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...
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...
Van Morrison & Robert Plant Shift Time & Space @ BluesFest 2018
Blues Fest has been building reputation as a musical calendar fixture for a few years. A four-night festival of musicians who either play in blues style or who have adapted blues songs in a fusion of styles. Tonight’s pairing of co-headliners have, across their...
Sarah Vista Live Black Heart Camden Album Launch
This show at the Black Heart in Camden is the launch show for Sarah Vista’s new album Killing Fever that is out now on 8-track, Cassette, Vinyl, Cd and download on Gallow Romantic Records so you have no excuses not to buy it unless you only listen to reel to reel or...
Freya Ridings Brings Songwriting Soul To Rescue Rooms, Nottingham
There are a select few artists in any music fan’s life that can capture something within them, so immediately and ardently, that the listener becomes hooked before the end of that very first song. I had listened to all of one verse of Lost Without You before I...
Lord Huron Breach The Astral Plane At The Roundhouse
Originally conceived as a solo moniker for frontman and band principle Ben Schneider, Lord Huron – named after Lake Huron, one of the great lakes that provides a grand shoreline along Schneider’s home state of Michigan – evolved into their current four-piece formation...
Perfect In Their Simplicity – Editors @ Brixton Academy
One could be forgiven for thinking there was a stadium act in town tonight. As endless queues of people waded into the Brixton Academy, sounds of heaving bass lines and overly excitable fans beckoned from the interior. Editors have become somewhat of an icon in the...
An Intimate Feel On A Grand Scale: U2 At O2 Arena, London
There’s always something to be said about the grandeur of a U2 show. They’ve had everything from a giant claw, stadium-length runways, floor-to-roof mega screens and even a floating glass spaceship. But it is their taste for spectacle that has become the essence of...
Jeff Lynne’s ELO: Shining A Little Love Under Clear Blue Skies
Jeff Lynne’s ELO might require a contractually compromised moniker these days and aside from the frontman himself, might not contain a single member of the 1970s supergroup, but they play his music with a precision and authenticity that is nothing short of amazing....
Glenn Hughes Revisits Classic Deep Purple Live
Glenn Hughes has, during his six-decade career, been associated with more than a handful of bands. Finders Keepers, where it all began in the mid-60s became Trapeze, the funk rockers that set him up for the big time. There’s the short-lived collaboration with Pat...
Will Varley’s Intimate Night At The Cambridge Junction
After a very successful European Tour Will Varley kicked off a UK Headline Tour, playing intimate seated venues, on 10th October in Norwich. RockShot caught up with him on the second night at The Junction in Cambridge. We have been to the main hall in The Junction,...
30 Years Of Mlah: Les Negresses Vertes @ Islington Academy
In the thirty years since the release of debut album, Mlah, Les Négresses Vertes have been focused on solo projects. On their European Tour, they come together again to perform the album in its entirety. Their music is a unique blend with elements of gypsy punk,...
Crowd Control: Tallest Man on Earth @ Union Chapel
Former Montezumas frontman, Kristian Matsson now performs as The Tallest Man on Earth. The man who has made a career of performing with a single instrument and a voice has booked a two-night residency at London’s Union Chapel. In the calm glow of the chapel at...
Nick Mason Serves Up A Saucerful Of Secrets At Roundhouse
Nick Mason doesn't have to be here. Instead of hitting the road for the first time in over 20 years, the 74-year-old Pink Floyd drummer could be racing his classic cars, flying his helicopter, crafting a follow up to his meticulous autobiography Inside Out, or,...
Buck & Evans: The Future of Rock ‘n’ Soul
Last time I came to see a band at Hoxton Square Bar & Kitchen in London’s hipster encrusted Shoreditch, it looked like the kind of place you’d go for the sixth form disco. A red velour curtain formed the backdrop and it had all the excitement of a vegetarian...
HRH C.R.O.W.S. Festival Soaring High
Going for over a decade, HRH (Hard Rock Hell) has decided to add a Country, Rebel, Outlaw, Western & Southern Rock (C.R.O.W.S.) festival to their repertoire of festivals and what a fantastic decision this was. With four HRH Hotels to choose from near the venue,...
Garbage Are So Much More Than Paranoid At Brixton Academy
It seems risky to open a show with not just a 20-year-old B-side, but a slow, brooding 20-year-old B-side. It seems even riskier to follow it with another. But Garbage know exactly what they’re doing. Their bold opening gambit isn’t just a reminder of the band’s...
Afropunk’s Brixton Takeover Finale
Last weekend the global institution that is Afropunk closed their week-long takeover of Brixton at the historic Academy, headlined by US supergroup August Greene. Following seven days of talks, exhibitions, installations and music offerings, Afropunk brought together...