FESTIVAL NEWS: Full Outbreak 2022 line-up confirmed
The full line-up for next summer’s tenth anniversary iteration of the Outbreak festival has been confirmed.
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The Ocean – Phanezoroic I/Phanozeric II – 26 November 2021 (live streams)
Anyone who’s spent any reasonable amount of time in Jase W’s general vicinity will know that he is a huge fan of The Ocean, a truly interesting band hailing from Berlin, Germany, known for their extended length songs across several albums, each with their own narrative. So, imagine his surprise when he got an email dropped into his inbox asking if he wanted to review their ‘Phanerozoic’ live stream; there was not a chance in hell he’d pass up the chance to sit and listen to The Ocean for nearly two hours and gush about it…
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Horns – ‘Horns’ (Self-Released)
What exactly do you get when you meld together the genres of jazz and metal? What really happens when Sinatra meets Satan? The answer to that question, friends, is Horns, the brilliant new project from the extraordinary mind of pianist and composer Simon Fache. Their self-titled debut album is a brilliant romp where the devil himself swing dances with his evil underlings to the sounds of bold and majestic horns set against the twisted metal of shredding guitars.
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The Offspring/The Hives/Bob Vylan – Manchester, AO Arena – 29 November 2021
The Offspring, a mainstay of Jase W’s teenage days, hit his adopted hometown of Manchester on the penultimate night of a tour in support of their latest album, ‘Let The Bad Times Roll’. Jase reckons this is legitimately one of the best venues he’s ever been to in the whole of the ÜK: it’s bloody massive and the right venue to see a band like this…
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Marillion – London, Hammersmith Apollo – 27 November 2021
As gigs and concerts get back to some kind of normality, the title of this tour from prog legends Marillion – ‘The Light at the End of The Tunnel’ tour – seems strikingly appropriate. A valid domestic covid passport, or proof of a negative test is still required for entry tonight, but that seems to be ‘normality’ now anyway, at least for the time being. Tonight’s show is the last of the ten dates of the UK leg of the tour, the second of two nights at the Hammersmith Apollo, and one that is being live streamed via the band’s website.
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