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...