King Tut's Wah Wah But - Weekend Debt, Ritz, Beafets & Bight.

We're a week since we embarked on the 6month tradition of heading north of the border! Me and Richard got in the car and headed 200miles to Glasgow to watch *pause for suspension* Weekend Debt. Not many bands tick that box that'll get us traveling miles, spending money and drinking excessively on a Sunday in the middle of god-damn-January!

Our Playlist

On the back of the release of latest single Legato (if you havent listened to it then what are you actually doing here? Go listen, then come back) it's obscene how progressive their sound is. Each time just another notch up! We have far less talented people selling arenas and these lads, doing very well, but still ain't got the recognition deserve.

I'm not gonna talk about the journey, the after-party at Priory or the after after party. See my previous posts, all I'm gonna say is this year! This year! The drive and commitment is pushing the lads, new management - if they aren't in Manchester by the end of summer then we're putting a night on ourselves.

So who is was at King Tuts? Well this January a lot of bands over the full month. Specifically 12th Jan?

Weekend Debt
The Ritz
Beafets
Bight

This was a pretty good line up, honestly never heard of the latter 3 but I'm glad I have now (Playlist at the bottom).

Bight, lo-fi dream pop trio. I like them in my car and when chilling. It wasnt the greatest start when I'm tired, slightly unwell and trying to get in the mood for some upbeat music.

Beafets, now were talking! This Scottish indie band got a lovely set of songs. Catchy tunes and really fun, Rotary Dial stuck in my head and I was singing it from 1 listen!

The Ritz, another great band! Very energetic, very fun and dual vocals add a nice depth. Check out 4am it's definitely a song you want in your playlist.

Weekend Debt, ok I've bigged them up enough, i don't know how I can add more to say how much we buzz from their music, energy and great songs. Well this is how, they up their ante! They dropped a new songs, some unreleased ones and those tracks are a step up! On all instruments and taking feedback to the extreme! The lights, sound, vocals, guitars, smoke... all on point! Drums were bouncing and loud just how we like them.

We also got introduced to guitarist from Joesef, if you ain't checked out Joesef then you need to. Added to playlist too!

Anyway here's a new more pics and the playlist!

Weekend Debt

Ritz

Beafets

For now Mx

Fireball 2019! Goldfinger & Less Than Jake

This was my first actual gig I've been to alone, I've seen bands by myself at festivals, but never  full gig alone... why haven't I done this before? IT WAS AMAZING.

Having seen Less Than Jake at Slamdunk and Goldfinger not long back, as well as trying to save money I almost gave this a miss. Then I saw Mike Herrera was playing on bass and he also announced an acoustic gig at the Dancehouse... Well I couldn't say no, ticket bought and it was worth it. Not managed to see MxPx live, despite the huge influence Doin Time and Punk Rawk Show has had on my life, so I needed to get there. 

I mean Punk, ska, LTJ, Goldfinger at the Ritz with a little bit of MxPx touch. There. There. There! It was everything you expect and more, and finally got to hear Rest Of My Life live! Amazing.

I'm going to sign off now but expect more next week

Mx

Michael's Mini Post #6 - Delayed Return.

Ahh erm. Yea. Not coming home just yet... Anyway that's my input on football for 4 years.

On to the task at hand, the real reason we are here. So what's happened in the 5 days since my last post?

Well a number 1 challenge has been laid to get pop punk legends Green Day to number 1 with American Idiot... And I doubt Frank Skinner will remain top for much longer, so will we see this Music protest to the presidential visit take off?
For anyone interested it's here:
https://open.spotify.com/track/6nTiIhLmQ3FWhvrGafw2zj?si=K6ht0NE-R_WQzlEXS28ZIQ


This week I've also been mixing up my playlist. Which is something I do very often, but when it comes to here I tend to keep all things Guitar and Drums based. Today I'm going to drop a playlist of a difference - Dance, Deep House, Trance & more... yea we're going all things Electronic!

We have some new, some old, some classics, some remixes and (in blog style) some upcoming artists!
Featuring: Gala, Florence & Calvin, Storm Queen, Marc Kinchen, Oliver Helden, Maya Jane Coles, Becky Hill, M-22, Felix Cartel and N.A.N.C.Y

These are some names you know some you might not, if you only listen to one track check out N.A.N.C.Y. She's got a handful of tracks and always dropping some live beats on Facebook & Instagram  as well as SoundCloud. Very talented and having seen her progressing over the last 10 years from residentials across the UK & Ireland to Closing major Festivals & massive gigs over in Ibiza, I can definitely recommend!

