Jonny Bakes is no stranger to intricate, often instrumental, music. Hell, he’s been listening to prog rock and metal since he was knee high to a grasshopper! So, when we gave him the opportunity to review this album by Hong Kong-based guitar maestro, Jason Kui, he couldn’t resist the temptation to indulge himself….
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Sure, what would you rather be doing on Valentine’s night? Sitting in an over-priced restaurant eating a meal that costs twice as much as on any other evening of the year? Or joined with a bunch of like-minded peeps enjoying one of the most exciting live bands on the circuit making their first ever visit to this wee corner of the Überverse? Yep, you can guess which option your Über crüe plumped for…
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Explosions In The Sky have been on Jase Walker’s bucket list for a bloody long time, well over 15 years now, and in that time, they’ve built up a pretty chunky back catalogue of music. Needless to say he was therefore quite happy to be ticking this off on the list of “bands I should have seen ages ago, but life dealt me a crap hand”. They brought with them a rather new, yet infamous artist, A.A. Williams, who seems to have appeared out of nowhere last year and somehow ended up being on the bill for quite a significant amount of gigs our man went to last year…
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Manchester grunge/indie/punk trio Naked Six may be a relatively new name to many Über Rock readers, but they have a pretty impeccable pedigree, given that frontman Seb Byford is the son of… well, his surname sort of gives it away doesn’t it? With their debut album, ‘Lost Art Of Conversation’, due for release on 6 March, Astrocreep took the opportunity to grab a chat with the lads and talk about same, their music, forthcoming tour dates and, perhaps most importantly, mango and passionfruit smoothies!
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A trip down from Liverpool to Birmingham for this weekend’s fourth iteration of HRH Metal started off with our travelling gigaholic planning to catch up with a mate prior to the festival, but then live music came to his attention, namely the pre-party in the HMV Vault… that was the plans altered, then! Time for the big lad to get into the groove…
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