A Child’s Experience At Glastonbury 2024
Only 7 years old, but already our son considers himself a Glastonbury Festival veteran! It’s his 5th visit to the wonderful festival, 5 and a half if you count when I was 6 months pregnant. He’s missed only the fallow and covid years in his lifetime and is in ours and...
Weezer’s Double Header Slot Feels Like Support At The O2
With LA-hailing rockers Weezer seemingly misstepping with a planned (ans subsequently aborted) 2022 Broadway run in New York and joining the triple-header bill for the Green Day-fronted Hella Mega Tour alongside EMO outfit Fall Out Boy across 2021 and 2022, the Rivers...
How Could Saturday Be Topped? Wychwood Festival Had A Go On Sunday – Day 3
To be honest, I was unsure how to top last night's epic day at Wychwood Festival, but I returned with the prospect and with eagerness to catch up with several acts I was looking forward to seeing live. The weather was warm and sunny, perfect festival weather, I guess...
From Hip Hop To Rock, It’s A Bangin’ Saturday At Wychwood Festival 2024 – Day 2
Staying on site, I noticed that the campervan pitch I had been allocated was right next to Cheltenham Racecourse station on The Gloucestershire and Warwickshire Railway, it was running a steam service so I wandered over to watch one of the trains come into the...
The Sunshine Returns For Mighty Hoopla 2024 At Brockwell Park – Day 2
Following on from a fabulous Friday that had the rain staying away but the sun struggling to peak through the clouds, day 2 of Mighty Hoopla 2024 at South London's Brockwell Park was a reversal, with occasional cloud cover providing welcome respite from the beating...
Wychwood Festival 2024 – The Music Festival That Offers So Much More – Day 1
I was looking forward to Wychwood, a local to me music festival that offered so much more than simply music, it offers comedy, activities and workshops for all to get involved with, quite simply it’s a festival for all the family and I can see why its one of the best...
Mighty Hoopla 2024 Is Resplendent At Brockwell Park – Day 1
Quickly becoming a mainstay of the London day festival scene since kicking off in 2017 before finding it's current home in South London's Brockwell Park a year later, Mighty Hoopla is the pop festival, an event that immediately created a safe and fun home for London's...
Another Amazing All-Star Evening At The Vive Le Rock Awards Show 2024
The Vive Le Rock Awards show was once again a brilliant all star live show.
Rockshot Magazine’s Photographer Favourites 2023
2023 has been an immense year for live music and the Rockshot Magazine team have had a tonne of fun getting down to headline shows and festivals throughout the year to capture the raw energy of today's finest live music acts giving it their all on stages large and...
JLS Command The Arena Stage At The O2
On their 19th show at The O2 Arena in London, English boyband JLS proved that they've still got the magic that captivated fans over a decade ago. Fans have been buzzing since they announced the Everybody Say JLS: The Hits Tour and tonight the atmosphere was electric...
PVRIS Delights The Pop-Punk Crowd Supporting Fall Out Boy
PVRIS are on a roll. Fresh off the back of their own North American headline tour, following the release of fourth LP Evergreen and touring as a main act on this past summer's Sad Summer Fest, the Lynn Gunn-led troupe moved onto larger arenas supporting pop-punk...
Who Are The Girls? Nova Twins Deliver Distorted Mayhem At The O2
Supporting Muse on the last run of UK Arena shows of their Will Of People Tour, London-based Nova Twins took to the stage and wowed the steadily filling O2 Arena. The duo of...
HAIM Brought Debut LP To London’s Shepherd’s Bush Empire
Following a storming headline set as part of this year's fabulous All Points East festival at East London's Victoria Park, L.A.-based sister rock trio HAIM announced a last minute show at West London's 2,000-capacity Shepherd's Bush Empire venue to celebrate the...
Maggie Rogers Sparkles In Other Stage Return At Glastonbury 2023
Maggie Rogers, one ridiculously sunny Saturday afternoon in June at Glastonbury could have equally been at a little party where she performed in her back garden. If her garden was big enough to fit a few thousand people in. She is comfortable here, visibly enjoying...
Outstanding Performance By Tash Sultana At The Hammersmith Apollo
I was happy to find that despite this gig taking place on one of the hardest days of the year to fill a venue, the Monday after Glastonbury, Tash Sultana managed to almost sell out the Hammersmith Apollo. This was testament to the fervor their fan base feels for Tash...
