It was the last night of the tour for The Stanley’s at The Heartbreakers in Southampton and having seen them last November supporting Cast I wasn’t going to miss the opportunity, especially at such a small intimate venue. The printed poster by the door set 9.15 as a set time and two supports, they’re spoiling…
A quick early instore at Vinilo Record Store in Southampton tonight with The K’s. The band are coming to the end of a tour but still managing to fit in some stripped back instores for fans to promote their soon to be released album titled ‘Pretty on the Internet’. The normal behaviour at these is…
Acoustic Indie Rock in Cuban Heels The Kooks performed an outstore in support of their new album ‘Never/Know’ at the 1865 in Southampton last night for Vinilo Record Store. No frills no support just two guitars in front of a sold out crowd. For a band that formed in 2004 releasing the first album ‘Inside…
The headline act. Like the support act Kula Shaker this was another band I was made aware of back at University. Moseley Shoals was released and an A1 size album poster quickly appeared in our flat, my flatmate had that album on repeat, and can you blame him. It was familiar yet unique in sound…
Like a Timewarp or some mystical portal, straight back to 1996. Kula Shaker played the O2 Academy in Boscombe, Bournemouth Wednesday night in a support slot and delivered a 50 minute set of joy and nostalgia, in that order. Crispian Mills does not seem to have aged and still plays with the same energy I…
Pushing beat-driven industrial, corrosive metal and electronic body music. Front Line Assembly, the electro-industrial band was formed in Canada in 1986. Their music was introduced to me back in 92 or 93 when a friend at college made me a cassette of some of their songs with some intermix and Front 242 after a conversation…
Another night of metal and Hardcore with friends, Dead Man’s Pistol taking the headline slot supported first by My Black Poison, Badmouth and Throwing Distance. All four bands brought their own sound and each set the bar high, mosh pits ensued and ears were left ringing from the upbeat guttural onslaught. (Take a look at…
Lola Young best known to most unless you’ve been living under a rock for the song ‘Messy’ made a heartfelt return to Bristol and SWX on Monday night. The British singer and songwriter from London took to the stage at 9pm in front of a sold out crowd to a raucous applause to deliver and…
I’m a great supporter of support acts, obviously you go to a gig to see the main act and the support is and should be a big part of the evening, they are there to warm the crowd up. Occasionally they are more than that. Tonight was one of those nights. The main act was…
What was more Impressive? The band or the following? They’ve been around since 2018 and have picked up a strong diehard fanbase along the way and they are only onto their second album ‘Falling Out of View’. I attend a lot of gigs either solo or with one to two friends but for this one,…
