Author: Keith Tracy

REVIEW: SOLAR EYES – LIVE FREAKY! DIE FREAKY! (2025)

Reviews
Birmingham`s psychedelic cosmic explorers Solar Eyes who comprise of Glenn Smyth and Sebastian Maynard Francis release their second album, 'Live Freaky! Die Freaky!` this month. The album has a kind of loose concept running through it...

REVIEW : WAYWARD VINE  – THE FALL (2025)

News
Wayward Vine is an indie-folk Americana project whose core is Valerie Rachel (vocals, violin, keyboards, Hammond organ, and tambourine) and Greg Lawrence (vocals, guitar, percussion, harmonica). The duo explore themes of heartbreak, obsession, and the wide range...

EMPYRE, BASTETTE @ GIFFARD ARMS, WOLVERHAMPTON 18/06/2022

Gigs
From the days when the Reading Festival was a proper rock festival, through the transformation of Monsters of Rock into Download, the festival scene...

OMD @ SYMPHONY HALL, BIRMINGHAM 6/11/2019

Gigs
If, 40 years ago, you'd told either Andy McCluskey or I that I’d be sitting in Symphony Hall watching OMD play to a sold out...

REVIEW: GASOLINE OUTLAWS – GASOLINE OUTLAWS (2019)

Reviews
Over my many years I’ve ignored a fair number of bands based purely on the band name and that old adage to never judge...

REVIEW: GRETA VAN FLEET – ANTHEM OF THE PEACEFUL ARMY (2018)

Reviews
It’s hard to think of a band in the last decade or so that in rock circles comes more hyped than Greta Van Fleet,...

REVIEW: POETS OF THE FALL – ULTRAVIOLET (2018)

Reviews
I am fairly sure that each one of us at some point in our lives has looked at our album collection and wondered how...

RAMBLIN’ MAN FAIR, MOTE PARK, MAIDSTONE

Gigs
Right, let’s get the basics out of the way. This is not a band by band review because it’s impossible to see them all,...

BROTHER FIRETRIBE – ACTRESS AND BISHOP, BIRMINGHAM 12/06/2018

Gigs
Life is full of surprises. Some are good, some leave you in tears. There are some surprises upon which you reflect that it’s pretty...

FOREIGNER @SYMPHONY HALL, BIRMINGHAM 15/05/2018

Gigs
Editors note: Two of MV's reviewers were both at the same gig last night. They both decided to spend their hard-earned money on Foreigner,...

MAGNUM, REBECCA DOWNES @SYMPHONY HALL, BIRMINGHAM 20/04/2018

Gigs
The irony of the March concert at The Town Hall being frozen and snowed off only to be rearranged for what has turned out...

FALLEN STATE, LIBERTY LIES, PSYCHO VILLAGE @ACADEMY 3, BIRMINGHAM 5/4/2018

Gigs
The older I get, and believe me I’m incredibly old, the more perplexing certain questions seem to become.  Let me give you some examples. Olives. ...

Steven Wilson @ Symphony Hall, Birmingham 22/3/2018

Gigs
Who needs drugs when you can have your mind blown by the King of Prog? Should you mention the name of Steven Wilson to a...

ANVIL @ROBIN 2, BILSTON 20/02/2018

Gigs
Keith goes to the Black Country to watch Anvil do what Anvil do There was a period of time not that long ago (in the...
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