Rammstein: Paris

All being well on Sunday 14th June 2020 I should have been in Cardiff experiencing the spectacle of Rammstein live from the so-called ‘Feuerzone’ but, ‘what with one thing and another,’ that show has been postponed by a year so I took the opportunity to find the next best thing and watch the Neue Deutsche Härte band’s 2017 concert film,...

Western Stars

This is an excerpt of an article written by Tom Girard When Bruce Springsteen released his latest album, Western Stars, in June 2019 there was a rumbling of dissatisfaction from some sections of his fan base that there didn’t appear to be any kind of extensive promotional tour for the record. That concern was, supposedly, answered though when a movie...

Black Sabbath – The End (Blu-ray)

This is an excerpt of an article written by Tom Girard A little over two years ago, as I write this, the band that really defined what became heavy metal called it a day after a farewell world tour that wound up in their home city of Birmingham England. Dubbed The End this final Black Sabbath concert was captured on...