Category: Reviews

Pop Will Eat Itself

Old Fire Station, Bournemouth If you were a gigging music fan in the 1990’s chances are that you owned a T-shirt by Ned’s Atomic Dustbin, Carter USM, The Wonder Stuff or Pop Will Eat...

Stiff Little Fingers

The Brook, Southampton Northern Irish punk idols Stiff Little Fingers return to Southampton’s Brook as part of their annual UK Tour and tonight the venue is completely full with an expectant crowd who by...

Toyah

The Brook, Southampton Toyah Wilcox-singer, actress, TV personality. Just for tonight though it will be singer. Southampton’s Brook is playing host tonight as we take a trip down memory lane with the 30th Anniversary...

Scott Matthews

The Old Fire Station, Bournemouth I had only briefly heard of Scott Matthew previous to seeing him, knowing what I would say is he most popular song, ‘Elusive’, so was waiting to see what...

CD: “Nearly Done!” by The Martin Kitcher Band

“Somethings Got to Give” blatantly ‘borrows’ the guitar riff from the Monkees “Steppin’ Stone” but isn’t a bad LP opener. Whilst Nikky F reminds one of the Toy Dolls vocally! Devo (remember me) evokes...

Y&T/Stampede

The Brook, Southampton YT/A taste of vintage Classic Rock was the order of the night as we headed to one of Southampton’s premier live music venues, The Brook. Legendary hard rockers Y&T were in...

EP: “The First Collapse” by Deadlines

Deadlines are a 6 piece progressive metalcore band from Southampton which features ex members of Bury Tomorrow, Ghosts on Pegasus Bridge, In Her Ruin and Upon Distant Shores. With a fair number of talented...

Wheatus/Mc Frontalot/Math The Band/City Stereo

Mr Kyps, Poole I’m guessing that for a few people, tonight was a night for reminiscing, with Wheatus being one of those feel good bands whose most popular tracks such as Teenage Dirtbag were...

CD: “Megakill v.2 Turbo” by The Inciders

For fans of 2nd generation Punk this collection of songs is a ‘must hear’! Title track “Megakill v.2 Turbo” starts off with a sample then quickly progresses to a 90mph delivery of unintelligible lyrics...