Simon Arinze

It’s the Easter bank holiday weekend, what more of an excuse can you need for a day filled with live music. We spent our Saturday down at Gloucester’s Guildhall for an ‘Alt All Dayer’ put on by your friendly neighbourhood alternative market trader come live music promotor, The Dark Corner. The live music kicked off in the early afternoon with performances from AUBS THE KID  (featuring IDLE HANDS ), THE UNDECIDED , ECHOES OF OBSIDIAN , BLACKLISTED MC , HOLLOW RITUAL  and DEATH IS A GIRL ; all...

Getting the crowd started at the Utilita Arena in Cardiff, all the way from Perth, Australia, were metalcore outfit MAKE THEM SUFFER . Initially the band looked a little small in comparison to the size of the stage that they had to play with. But that feeling abated by the time they hit the first breakdown in Ghost Of Bones . Frontman Sean Harmanis  is a Duracell Bunny of intensity and he spent the whole time darting back and forth between the gloomy corner that Alex Reade ’ keyboard was set...

London’s O2 Academy Islington played host to a night of power and symphony as the “Pirates & Kings” co-headline tour between VISIONS OF ATLANTIS  and WARKINGS  (also with INDUCTION  in tow) stopped by for the second and final night of the tour’s UK leg. Sadly, a delay to doors opening and bottle-necked nature of the entrance meant that when Italian/German/Finnish Symphonic metal outfit, INDUCTION , took to the stage at their advertised time (just thirty minutes after the doors should have...