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49 WINCHESTER, WYATT FLORES @ O2 INSTITUTE, BIRMINGHAM 11/10/2025
REVIEW: ATLUS – SECONDHAND SMOKE (2025)
ONES WE MISSED 2025: THE WANDERING HEARTS – DE JA VU (WE’VE ALL BEEN HERE BEFORE)
PARADISE LOST, MESSA, HIGH PARASITE @ KK’S STEEL MILL, WOLVERHAMPTON 10/10/2025
BAND OF THE DAY: ALFONSO CONSPIRACY
The Dregs/Bite Back/The Gakk – The Swinging Arm, Birkenhead 27th November 2022
Gigs
December 9, 2022
This is a gem of a place dedicated to live music and the staff were great. It made we wish I had visited sooner,...
REVIEW: DC Spectres – Volume 4 – 2022
Reviews
October 24, 2022
It seems a long time since those gigs at the Wagon with DC Spectres and they have come a long way, still gigging regularly...
Dead Hombres and Year Zero – Tower of Song, Birmingham,16th October 2022
Gigs
October 24, 2022
This is the first time I have visited this Venue which until recently was a folk club but now revamped as a great intimate...
COCKNEY REJECTS, KNOCK OFF, THE DREGS @ QUEEN’S HALL, NUNEATON 24/06/2022
Gigs
July 3, 2022
This is a great venue with a wonderful set up in terms of facilities, sound and the staff are first class. This is the...
Album Review – Year Zero – Brace for Impact – 2021
Reviews
January 26, 2022
This one almost passed me by and is the debut album from midlands based punk band Year Zero and builds on their excellent EP...
Review – Alice’s Ants, You Want Fox, Diablo Furs, Jades @ Percy’s Café Bar – Whitchurch – 19th November 2021
Gigs
November 29, 2021
I must admit I think this place is a hidden gem and should be an example to other venues for their commitment to live...
Q AND A WITH: TOM SPENCER FROM THE PROFESSIONALS
Interviews
November 15, 2021
The Professionals recently released "Snafu" - an album our Andy reckoned made them sound "like the last gang in town". Here, Steve catches up...
Ruts DC/Year Zero, Nuneaton Queens Hall – 12th September 2021
Gigs
September 20, 2021
Year Zero First up tonight are midlands based old style punk band Year Zero. As far as I understand this is their first time out...
LONDON CALLING, BORROWED TIME @ HARE AND HOUNDS 14/03/2020
Gigs
March 19, 2020
I first saw borrowed time at Rebellion a few years ago and was impressed with their energy and great set so it was a...
REVIEW: WIRE – MIND HIVE (2020)
Reviews
February 11, 2020
The is a strong well produced album and to be honest I haven’t been able to stop listening to it. Wire have been challenging...
WIRE @ HARE AND HOUNDS, BIRMINGHAM 29/01/2020
Gigs
February 1, 2020
As I enter the packed room I am immediately confronted by Graham Duff who I know has done many things in his career but...
REVIEW: KILLING JOKE – MALICIOUS DAMAGE LIVE AT THE ASTORIA (2019)
Reviews
September 15, 2019
Having first seen Killing Joke in 1980 at the Cedar Club in Birmingham and then seeing then on their recent tour at the Institute...
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