Category - Live Zone

  It’s not often that a slice of Nashville finds its way into the backstreets of London. But city dwellers were in luck when a young rising star of the US...

      The 1960s probably spawned more distinctive and instantly recognisable British pop lead singers and soloists than any other decade. The voices...

  One thing is certain: There are a LOT of people releasing music and, to put it in the nicest possible way, the good stuff is by far outnumbered by the...

  This young Norwegian superstar-in-waiting gave her sold out Birmingham audience a masterclass in how to be yourself as an artist. And enjoy every last...

    The place was rammed, upstairs and downstairs; the capacity is 3,009, and many had already seen the band at least once on this 19-date tour. Gig...

  To say that post-hardcore band At The Drive-In have had a tumultuous relationship would be something of an understatement. Formed in 1994 in Texas, the...

    “I’m back with a bang” spits Wiley on his newest track “Been a While”, and he certainly was not lying. Kicking off in Dublin, his show in...

  So, here’s my Erasure story. A song played by the sixthformers on the bus, a furtively copied C90 passed in the playground. The Innocents. (I promise I...

    The Damned were always the band who put the fun into punk – 42 years later they are still doing just that. It was hard to define a punk...

  The people who braved the snow, the ice and the near-Arctic temperatures to pack the sold out Symphony Hall in Birmingham, paid top dollar to be sat in...

  “I love you Imelda”. That was yelled out at her several times during the Irish star’s triumphant sell-out gig at Leicester’s De Montfort...

  There’s a line I use sometimes which goes like this: Nostalgia’s not what it used to be, is it?” A rhetorical question, but it actually deserves an...

The most fun you can have legally, with your clothes on…The annual Bearded Theory Festival celebrated its 10th birthday in fine style this year, and...

    Tough one to write up, this review….Why? Because this festival was brand new, first year of what should have become and had all the...

  David Cameron wandering about deep in conversation with Bear Grylls. I suppose one could say they are both survivors of the extreme. Superstar Bryan...

    Fresh off the back of two sold out and triumphant performances at London’s iconic Royal Albert Hall, Tony Bennett brings his 90th birthday...

  Manchester band Cabbage describe themselves as an “idiosyncratic, satirical attack in the form of discordant neo post-punk”.  Verging on pretentious...

Sir Elton John was back to full heath and in fine form when he performed to a packed Genting Arena in Birmingham, the third show in a come-back after...

  Twenty Two, Anne Street, Dublin was the intimate venue chosen by The Coronas to preview their fifth studio album. “Trust The Wire” released...

  Birmingham’s O2 Academy is the ninth stop on Stormzy’s sold out 17 date U.K. and Ireland tour, following the release of his smash hit debut album “Gang...

Fresh off the success of hit single “All Time Low”, the remix of which features British grime sensation Stormzy, New-York-born rapper Jon Bellion has embarked...

  Mancunian five-piece Sonic Boom Six opened their “Do What You Wanna Do” tour last night (20th March 17) in Birmingham. Laila Khan on vocals...

  Elbow returned, and in style. It was the first of two sell out shows in Birmingham, and the crowds gathered early to experience a band, who usually play...

  Think Sum 41 are just an early noughties pop-punk band, still burning on the fuel of ‘that swimming pool video’? Think again. Following the success of...

  It is with high expectations that I arrive at the Academy in Dublin, to see The Answer on the opening night of this mini-tour.  A band that have been...

A close to sell-out main hall; ‘The Jim Marshall Auditorium’ saw blues roots band BabaJack kick-start their set with “Backdoor”, a rocking ‘cut to the chase’...

Manchester poet Mike Garry has been touring with ‘The Bard of Salford,’ John Cooper Clarke for six years. He spent 15 years as a librarian, as he told us;...

This weekend I mastered time travel – going back 35 years to the heady days of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal aka NWOBHM. Two days stuffed with 24 of the...

After the highs of Friday, day two has a lot to live up to. I was still trying to get used to the idea that, for an event based around acts that have been...

I’d been counting down the weeks/days/minutes/seconds looking forward to seeing Cadillac 3 and Tyler Bryant and The Shakedown; all sons of Nashville, Tennessee...