A warm start to the first May bank holiday weekend sees Jase W returning back to the massive Manchester Academy 1, one of the premier gig venues in this city – and it’s going to be another nostalgia trip for our resident gigaholic! Back in the early days of getting into rock, Feeder were a mainstay of his MP3 player, and he couldn’t wait to see them live again for the first time in nearly a decade.
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So, what to do in Belfast on a surprisingly dank and dreary Saturday evening? Sit in the house, shivering due to having to turn the heating off after another massive hike in gas prices and watch Ronnie O’Sullivan predictably decimate John Higgins in the snooker, or head out into the mizzle and chill for a dose of serious hardcore action? Yep, I know which one got my choice, so it was off to one of my traditional haunts for the last night of Sheffield steelers Malevolence’s trio of Irish headline shows… But would Belfast beat them down the way our own Giants had done to their ice hockey team, or would there be a whiff of revenge in the air? There was only one way to find out, wasn’t there?
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Welcome to the latest edition of the Über Rock Singles Club. We have managed to keep the Club up-and-running despite the numerous Covidications which we all have had to endure over the past 24 months, in order to bring you the hottest new sounds around. And once again we have another hitlist of superb sonic experiences to tickle your sonic senses, with a selection of my favourite tunes to have found their way on to the ÜRHQ deathdecks over the past couple of weeks… Bearing in mind that we received more than 400 submissions, it was not an easy task to whittle them down to this all-too-short playlist of just a handful musical gems…
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We continue to receive a veritable tsunami of video clips – another 150+ of them in the past week alone – being sent our way in a bid to be the latest recipient of the coveted title and virtual gong of being named our favourite…
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Hailing from Germany, The Picturebooks are a motorcycle mending, chopper and skateboard-riding, blues-rock duo, creating dirt tracks across the globe in the biker and rock n roll scene.
This garage blues band consists of Fynn Claus Grabke (in charge of vocals and guitar) and Philipp Mirtschink (on drums), who met in the local skatepark in their hometown of Gütersloh and realised they shared the same daredevil skating mind-set and more – they’ve hung out pretty much every day since.