#uk gigs

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Tonight alive being literal angels at Manchester Academy on 02/04/17

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EMERALD AQUARIUM: FULL BAND SHOW!

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Tickets are now available for APOLLO AUDIO PRESENTS XXIV at Apollo Audio, Hertford on Friday 19th September 2025 at 7:30PM. Click the link f

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Weirds - Spring shows and Wytches support

Weirds to begin March 2017 shows! Get yourself down to the Picture House Social on Abbeydale Road tomorrow to witness Weirds begin their tour in Sheffield. Weirds are a psyche-meets-grunge band hailing from Leeds. Mixing modern psyche with early 90s alt, they pack plenty of fuzz without compromising on melody and catchy tunes. Following their Sheffield show on the 17th of March, Weirds are moving…

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“Exodus are very excited about returning to the UK!!”

http://metalhobbitspeaks.blogspot.co.uk/2017/02/exodus-announce-two-download-festival.html

Check out the feature Metal Hobbit Speaks posted about Exodus.

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Gig Review: Glass Animals, Manchester Academy 2 26/10/16

Gigs usually open with one of the band’s best or most recognisable tunes, but the peculiar Glass Animals, of course, chooses to make a entrance by blitzing through the 36-second spoken-word ‘Premade Sandwiches’. Before the crowd could recover from the delightful shock, we were swept up into the pounding folk drumbeat of ‘Life Itself’ and the tender but equally energetic ‘Youth’. The glistening sounds and fierce vibrance of How To Be A Human Being were perfectly complemented by the oozing sinuousness of earlier album Zaba, which had people shaking and snaking their bodies, with wrists twirling in their air to the smooth groove of ‘Hazey’ and ‘Black Mambo’. Onstage, frontman Dave Bayley danced most marvellously, hitting the beats with angular shapes and abandon.

(Photo by Jon Stone)

Musical interludes were fresh and varied, from sparse, ambient introductions for quieter numbers to rock guitar solos, showcasing their wide palette of sound colour. Despite their extensive sampling and electronic sounds, never once did they rely on a backing track. Everything was live and alive. Tentative synths eventually led to the opening lyrics of ‘Gooey’, and the collective thrill at its familiarity was palpable. This rendition was heavier and harder-edged than the single’s cooing roundedness on the album, which was not to my preference, but it demonstrated the band’s inventiveness and ability as live performers. Zaba’s lesser-known songs, though no less enjoyable, were perhaps harder to sing along and respond to, with the many of the lyrics being a tangle of nonsense poetry.

 I’d like to think that lyrics of How To Be A Human Being work differently, each song weaving a profound real-life narrative that, when chorused by the euphoric throng, evoked a wild pathos. Mostly centred around one character’s affection for another, the stories of the songs are complex and often fraught with distress and helplessness that belie their glitter. Perhaps this is difficult to grasp fully without reading the lyrics, and some of it is very deep and dark – “It hits my head and I feel numb/ My body's looking wrong” on ‘This Side of Paradise’ are the thoughts of a basketball superstar’s lover as she kills herself. It’s an idealistic thought but I do believe that the act of singing drew us closer to these other lives. Being a part of that collective emotional experience, one person in the multitude singing together, surging to the same beat – this alone felt like magic, a celebration of human connectedness and life itself.

  Glass Animals saved two of their most popular songs for last: ‘Season 2 Episode 3’ had everyone singing to its cute video-game hooks and nearly all its lines, especially relishing “My girl eats mayonnaise/ from a jar when she’s getting blazed.” There were calls for ‘Pork Soda’ right after, and what a stunning performance this one was. Beginning by whipping up a handclap rhythm in the audience (nicely corresponding to the setting of the song in city streets), Dave raised a pineapple (‼) above his head to the refrain “Pineapples are in my head/ Got nobody cause I’m brain dead”. An instrumental outro with a brilliant keyboard part repeatedly built up to several false climaxes, before giving the last real one everything. This artful, gloriously manic finish alone made their somewhat short set forgivable, and we left a little dizzy from it all.

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Breaking Benjamin, 27th May 2016, @Koko, London, UK

I feel the need to spread the word... if you’re a UK Breaking Benjamin fan like me (and bloody well have been for 12 years) you will know how important this is. Benjamin Burnley won’t tour abroad, because he is mortally afraid of flying. So you know what they did? They booked a fucking BOAT and are coming across the Atlantic for a European tour, with ONE UK date (apart from a low-bill appearance at Download Festival). Finally our chance to get in a room with these guys and celebrate the music we’ve been loving for so many years, with people who feel this just as much.

Right now, if you go to Ticketmaster and look them up, the tickets are unavailable, but if you access the tickets via this Facebook event page, you will get access to early-buy fan club tickets. The VIP packages are far too expensive for me, but I now have a receipt for two tickets to the show in my sticky mitts, and it’s the most exciting day of my life.

Go. GO! Buy tickets. Come with me, and scream along like we’ve wanted to for way too long.

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Calling London Neutral Milk Hotel fans

No lie, some of my friends are in a Neutral Milk Hotel tribute band, and are doing a gig for charity tomorrow night!

Here’s the facebook event for it: https://www.facebook.com/events/1475270722784999/

You might as well fulfill your indie destiny and come, if you can. Dw you don’t have to talk to me.