Live Reviews

While She Sleeps seem as if they’ve undergone a transformation since taking control of their own destiny with their previous album 'You Are We'. It’s a preconception that does this band a disservice. Shows like this aren’t born out of being the hot thing right now. They come from lighting a burning fire in the heart of your fans. 'SO WHAT?' is just the latest piece of fuel used to fan the flame, and we celebrated with the band on the Glasgow leg of their tour.

As It Is kicked off their Intimate Depression Tour in Bournemouth with support coming from Modern Error. We took a trip down to the first night of tour in Bournemouth - as their first UK show of the year would it leave us with smiles on our faces?

Over 10,000 metal fans descend upon one of the nations most revered venues tonight to witness a moment of history, as Aussie metalcore heroes Parkway Drive headline the biggest show of their illustrious career.

Following the surprise release of their sixth studio album ‘The Spark That Moves’ Cancer Bats are back in the UK for an intimate tour, flagged by Scottish metallers Bleed From Within and Nepalese metalcore act Underside.

This year Snow Patrol are celebrating their 25th anniversary as a band. In that time they've released seven studio albums and spread their music across the globe, and their live show is just one more reason they’ve achieved such success. We took a trip to the Bournemouth date of their Wildness tour in celebration of their latest release, and with support from Roe and Kodaline the packed out venue was in for a Sunday night treat.

Last year, Aussie quartet The Faim released their debut EP Summer Is A Curse. After a line-up reshuffle, they’ve started off the new year with their debut UK headline tour, beginning with a sold-out Southampton Joiners. Joined by Chapel and Halflives, we went down to watch them kick-off the tour in style.

Enter Shikari are objectively one of the best bands at being a great band in the UK. Possibly the world. They have been for a long time, and it doesn’t seem set to change anytime soon.

One of the most anticipated tours of recent times, Architects set out on their biggest headline run to date in support of 2018's album 'Holy Hell'. Joined by Beartooth and Polaris we eagerly made our way to Cardiff Motorpoint Arena for a night of chaos.

These kind of shows have been a long time coming for Bury Tomorrow. The band’s sincerity and passion has never been in doubt, and yet it’s been a consistently bumpy ride to success for them. Perhaps that’s part of why this current run of show feels so triumphant: Bury Tomorrow got here through sheer perseverance and being better than their peers. No gimmicks, no lucky timing, not really any haircuts to speak of. Just pure graft.

The cult status of A Perfect Circle is only enhanced by the band’s detached attitude to their fans. You can come to see them if you want, but if you didn’t they wouldn’t care and they’d still play a great show all the same. Which is probably true. Despite the band’s rare periods of activity, this is a band whose class and musicianship puts most other bands to shame.