Support bands are always interesting, and Kickstarter’s were no exception. Flunx were up first, a band who thought themselves to be the next Blink-182. Their characters were as different as the flavours in a bag of Revels: the guitarist was donned in a Superman costume, their lead singer had tunnels and tattoos, and their drummer…
Let me just start by suggesting that if you ever have the chance to see The Nightwatchman, the alter ego of Rage Against the Machine guitarist Tom Morrello, I implore you to seize the opportunity. I’ve never been entirely sure whether his album The Fabled City would really work live, or if it would just…
The last time I saw The Vaccines in Southampton they were playing in a tiny room upstairs at Unit, a small alternative nightclub on the Joiners side of town. As the majority of local indie fans assembled at Garden Court to watch Stornoway, the intrigued few crammed into the miniscule room eagerly awaiting a band…
Heavy metal titans Motörhead return to Southampton with their super-speed riffs, indulgent drum solos and whisky-tinged vocals.
The four-piece a cappella band return to Southampton, but fail to live up to expectations and past performances due to tech problems.
It’s not often that a Mercury-nominated band play at The Union, less than ten minutes walk from my house. So the night started with the least stressful journey to a gig ever, and my expectations were high for Wild Beasts’s performance. The band released their third album Smother this year, following the success of their…
An electric performance from the newly reformed glam-rock act.
Oxjam is Oxfam’s month-long music festival, running throughout the UK at many different venues raising money for charity. Let me start by saying I really wanted to enjoy this event. Like, really. I had high hopes. Having loved the music branch of Oxfam in Southampton, I was hoping to make the most of Southampton’s local music…
The four-piece band produce a refreshingly charismatic performance at the Guildhall.
Bowling for Soup are one of those bands with an infectious spirit. From the moment they walked onstage, their mission was to ensure that every member of the audience left with a massive smile plastered across their face. Opening with the song ‘I’m Gay’, they started the way they meant to go on — acting…
Joiners in Southampton is a small, unassuming venue that feels more like a local pub than an exciting venue for up-and-coming bands, yet its walls suggest otherwise, plastered with decade-old posters for acts such as Franz Ferdinand and Coldplay. By nine the place is by no means packed out, but is enjoying a positive hum…
Pennsylvania-born rapper Wiz Khalifa played one of his last gigs on the UK stint of his global tour at the Guildhall recently, promoting his latest album Rolling Papers. The crowd were given a massive build-up to his entrance, possibly leaving it a little too long between himself and the support act Yelawolf, but I was excited…
Ben UFO brings the future of dance music to Southampton.
As grey skies descended on northern London on Monday 10th October, a line of solemnity clung to a shadowy side alley of the HMV Forum in anticipation of Staind’s headline tour in support of their self-titled seventh effort. The veterans of the bygone grunge era arrived to a crowd of loyal lackeys dressed in their…