Every year, festival reviews appear online everywhere. They list the best performances, discuss the sound, the bands, the weather, the crowd numbers and surprises. The smiles, the feel and the vibe. They then move on to the next festival or…
Author: Gregg Howarth
I'm a live music obsessive. Happy to shoot anything with a pulse. Crowd, stage, band, and I'm in. From rock, through indie to electronic, new wave and dance. I've spent over a decade and a half chasing the thrill of a perfectly captured live moment, from British Superbikes to live gigs, and Weshootmusic has finally given me the opportunity to review and shoot all of my favourite genres as well as revisiting the genres I swerved or stubbornly ignored as an angry punk/rock teen.
By the time we arrived at Newark Showground’s main gate late Sunday afternoon and entered our gate code to gain access, there really was no rush to do anything other than get ourselves settled in for the week ahead. One…
Maybe its my age (59), but I love digging to learn the histories of the venues I get to see live music in, and YES on Charles Street has one of those great Manchester origin stories where an old industrial…
The Piece Hall isn’t just a venue. It feels a lot more like a monument. A vast Georgian courtyard built in 1779 for the brutal rhythm of industry, where 315 rooms once opened every Saturday morning to the clang of…
If you turned up to Haydock Park expecting a gentle warm up and slow lead in before Madness, Laurie Wright clearly didn’t get the memo, because instead of easing the crowd in, he walked out with nothing but an acoustic…
For years, a certain types of “expert” have insisted that Merseyside doesn’t have a real rock and metal scene. You’ve must have heard the lines: “Liverpool’s a pop city,” “Rock or Metal never took root there,” “It’s all indie bands…