In other news : 

On the Synthpop front Years&Years released their 2nd album Palo Santo. Which is pretty decent, certainly a few good tracks on their which they haven't released as singles: All For You, Karma and Preacher to name a few.

On the Indie/Pop front: The Hunna release their 2nd Album Dare tomorrow. Their singles so far have been 50/50 some sounds a little too similar to last album see Summer/Brother. And Flicking Your Hair sounds a little sell out see Flicking Ur hair - Far too One Direction! However some of their tracks sound decent and hold that Hunna love we got from 100! 
Hope Dare holds more of the latter, especially since Warner have plugged it so much for 6months.

Finally - The Killers play Bolton Stadium this week and we're going :D. More on that over the weekend.

The Breaks, Waiting for Titor & HoneySpider - Sanctuary, Burnley

It's Saturday, Burnley, and we're waiting on watching The Breaks.
A 5 piece band from Burnley / Manchester. The guys just recently signed a new manager, a  friend of mine Jason Wilkinson (who recommended them to us).

Getting to Sanctuary was pretty easy, as long as you park outside and don't try any of the mutli-story car parks around, which were shut #shouldhavecheckedfirst.
Alistair, the guitarist, supporting a broken wrist from what we will call a 'football incident'.

Soundcheck was delayed and the bands started a little later than expected. That wasn't the only sound hitch of the night, but this is live music, so... fuck it.

Starting out with Waiting for Titor, who we'd listen to a couple of times and like the sound of. These guys are tight 4 piece that we later found out were from Italy and made the travel to play tonight! Mega Kudos.
They reek of Angry Teen Rebellion, taking us back to the Angst of our youth. Which Mr Foxon was there to confirm is still a popular sub-culture today.

The influence from Nine Inch Nails and Depeche Mode is evident, you can draw similarities with Linkin Park and Poets of The Fall at time's.  These fellas definitely pack a heavy punch live, more than they do on studio recordings. Wish we got more hard energy and head banging metal through on their EP, so I can relive it.

Chuck in some good old head banging and mic swinging, they really kicked the night off!


Over to The Breaks. The 5 lads took to the stage, their front man, and distortion loving lead singer, Niall has an air of early Simon Niel cross Dave Grohl.
The guys sound much better live than comes across on their EPs. With all amps cranked to 11 and a distorted mic - giving them their signature sound, which at times reminds you of an amalgamation of Slipknot & System of a down with James-esq rifts, coupled with Alex Turner / Brian Molko lyrics.

The guys have a raw talent for writing catchy well rounded tunes, with stick in your head hooks and some sweet guitar rifts.

The Distortion is borderline between Good and too much, I can see why the band use it as it as a sweet distinctness, but I could also empathise with critiques from those who want to know, and sing a long to, everyword - sometimes it makes it difficult to follow. Don't let that put you off though, have a little patience and you're really in for a treat.

They even dropped a cover of Drake - One Dance which was pretty epic TBF!

We're going to catch up with the guys a bit more and find out about the meanings of some of their songs, there is a trail of mystery and story running through their tracks which we're eager to understand.


A little disappointed when it came to HoneySpider, on paper and on Spotify they sounded rather good - but the volume was far too high. When the lead singer of a metal hand has his finger in his ears  you know it's not going well, that coupled with a Distorted mic, distortion maybe carried over from the breaks, or maybe intentional, really damped their performance.

At this point we split for the journey home, HoneySpider sounded better from outside and we managed to appreciate them more.

Check out The Breaks over at
https://thebreaks.bandcamp.com

Or listen to the three bands on this playlist



🤘 Michael & Riche

FULL PICTURES AND VIDEOS HERE

http://blog.alifeofmusic.rocks/p/photos-of-waiting-for-titor.html

Intro To Summer

Good morning boys, girls and extraterrestrials!

I'm Jen and I'm here to bring a woman's perspective to the blog. I, similarly to my colleagues here at ALOMR love music, which I realise is such a non statement as a vast majority of people in this world could say the same, point is I'm really into it!  I listen to pop, pop punk, metal, heavy rock, house music, synth pop, 80s and electronic. A bit of everything really! I love fast-paced, upbeat anthems that ensure you can't be feeling blue.

