[For the full slew of pictures, please see this Flickr set] And time for the annual Ginger gig. Well, bi-annual seeing as he did an acoustic set in Glasgow about 6 months ago that I missed. This year’s shindig was moved from the Garage to the smaller G2 which is [...]

[Photos from the three bands featured here are on Flickr: Ghost / In Flames / Trivium] A huge bill at this gig – seemingly a promotional tour for four or five acts with two larger acts topping the bill. Unfortunately, someone had selfishly organised a parents’ evening at the school [...]

[For more photos from this gig, check out the following two Flickr sets: Machine Head / DevilDriver] We’d been waiting for this gig for a while, but unfortunately Gillian hasn’t reacted well to the whole pregnancy thing and was exhausted on the night with a huge pile of work to [...]

What a line-up. Three cracking bands on one ticket, only a shame that it meant an early door-time and that we missed the first half of Theory of a Deadman. What little we caught – about five or six songs – was good stuff. I enjoyed it enough to want [...]

[photos of this gig are in this Flickr collection for Foxy Shazam and this one for The Darkness] It’s not often I’ll go on about a support act, but Foxy Shazam deserve a mention. There was another opener, but I have no idea who they were – even the Academy’s [...]

[More photos in this Flickr set] “We are Motorhead… and we play rock and fucking roll!” Thus sayeth Lemmy, a true metal god as the band introduce their last song of the evening. And bloody hell, do they. Surprisingly I’ve only seen Motorhead once before, in a tent at Download [...]