Rock Archive

  • Dirty Bristow Issue Two Launch – 13 August, The Edge, Digbeth

    Dirty Bristow Issue Two Launch – 13 August, The Edge, Digbeth

    The Bristow-lympics Opening Ceremony It’s been a time coming, but Dirty Bristow Issue Two is ready for your prying eyes and the best and first way to get one is to wave your nation’s flag at the Bristow-lympics Opening Ceremony. And getting a ticket isn’t a lottery. At The Edge, Cheapside, Digbeth — Sat 13th August. Tickets Only £6 [...]

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  • Belper Music Festival 2011 – 1-3 July 2011, Darley Dale

    Belper Music Festival 2011 – 1-3 July 2011, Darley Dale

    A new name and a new location, the annual Belper Music Festival has renamed itself to the Belper Exile Festival in honour of it’s relocation outside of Belper itself in order to be bigger and better than ever before! Confirmed acts include eclectic cowpunk psychobilly groovers The Bad Apples, Sheffield’s favourite Balkan klezmeristas The Balkan [...]

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  • Kate Goes…Undead! – The Victoria, John Bright Street, 2:30pm – 11pm

    Kate Goes…Undead! – The Victoria, John Bright Street, 2:30pm – 11pm

    Kate Goes...Undead! Saturday 22 January, The Victoria, 2:30pm - 9pm

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  • Supersonic Festival, 22-24 October, Custard Factory

    Supersonic Festival, 22-24 October, Custard Factory

    The countdown has started with less than 5 weeks till Supersonic Festival 2010. The latest news includes the very exciting addition to the line-up with the awesome live orchestra, Chrome Hoof, experimental hardcore drummer Ruins, the heavy riffage of Dethscalator and the melancholic pop sounds of Daniel O’Sullivan’s new project, Mothlite. Also, a special AV set from the hugely [...]

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  • Review – Gong + Nik Turner’s Space Ritual, hmvinstitute, 20 September 2010

    Review – Gong + Nik Turner’s Space Ritual, hmvinstitute, 20 September 2010

    A concert in which the lead singer of the headline band is 73 (and the female backing singer is 77), and the leader of the support band is 70, with in fact few – if any – of the performers on stage being younger than 50, could so easy have panned out to be an [...]

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  • Gong + Nik Turner’s Space Ritual – HMV Institute, 20 September

    Gong + Nik Turner’s Space Ritual – HMV Institute, 20 September

    GONG, the legendary progressive/psychedelic rockers, will return to the UK in September 2010 for several special concerts after the success of their 2009 40th Anniversary UK tour and the critically acclaimed new studio album ‘2032’. Support for these dates will come from very special guests Nik Turner’s Space Ritual. The forthcoming concert will once again reunite core GONG members, [...]

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  • ‘Off the Cuff’ Festival at the Flapper, 23-25 July, 2010

    ‘Off the Cuff’ Festival at the Flapper, 23-25 July, 2010

    A three day festival at the Flapper, featuring a number of acts icluding Chapel Club, Dead Lights, Pulled Apart by Horses, &U&I, The James Cleaver Quintet, and many more. Looking at the descriptions it mostly looks like punk. Tickets £5, £8, £14, and £18 depending on how much of it you book at once. More [...]

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  • Silver Apples + Pram – 5 August, Hare & Hounds

    Silver Apples + Pram – 5 August, Hare & Hounds

    Date: Thursday 5th August 2010 Price: £10 adv Venue: Hare And Hounds More Information: TheTicketSellers Swordfish – Temple Street, Birmingham Polar Bear – York Road, Kings Heath Silver Apples An electronic/psychedelic duo formed in 1967 in New York City. They originally consisted of Simeon Coxe III (who played a custom home-made synthesizer known as the [...]

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