Live: Elbow @ Hammersmith Apollo, London
I’m grateful to my wife for so many things. She spots the traffic cameras I don’t. She’s always on hand with salient fashion advice. Her meringues are the stuff of legend. And then there’s Elbow. The first time I saw this band was in 2012 when they were touring Build...
Live: The Handsome Family & Courtney Marie Andrews @ Union Chapel
Union Chapel is a cosy venue, perfect on a late winters evening. People are bundled up in warm clothes settling onto padded seat cushions and cradling mugs of tea and cocoa in the soft coloured lighting, candle light and the kaleidoscope of the chapel's rose window....
Live: Band Of Horses @ Troxy, London
What a great night. Before the enigmatic Band Of Horses adorn the East London stage, I'm not surprised to see that folk have arrived early to witness a warm-up from Israel Nash who would quite rightly on another occasion command a headline slot in his own right. The...
Live: Jo Harman @ The Jazz Cafe Camden
RockShot doesn’t do album reviews. If it did, I’d be able to tell you that Jo Harman’s sophomore album People We Become, released earlier this month to wide critical acclaim, is truly exceptional and you really, really should buy it. Oh. Whilst I can’t do what I just...
Green Day Bring Revolution Radio To The O2 Arena
With the recent controversial U.S. presidential appointment seemingly the only thing I’m forced to read about these days on the news, it seems that rockers Green Day have ample inspiration for new material coming hard and fast. With the announcement in September 2016...
Live: Boss Hog @ Oslo Hackney, London.
All you needed to do was to follow the cooler, older crowd straight upstairs to know where the gig was. Queuing up in all shades of black, anyone who knew the history of Boss Hog is here, representing with green hair, pink hair, long hair or no hair at all. Boss Hog...
Live: Pete RG, Staticland & Candlebox @ Underworld, Camden
Living in London means one thing, you are always surrounded by live music. If you're lucky and choose correctly, you could have a decent feast almost every night. If your choices fail you might end up in a need of ear plugs in a pub that charges you more than a fiver...
Live: Train @ Islington Assembly Hall
American pop rock outfit Train have hits that will, no doubt, bounce off your subconscious and reverberate whether you want them to or not! For this is the band that were a mainstay of the Billboard charts and alt. rock radio waves of 1999 with hit single Meet...
Live: The Blue Aeroplanes @ The Leadmill, Sheffield
The Blue Aeroplanes – punk poets from Bristol – once more came to Sheffield to mesmerise the audience with their unique blend of folk, rock, punk, poetry and dance. But before the Aeroplanes could dazzle everyone, support act Harri Larkin performed solo material from...
Live: The Hunna @ O2 Shepherds Bush Empire
Last time I photographed The Hunna was in front of a couple of hundred people at a sold-out Boston Music Room in London’s Tufnell Park. Nine months later, they’re back promoting their debut album 100 at a sold-out Shepherds Bush Empire. This time around, the venue...
Live: Glenn Hughes @ Islington Assembly Hall
"I'm all about love and giving the love back" Glenn Hughes yelled from the stage at the Islington Assembly Hall crowd. If you were lucky enough to be there, you might have thought this was to be about rock'n'roll ... and it was. Glenn was in town in support of his...
Live: Rotten Hill Gang @ The Forum Tunbridge Wells
The Forum sits on the slopes of the common on the edge of Tunbridge Wells. For the past 24 years it has played host to many up & coming acts, established acts, and has a reputation for booking the next big thing just before it becomes the big thing. The band...
Live: Billy Talent @ Tramshed, Cardiff.
It’s been almost four years since Billy Talent were last in the Welsh capital. It’s a narrowly sold out show. There’s no doubt that people still care about them, despite this absence. But this means the pressure is on to maintain and impress the fanbase that still...
Live: Saint Agnes @ Oslo, Hackney.
Beware! Saint Agnes are back with a new single and are ready to kick down the doors in your neighbourhood. The band, who are my personal greatest discovery of 2016, have bought out another strong rock song Merry Mother Of God Go Round. The new single release was...
Live: Chase & Status @ Alexandra Palace
Alexandra Palace started filling up with red-lit smoke just seconds before Saul Milton aka Chase, Will Kennard aka Status, MC Rage and drummer Andy Gangadeen appeared on stage. I expected the venue to be busy but wasn’t at all prepared for how rammed it actually was....
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