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The Chats/Just Mustard – Belfast, Limelight 2 – 20 August 2019

The Chats/Just Mustard – Belfast, Limelight 2 – 20 August 2019

Posted by | Aug 22, 2019 | ,

Do you ever get the feeling that a gig has been both oversold and undersold in equal measure? Well, it could be argued that this was the case with this, the debut visit by rising young Aussie punks The Chats to ÜR’s home city for a one-off headline show in advance of their appearances at the Leeds and Reading festivals this coming weekend (never fear though, they’ll be back in the Über Kingdom at the end of the year for a full tour). What does the man known as Monk mean? Well, despite it being a reasonably inclement Tuesday night, this, the smaller of the two venues in Belfast’s Limelight complex, was rammed to the rafters, and beyond, suggesting that the gig quite possibly could have been moved to the larger one…

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Psyence – ‘Psyence’ (Voodoo 7 Records)

Psyence – ‘Psyence’ (Voodoo 7 Records)

Posted by | Aug 21, 2019 | ,

A few years into a heavy gigging career, Stoke-on-Trent psych-rockers Psyence have finally just released their debut album. A few years ago, our resident gigaholic caught them live on a bill, though his own heavy gigging lifestyle means Ihe can’t put a finger on exactly when… but anyway, we digress. They’ve garnered a well-earned reputation for their live performances, so the big lad was quite eager to see how well this would be captured in a sterile studio setting…

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New Model Army – ‘From Here’ (earMUSIC)

New Model Army – ‘From Here’ (earMUSIC)

Posted by | Aug 21, 2019 | ,

Springing the news upon fans, New Model Army, back in May, suddenly approached social media with an announcement. This being, the official statement of an upcoming album, ‘From Here’. Alongside this, the band wrote a message, explaining the album will be written and recorded in just two months and nine days in total. As well as describing the album to be different in a way, to any past material they have produced. It is fair to say that this news alone, injected excitement into fans.

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Elvenking – ‘Reader Of The Runes – Divination’ (AFM)

Elvenking – ‘Reader Of The Runes – Divination’ (AFM)

Posted by | Aug 21, 2019 | ,

Jonny Bakes reckons that if you were to try and write down the “Big Four” of folk metal, it’s very possible that you might overlook Elvenking, the long standing Italian exponents of the genre. But to do so would be to miss out on a pretty great example of the genre who even like to throw the odd curveball of a cover out there too (You want a folk metal cover of Belinda Carlisle’s ‘Heaven is a Place on Earth’? They bring it).

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Danny Vaughn/Tom Harte – Ahoghill, Diamond Rock Club – 17 August 2019

Danny Vaughn/Tom Harte – Ahoghill, Diamond Rock Club – 17 August 2019

Posted by | Aug 21, 2019 | ,

Regular ÜR readers will know only too well that one of Monk’s pet hates at gigs, and especially acoustic/unplugged shows, is people who think the sound of their own voices is more important than that of the artist on stage whom both they and everyone else present has paid to actually hear. On the day of this, the Tyketto frontman Danny Vaughn’s return to this particular corner of the Überverse, social media had been jammed with complaints about such discourteous behaviour at previous shows, and particularly that in Scotland the previous evening, something which was addressed by the singer himself at the very outset of this particular show – but, we’ll come back to that in a bit…

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