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After seeing Skindred and Trash Boat at the Download Pilot this year, this was one gig I was super excited to be at. Skindred are an amazing live experience, and Benji’s interaction with the crowd is second to none. Trash Boat are also amazing live, and one I was happy to see again. The showContinue reading “Live Review: Skindred at O2 Academy Bristol, with Trashboat and RXPTRS. 8th October 2021”

Well, it had to end at some point and day 4 marked the last of the festivities for this year’s Lost Evenings Festival. I’ll be honest, the day got off to a rough start, thanks to the DJ set hosted by Frank at the Underworld the previous night. But after some coffee and paracetamol, IContinue reading “Lost Evenings day 4 recap”

Day three of lost evenings was all about England Keep My Bones, being the 10 year anniversary of the album.   But first was the wonderful ‘Lunch At The Lock’, hosted by Xtra mile recordings. Throughout the afternoon, we were treated to brilliant acoustic sets from Berries, PET NEEDS and Beans On Toast, who stood in for Johnny Lloyd. I also had the opportunityContinue reading “Lost Evenings Day 3 recap”

After the relative calm and easy start to Lost Evenings with a (mostly) acoustic night at the roundhouse, tonight was the first night where we could all properly let off some energy with some loud and dance along music. Well, actually the first act of the night might not have quite been a full bandContinue reading “Lost Evenings Day 2 recap”

Well, what an opening to day 1 at the roundhouse. After three years away, Frank Turner’s Lost Evenings has returned to its original home in Camden for 4 days of music and good times. Day 1 was an absolute belter of a day, and the perfect way to start the long weekend.  Officially opening the show wasContinue reading “Lost Evenings Day 1 recap”

As a band that has not stopped pumping out new music, with banger after banger coming out, when I saw that The Lottery Winners would be playing in Bristol, I just had to see them live. First, what a venue for the band. Summer, dreampop songs and hot weather (and boy, it was hot) canContinue reading “Live review: The Lottery Winners with The Racket –Thekla, 07/09/2021”

Saturday night saw the first run of the non-socially-distanced ‘The Gathering’ shows, from Frank Turner. A run of smaller, let’s-play-a-show type gigs, these were originally planned to be the first show’s post lockdown. As everything else over the last 16 months has shown, that didn’t quite happen, but I’m sure everyone there had a greatContinue reading “Live review – The Gathering – Cheese and Grain, Frome. 07/08/2021”