The Bunkhouse, Swansea Friday, 9th February 2024 Swansea… breaker of dreams and, for a long time, the cultural equivalent of putting the bins out. But wait! Things are beginning to change, and we’re now seeing bands from as far away…
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The arrival of a new Godsticks album is always welcome, and their latest release, This is What A Winner Looks Like, is certainly that! The headline is that this is, in my opinion at least, their finest work yet. There…
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FUEL Rock Club, Cardiff Thursday, 22nd June 2023 In a small venue, you get a decent impression of the crowd and their tastes from the t-shirts on display. At this Godsticks show at Fuel Rock Club in Cardiff, alongside the…
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Abingdon United Football Club, Oxfordshire 1st & 2nd July, 2022 A year ago, the first outing of this wonderful little festival, in aid of Glioblastoma Multiforme Research (for the particular form of brain cancer that ultimately took the life of…
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Fuel Rock Club, Cardiff Thursday, 9th September 2021 Last week I attended my first large-scale outdoor show in what seems like aeons, this week it’s back to the clubs for the first date on Godsticks’ short tour of the UK,…
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It’s over two years since Godsticks’ last album, the classy and visceral Faced With Rage, and four since they resolutely punched the button marked ‘HEAVY’ with Emergence, so I’ve been looking forward to hearing where they head with this one.…
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Hafan Y Mor Haven Holiday Park, Pwllheli, Wales 17th & 18th November 2017 HRH Prog 6 put on display an impressive range of bands old and new in the now familiar yet remotely beautiful North Wales location. Following on only…
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Godsticks return with their fourth album, Faced With Rage. Formed in Cardiff during 2008, after a debut EP they released their first album, Spiral Vendetta, in 2010. I have followed Godsticks since their tentative and rather nervous set at the…
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The Bierkeller, Bristol Sunday, 17th September 2017 If I may, I’d like to propose a toast to the Gods of Serendipity. Now I don’t often pay homage to deities of indeterminate origin – or any others for that matter –…
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Islington Assembly Hall, London 11th February 2017 On a night when The Pineapple Thief played to an enthusiastic sold out Islington Assembly Hall at the end of triumphant European tour, it seems appropriate to note that pineapples used to be…
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