Category: Gig Reviews

Washing Machine – Bury St Edmunds, The Hunter Club – 16 March 2024

What do you do when you go for a weekend away to have a catch up with some friends? Look for a gig, of course, especially if live music is as vital to your life as it is to DJ Astrocreep. To the uninitiated, as was the big lad until gig night, Washing Machine is a showcase night in Bury St Edmunds, with this evening’s edition featuring five varied acts. The venue itself is a small room with great sound and welcoming aura, so it’s a quick drink and time for the bands just after arrival.

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Enuff Z’Nuff/Zach Waters Band/Dead Addiction – Belfast, Voodoo – 16 March 2024

There has been an awful lot of discussion on various social media platforms recently about advance ticket sales for gigs, and particularly the effect a poor performance in that regard can have a serious impact on promoters’ collective and individual abilities to stage said shows. It’s an extremely complex situation, with multiple factors having to be considered, and one not helped by fuel being added to the fire by so-called industry “insiders” adding their ill-informed and ill-judged (and in some cases extremely inaccurate) tuppence worth to the debate… Tonight’s gig was just one example of the maelstrom in which far too many promoters find themselves, particularly in this little corner of the Überverse…

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Skindred/P.O.D/As Everything Unfolds – Manchester, Academy – 14 March 2024

In this current modern landscape of metal music, diversity has slowly started to shine in every aspect, whether it be Spiritbox reaching new highs at Reading and Leeds or most notably Skindred recently winning a MOBO award for Best Alternative Act. The scene has begun to enter a golden era, and the latter arrived at Manchester Academy to double down and show why they wholeheartedly deserved their MOBO accolade.

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Pest Control – Manchester, Star & Garter – 23 February 2024

To say that Pest Control has had a tight grip on the hardcore scene since their performances at Bloodstock and Outbreak festival last year would be an understatement. After all a crossover thrash band has the freedom to amplify their impact through multiple choices of sonic and live performances. Whether it be through supporting Obituary last year or being a part of BOOM’s Save Our Home Festival alongside hardcore and post hardcore powerhouses the likes of Static Dress and Higher Power, it come as no surprise that a show of this calibre at such an iconic DIY venue had been sold out since last October.

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TesseracT/Unprocessed/The Callous Daoboys – Manchester, O2 Ritz – 24 February 2024

The O2 Ritz has always been a staple venue in Manchester due to its ease of viewing from any given position, its bouncy floors and excellent sound and PA. This notably makes it a perfect venue for metal gigs, especially the more progressive subgenres. After all it comes as no surprise that the venue has seen bands the likes of Bad Omens, Amity Affliction, and as of recent, TesseracT with Unprocessed and the fantastic mathcore upcomers The Callous Daoboys.

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Nothing More – Bristol, SWX – 17 February 2024

This was part two of the delayed review writing from two very different but no less impressive recent gigs attended by our man in South Wales.  The first time Dave O saw Nothing More was in the Motorpoint in Cardiff in 2018 when they supported BFMV. That was a very impressive performance with Jonny Hawkins “driving” the mechanized Scorpion.  Whilst this is not our valley correspondent’s usual genre of music, these are one of the “alt-rock” “prog metal” bands he will try to see if they are in the South Wales area – or just across the Bristol Channel for that matter!.

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Yonaka/Noisy/Mimi Barks – Amsterdam, Melkweg – 3 March 2024

There’s nothing like a bit of slightly weird Brit rock to kick off March with a bang, Yonaka wre hitting Melkweg’s Oz stage and Jase W was super buzzed that he got to catch them again after Download festival a while back. Armed with a new album, ‘Welcome To My House’ and two supports, Mimi Barks and Noisy, it looked like this one might be a bit of a late finish but also one to send him to bed with his head replaying ‘As I’m Trying To Sleep’: could be worse we suppose!

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