Live Sell The Drama At Shepherd’s Bush Empire
Throwing Copper isn't just Live’s second album. It's the one that put them on the map, by topping the Billboard 200 charts, featuring five singles (including two US #1s), and selling over eight million copies. Now that it’s 25 years old, the band are celebrating with...
All Eyes On The Stoned Crows Blind Launch @ Camden Assembly
Famous for its music scene and its never-ending flow of tourists and party-goers, Camden has a history of being at the centre of established cultural movements, and there is still not a better place to be if you are looking to discover new music. Sunday night is one...
Canadian Sheepdogs Running Wild In North London At The Garage
I first saw The Sheepdogs when they supported Rival Sons earlier this year. They were certainly not going to go unnoticed on that occasion as they were all dressed as fairly camp cowboys. I was certainly impressed enough to catch a full set from them upon their return...
Hu Are They? The Hu @ Camden Underworld
Making their first tour of the West The Hu blend heavy metal with traditional Mongolian instruments and the deep lung thrum of throat singing. Their lyrics include war cries and old poetry and their debut album is called The Gergeg, a word used to describe the...
Foals Saved And Not Lost At Alexandra Palace
"We’re gunna have a fucking spicy one tonight!" Yannis Philippakis singer and guitarist of Foals addresses the Alexandra Palace Great Hall after the second track Mountain At My Gates. It’s about ten past nine on this June Friday night and the crowd are already...
Nick Lowe y Los Straitjackets Inspire At Shepherd’s Bush Empire
The Shepherd’s Bush Empire, on a school night, sees a crowd of largely fifty somethings out in force to see what on paper is the rather odd pairing of Nick Lowe, the ‘Jesus of Cool’ with the Nashville-based, Mexican wrestling mask-wearing, surf guitar band Los...
Metallica Are Hardwired Into Twickenham
“London, do you want HEAVY?!” James Hetfield screams to tonight’s packed-to-rafters Twickenham Stadium. And the response? Well, yes. We want it heavy Papa Het, bring it! The last time Metallica played London, in October 2017, The O2 hosted the band's in-the-round...
Biffy Clyro Rock Scarborough’s North Bay Open Air Theatre
As I arrive in Scarborough, memories of day trips when I was a young boy come flooding back. Fairground rides, candy floss, donkey rides on the beach and the god awful four hour bus ride without a toilet on board was torture for a eight year old. This trip however...
Gary Clark Jr Brings This Land To The Roundhouse
In 2010 Gary Clark Jr. appeared, as if from nowhere, at Eric Clapton’s 2010 Crossroads festival and proceeded to steal the show with an incendiary performance. It wasn’t long before the then 26-year-old singer-guitarist was hailed as “The Saviour of the Blues” and...
Midnight Oil Set The Beds Alight Again At Brixton Academy
Peter Garrett has a lot to say. When RockShot spoke to him earlier this year, the Midnight Oil frontman shared carefully considered opinions on everything from climate crisis and the politics of greed to mobile phones at gigs and legacy acts who play the same songs,...
A Feast Of Soul And Jazz At Cross The Tracks
We already know that festivals are very popular but the single day event seems to be garnering more and more interest. Who really needs to camp and spend days without washing! Enter the inaugural one day soul and jazz fest of Cross The Tracks (stylised as XTheTracks)...
Its Only An Andalusian Wasteland With Guadalupe Plata Live At Dingwalls
This is another show in this years Future Juke Festival who are putting on many of the best blues influenced acts around now and tonight’s show features the least conventional sounding blues acts of the three I’ve covered for Rockshot Magazine this year. This show was...
Cedric Burnside Gets HIs Groove On At Dingwalls, London
Cedric Burnside's world tour promoting his latest album, Benton County Relic, brought him to London as part of this year's Future Juke Festival. Cedric is of course the grandson of RL Burnside and steeped in the family's North Mississippi hill-country blues...
Liz Phair Girly Sound Live At Islington Assembly, London
Tonight at the Islington Assembly Hall in London, Liz Phair played with a full band on her Girly Sound To Guyville tour celebrating the 25th anniversary of the Exit To Guyville LP. Opening with mine and many fans favourite Supernova really helped put us all on the...
Filthy Friends Buck Up @ The Barn Theatre, Oxted
Filthy Friends are a super tight, slick, tour de force group featuring some of the most iconic bands in music history. And here they are playing in a barn in the small town of Oxted that was converted into a theatre in the 1930s. In fact, it's the first gig of its...
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