Guns N’ Roses Bring The Energy And The Hits To Glastonbury 2023
L.A.-hailing hard rock legends Guns N' Roses come with both their famous hits and legacy of, well, destruction if you pardon the pun. The band formed in the mid-1980's when the band L.A. Guns needed a new vocalist and found him by way of Axel Rose, and so Guns N'...
Florence + The Machine Delight At Belsonic 2023
Belsonic Festival, held annually in June, has year by year brought global superstars to its stage at Ormeau Park. This outdoor festival embraces the Northern Irish weather, taking place rain or shine! And with only one stage, you are guaranteed not to miss any of the...
RAYE Wows The Crowd With Her Debut Glastonbury Appearance
The sun had long gone over the yardarm by the time RAYE’s took her turn on Glastonbury Festival's famous Pyramid Stage. Saturday saw temperatures pushing 30 degrees Celsius with the crowd already suitably warmed up from Rick Astley’s rousing midday set. [gallery...
Rick Astley Isn’t Gonna Give You Up At Glastonbury 2023
Picture the scene, you are a 15-year-old learning to play drums in your dad's garage and dreaming of one day playing the Pyramid Stage at Glastonbury Festival. Fast forward (unless that is you, now) to June 2023 enter Rick Astley, who at 57, finally realised the dream...
Carly Rae Jepsen Really, Really, Really Likes You At Glastonbury 2023
A Friday afternoon in the blazing sunshine is the perfect time to showcase all the pop tunes, Carly Rae Jepsen has many to offer. I knew a couple of the big songs and I will happily bop along to Call Me Maybe (2012) whenever the opportunity arises, now I will be...
Royal Blood Blow Eardrums For Glastonbury 2023 Pyramid Stage Set
Brightonian rock duo Royal Blood have been in the press for all the wrong reasons recently, their scathing treatment of a lacklustre audience response to their brand of bass-driven rock at the recent BBC Big Weekend last month had them defending their scolding of...
Arctic Monkeys’ Glastonbury 2023 Headline Show Proves Divisive
The Alex Turner-led, Sheffield-hailing rock quartet are famous not just for the hits that made them huge and six #1-charting albums (plus their latest that peaked at #2), but also their attitude towards their industry and bravado of their frontman. They have equally...
Return To Form For Friday At Glastonbury Festival 2023 In Photos
While the gates at Worthy Farm might open to ticket-holders from 9am of the Wednesday morning ahead of Glastonbury Festival's mammoth weekend of festivities, and music can be found across many of the area stages across the site, music on the main stages kicks off in...
Ber Is More Than Halfway At The Lower Third
Berit Dybing, known to her growing fanbase on both sides of the Atlantic as Ber has been on the rise since the release of her debut song Bad For Me just two years ago now. In that time, she has been both writing and developing her live performance in addition to...
Bad Nerves Warm Up Koko … And Then Some
While audiences are generally receptive to opening acts, the main act is why they handed over their cash, why they queued up in the rain for hours to get a spot at the front. And so when an opening act has the crowd bouncing so wildly, throwing around £7 pints of beer...
Diversity Is Key To Self Esteem’s Hand-Picked Openers At Hammersmith
While Rebecca Lucy Taylor’s Self Esteem was the main draw to a sold out show at West London’s Hammersmith Apollo, it would be remiss not to share news of the other acts gracing the hallowed Apollo stage tonight. https://flic.kr/p/2omMutX First up, playing a delightful...
The Return Of Live Music Events In 2022
The live music industry, like so many others, took a battering across 2020 and 2021 when the COVID-19 pandemic made it at first impossible and then unreliable to put on events. Festivals such as Glastonbury and BST Hyde Park, among others, pulled their events...
Wilko Johnson: Photographs and Memories
I’ve written before in these pages about how it came to be that the iconic Dr Feelgood guitarist, Wilko Johnson sparked a second career for me in music photography. In essence, it was his terminal pancreatic cancer diagnosis in late 2012 and the (apparent) sure...
The Big Moon Make A Statement With Here Is Everything
London-based four-piece The Big Moon have been making waves since they formed back in 2014 and subsequently released debut record Love In The 4th Dimension just three years later. Two weeks ago, the group dropped undoubtedly their finest body of work to date with...
2000 Trees Returns With A Bang
Sunburn, hay fever, and a damaged hard drive with two days of photos lost. On the bright side, 2000 Trees is back in all its glory! For the first time since 2019 the ever faithful Trees crowd descend on the Cotswolds for four days of blistering heat and an even hotter...
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