[Full sets of pics: Little Angels / Skin] After 20 years (2 years in the case of Skin who’ve broken up and reformed more times than a 4 year old’s scabby knee), the Little Angels announced earlier this year that they were going to play Download. They enjoyed it so [...]

[Full sets of pics on Flickr for Rob Zombie and Marilyn Manson] Regrettably another gig with a spare ticket due to baysitting issues, and then further sad news as a friend who was taking the spare was hospitalised two days before. At least I managed to pass it off to [...]

[full set of images on Flickr via this link] A band that’s been there since the beginning of the thrash metal era, Testament were pretty big twenty or so years ago. But while the liked of the so-called “Big 4” went on to fill arenas, Testament joined the likes of [...]

[full set of images up on flickr] I last saw Turbonegro at Download some years ago for the first and only time. I knew precisely one song (“All My Friends Are Dead”) and they impressed me. Good fun, simple songs – a nice way to kill 30 minutes or so. [...]

I mentioned in the recent Shinedown review that some comments at the gig had got my head ticking. I also said that it would result in another blog post. This is that blog post. The events posted within don’t occur at any point near the California Presidential Primary. Shinedown’s singer [...]

[Pics of three of the bands on Flickr via these links: Devil Sold His Soul / Heights / Heart of a Coward] Four bands, eight quid, beer for £2 a pint and t-shirts at a tenner. Can’t turn that kind of an offer down. Especially when one of them is [...]