One of the best opening acts our Valleys correspondent has witnessed at Steelhouse was in 2022 when Mother Vulture opened up with 30 minutes of frenetic activity that was impossible to keep your eyes off. The reason for this reminiscence is that our man in south Wales felt that Saturday’s opening act, Jayler, were going to do the same thing. But, would they?
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Welsh post-hardcore veterans The Blackout have announced a one-off show at Chepstow Castle, their only headline appearance of 2016.
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This Bristolian rock ‘n’ roll crüe are hardly going easy on us with this latest sample from their upcoming third album.
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Steelhouse Festival began in 2011 as a two-day event focused on classic rock but has since expanded to feature a diverse lineup. While still highlighting acts like Saxon, it also includes reggae (Skindred), AOR (Europe), punk (The Wildhearts), glam rock (The Darkness), blues (King King), internationally renowned artists (e.g., Black Stone Cherry, Myles Kennedy, Mr Big, Uriah Heep, Living Colour, Airbourne, Thunder) and emerging talents like Kris Barras, Scarlet Rebels and Stone Broken. The Steelhouse team maintained their high standards this year with an impressive lineup.
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In the latter half of the Eighties you’d have struggled to find a harder working group than underground punk legends Instigators, tirelessly gigging up and down the ÜK, around mainland Europe, and even across the ÜSA, on self-booked zero-budget tours. They would eventually bow out at the start of the 1990s. Now in 2025, the band are set to return for the first time in 30 years and are confirmed to play the legendary Rebellion Festival in Blackpool, alongside further gigs in Huddersfield and London and a new EP on the way as well. To coincide with this, Boss Tuneage are set to reissue much-anticipated coloured vinyl reissues of the long out-of-print 1986 ‘Phoenix’ album and ‘Shockgun’ from ’88.
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