Live Event: EuroGamer Expo – NEC Birmingham, September 22-25th, 2016
Eurogamer Expo 2016 (or EGX for short) returned to the NEC in Birmingham following a hugely successful show in 2015. As people will know I love EGX as it’s a chance to play the latest upcoming video game releases and more importantly, meet up with friends and have a laugh. My impression of the show […]
Live Event: Joan Collins Unscripted – Theatre Severn, September 13th, 2016
Dame Joan Collins, magnificent woman, star, sassy and sexy, beloved of all women over the age of ….ahem. One could say she is an ‘old style’ movie star, but her change to television in the 80s with Dynasty lead her to become an actress of two parts, elevating her above her contemporaries to become a true […]
Live Event: Starburst Film Festival – MMU Student Union, August 27th, 2016
Let me begin by apologising for the delay in getting this review online; my original draft of it was lost in what I’ve now called “the great hard drive crash of 2016“, something which I’m sure everyone reading this would have suffered at some point and can relate to. However, with new external HDD now sat […]
Live Event: Revival Solstice – Bank’s Stadium, July 31st, 2016.
To my knowledge there aren’t many gaming events in the Midlands and I’ve often had to travel far and wide to experience a decent show. As much as I love going to Eurogamer Expo (EGX) to see upcoming video game releases (which coincidentally has moved from London to the NEC in Birmingham), I discovered a show […]
Live Event: An Evening with Frank Bruno – The Tivoli, June 3rd, 2016.
I’ve documented my long history with The Tivoli many times during various reviews I’ve written on gigs there, but in all my years of frequenting this great venue, this was the first time that I’d ever been to ‘An Evening With’ event there, and what a fantastic guest they had with Frank Bruno. During the […]
Live Event: Goblin – Gorilla, May 11th, 2016
Dawn of the Dead (1978) is my all time favourite movie and one which I have literally seen over 100 times (a friend and I once went 24 hours watching it non-stop on VHS back in our youth). The European version of the movie (for there are many) is scored by Goblin, a band that performed […]
Live Event: U.D.O – The Tivoli, April 16th, 2016.
Once again I headed back to my longest serving and favourite music venue; The Tivoli in Buckley. This time I was accompanied by Tina who hadn’t been there in 25 years! We’ve often discussed about the amount of times we were both at the same gig there in the 1980’s but didn’t cross paths, so […]
Live Event: Hard Rock Hell United (Podcast Pt3)
Chris joins me for the 3rd and final part of our Hard Rock Hell United 2016 shows as we chat with 9 bands on the Saturday. As with the previous 2 shows, we play 2 songs from each band to give you a flavour of what they are like. Yes this is a LONG episode, […]
Live Event: Hard Rock Hell United (Podcast Pt2)
Part 2 of our Hard Rock Hell United 2016 shows completes the Friday interviews and has 8 bands and 16 songs. Part 3 will cover all of our Saturday interviews when Chris makes his first ever visit to Hard Rock Hell and will be online next weekend. The bands you will hear in this episode are: […]
Live Event: Hard Rock Hell United (Podcast Pt1)
Running from March 10th – 13th 2016, Hard Rock Hell United showcased a broad range of rock music across the genres of Thrash, Doom, AOR, Sleaze, Stoner and much more. Once again we were on site to record interviews and watch the bands, only this time we had the pleasure of stopping there for the […]