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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 people might not realise they […]
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 all over the globe for […]
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 is shirtless, think early Diamond […]
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 of their career with material […]
I was given a day before the Premieres in the cinema to do this review of the documentary ‘Welcome to the Darkness’. If you are reading this immediately you still have time to get to the cinema tonight to see it. There is some footage of the band live, but it is mainly a look […]
Words: Kahmel Farahani Photos: Dawn Osborne To start the night off in right way, Canadian four piece blues rock back The Damn Truth take the stage with a sizable crowd already assembled. The band look the part and their sound is a very late 60s early 70s one. From the opening `This Is Who We […]
Elvis was a sensation across the world, he took the Memphis Blues of the African Americans and took it mainstream for everyone and, yet he kept it real, loving his mum, family and country. As you go into the exhibition you can see Elvis’ gold plated telephone from his bedroom, but also his Hai Karate […]
