Best of the Fest

The yearly punk festival in Blackpool has a tendency to come around quickly, although this could in part be to do with the fact that I’m not getting any younger and the hands of a clock now seem to spin faster than the dials on an Npower customer’s electricity meter.

Satisfaction is the Death of Desire

It’s nice to get to your first gig of the year in January and a cold, dark, winter’s evening is the perfect time to go and see a line-up of seven hardcore bands.

Blind Drunk Aggression

I have a kind of bucket list of bands I want to see live. At the top of this list for many years was the British thrash band, Acid Reign.

Blink and You'll Wish You'd Missed It

I've just listened to the latest Blink 182 album.

25% of Rebellion 2017

I'm sure my regular readers are waiting eagerly for my review of this year's Rebellion Festival in Blackpool. Well, some might be.

Purple Patch

It's far too hot for any outdoorsy pursuits today, so I'm taking the opportunity to sit inside with all the windows open and listen to some classic rock instead.

I Want to Be Stereotyped, I Want to Be Classified

The opportunity to see the Descendents play their one and only UK show of 2017 wasn't one I was about to pass up. Sadly plenty of others did as it was moved from the Brixton Academy to the smaller Kentish Town Forum due to poor ticket sales.