Cardiff Castle rarely felt as alive as it did for the inaugural Blackbird Festival, a day that balanced hometown pride with heavyweight rock pedigree, capped by Alter Bridge’s long-overdue Cardiff return.
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The third and final day of this year’s Jera On Air arrived last Saturday, and despite all the trials and tribulations of the extreme heat experienced over the weekend, Jase W and his fellow festival goers still persisted in their pursuit of world-class performances…
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Here it was: the hottest day of the year the Netherlands had ever had in June. It was also the second day of the JOA weekender and our man Jase had heard through the grapevine that Defqon electronic music festival had thrown in the towel… but it took more than the minor matter of a heatwave to stop the metal action…
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By Monk Once upon a time – well, in the early part of the last decade – Bakken were one of the...
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The artist by the nom de plume of CJ Wildheart should need absolutely no introduction to not only regular readers of this here always ever so humble website but lovers of classy rock ‘n’ roll music as a whole, as he was one of the similarly-monickered co-founders of one of perhaps the singularly most recognized and notorious glunk pop acts to have emerged from the Über Kingdom in the past two generations. After a nigh on 40-year interaction with the band that has experienced more stops and starts than a rain-sodden TT race, the firebrand sauceror (sic) has just unleashed his eighth, and perhaps most visceral and vital, solo album on an unsuspecting Überverse…
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