On February 7th the stage of The Garage, London welcomed The Faim for their show that got upgraded from The Underworld a week and a half before on January 28th. The band’s first ever headline show in London sold out The Underworld before selling out The Garage when it was upgraded. For the UK leg of the band’s UK/EU tour they had Chapel and Half Lives as support, while in mainland Europe the…

On December 7th Deaf Havana took to the stage of the famous O2 Academy in Brixton with support from I Don’t Know How But They Found Me and Stereo Honey. This show was a one off and in support of Deaf Havana’s album ‘Rituals’ that came out in August.

The first band to come to the stage of the famous Brixton venue was Stereo Honey. Stereo Honey are an alternative/indie band from London who formed…

On December 1st As It Is wrapped up the UK/EU leg of The Great Depression world tour with their biggest headline show to date at The O2 Forum Kentish Town. To support this leg of the tour the band had Trash Boat, Holding Absence and Courage My Love.

First on stage was Courage My Love. Courage My Love are a three-piece pop-punk band from Ontario, Canada. The band has a female lead singer and…

On November 30th the stage of Alexandra Palace welcomed Bring Me The Horizon for a second night as a part of the First Love world tour. This was the last night of the UK/EU leg of the First Love world tour with support from Yonaka and The Fever 333.

Yonaka were the first band to come to the stage in front of the sold-out Ally Pally. Yonaka are a female fronted band from Brighton. They came to…

On October 27th, 2018 State Champs took to the stage of the Roundhouse in Camden for the biggest headline show of their careers so far. The show was a part of the band’s tour in support of their third studio album, Living Proof which came out earlier this year in June. For the UK/EU leg of the tour of Living Proof State Champs had Woes, Stand Atlantic and Seaway accompanying them as support.

Befo…

On Friday October 5th, 2018 Dead! took to the stage for their final show. The bittersweet show took place at a sold-out Underworld in Camden, London. The band had Indoor Pets and Sit Down for support at the show.

First on was Sit Down, they are a heavy alt-rock duo from Brighton, they took to the stage to perform an energetic set with quite a few technical issues. Sit Down had a female drummer…

On September 29th Against the Current took to the stage of the O2 Forum Kentish Town as a part of the Past Lives world tour and for their album release show. Their second album, Past Lives, was released on September 28th. The rest of the UK tour happened prior to the album being released so this was the band’s first show with the album being out in the world.

For support the band had Australian…

On September 8th, 2018, Basement Strippers once again took to the stage of Esquires, except this was a special occasion. It was the release show of the band’s second EP, Echo Chamber, which came out the day before.

Esquires is a unique venue, and massively differs from big city venues that I am personally used to going to. It has a different atmosphere, no one cares about the view they have as…

On Friday June 22nd, 2018 Taylor Swift took to the stage of Wembley Stadium to headline the iconic stadium for the very first time. Prior to her two-night stay at Wembley Stadium Swift had done four other shows at two other stadiums, starting in Manchester followed by a stop at Dublin and finishing in London, each stadium getting two shows. The Reputation Stadium tour is in celebration of her 6th…

On Friday May 25th State Champs, well 3 of the 5 members of State Champs, took to the stage of Banquet Records for a small acoustic set ahead of their sets at Slam Dunk across the bank holiday weekend and to promote pre-orders of their upcoming album ‘Living Proof’ set to be released June 15th.

They came to the small Kingston stage late and claimed it was to do with them getting lost on London’s…

On April 28th, 2018 The Vamps took to the stage of the O2 Arena, London for their 16th time as a part of their Night and Day tour in support of their latest album Night and Day: Night edition, which was released on July 14th, 2017 with the day edition coming out on July 13th, 2018.

The band had an array of support acts, including: PM; HRVY; New Hope Club; Jacob Sartorius. Along with Maggie…

All Time Low came to London on March 17th in support of their latest studio record, Last Young Renegades. However, last year was the 10th anniversary of their second album So Wrong, It’s Right and in celebration they did a string of shows in New Jersey but due to demand and the fact that Pierce The Veil pulled out of the tour they added another set to celebrate So Wrong, Its Right on the UK tour.…

Waterparks took to the stage of London’s Koko to show off their talent to the biggest crowd they’ve headlined throughout the entirety of Europe on March 4th. For the European leg of the Entertainment tour Waterparks bought out two bands but each band only plays select dates, but for the London date both Patent Pending and Dead! opened for Waterparks which I was happy about as I saw Dead! a month…

On Sunday February 4th Dead! took a trip to the small town of Bedford so they could take to the stage in Esquires with support from The Kenneths and Bedford band Basement Strippers. Basement Strippers took to the stage first to warm up the small crowd standing around, they start the show all dressed up in suits then they make a joke before striping their blazers off. The drummer used drum sticks…

On Thursday January 11th, 2018 Fall Out Boy took to the stage at the Electric Brixton to perform a range of their fantastic songs to a tiny audience of 1,400 compared to the usual 20,000 at the O2 Arena, where they will amaze an audience on March 31st. The tickets for this intimate show sold out extremely quickly with all pre-sale tickets being snatched up within a minute, people were desperate…