2024

Festival review – Outside/Inside: The Bridge, Homelessness to Hope at Firebug & Duffy’s Bar, 16th & 17th November 2024

31/01/2025 Kevin Gaughan 0
Now for one of my favourite sets of the weekend, Honest Dave, a beautiful performance from Dave and the rest of the band, with their saxophone, guitar and ‘wooden knock’ played a varied discography; featured songs that tackled a Rwandan witch

Gig review – Straight For The Sun at Firebug, Friday 20th December 2024

26/12/2024 Thomas Needham 0
The band’s latest single Fall Away, written by Callum as a tribute to his father, gives him the space to truly deliver a vocal performance full of emotion – it’s more than deserving of the recent recognition it received on the Kerrang! weekly charts

Single review – Dogs Don’t Deal, The Animals’s Back

18/12/2024 Kevin Gaughan 0
“The word on the street is that he’s back on the map” is one of the chorus hooks that pulls the song along irresistibly;

Gig review – AC/DShe at Duffy’s Bar, Saturday 7th December 2024

08/12/2024 Kevin Gaughan 0
They blasted through all the old classics, of which, I’m very pleased to report that timing was spot on, notes were all in order and Ioana’s voice, well, that took it to a whole new level, it was AC/DC and more –

Gig review – King Creosote at The International Music Venue, Wednesday 20th November 2024

02/12/2024 Kevin Gaughan 0
The newer songs were often driven by throbby synth-loops and relatively modern beats, but always overlaid with KC’s characteristic gravelly, Scots-inflected tones.