Alanis Morissette Strips Jagged Little Pill Back 25 Years On At Shepherd’s Bush Empire
Who can believe it’s been a massive 25 years – a whole quarter of a century! – since Alanis Morissette broke the perfect-pop mould and released her seminal alt-rock record Jagged Little Pill, imperfections and swearing embraced unabashedly and resonating with the...
Rews Offer A Glimmer Of Light In The Darkness
An interesting night with two bands I had never seen before. The Darkness on the last of eighteen UK shows on their Easter Is Cancelled Tour before continuing the tour in Europe next year. First up, a band I have been eager to see for some time, Rews. Songwriter and...
Aussie Rockers Electric Mary Attract A Virgin Mary To North London
Right..it's about time for some good ole' rock 'n' roll. We are talking about a band influenced by the rockier side of The Beatles and Tom Petty and who absolutely dig Deep Purple. And so after being treated to the two support bands, The Dark Light and the very...
Young Bands Provide Modern Age Kicks On The Live Circuit
Modern Age Music are a company that specialise in organising gigs, festivals and artist management. They book bands for showcase events across the country, in places like London, Brighton, Manchester Bristol & Leeds, as well as organising full tours for artists...
Hats Off To The Tolerable Gentleman
The Fiddlers Elbow has become a regular haunt for Progressive-Rock outfit Hats Off Gentleman It's Adequate. Malcolm Galloway and fellow collaborator Mark Gatland, who both write and record all their material, possess a chemistry that has been honed through years of...
Reading Festival 2019: A Sun-Soaked Musical Delight
As summer fades away and becomes a distant memory, it's easier to look back at the season's festivals and pick a winner. This year, for me, it would be the legendary Reading Festival. The headliners were bound to please an audience of various backgrounds and ages, and...
A Place of Our Own : The Punks Are Back In North London!
A Place Of Our Own is a collective started by Jay and Keith a few years ago. Their objective is to resuscitate the North London punk scene and open a new punk venue to stop London burning with boredom. We recently got the opportunity to talk with Jay, who told us...
You Have Been RickRolled! Inside One Of London’s Most Mysterious Performances
Just before Foo Fighters were scheduled to start their UK-Northern Ireland tour, Dave Grohl, Rami Jaffee, and Rick Astley made a surprise appearance at a tiny club in London. It was late Thursday night when my friend pointed me to a series of cryptic messages from NME...
Beaux Gris Gris & The Apocalypse @ The Tuesday Night Music Club
Anglo Americans Beaux Gris Gris (pronounced \ˈbō\ \ˈgrē-(ˌ)grē\ ) & The Apocalypse returned to the Tuesday Night Music Club following a very well received debut appearance in 2018. The Tuesday Night Music Club is a regular event held at The Comrades Club...
Lucinda Williams Car Wheels On A Gravel Road Photo Story
Singer-songwriter Lucinda Williams is marking the recent 20th anniversary of Car Wheels On A Gravel Road with a select number of UK dates, performing the album in its entirety. First stop is The Barbican in London, with additional Gravel Road shows taking place in...
Sunday I’m In Love – With Photos At Glastonbury Festival 2019
Sunday at Glastonbury Festival 2019 promises to be the coolest day of the festival so far. It’s cloudy as I wake in my tent and I put on a thin hoodie as I wander down to grab a coffee. But while the day is cooler, it’s still a warm one out there and the sun...
The Lowdown In Photos From Saturday At Glastonbury Festival 2019
Following a super-hot Friday, Saturday at Glastonbury Festival 2019 is shaping up to be the scorcher of the weekend, but we can’t complain as the alternative is so, so much worse! As we sweat profusely, wait patiently in line for drinking water and find ourselves...
Fantastic Photography From Friday At Glastonbury Festival 2019
With the former Pilton Pop, Blues & Folk Festival (better known these days as Glastonbury Festival) now in its 49th year – and back on this summer following a fallow year during 2018 – the highways & byways, the nooks & crannies, the stages and fields have...
A Photography Experience Out On The Road With Buck & Evans
Buck & Evans are the best Welsh band that not enough people know about. Scrub that. Buck & Evans are simply the best band that not enough people know about. I know about them because I've seen them quite a bit and photographed them quite a bit. I've also just...
