Author: Team Uber

Washing Machine – Bury St Edmunds, The Hunter Club – 16 March 2024

What do you do when you go for a weekend away to have a catch up with some friends? Look for a gig, of course, especially if live music is as vital to your life as it is to DJ Astrocreep. To the uninitiated, as was the big lad until gig night, Washing Machine is a showcase night in Bury St Edmunds, with this evening’s edition featuring five varied acts. The venue itself is a small room with great sound and welcoming aura, so it’s a quick drink and time for the bands just after arrival.

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Enuff Z’Nuff/Zach Waters Band/Dead Addiction – Belfast, Voodoo – 16 March 2024

There has been an awful lot of discussion on various social media platforms recently about advance ticket sales for gigs, and particularly the effect a poor performance in that regard can have a serious impact on promoters’ collective and individual abilities to stage said shows. It’s an extremely complex situation, with multiple factors having to be considered, and one not helped by fuel being added to the fire by so-called industry “insiders” adding their ill-informed and ill-judged (and in some cases extremely inaccurate) tuppence worth to the debate… Tonight’s gig was just one example of the maelstrom in which far too many promoters find themselves, particularly in this little corner of the Überverse…

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Dragonforce – ‘Warp Speed Warriors’ (Napalm Records)

Power metal legends Dragonforce return with their bright and sweeping new album ‘Warp Speed Warriors’, released this past Friday. Video game influences twist around cinematic fantasy narratives in this fresh and innovative new album- Herman Li and Sam Totman’s breathtaking guitars rise around the shattering heights of Marc Hudson’s vocals in this self-contained adventure into the most unchartered and playful corners of thematic power metal. 

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Ashen Reach – ‘The Fear’ (Self-Released)

One of the beauties of this job (if you can call it that) is watching, and listening to, bands develop, evolve, grow and mature, as well as pushing themselves to not only their collective and individual limits but also beyond the generic boundaries by which they may be perceived to be confined. One such band are Liverpudlian quartet Ashen Reach, who have reached through the letterbox at ÜRHQ, taken the envelope that landed on the mat inside, ripped out its contents and replaced it with their own missive of strident intent… Monk picks up the pieces…

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