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Covet/Colossal Squid – Manchester, Deaf Institute – 23 August 2022

Not exactly one to let a band get away with just the seldom gig when they’re around, Jase W last week followed Covet back to Manchester’s Deaf Institute and with Colossal Squid in tow. It’s also worth noting that this show had one of the biggest queues our resident gigaholic has seen outside Deaf Institute for a really long time, so we’ve got a pretty packed show tonight!

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Ithaca – ‘They Fear Us’ (Hassle Records)

Rarely does a band suddenly get talked about so much in Jase W’s social circles so quickly like Ithaca has. He’s known of these guys for a reasonable length of time, but the lead up to the new album ‘They Fear Us’ has somehow managed being the subject of so many of his friends’ lips that it’s actually pretty amazing. Not only that but seeing posters for this forthcoming release splattered all over multiple festival walls in the lead up was also very noticeable.

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Shinedown – ‘Planet Zero’ (Atlantic)

Another chance to see Shinedown at Download 2022 was an opportunity for David O’Neill to see if any new music from the forthcoming album was going to be played. Kicking off with ‘The Saints Of Violence And Innuendo’, the only other track was the title track, ‘Planet Zero’. So this was his chance to once again review the new release by the Florida foursome of Smith, Kerch, Myers and Bass.

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