DEFTONES – Big Outdoor LONDON Show 29 June 2025
DEFTONES
Crystal Palace Park, London
29 June 2025
Tickets for sale from 8 November
on, via Ticketmaster.
Live
THE CURE Played Their New Magnum Opus ‘SONGS OF A LOST WORLD’ In Full In London – Watch The Show Here
5 November 2024
Goth Gods THE CURE released their 14th album, their
first in 16 years, titled Songs Of A Lost World last Friday.
A stunning, heart-and-soul stirring longplayer mostly inspired by
maestro Robert Smith‘s loss of his brother and parents the past
16 years.
TUTV: “The most drastically soul-stirring record I heard all year, accentuating how
sorrow can overwhelm and hurt one’s heart and mind. It’s a universal experience that
millions, and millions of people who lost loved ones – past, present and future – can
relate to.”
Unquestionable contender for Album Of The Year.
On the album’s release day, November 1st, the band played their new
magnum opus in full (and ended with a series of past hits) at The Roxy
in London (OMG, I wish I was there). The concert was streamed in real
time on the internet.
If you’re a fan, and you missed
it, here’s the full 3-hour show.
Post-Punk Götterdämmerung With British Misfits LICE In Belgium
2 November 2024
LICE are a post-punk hit team from Bristol, UK. Last September they released
their second longplayer, named Third Time At The Beach (stream/buy it below).
It follows their smashing debut WASTELAND: What Ails our People Is Clear
from 2021.
They’re in the middle of a European tour with fellow Brits Deathletter.
On Halloween night they made a stop on their own, in my hometown of
Ghent (their 2nd visit here), for a freaky Halloween gig. The misfits didn’t
need horror masks to get us all in the Texas Chainsaw Massacre mood.
They have Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (real name: Alastair Shuttleworth, really?)
as their demonic voice right in the middle.
Offstage he’s like the nice guy from next door, on stage he turns into a Götterdämmerung creep screaming his 4 lungs out amidst a blistering cacophony of electricity. Sonic exorcism. Schizophrenic outbursts. Dante‘s inferno in motion. Break-up, break-down. Labyrinth paranoia and other related straight jacket hysteria. Lyrically, he mixes reality and surreality with his hallucinations and accentuates the resulting insanity up there on the podium with deafening shrieks that surpass the legal amount of decibels.
Here’s an idea.
It all felt like having an electric chair experience (again). Scary, blood-curdling and totally maniacal. Awesome, right? You bloody betcha. Go and see them if you can. It’s worth the brain-shock.
STREAM/BUY
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Lice: Linktree
Beware, they only look nice (photo by Dani Bolton – @theredbeanienz)
BILLIE EILISH – Tour 2025
Astronomic superstar BILLIE EILISH released her 3rd album
Hit Me Hard And Soft. Another one that sold and still sells like
daily bread.
New record. New tour.
Hats off for what she accomplished so far, making
countless fans around the world happy.
I’m not an Eilish follower
but this was/is a great song
and a fantastic live moment.
METALLICA Keep On Touring ’72 SEASONS’ In 2025
PRIMAVERA SOUND 2025 – Barcelona, Spain
THE RATS – Belgian Punk Bitpulls Fronted By Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Went Live With New EP ‘Disco To Disco’
4 October 2024
Band: THE RATS
Who: 5 ambitious noisemakers
from Ghent, Belgium.
TUTV: These Belgian up-and-coming punk pitbulls released their
contender for best EP of the year, named DISCO TO DISCO last month.
Last Wednesday, they threw a raw and rough release party. Wowzers. I guess their unbridled intensity matches an electric chair experience. Furious frontman Emile
is the maddening man in the middle. Off-stage he’s as sweet as Dr. Jekyll, on stage
he turns into a badass Mr. Hyde bastard with shorts on. Backed by a bulldozing rats
artillery, these manic misfits made me think of the infamous Henry Rollins Band .
Fast-forward fireworks, nasty left/right punch after nasty left/right
punch, headbutt after headbutt, and spitting and sneering all over
the sweaty sauna club.
Their smashing debut EP gets lots of adrenaline shots live up there on the podium.
Post-punk at its sharp-teethed best with Old Flames as everybody’s favourite (watch
the clip below). In a normal world (does that even exist?) this roaring riff-ripper should
be on top of the indie charts all over this messed-up planet.
Footage by KinkyStarCeSoir (thanks, Wouter)
The band’s message was very loud and crystal clear: they are here to stay and
have no intention whatsoever to stop attacking your ears and your speakers and
go nuts at their alive and kicking performances. The rat race has only started.
Hail hail, motherrockers!
Stream/buy DISCO TO DISCO right here
and have yourself a jolly good moshpit.
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Linktree
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN Was Born To Tour – New UK/Europe Dates 2025
OASIS – International Dates 2025 Announced
What about Europe, bros?
Toronto, Canada
Chicago, US
East Rutherford, New Jersey, US
Boston, US
Los Angeles, US
Mexico City, Mexico
Seoul, South Korea
Tokyo, Japan
Melbourne, Australia
Sydney, Australia
Sao Paulo, Brazil
Santiago, Chile
Buenos Aires, Argentina
THE DANDY WARHOLS Landed In Brussels Last Sunday – Messy Concert
Last Sunday THE DANDY WARHOLS played in Brussels. I saw Portland‘s mean
groove machine several times before, but this concert was a letdown. Not the
Dandys fault, it was the awful sound-mix that messed it all up. Frontman Courtney
Taylor-Taylor‘s vocals drowned in a pool of distorted havoc.
They released their pretty good 12th album Rockmaker last
March (you can stream it below), but only played a couple (not
the best ones) of tracks off of it.
The band wasn’t, except for keyboardist (and guitar now and then) Zia McCabe (still looking drop-dead gorgeous), weren’t in an interactive mood, so wasn’t the lukewarm crowd. Bummer gig. It can happen to the best. Last Sunday wasn’t a holiday.
ROCKMAKER
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TDW: Linktree
All photos by Turn Up The Volume.