As Airbourne prepare to hit the road with Black Stone Cherry for the southern rockers’ UK and Ireland arena tour, we head back to last December, when the Aussie rockers tore Bristol’s O2 Academy a new one. Here’s Joel O’Keeffe during his walkabout through the crowd!
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This weekend, Cardiff’s venues will once again hum to the sound of Sŵn Festival, with this year’s festivities taking the form of the one-day DimSŵn event. The Amazing Snakeheads, Woman’s Hour, the Wytches, Trwbador, Cian Ciaran, Prides, Glass Animals, Happyness and more will all tread the boards at venues including Clwb Ifor Bach, Gwdihw, Moon Club, Buffalo, Four Bars and the Cardiff Fashion Quarter. Head here for the full schedule.
Last year, Sŵn was a roaring success, eventually scooping the NME Award for Best Small Festival. In this week’s Throwback Thursday we have a shot of Womanby Street, including Clwb Ifor Bach and the Moon Club, during the four day event by the excellent Craig Thomas of Tallboy Images.
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With the X Factor’s live tour set to invade UK and Ireland arenas next spring, this week’s Throwback Thursday focuses on Alexandra Burke, who won the reality TV contest back in 2008. Here we see her in full flow at Cardiff’s Motorpoint Arena on January 28, 2011, during the tour for her debut album, ‘Overcome’.
Olly Murs emerged this week to announce his new album – ‘Never Been Better’ – so the latest edition of Throwback Thursday is a cheeky look back at his Cardiff Motorpoint Arena show in May 2011, when he was on the road in support of his self-titled debut.
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Following their announcement of a Christmas show at Cardiff University’s Y Plas venue, we’ve rolled back the clock to August 5, 2011 to see Funeral For A Friend’s Matt Davies-Kreye in action at the city’s Big Weekend festival.
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With the arrival of their new album, ‘No Sound Without Silence’, the Script have returned with more arena anthems to forcibly remove that lighter from your pocket. In this week’s edition of Throwback Thursday we’ve pointed our internet Delorean to March 19, 2013, when Danny O’Donoghue and the boys landed at Cardiff’s Motorpoint Arena.
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This week, Biffy Clyro were confirmed as headliners for the latest Relentless Live, which will take over London’s Troxy on November 22. The show will be a rare theatre outing for the Scottish rock trio, with fans also eagerly anticipating their trio of Glasgow Barrowlands gigs in December. In Throwback Thursday we’ve wound the clock back to March 22, 2013 to catch Simon Neil in full flow at Cardiff’s Motorpoint Arena.
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With news arriving this week that Cardiff’s much-loved Sŵn Festival will be taking a break this year – with a one-day event, DimSŵn, temporarily stepping in – it seems apt to rewind the clock to a little under a year ago, when Bo Ningen redecorated Clwb Ifor Bach with their sonic shenanigans during the 2013 edition of the fest. My ears still haven’t quite recovered. See you at DimSŵn.
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This week, Sam Duckworth began his final tour under the name Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly. Almost a decade on from the release of ‘The Chronicles Of A Bohemian Teenager’, the Southend songsmith will soon hang up this particular set of spurs, continuing to create music under his own name and following up two recent solo records – ‘The Mannequin’ and ‘Saving Grace’. Here, as he builds up to a farewell show at London’s Forum on September 12, we roll back the clock to October 23, 2011 and Duckworth’s set at Clwb Ifor Bach as part of that year’s Sŵn Festival.
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Reading and Leeds. A weekend of noise, beers and music to rival just about any other. In 2014, Queens of the Stone Age, Paramore, Arctic Monkeys and Blink 182 will headline, with a plethora of treats dotted throughout the bill, Crossfaith among them. The Japanese metallers have become festival bankers in recent years and this weekend they’ll turn out early doors at Reading to get things going. They rarely fail to deliver.
Here, in the latest edition of Throwback Thursday, we wind the clock back to May 5, 2013, when they threw down the gauntlet to headliners Bring Me The Horizon at Cardiff University. Meanwhile, if you’re going to Reading and Leeds, you can check out our preview here.
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