Category: Gig Review

Support: Eighth Nerve Muswell This is my first gig since August, NOTHING went on in September. This is kind of because of work and holiday though. Missed Johnny Truant, Juliette Lewis, Breed77 and more because I wasn’t in London. Only really annoyed by missing Juliette Lewis as you can see I saw Johnny Truant anyway… Read More

Support: The Klaxons A secret gig with only 2,000 tickets. As I said to Sarah I’ve seen bigger and better in smaller but that aint the point. It started kind of badly as the set up for getting ticket was designed to battle touts but also caused a massive(at least 2hr) queue to get your… Read More

Support: Bring Me The Horizon Back in the Underworld, jammed as can only be expected from a major label artist about to play Reading/Leeds. Bring Me The Horizon? Bring me a knife more like. Honestly don’t bother. Aha it’s been a while since I’ve seen this lot live, if I remember right (and I could… Read More

No support. First saw this lot at a guerilla gig they did before Uxfest. They just set up their gear and a generator on the side of the street facing into an open air shopping centre type amphitheatre area and they got a lot of attention. They play around London a lot and this was… Read More

Featuring(everyone I saw): Skindred Murder One Biomechanical Kingsize Blues Exit Ten A very strong bill which I saw only a fraction of. I really wanted to see PDHM live, they had to pull out of their warm up show the week before in Camden so quite psyched but it was not to be. I turned… Read More

Supporting: Textures(a double headliner tour with Textures on last this night) Support: Yndi Halda Neevr benn in the Water rats before and it took me a while to find, next time I’m off to a new venue I’m printing the map. It is basically a pub with a great little back room where they put… Read More

Support: The Hedrons Ok to start The Hedrons are fucking cack don’t bother with them ever, just a waste of human life and your time. Now AIC, well I’m not a big fan, not that I odn’t like them just don’t know much by them. Sarah loves them though so I bought tickets for their… Read More

Back in the Astoria to see the Eels turned up just after doors so we’d catch Smoosh (onstage on Friday at 19:30) see all the Eels’ set (onstage at 20:15 on Friday) BUT ooooh no. Doors may have been at the same time both nights but Smoosh were not on till 20:00 and Eels till… Read More

Support: Smoosh Back to the Astoria, like the Underworld in Camden at the start of the year I practically live here now. Sarah and I got here a little late and missed Smoosh and the start of the gig which will be funnier when you see the review for the next night. Anyway this is… Read More

Support: Juliette & The Licks Angels & Airwaves Motorhead Queens Of The Stone Age Look at the lineup!!! Beside the AVA(apparently that’s how the kids type Angels & Airwaves) hiccup that’s great. Sadly we missed Juliette as there was a half hour queue to collect tickets(oh and wait till I scan up the ticket, it… Read More

Well first and probably last time I will be in this venue. Usually hosting musicals and the ilk but since booting out Movin’ Out early (I think) they were going to be empty for the summer while waiting for Wicked to start in Sept so in step the Foos. The venue itself reminded me of… Read More

No Support (that I saw) This was almost two weeks ago 😕 Back to the Hammersmith Apollo. Nice venue, a large version of the Ambassador in Dublin and no real bad place to stand. This show was trippy as all Tool shows should be. Good mix of old and new stuff not a massive long… Read More