Fresh off the back of a fantastic performance at Beautiful Days festival, I was excited to see Pet Needs were visiting Southampton on a small tour, so I'm here with excitement to see them in a proper small venue. It should suit their style very well.
You will see a lot of my gigs reported at 25th anniversary tours, 30th anniversary tours.....it's a bit much that they are turning into 40th anniversary tours!!
The Damned were back! I hadn't seen them for a while now, well since the emotional Albert Hall in 2016, so was quite excited to see The Evil Spirits Tour was visiting Bournemouth.
If The Living End are in town, you have to go. If they are in Portsmouth, it's worth a drive out. Chris, Scott and Andy had recently supported The Dropkick Murphy's in Bournemouth with a short set, so I was now extra excited to see a full set again.
What a bonus tonight. Not only do I get to see The Dropkick Murphy's locally, but they've got my all time faves, The Living End, as their support act!!!
November 14th 1996 – De Montfort Hall "Stoosh" was their second album, but Skank Anansie sprang to fame a year earlier with the strong single "Weak" which was brilliant (from "Paranoid and Sunburnt"), so this was another gig to look forward to, so we could see the difference between radio music and live music. Here's... Continue Reading →
December 10th 1991 – Leicester Poly My first full blown The Damned gig. No more Naz Nomad and the Nightmares, this WAS The Damned this time. Dave Vanian and Rat Scabies remained, Captain Sensible was back and Paul Gray on Bass......Whenever you wonder if a band can carry on with a change of line up,... Continue Reading →
February 23rd 1991 – Leicester Poly Well, this was a controversial one. If anyone if worried about certain words in the dictionary, I will warn you now, that a choice word is used in relation to a cover version of a Patti Smith song. Birdland pretty much swept in and then swept out of the... Continue Reading →
October 15th 1989 – Leicester University We had spotted this one in the local paper (The Mercury sometimes did things well ;-)). Naz Nomad and The Nightmares? Who? There was a thing in the 80s which was real fun, where bands would tour under false names. Usually when they wanted to trial out music or... Continue Reading →
