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Clutch/The Picturebooks/The Inspector Cluzo – Birmingham, Academy – 21 December 2018

Clutch/The Picturebooks/The Inspector Cluzo – Birmingham, Academy – 21 December 2018

Posted by | Jan 13, 2019 | , |

Twitter seemed to explode on 20 December as it seemed every member of the rock press bore witness to something a fair few have known for a while; Clutch absolutely kill it live and have never been on finer form. It’s been a long road for the band – now celebrating 27 years with the same line-up – but it finally looks like they have found their rightful place in the sun in 2018. Not only has their latest record ‘Book of Bad Decisions’ earned massive critical acclaim (including being our very own Album Of The Year), but the band have embarked on their biggest Euro tour to date, the massive Brixton Academy show sending shockwaves across Twitter. As such, the atmosphere was buzzing as the band roll into Birmingham’s O2 Academy for the final date of the year, promising sweet grooves and righteous fury to cap off a year which feels like it desperately needed more of both throughout.

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The BIG Über Rock Interview – Def Con One

The BIG Über Rock Interview – Def Con One

Posted by | Jan 12, 2019 | , |

It may be only January, but it’s hard to believe that the festival season is already just around the corner, kicking off with the third iteration of the HRH Metal shebang in the global capital of the genre – that’s Birmingham, mofos – next month. As part of the build up to the 2019 instalment of the annual celebration of the heavier end of the rock ‘n roll spectrum, Linzi A dialled up the ÜRHQ hotline to Newcastle-Upon-Tyne for a chat with the gentlemen from Def Con One, to find out about where they are now and where they are going in the near future (well, apart from down the motorway to the Midlands, of course!).

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