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Tag Archives: Cumbria
EP review: BULLETPROOF ROSE – Loud Hard Fast

Self Release [Release date 27.04.15] If you are looking for some real feel good rock you could do a lot worse than to spin the debut EP, ‘Loud Hard Fast’, by Cumbrian rock band, Bullletproof Rose. Not the most original … Continue reading
Posted in ALL POSTS, Single and EP reviews
Tagged AC/DC, AIRBOURNE, Bulletproof Rose, Cumbria, EP, Loud Hard Fast, review, rock, Twisted Sister
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Quick plays – MANUMIT, COLT 45, SUSAN AQUILA

Album review: MANUMIT – Digital and Hostile Lost Generation Records [Release date - 01.09.14] Manumit is a solo artist from Bridgend in Wales. Influenced by the likes of Pendulum and Paramore he attempts to ‘bond genres’. A DVD will also … Continue reading
Posted in ALBUM REVIEWS, ALBUM REVIEWS (Mobile), ALL POSTS, Quick Plays
Tagged Adam Lewis, album, Bandit, Bridgend, CD, Colt 45, Cumbria, Digital and Hostile, Download Festival, electro, Gareth Jenkins, Larusso, Manumit, Neil Harper, Paramore, Pendulum, pop, punk, review, rock, Skullfunk, Susan Aquila, Tanyth, The Tide Is Turning, Young Guns
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Gig review: SOLFEST, Cumbria, 23-25 August 2013

Solfest is a small festival with a big heart. It’s a celebration of music and community. Solfest feels like an enormous family reunion and perhaps even more so this year as it was Solfests 10th Anniversary. To celebrate the occasion … Continue reading
Posted in ALL POSTS, GIG REVIEWS, Special Events
Tagged 23-25 August 2013, Cumbria, festival, Flogging Molly, folk, Maximo Park, New Model Army, rock, Solfest, The Joy Formidable, The Undertones
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Gig review: SOLFEST – Cumbria, 24-26 August 2012

SOLFEST, Cumbria 24-26 August Three days of brisk Cumbrian air and artists including KT Tunstall, The Waterboys and Big Country Read more… Featured Artist: JOSH TAERK Since early 2020 Josh has been entertaining us with exclusive monthly live sessions, streamed … Continue reading
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Tagged 24-26 August 2012, Big Country, Cumbria, festival, KT Tunstall, Larkin Poe, music, rock, Saint Jude, Seth Lakeman, Solfest, The Waterboys
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