Kvelertak are another one of those bands that have always lingered just outside of Jonny B’s usual musical sphere, which is funny because every time he’s caught the odd track, he’s always enjoyed it! But then he managed to catch some of their set at Download last year, and that definitely grabbed his attention a little more, so when he was offered to take a peek at their new album, he couldn’t resist!
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PVRIS have been an ever-present band on a lot of festivals throughout Jase Walker’s 20s and have grown immensely over the years. Finally at the ripe old age of 32, he was finally able to catch them live in one of Manchester’s more refined gig venues, Gorilla. Bringing along Joywave for the ride throughout the ÜK and Europe, he had seen from a couple of their other shows that they’re definitely down for stage shenanigans and therefore he could not wait!
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Another trip to Manchester sees our travelling gigaholoc take in Cage The Elephant for the first time, accompanied by Chicago’s Post Animal and SWMRS from California, in Manchester’s O2 Victoria Warehouse, also his first time at the venue. Train delays are once again the norm, though the big lad managed to arrive just as Post Animal took to the stage…
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This one is a bit difficult for John B to review. There are aspects that he really likes and many that he finds wanting. Most of his issues are thematic and have less to do with the technical skill or performance, but he will get into what he was less than enthusiastic about in the second half of the review. First, it is only fair that he goes over the things I did like. Starting with the music…
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Starbenders first caught Jase Walker’s attention during their tour supporting Alice in Chains back in 2018 after some videos popped up of their energetic live performances. Admittedly he didn’t look too far into them at this point as 2018 was a bit of a rollercoaster when it came to his music tastes so a lot of music kind of fell by the wayside in favour of exploring very narrow avenues for new bands. The following year Starbenders got signed to Sumerian who happen to have a large number of bands that our boy listesn to on a regular basis on their roster and he follows them on Instagram so by way of that he started regularly seeing clips of Starbenders and eventually built a bigger interest in them in the build up to their latest album, ‘Love Potions’…
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