Yes, tis I, Crewe’s answer to ubiquity personified if we’re to believe certain restroom doors in the Wheatsheaf, back once again like a vertebra (rather than a renegade master), and here with you to share another of my exploits into the rock music scene around the West Midlands. This time, as the more perceptive of … Read more
It’s 9pm on a dark and grey Tuesday night and my musical partner in crime appears via WhatsApp and hurls me a last-minute review request. Cue Michael Monroe’s “Outerstellar” landing in my inbox! Now, I don’t know if the aforementioned Monroe purveys music of a rock, indie, or opera persuasion or something somewhere in between … Read more
Available for the first time digitally, this monster of a release at the time consisted of 22 tracks and over 2 hours of live music spread across two venues, one of which I used to work at, the Wulfrun Hall in Wolverhampton, and so, having a few hours spare and a publisher to appease I … Read more
It’s unusual for me to be drifting into a venue I’ve not encountered before, and so for the first gig of the year on a mildly moist Saturday, I ventured out of my comfort zone and into the second city. Burning Witches have been around for some time, presumably due to the enlightenment, but only … Read more
Seeing these two bands for the second time, albeit a good 13 years apart from the first was something of an experience and one which I approached with an air of trepidation. Megadeth had been decent enough at Download, back when all this was (muddy) fields, but Disturbed in Amsterdam were frankly abysmal last time … Read more