With a name like King Kraken, you’d better be able to back that up with some serious music, preferably with Cthulhu on standby, ready to deal with any dissenting nonconformists! Continuing the suspiciously tenuous (and possibly interdimensional) cephalopod theme, I’m here to blast out some metaphorical ink onto paper and enlighten you oh reader, as … Read more
The fifth anniversary of Stonedead was tinged with sadness with the sad unexpected death of FM’s Chris Overland during the week and just as we arrived the announcement that the legendary former Whitesnake guitarist Bernie Marsden had died too. All those in attendance decided to celebrate the lives of two fine musicians in the only … Read more
Breaking Bands launched as a festival in 2015, it became an established festival quickly, and sells out year on year. This festival is not only family friendly, but it is community based, with all profits being ploughed back into the festival, making it an easy choice if you want to support bands who are starting … Read more
“Hammerfest, you are absolutely, gruesomely in some ways, beautiful” Blaze Bayley. It’s been a long time since I’ve experienced live music. Hammerfest has landed in Birmingham UK, and the time has come to emerge from my Covid19 cocoon. Sometimes you’ve just got to put on your big girl boots and brave the big wide world, … Read more