Takedown Festival had to be cancelled last year and so I was very pleased to get the green light to attend this year’s festivities instead. Having been brought up in Fareham (a kind of no-mans-land between Pompey and Southampton), I went to some of my earliest gigs at Portsmouth Guildhall, Hawkwind being the very first. … Continue reading Festival Review: Takedown Festival 2025 (Day 1) – Portsmouth Guildhall (4th April 2025)
Tag: Scarlet Rebels
I'm going to start this review with an apology. Call of the Wild 2024 was almost three months ago and the festival is getting ready for its first major announcement for the 2025 iteration. And I'm only just getting our review online. It's not my style and it's certainly not Moshville Times' style. That said, … Continue reading Festival Review: Call of the Wild 2024 – Friday
The beauty of a festival like Maid of Stone is that you could talk to a hundred people and they would all give you a completely different of the bands they saw, which ones ‘should have been headliners’ and their various other experiences. So, here is mine. Whilst this is still a very new … Continue reading Festival Review: Maid of Stone 2024 Part 1 – Saturday 20th July
Having already hoisted their flag into the UK Top 10 with their previous album See Through Blue, South Wales' Scarlet Rebels are poised to fire Welsh rock back into the mainstream spotlight with their new album Where the Colours Meet, announced today. Accompanying this hotly anticipated announcement (which was stoked further with frontman Wayne Doyle's … Continue reading Scarlet Rebels announce third album
It’s Guy Fawkes night and the streets of Digbeth are thick with the smell of fireworks as the explode off in the distance. Meanwhile, the streets themselves are fairly empty, save for the exception of a set of people dressed up as Mario, Luigi, Yoshi et al with the odd er-by shouting “It’s a-me, Mario!” … Continue reading Gig Review: Fozzy / Escape the Fate / Scarlet Rebels – O2 Institute, Birmingham (5th November 2022)
It doesn’t matter how many times you come to this festival, arriving at the top of the mountain is a feeling like nothing else. The pure friendliness of the volunteers and organisers, the camaraderie between the fans and the quality of the line up improves year on year. Once up the ‘road’, parked up and … Continue reading Festival Review: Steelhouse Festival 2022 – Hafod-y-Dafal Farm, Ebbw Vale (29th – 31st July)