Wednesday, 4 December 2013

MICHAEL MONROE, Voodoo Sioux, @Slade Rooms, Wolverhampton 3/12/13

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The musical world in the late 1980s was a very different place to now. Back then, there was no internet (for any readers under 30, this...
Monday, 2 December 2013

TOBY JEPSON, Steve Mercy, Third Angle Projection @Academy 3, Birmingham 1/12/13

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If you have been reading these blogs for any length of time, you will know that RTM has, over the course of the last 25 years or so, been a...
Sunday, 1 December 2013

BLACK STAR RIDERS, The Dead Daisies, Western Sand @Wulfrun Hall, Wolverhampton, 30/11/13 and Assembly, Leamington Spa 10/12/13

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At Black Star Riders triumphant first ever gig, back in May, singer Ricky Warwick promised that we would see a lot more of them.   T...

GERRY McAVOY's BAND OF FRIENDS, Sugar Mama @Robin 2, Bilston 29/11/13

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The story goes that Jimi Hendrix was once asked what it felt like to be the best guitarist in the world. "I don't know," he r...
Thursday, 28 November 2013

BILLY BRAGG, Kim Churchill @Symphony Hall, Birmingham 24/11/13

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It’s odd what brings people to gigs. If it hadn’t been for RTM’s hatred of socialising we might not have seen Billy Bragg in the first plac...

QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE @NIA, Birmingham 21/11/13

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We lost touch with Queens Of The Stone Age a good few years ago. We liked the first couple of albums, saw them live, then about 10 years pa...

KARNIVOOL, Tesseract @Institute, Birmingham 20/11/13

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Things have changed in the Tesseract camp since we last saw them. Not only have they got rid of singer number four Eliot Coleman (himself a ...