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Foo Fighters, Twenty One Pilots, The 1975 for Reading & Leeds
Reading & Leeds Festivals today reveals Foo Fighters, Twenty One Pilots, The 1975 and Post Malone as its 2019 headliners - and just four of twenty-two names announced to play at Reading’s famous Richfield Avenue and Leeds’ legendary Bramham Park next August bank...
Cambridge Folk Festival 2019 With Lucinda Williams, Tunng & Richard Thompson
Cambridge Folk Festival has announced the first 15 names confirmed for 2019’s line-up, with legendary artists joining relative newcomers to take to the stages of Cherry Hinton Hall. Kicking off proceedings and headlining Thursday night on Stage 2 will be Ralph McTell...
Skinny Lister Give Us 38 Minutes
Skinny Lister are back and for all you Skinny fans who have been missing them, they plan to kick of 2019 in their own enigmatic style If Skinny Lister’s intriguingly titled new album sounds like something of pick’n’mix of assorted tales ready to share with you, well...
Reel Big Fish Skanking On Halloween @ Forum, Kentish Town
Halloween, the night where witches, ghosts and other ghouls come out of their caves to celebrate the darkest and coldest months to come... But wait! In London, a bunch of friends from sunny California and Florida came to fight the evil spirits. Rockshot Magazine went...
Public Service Broadcasting Live At The Royal Albert Hall
It must be great being in Public Service Broadcasting. You’re sufficiently anonymous that you can walk about without being bothered by the general public. You make and perform music entirely on your terms. This means, in moves that would make the average record...
The Sheepdogs Live: Rounding Up The Borderline Faithful
It’s kind of weird when an artist that is massive on one side of the Atlantic is relatively unknown on the other. Show a North American a Blur, Stereophonics or Kasabian CD and you’ll likely get confused shrugs. Conversely, an (ironically English) band such as The...
Counting Crows Celebrate 25 Years And Counting At BluesFest
There are only two types of musicians. There are those who believe that, once it's recorded, a song’s finished. And there are those who believe that a song’s never done. Bob Dylan, for one, has spent the past 50 years out on the road reimagining his back catalogue to...
Hero Fisher Interview: Strong Women, Self-Belief & Dreamlike Place Called Glue Moon.
When I meet Hero Fisher in a bar in East London’s Brick Lane, it doesn’t take long to realise she’s a force to be reckoned with. It’s subtle; more zephyr than full-blown storm but it’s palpable. She’s smart, funny and expressive; the words she speaks should definitely...
Nic Cester Interview: A Psychedelic Sugar Rush Hits The Streets Of Soho
Meeting Nic Cester, I’m not sure what I expected. All I knew of him was all that my twenty-two years of life has allowed me to: he was the lead singer and songwriter from Jet, the band that wrote Are You Gonna Be My Girl, otherwise known as that song that everyone,...
Iconic Artist Images Exhibition By Norman Seeff At Proud Galleries, London
Running from 23rd November until 13th January 2019 Proud Galleries have another brilliant exhibition entitled Sessions In Sound: Photographs By Norman Seeff, an intimate collection of Seeff’s acclaimed photographic sessions featuring influential 20th Century musical...
Iridesce Don’t Look Back On Rise (Curtain Call)
By looking back, Iridesce have found a new beginning. While working on a new acoustic version of their single Rise, premiering on RockShot Mag today, the London-based alternative-rock band were reminded of what really matters: the songs themselves....
Ennor The English West Coast Beach Boys
It was the Beach Boys who became famous for songs about the west coast of America. Ennor are doing the same in 2018, however their west coast is more rugged and dramatic. In its title alone, Ennor’s West Coast forms a suggestive link between their roots in the south...
Skinny Lister Give Us 38 Minutes
Skinny Lister are back and for all you Skinny fans who have been missing them, they plan to kick of 2019 in their own enigmatic style If Skinny Lister’s intriguingly titled new album sounds like something of pick’n’mix of assorted tales ready to share with you, well...
Hopes For An Extensive Queen Revival
Recently we have seen the release of a film that could be one of the best music-related movies in years. Bohemian Rhapsody will tell the story of Queen’s rise to success, and more specifically the journey of legendary frontman Freddie Mercury. By all accounts it will...
Iridesce Don’t Look Back On Rise (Curtain Call)
By looking back, Iridesce have found a new beginning. While working on a new acoustic version of their single Rise, premiering on RockShot Mag today, the London-based alternative-rock band were reminded of what really matters: the songs themselves....
Maggie Rogers Takes Heard It In A Past Life On The Road
Following a busy summer, which included putting on dazzling displays touring with HAIM and playing two sold out headline shows at Camden’s KOKO venue, Maryland-born, New York-based singer-songwriter Maggie Rogers has announced a massive European headline tour...
BlogtoberFest 2018 With Babyteeth, Ennor & Lavender Hills In Photography
Rockshot Magazine hosted a night of new music played for the third year at Lost In The Manor's great festival #BlogtoberFest 2018. 31 nights of music from online taster makers and influencers. On the bill for us this year were Ennor, Lavender Hills and Babyteeth....
Swinging From Wooden Beams At London Tattoo Convention
London Tattoo Convention is an annual event which celebrates not only the great history and art of tattooing but also another side of life, for the slightly more curious, possibly naughty, but most definitely the creative, daring person in all of us. You’ll find...
Foo Fighters, Twenty One Pilots, The 1975 for Reading & Leeds
Reading & Leeds Festivals today reveals Foo Fighters, Twenty One Pilots, The 1975 and Post Malone as its 2019 headliners - and just four of twenty-two names announced to play at Reading’s famous Richfield Avenue and Leeds’ legendary Bramham Park next August bank...
Cambridge Folk Festival 2019 With Lucinda Williams, Tunng & Richard Thompson
Cambridge Folk Festival has announced the first 15 names confirmed for 2019’s line-up, with legendary artists joining relative newcomers to take to the stages of Cherry Hinton Hall. Kicking off proceedings and headlining Thursday night on Stage 2 will be Ralph McTell...
Game Changing Field Day
Field Day have unveiled a pretty mega game change for the festival for 2019. Four huge warehouses and an expansive ten-acre outdoor space provide an unrivalled city setting for the festival to go bigger and later than ever before for the event that will run from 7 - 8...
Balham’s The Bedford Opens It’s Doors Once Again
There has been a notable absence on the live event scene in South London over the past few months due to the closure of The Bedford in Balham for an extensive refurbishment. Steeped in history, the much-loved Grade II listed pub has been a mainstay of the live...