Category: Gig Reviews
Attic Theory/Bliss/White Lightning/Lucy Ellen/Róisín – Liverpool, Zanzibar Club – 19 April 2024
An evening of local entertainment for not just local people awaits, as Attic Theory finally get around to releasing their new album, ‘What We Fear The Most’. The Scouse groove rockers are formed from several older Liverpool bands, so full of experienced musicians, as well as having their own side project covering Stone Temple Pilots tracks, meaning it should be an absolute treat to hear live. Despite slightly bemoaning the 6.30pm first band, DJ Astrocreep headed down to check out all the acts.
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Grumpy Clown Tenth Anniversary Party – Crumlin, The Patriot – 13 April 2024
With grassroots venues closing at a rate of knots and local promoters pulling out of the local music scene, it makes a great change to find one of each who are bucking the trend and we at Über Rock try to support both of these when we can, all across the Überverse. After all, without these the future of live music is likely to mean just giant heritage bands playing giant stadia and charging highly inflated prices for the pleasure of their presence. Eventually these will stop touring and the underground music scene will be just that. Anyhow, tonight brought together two of the local promotors and venues that David O regularly makes the effort to support…
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Lordi/All For Metal – Amstelveen, P60 – 16 April 2024
There’s nothing like seeing a name like Lordi pop up doing a tour and you decide to stick a few nostalgic videos on YouTube and see “uploaded 17 years ago”to make you feel like you might as well go collect your pension, is there? Yeah, well, anyway Jase W was gonna throw the horns around a bunch this night because the lineup is more metal than your mum’s kettle. Lordi and his gruesome ensemble were tearing up P60 in Amstelveen supported by All For Metal, who our man saw at this same venue last year supporting Wind Rose. So i t promised to be a fun, wacky and above all, metal as fuck and a jolly good time to be had by all…
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Psydoll/Ingénue/Blood Of Achilles/The Kingdom Below – Manchester, Peer Hat – 8 April 2024
An eclectic dual-headline set in the Peer Hat basement on a night Monday saw solid opening sets from heavy-metal collective The Kingdom Below and prog-rock quartet Blood Of Achilles, followed by the energy and originality of Manchester-based rock group Ingénue and heavy psychedelia from Japanese two-piece Psydoll. A night of many directions, many musical influences, and myriad performances, the Peer Hat basement bounced accordingly along to these various powerful musical energies. Our Georgia reports on what went down…
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Beyond The Black/Ankor – Haarlem, Patronaat – 14 April 2024
If there’s many things Jase W could say about what happens on a weekend out in the Netherlands, being sunburnt in April probably isn’t one of them… but it happened anyway! So he dragged his rather pink looking self to a darkened room on a Sunday evening to get screamed at for a bit, as you do.
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Myrkur/Jonathan Hultén – Manchester, Academy 2 – 9 April 2024
Another visit to Manchester for the big lad by the name of DJ Astrocreep, this time to take in the traditional folk and black metal stylings of Myrkur, the stage name of Danish talent Amalie Braun. with a single, previously unknown support, there was likely to be a lot to learn and delight in through the evening.
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Hawkwind/Solstice – Manchester, Academy – 4 April 2024
Another chance to see the mighty Hawks live ws the prize for the big lad by the name of Astrocreep on another trip over to Manchester on a wet evening. While he’s now seen them on 17 occasions, the most Ihe’s watched any band live, they have a way of forever capturing both your imagination and holding your attention that makes them a repeated must see. A single support band are on the card in the form of Solstice, which should mean lots of guitar wankery of the finest calibre. Less than 20 songs between two bands and almost three hours of set time – yep, definitely a progressive gig!
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Myrkur/Jonathan Hultén – Utrecht, Tivoli Vredenburg – 7 April 2024
Alright to preface this, Jase W was absolutely knackered. He had covered quite a bit of distance this weekend but he’s a glutton for punishment and he wasn’t going to miss Myrkur doing a show in the next town over so here he was, ready to get his face blasted. Somehow he had missed Myrkur several times over the past few years, with a few appearances either in Manchester or ArcTanGent, but not this time! She’s playing Tivoli Vredenburg’s high up stage of Pandora but interestingly has absolutely flat out sold this venue out so the balcony is open – so our man doesn’t mind if he does! Anyway, it’s Myrkur with Jonathan Hultén in support and the stage appears to be extremely verdant, with various flora dotted around the stage.
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Spite/Bodysnatcher/Boundaries/Mouth For War – Antwerp, Trix – 6 April 2024
Sometimes Jase W genuinely asks himself ifhe’s mental but since moving to the continent he has found himself seeing just how far trains can get him for a weekend show. So, this past weekend he crossed the Dutch border to Antwerp for some proper angry metal, courtesy Spite, who caught his attention on the Thy Art Is Murder tour last year, along with Bodysnatcher, Boundaries and Mouth For War. This was going to be one of those shows where our man wouldl need to keep one eye on the crowd for errant legs and pints – but he’s seen how the Dutch go apeshit at shows, so now it’s time to see how the Belgians do it too!
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Thy Catafalque/The Answer Lies In The Black Void – Rotterdam, Baroeg – 5 April 2024
So, to preface this, Jase W found Thy Catafalque because the name sounded proggy. He doesn’t think there’s any shame in that but at least when he asked his friends if anyone was into them he got a pretty solid response back! So off he trotted to Rotterdam’s Baroeg for a night of some fancy pants metal.
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Casey/Mouth Culture – Utrecht, Tivoli Vredenburg – 2 April 2024
Jase W doesn’t think he has ever regretted doing leg day before a show more than he had this day when he realized that Casey’s show was on almost the top floor of Utrecht’s Tivoli Vredenburg, and while he’s perched in the venue , his legs are screaming a bit. Anyway enough bellyaching about stuff he did entirely to himself, it’s Tuesday, the clocks have gone forward, we’re in reasonable amounts of daylight hours now and our man about to see Casey with Mouth Culture so things could be worse….
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Catalysis/Nømadus/Frayed Ends BC – Belfast, Voodoo – 30 March 2024
One of the major downsides of working night shifts, especially in the hospitality sector, where weekends tend to be the busiest periods, is not being able to get to as many gigs as you would like. It often takes planning of almost military precision to arrange something as apparently simple as catching a few bands laying waste to your local pub… but, on this occasion, the stars aligned and a rare Saturday night off meant that Monk was able to climb those steep, narrow stairs for another night of in-yer-gob metal action.
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