STONEDEAD FESTIVAL
STONEDEAD FESTIVAL MARKET TOWNS are plentiful in our region, but nearby Newark has other attributes, namely being home to an annual one stage one day rock extravaganza that is Stonedead Festival. With the usual between band story telling and witticisms from host...
DEF LEPPARD SHEFFIELD ARENA
DEF LEPPARD SHEFFIELD ARENA PACKING out large sheds like Sheffield Arena wasn’t even a dream back in 1977. In fact, some sheds didn’t even exist! Not many bands had the vision, good fortune or the staying power to get there. Def Leppard have, and have stayed...
THE SENSATIONAL ALEX HARVEY EXPERIENCE
THE SENSATIONAL ALEX HARVEY EXPERIENCE LOCAL FOLKLORE is an interesting topic, especially when music is involved, as decades ago The Sensational Alex Harvey Band hit the stage at The Northwood Club, Darly Dale near Matlock, along with others from that era....
UNFORGIVEN SMITHFIELD DERBY
UNFORGIVEN SMITHFIELD DERBY SUNDAY is never the best of days to view bands, especially around tea-time, so dragging myself down to Derby’s Smithfield was done with a certain amount of effort. Yet bizarrely, this weekly gathering attracts many people,...
MARIJA KONS ABBEYDALE LIVE SHEFFIELD
MARIJA KONS ABBEYDALE LIVE SHEFFIELD WITH glorious weather, the scene was more than set for this popular multi-venue, street-wide, Sheffield festival that runs for two days in April. Starting at The Broadfield on Abbeydale Road, I checked out Marija Kons and her...
MASSIVE WAGONS HOLMFIRTH PICTURE DOME
MASSIVE WAGONS HOLMFIRTH PICTURE DOME BEING BLUNT and coming straight to the point, Massive Wagons, with seven albums under their collective belts, should be just that, Massive! I grasp music has changed, but many of the big gangs from the past had climbed the ‘big...
HEADSTICKS REAL TIME LIVE CHESTERFIELD
HEADSTICKS REAL TIME LIVE CHESTERFIELD WHENEVER you see a band, it’s always worth catching the support slot, as I did on Scottish rockers Peat & Diesel’s tour last year. So when that particular support announced a UK tour, Headsticks became a calling. Hailing...
BURDOCK MAREHAY MINERS WELFARE RIPLEY
BURDOCK MAREHAY MINERS WELFARE RIPLEY KNOCKING OUT eighteen songs with no guitar changes, playing your first gig in nearly a decade to a packed house was a treat for not only this popular local foursome, but the masses too. Opener D D Debbie and Can’t...
SAXON SHEFFIELD OCTAGON
SAXON SHEFFIELD OCTAGON YORKSHIRE, as many know, has over time produced scores of fine bands, with none finer than Barnsley boys Saxon. Formed back in the late seventies, they rightly command respect and always deliver; with over twenty albums released and the next...
