Tag: Delusional Silence
Ketos/Delusional Silence – Belfast, Voodoo – 26 April 2025
We’re not sure how many people realized how special this billing was, marking as it did a reunion of sorts… Not only were melodic thrashers Ketos returning to the stage for their first headline show in what seemed like donkey’s years, but they were sharing it with a band whom their vocalist also fronted for several years.
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Vendetta Love/Delusional Silence – Belfast, Voodoo – 13 July 2024
It had been more than a few hot minutes since we had reunited the ÜRHQ tag team and climbed the hallowed stairs of our favourite venue, but what better excuse to take a trip into the darkened heart of Belfast city’s back streets than this promisory note of a double bill, headlined by one of the most exciting young bands I have heard in a long time, making their first venture across the Irish border to the northern capital.
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Über Rock Introduces… Delusional Silence
Realistically, Delusional Silence should need no introduction to Northern Irish rock and metal fans as, in the pre-Covid era, they were one of the fastest rising, and hardest working, bands in this particular corner of the Überverse, their taut live performances quickly establishing them as fan favourites no matter where they appeared on a bill… But, just as they were building some serious momentum, the pandemic hit and stopped the entire world dead in it’s tracks. Then, just as light appeared at the end of post-apocalyptic tunnel, the band hit another massive road block, with the loss of first their drummer and then charismatic lead singer Phil Ashe… Well, the band are back – and in fine style, with a new line-up, a new single and a new sense of purpose., as Monk exclusively reveals:
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So Long Long Until The Séance/Art Rats/Delusional Silence/EB And The Deadlights – Belfast, Voodoo – 31 October 2021
It’s Halloween. The night when the ghouls come out to play. And the blood-soaked schoolgirls. And the bananas (although, to be fair, that’s most nights in Belfast city centre!). But, what better night for Belfast resident horror punks to launch their brand new, ÜR-approved, second album, released on this very same day? It’s also “Freedom Night”, the first on which the remaining restrictions on Northern Ireland’s pubs and clubs have been lifted – just a full four months after the rest of the Über Kingdom – and so the whole place is going buck daft with excitement and for the first time in seemingly forever we are greeted with the sight of a queue stretching halfway down the street for this, the first full-capacity, fully-standing gig to be held in Belfast since March 2020.
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The Über Rock Singles Club – November’s Newbies
The latest edition of the Singles Club is now open for business, with the bar fully stocked and the jukebox loaded with a baker’s dozen of the finest tracks to have crossed our death decks over the past couple of weeks. Once again, it’s a diverse bunch, touching a range of styles, so let’s jump straight in and hit “play” shall we? Oh, OK, seeing as you insist…
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HRH Highway to Hell X – Sheffield, O2 Academy – 30 August 2019
It’s Friday night at the O2 Academy in Sheffield. Hard Rock Hell are staging their Highway to Hell talent search final. The winner will be given the chance to take their careers to another level. Jonni Davis has got Amazon Prime on board and HRH are streaming live to a worldwide audience. This is the type of event the scene needs, ensuring that a steady stream of new talent are given the sort of exposure that is often denied to rock bands by the mainstream media.
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