Author: Team Uber

Queen + Adam Lambert – Belfast, SSE Arena – 27 May 2022

It is very rarely that Monk is stuck for words, but he struggled for two days contemplating where to even begin introducing the spectacle that was the opening night of Queen’s return to Belfast on the opening night of this, their celebratory ‘Rhapsody 2022’ tour. And then it hit him: there is only one word to describe what he and DQ witnessed this past Friday night… and that is “spectacle”. Because, quite simply, that is what it was.

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Whitesnake/Foreigner/Europe – Cardiff, Motorpoint Arena – 25 May 2022

Well, Team Angel took a little trip from the heart of the valleys down to Cardiff city, didn’t they? And it definitely was a case of here I go again in the still of the night. But who says there “ain’t no love in the heart of the city, especially if you take it slow and easy  on the choo-choo train to watch the last night of Whitesnake’s final tour. Were you ready and willing? They definitely were… and, having had tickets since before the world went to shit, our guest contributors were not going to miss this…

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Tiberius/Azure/Sertraline/Forager – Manchester, Satan’s Hollow – 29 May 2022

Not being totally content with having enough tinnitus for the last weekend in May, Jase W was back in Satan’s Hollow for one last gig… This time it was Scottish prog metal outfit Tiberius on tour with Azure and for the Manchester date, local acts Sertraline and Forager. Quite a significant variety of stuff on there, along with extremely tight changeover times between bands!

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Meshuggah/Zeal & Ardor – Manchester, Academy 1 – 28 May 2022

One of the last couple of gigs Jase W would see this month in the lead up to the festival season was a band that is almost single-handedly responsible for inspiring thousands of guitarists – Meshuggah. Suffice to say this would be a gathering of the more colourful metalheads with an insatiable thirst for odd time signatures and just outright balls to the wall heavy riffs.

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