A Monday Night @ 100 Club With Alvin Gibbs And The Disobedient Servants
Do you hate Mondays? Do you find it hard to start the week after a heavy weekend? Why don't you go to a punk rock gig? We kicked off this week by going to the legendary 100 Club on Oxford Street where Alvin Gibbs & the Disobedient Servants were playing. The first...
All Roads Lead To All Points East
The first festival of the year for me was All Points East. A last-minute decision to head down meant I didn't get to spend as much time at Victoria Park as I'd have wanted, but I packed the hours I did have with some great music. The weekend lineups were quite a bit...
Nashville’s Next Country Star-In-Waiting RaeLynn Dazzles The Royal Albert Hall
For all you Country Music fans out there looking for more fabulous music to fill your ears, look no further than Texan singer-songwriter and star-in-waiting Racheal Lynn Woodward, better known as RaeLynn. Like a few of the current crop of Country Music artists finding...
UK Foo Fighters: The Dream That Came True
UK Foo Fighters haven’t put out a single album of their work. In fact, they don’t even perform their own work. They're a tribute band of a group that still tour worldwide and sell out stadiums – the mighty Foo Fighters. And yet, they manage to sell out venues across...
The Borderline: A Retrospective In Words & Photography
It was with great sadness that we recently learned the Borderline, a mainstay of the live music scene in central London, will permanently close its doors this summer. It seems that spiralling Soho ground rents coupled with the seemingly never ending disruption caused...
French Quartet Juniore In Photographs @ The Stereo, Glasgow
French quartet Juniore are back touring Europe this year and I knew that I could not miss their show this time. Having previously played at The Mono in Glasgow in 2018, they were now at The Stereo, which they affectionately called “The Mono’s older sister” on stage....
Wolf Alice Bring Visions Of A Life To A Close At The Brixton Academy
London rock outfit Wolf Alice have had an incredible 18 months with what was always going to be the challenging successor to breakaway hit debut record My Love Is Cool. That debut saw the North London-based four-piece realise years of hard work and building up their...
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...
The Kinks Are The Village Green Preservation Society At Proud Galleries
Proud Galleries, is hosting The Kinks Are The Village Green Preservation Society, an exhibition celebrating the 50th anniversary multi-format release of The Kinks’ sixth studio album, The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society. On display is a selection of...
Slough Feg In Photographs @ Bannerman’s Bar, Edinburgh
When Slough Feg announced their summer European tour for 2018, it was an unexpected but welcome surprise for fans of the California-based power metal band. Having started in the 90s, Slough Feg are still touring across the U.S. and Europe. They played for the first...
Queen Kwong’s Secret is Out In Photo’s @ Forum Kentish Town
Queen Kwong aka Carré Calloway and band may not be new to the scene but they are one of the best-kept secrets in music. Discovered by Nine Inch Nails frontman Trent Reznor when Carré was seventeen they have joined NIN on major tours. At the O2 Forum, they are...
Nic Cester A Photo Story @ Pretty Green, Carnaby Street
When we arrive at Pretty Green for Cester’s solo album launch – entitled Sugar Rush - and the vibe of the venue feels very much like something you would have expected to find Jet at in their earliest days: a small, incredibly intimate setting filled with instruments...
Keep On Trucking (Dancing, Prancing, Sweating) At Truck Festival 2018
Another weekend of almost pure sunshine fixed the woes of last year’s Truck Festival mud bath. Over the three days of the 2017 festival the rain barely stopped in Abingdon, Oxfordshire leaving the whole site flooded with mud by the end of the weekend. With a heavy...
2000trees Festival Rocks The Cotswolds
Where do you start to describe a weekend like 2000trees festival? Blistering heat, and a line-up that puts most of this year’s ‘bigger’ festivals to shame. It was fantastic. The atmosphere around the site is so chilled and laid back. With the site being relatively...
The Struts Bring Manchester To The Boil
The blisters have healed. My voice has gone back to normal. And my neck no longer hurts every time I move. It's only taken three weeks for my body to go back to normal after seeing The Struts in a tiny Manchester club called Gorilla. That's because these fine young...