It’s hard to believe that it’s been seven whole days since we last awarded our coveted ‘Video Of The Week’ title, and a lot has happened in the Überverse, with many parts of the Über Kingdom once again being lockdown with the most severe of restrictions and everything that these bring with them, including yet more cancelled live shows (including livestreams) and Christmas arguably ruined for many people.
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Warrington based melodic punk trio Hummer market themselves as ‘two engineers and an academic’. Lesley M is not sure whether the academic is having a go at the engineers for their on-the-job approach or the engineers are standing in the corner giggling about the practical inexperience of the eternal student Joe Watson, who has only recently achieved his PhD. Anyway…
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Behind every big band that defines a genre, there’s always bands who had all the potential to join them but had none of the luck. Something just seems to happen at a point in time and their career path falls off the trajectory of the scene that they helped to build and they end up left behind. There could be a whole host of reasons why this happens, hell sometimes it’s just down to bad luck, but just because a band fell behind at the peak of a movement doesn’t mean that they can’t dive back in and give it another go.
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In a determined bid to prove that it’s not ‘The Final Countdown’ for live shows, Swedish AOR giants Europe have announced not just one but two ÜK festival headline appearances for next summer.
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This is the first recording for Iconic Eye following a brief hiatus after their first album and featuring a change to their female vocalist. Janey Smith would be a really good addition to any band. A powerful female vocal can change a band’s direction and it looks like she is going to do this for Iconic Eye.
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