Reviews

A year after it was originally scheduled, New Model Army’s gig took place at long last at Aladin. Founded in 1977 in the Hemelingen district of Bremen, Aladin is considered one of the best-known event venues in the region and is an integral part of Bremen’s cultural life and music scene Support act PREYRS opened the event. They’re a striking …

Can a Tuesday night in Hamburg, in one of the worst work periods of the year, at one of the darkest of the year be uplifting? Oh yes! It was even chaotic, rowdy, and sweaty to a point where I found myself crawling on the floor looking for lost beer after being knocked down (my bad; a combination of beer …

I’ve never been a fan of gothic metal. It has always been there at the fringe of my music taste, not far from goth rock, but something has been missing. However, there is one exception. Back in 2002, an Italian friend popped by my flat in Bristol for a coffee and forgot a bag of records he’d just bought at …

Just before Reeperbahn Festival in 2018, we got an email from Music Export Canada inviting us to their Meet the Canadians reception at the festival, and there was an attached Spotify playlist with the bands they represented at the festival – and one more band. Cleopatrick, from Cobourg about 100km east of Toronto, was on the line-up but not on …

Let me start by telling you a story. It was the end of 1994 and I was sitting in front of the telly in my flat in Ruislip in London when the weekly (or was it monthly?) Headbanger’s Ball show on MTV aired Bush’s debut video for “Everything Zen”. It was raw, felt both chaotic and hypnotic, and captured the …

On Thursday 25th of September, Pierce the Veil took to the largest arena in Europe to celebrate 18 years of playing shows to the masses. Playing hits from all of their albums, including their debut “The Jaws of Life”, the tour celebrates their roots and brings fan favourites to the stage as they take to a world arena tour. Supported …