Author: Team Uber

7.5 Tonnes Of Beard/The Boat Sank/New Mud – Belfast, Voodoo – 14 November 2024

Gigs by tonight’s headliners are rarer than some of the rarest things you can imagine: you’re more likely to get the Pope and the Dalai Lama simultaneously knocking on your door than find this heavyweight combo’s name on an “upcoming shows” list at your local venue, and it would probably take the combined skills of Indiana Jones, Lara Croft and Howard Carter to uncover the last time such an event occurred (it was 15 months ago on this very stage, to save them the exploration!). So, needless to say, their rare forays into the live domain are pretty much “must be there” occasions, and therefore work rotas were re-arranged to enable an almost equally rare venture by myself into the dark back streets of Belfast and up the stairs to my favourite venue for this, their only show this year…

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The Über Rock Singles Club Daily Pick – Eric Bass

Monk will be the first to admit that he’s not a fan of Shinedown but he’s an honest man and has to say that this debut solo offering from the band’s appropriately named bassist hits harder than a runaway freight train loaded with a thousand tonnes of concrete smashing into something similar coming in the opposite direction, at least in terms of the deeply personal impact which it delivers:

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