All About Rock & Metal

Despite the name, Parker Barrow aren’t inspired by a garden cart in Yorkshire but by Depression‑era outlaws Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow.

I first heard of Henge due to the internet. (How different the world would be without it.) I cannot remember if it was via video on YouTube or just audio from some place, but I remember thinking “who, and what, is this”? I thought it was amusing and intriguing, reminding me quite a lot of the band ‘Gong’, only not as serious. They played quirky songs, but also the kind that get in your head, and when I found they were touring and playing about an hour away from home… well, I

Support this evening was something a little bit different by way of Dikajee, self-proclaimed Progressive Chamber Folk Rock. The Russian (St Petersburg) born Olja “Dikajee” Karpova tonight was accompanied by Sarah Lambert-Gates (Daughter of the Water). The duo took to the stage unobtrusively with Dikajee’s piano and Lambert-Gates’ mic-stand adorned with flowers, with the front woman immediately addressing the crowd, “We’re not Blues; however, our music is sad and miserable…”.

This was Evergrey’s forty-second show of the tour, and the band were firing on all cylinders. If you’re a fan of any type of Metal, and

Midnite City have treated their fans (the Midnite Army) for several years with an end of year Christmas show, and once again they chose The

Natalie Imbruglia had just taken to the stage when we got our seats, low down on the left-hand side, approximately twelve rows from the ...

Collateral is a Stadium Rock band in the making. Hopefully, in years to come when they‘re playing to tens of thousands, I can say I saw them

Unbelievably, after nearly eighteen years living in the Steel City, this was my first ever visit to the Hallamshire Hotel.

The Cafe #9 is a small coffee shop in Nether Edge, in the salubrious environs of Sheffield.

Having last seen Michael Schenker live at the Stonedead Festival in August last year, I expected to see mainly the same show, with possibly

Uli Jon Roth, founding guitarist with the Scorpions, is sixty-nine years old (just, December 2023), still touring, still wears his hair long