It’s the final day, Download always takes so long to arrive and passes by so quickly. By Sunday Jase W can feel the tiredness setting in but it’s time to dig deep and push through for the last lot of amazing acts we’ve got on today…
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Continuing his restless run of shows after Download – because who needs a good night’s sleep after a massive festival: Not Jase W, evidently. Tonight’s show takes our resident gigaholic back to the Star and Garter, a short walk away from his abode in Manchester for Dragged Under supported by Defences and Immerse. Both Dragged Under and Defences are touring following both having shows at Download festival with Dragged Under continuing their shows into Europe for more festival appearances including the famous Hellfest in France.
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Back in 2020, Damaged Goods Books published the first volume of ‘London’s Lost Music Venues’, London historian Paul Talling’s fascinating journey through time compiling well over a hundred lost London music venues. Being published during the initial lockdown, it was a timely reminder of what music fans had already lost at a time when those venues we still had faced a very uncertain future. Now Talling is back with the second volume, this time focusing primarily on the larger venues that have been lost in the mists of time, whether decades ago or more recently, plus a fair few more smaller venues that didn’t make it into the first volume.
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David O’Neill has seen Kris Barras at several gigs since the release of his second album, ‘Divine And Dirty’, in 2018 and then seeing him live with Black Stone Cherry at Caerphilly Castle in 2019. The recent headline tour in support of his most recent release, ‘Death Valley Paradise’, which he caught in the Tramsheds in Cardiff, with Florence Black supporting him, was another highlight for our man from the Valleys. Therefore, the opportunity to catch up with the man backstage at Download 2022 was one that was too good for him to miss…
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Honestly, Jase W woke up on the second day of Download with a bit of a thick head and a dry mouth, but it wasn’t going to stop him getting to the Dogtooth stage bright and early to catch his first picked band of the day…
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