Today I've made a playlist of those fun, extra summery tunes that are perfect to listen to when enjoying these gorgeous summer days.

Enjoy!

https://open.spotify.com/user/8kmofswi2akbkxq1xm52uefyb/playlist/0IhN45afCgMWKtQVbyc7pl?si=j9lV8YPLTh2kMgDbNVeJsw

I Can't Stand It - Blossoms
Starting off this playlist is one of my favourite summery songs right now and potentially THE song of the summer, the catchy chorus and upbeat vibes makes it a must listen.

Red Flag - Billy Talent
Is it even a summer playlist without this banger of a pop punk tune on it?!
Billy Talent were made for summer, driound, windows down, sunglasses on, music loud!

Home - Nickelback
Now I know it's cool to hate Nickelback these days, however I defy you to listen to this song and not end up tapping your feet and bobbing your head, even singing along by the end. They make a catchy song, try and deny it!

Forget Me Not - Brian Fallon
Lots of pop punk vibes throughout this song from Brian Fallon's new masterpiece, 'Sleepwalkers'

March 2018 - New Music Playlists

New music playlists - March 2018. This month's top shares all in one place.







https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0xezEVuOp9fmH0tMJhLCl8

RavenEye - A Refreshing take on Hard Rock

When it comes to Hard Rock I like my music like a good Whisky, Aged. I generally find it difficult to adopt a new band into my Hard Rock fold, I'd be saying minimum 10 years preferably 40s. Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple, Audioslave, early Foo Fighters. Now don't get me wrong, I do like recent Foo Fighters, but much like all bands - the first few albums tend to be the best!

I have dabbled with some new Hard Rock bands, some of the super groups too, but I have never been grabbed... until I was introduced to RavenEye by a friend (Cheers over to Jason Wilkinson). RavenEye comprising of Blues guitarist Oli Brown along with Australian bassist Aaron Spiers and drummer Kev Hickman, released their original EP Breaking Out in 2015, then their 11 track album Nova in 2016. Followed up by supporting Aerosmith in 2017!

Listening to them I feel like if Chris Cornell joined the Foo Fighters, during his break from Soundgarden in the late 90's, then this is the sound they produced. Now you can't sum a band in as few words, there is so much more to RavenEye so I'd really recommend you have a listen (their first EP Breaking Out is below)

Hey Hey Yeah is their most listened to Track, and there are more out there if you like what you hear. Just need even more!

Valentine's Day Metal Playlist

It's Valentine's day and it may seem that everywhere you turn this year, all you hear is bloody Ed Sheeran or Rita Ora. We don't like to criticise anybody's taste in music here, but if you are reading this blog, chances are you want something different.

Metal isn't all doom and gloom. So, for a little change today, I thought I'd raid my wife's Spotify, and create a playlist of Valentine's Day Metal!!

So for those of you who wanna "rock 'n romantic", have a listen to what is probably the only Valentine's playlist with Slipknot on it. This playlist is most certainly not safe for work (especially Nine Inch Nails). Have a nice day, guys.

Sunday Morning Chillout Playlist

So on Friday my brother moved back to England from Australia. Having been over 12months since I last saw him there was a lot of catching up to do, and alcohol to drink. After a good 12hour catch up, lots of music sharing and story telling we crashed out.

Saturday - Write off.

Which leads me to Sunday. 2 day hangovers are pretty much part and parcel of getting older. I need some music to gradually raise my mood, here it is then, some Sunday Morning Chill to gradually pick you up and get you in the mood for the day.

The latest tracks of 2018... Franz Ferdinand, Jack White, Weekend Debt, Lissie, Pale Waves and more

Top Punk Covers

So spent the day listening to Punk covers, here's a few of my top ones. Originally I set out to share my top 10, but I came across this amazing Daft Punk cover by Halestorm so that's tagged on too.

Link to my spotify playlist, if you fancy a listen
Spotify : Playlist Top Punk Covers

In no particular order:

Little Lion Man - Tonight Alive
Lose Yourself - Cut Down Clay 
The Boys of Summer - The Ataris
Payphone - Crown The Empire
I Melt With You - Mest
Somebody That I Used to Know - Mayday Parade
My Own Worst Enemy - Get Scared
Dead and Gone - Cute Is What We Aim For
Rolling In The Deep - Go Radio
Sweater Weather - Slaves
Get Lucky - Halestorm