Riffs. Big, crunching, fuck off heavy riffs. Boy, how have we missed them… well, the riffs don’t come much bigger, crunchier or fuck off heavy than those delivered by the three bands who came together to mark the return of Belfast’s only specialist heavy metal promotion, The Distortion Project, to its spiritual home after 20 long, riff-barren, Covidicated months.
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Whitesnake have announced that they have recruited their first ever female member. She is Irish-born bassist Tanya O’Callaghan, who replaces Michael Devin, who left the band earlier this week.
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Any band that calls themselves Rock’s Finest should really possess one of three things, the first being possibly as set of egos the size of every planet in the Milky Way put together, together with balls of steel. The second would be a set of balls the size of every planet in the Milky Way coupled with an ego of steel. And the third, perhaps most obviously, would be a musical ability to back up such a bold claim…
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The renascent, and expanded, ArcTanGent Festival is shaping up to the biggest yet, with the announcement of another raft of acts, including a full-blown Wednesday line-up.
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The Darkness are like Marmite and Brussel sprouts – they completely divide opinion: there is no middle ground! David O’Neill always taken their musical offerings at face value, from ‘I Believe In A Thing Called Love’ to ‘Its Christmas Time’ and ‘Barbarian’, they are what they are. He’s not afraid to say that having seen them live twice atop the mountain for Steelhouse and now reviewing this latest offering he’s firmly in the same camp as he is for Marmite… but you’ll have to click the link to find out which it is…
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