A jaunt across to a perennial favourite venue in Satan’s Hollow sees DJ Astrocreep catch Written By Wolves in one of their first ever ÜK dates, with able support from Bristol’s Immerse. Early doors meant an earlier trip across, due to the regular club night in the venue afterwards, so it’s not entirely unexpected that not too many were at the venue ahead of doors.
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The demise of St Davids Hall to the RACC controversy has seen the rapid relocation/cancellation of many planned events. David O has to say that he thought this visit by Robert Plant and his latest project was going to be one of them. Thankfully, the New Theatre stepped into save the day..
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Between 1978 and 1980, Klark Kent wasn’t the alter-ego of Superman, but rather that of The Police drummer Stewart Copeland, who released a series of singles and an album under that name, making him the first member of The Police to release solo material. That material is now all bundled together on a new self-titled release, including several previously unreleased tracks too.
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We first came across the monicker Black 7 almost exactly two years ago, when we were invited to ‘Look Inside’ the musical mind of German guitarist Lars Totzke with his debut solo album. At the time Monk admitted – and will freely do so again – that he’s not a massive fan of instrumental albums, not being the sort of thing he tends to sit down and listen to out of choice. Like classical music,he tends to view them as background soundtracks to other aspects of life, such as researching his forthcoming book, because your concentration on such matters is not interrupted by having to do the same in regard to lyrics and meanings. But, the boss had to admit that, for the 70 minutes of that debut opus, his life temporarily stood still…Will this, the second chapter in Totzke’s story have the same effect? There’s only one way to find out…
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Our latest #VideoOfTheWeek comes from prog metal deliverants Infected Rain, who hopefully won’t be living up to their declaration of ‘Never To Return’… but, then, they’ll be doing exactly that when they release their latest album. a journey through ‘Time’, via Napalm Records on 9 February.
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