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Live Review: Måneskin at the AO Arena, Manchester 19 December 2023 Words by Alex Alicia | Friday 22 December 2023 Photo Credits by Fabio Germinario by Fabio Germinario This week, Manchester played host to Italia’s Kool Kids Måneskin, for what could only be described as my favourite live show […]
From a packed auditorium at the Barbican Arts Centre Geddy Lee looked happy and relaxed talking about his autobiography ‘My Effin Life’. Geddy has been someone who hitherto has not courted publicity about his private life and, as a result, has built up a certain amount of mystique about his […]
Sometimes you get the impression that biographies are sugar coating someone’s life, this is not one of those biographies. It is honest, humble, full of information and provides the backstory, not only to Geddy Lee’s life, but also to all of Rush’s albums and a lot of their tours. Whilst […]
With just an eight song set, time is short for openers Living Colour, I was, therefore, surprised that they started with a cover of Led Zeppelin’s ‘Rock and Roll’, but there are so few rock bands of colour and, given that they started in the eighties, maybe they were afraid […]
There has been a great lead up to these Almighty shows featuring the original line up after a 30 year break and the excitement is palpable. The debut and sophomore albums, getting on for 35 years in vintage, are being re-released and have aged very well. People have come from […]
Openers Night Demon are clearly in love with the NWOBHM, that period when Black Sabbath was morphing into meat and potatoes metal. It could be 1983 as they deliver Motorhead style fast pacers and the sounds of a huge storm a la Child of Babylon through the PA. The drummer […]
When I interviewed Joey Tempest about their Time Capsule tour they were yet to fix the set list, but he promised a special night with the band, with no support, two sets with an interval and, given the 40thanniversary of the band’s first recordings, a look back at the whole […]
