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.@blackmothmusic @LimbtheBand gig reviewed by @AnybodyBC for @Planetmosh With just less than one month until the mighty autumn indoors event in Leeds – Damnation festival some of the bands, who are going to show up there, are touring, so one has a possibility to check them in more intimate atmosphere …

Tonight’s gig by Joanne Shaw Taylor wasn’t an ordinary gig, instead this was a secret show to celebrate the launch of her new album – The Dirty Truth.  Fans weren’t able to buy tickets – they had to win them via Planet Rock, and the location of the gig wasn’t …

Tuesday saw the second night of this tour, and the first ever Scottish date for Aussie rockers Massive, whose feet have yet to touch the ground after a flight from Oz, a drive to Newcastle, a gig and a drive to Glasgow.  A healthy diet of Newcastle Brown Ale and loud …

One complaint which is often articulated about many bands on the Northern Ireland scene is that they over-expose themselves – playing the same venues week in week out, so that the novelty (if there is any) quickly wears off.  This is most certainly a criticism which cannot be levelled in …

For the second time in three days, Belfast’s hardcore fans were treated to a visit by genuine legends of the scene, this time in the shape of NYC stalwarts Madball.  And, for the second time in three days, the honour of setting the scene (sic) fell to Belfast’s very own …

Having seen Toseland supporting Sebastian Bach at the same venue, Manchester Academy 3, earlier this year I was looking forward to seeing a headline show. Toseland is the rock band fronted by former Motorcycle racer and World Superbike Champion James Toseland. Support came in the form of Electric River a …

It has been two years since I saw Virgil and the Accelerators live and they have used them wisely, honing their talent, which is on full technicolour display for tonight’s audience. The ten song set lasted approximately 105 minutes and was an amalgamation of new and old with, as singer/guitarist Virgil McMahon …

Catching up at last with the guys of ‘The Texas Flood‘ for a quick interview at a local two day festival in Nottingham. I asked them about their recent dis-closer of signing a two album deal with Off Yerr Rocker Recordings! During the interview Leeds based band ‘Faith In Violence’ …

Dublin retro metal crew Stereo Nasty played their first ever live gigs this weekend, when they opened for Darkest Era on the latter’s first homesoil headline gigs for more than two years… talk about a baptism of fire! PM grabbed a quick chat with the band following the second of …

@LonelyKamelBand gig @AudioGlasgow reviewed by @AnybodyBC for @Planetmosh They say doom metal is popular here and stoner rock with the hints of psychedelia is getting increasingly popular as well. I wouldn’t be so sure about it. Well, unless it is huge band making thunderstorm sound concert in big venue. Otherwise, …

T13 is a massive urban sports arena which takes its name from it’s former use – as one of the huge workshops which once formed part of the industrial powerhouse that was Harland And Wolff:  once the biggest shipyard in the world and famed for building the likes of HMS …

Nestled in an otherwise quiet side street off Dublin’s most famous thoroughfare, Fibber Magee’s is the watering hole of choice for a large proportion of the city’s metal community, as well as those of us from 100 miles or so further north venturing over the border on a frequent basis …

Perceived by many in this part of the world as the godfathers of the current Northern Ireland hardcore scene, By Any Means are about to release their second EP – and celebrate with support slots with two of the genre’s most seminal acts, Negative Approach and Madball. So, that seemed …

@louelladeville_ @planetmosh interview with Lukas Paulsen of @LonelyKamelBand to accompany review of ‘Shit City’ released via @NapalmRecords last month. Whose idea was it to form the band? Thomas and Stian. How did you choose the name? Named after a song that was written before the first record. The only cool thing …

.@TheElectricBoys @BadTouchrocks @RankBerryUk gig at @ theclassicgrand reviewed by @AnybodyBC for @Planetmosh   The Classic Grand and some good old classic hard rock – that was for the dinner on Sunday night in Glasgow. Swedish rockers Electric Boys hit the town together with fancy looking Bad Touch from Dereham and …

A beautiful hot and sunny Sunday afternoon walk down to Fibber Magees it was, until PlanetMosh descended into the humid murky bowels of the club for the final day of this year’s Unleashed Festival. This last day was an all-ages affair and the gathered minions were definitely excited for the …

So because of the previous night’s drinking, I was hanging like Michael Jackson’s child over a hotel balcony as I made my way in for night two of The Unleashed Festival. Again, Dublin Bus knew I had to be somewhere and decided against it for me – missed the first …

The Unleashed Festival was brought to us by EHT promotions in association with PlanetMosh, Overdrive and Down The Barrel Photography. EHT are directly responsible for  my extensive liver damage and my issues with regularly losing chunks of time in a given night. Some might say it’s the alcohol and I …

PlanetMosh has partnered with Ascendancy Promotions, Ramp Rage, T13 and XporT13 to bring Belfast ‘Assault On T13’ – the city’s biggest ever all-ages heavy metal gig, being stage at the gigantic T13 indoor extreme sports and skate park (and part of the set of the hit HBO television series ‘Game …

The UK’s Vallenfyre are an ‘extreme metal’ offshoot of Paradise Lost‘s Gregor Mackintosh. “What started in late 2010 as a project by Paradise Lost guitarist Greg Mackintosh became a real band. The 2011 debut album A Fragile King was hailed as one of the best death metal albums of the …