North East Music Previews and Reviews
Review: Trivium, O2 Academy, Newcastle
FOR metal bands there is no higher accolade than being mentioned in the same breath as Metallica.
Review: Reverend and the Makers, Empire, Middlesbrough
JON McClure is a bit like Liam Gallagher, Pete Doherty - and Marmite - you either love him or loathe him.
Review: X Factor, Metro Radio Arena
THE fact that X Factor can command four capacity shows at the Metro Radio Arena in Newcastle is proof of just how big this reality TV show has become.
Review: Grizzly Bear, The Sage Gateshead
THIS was, despite the luscious harmonies and addictive hooks, certainly not a night of easy listening.
Review: Steve Howe Trio, The Sage Gateshead
BACK in the day, before X-Factor came along and made massive stars of mediocrities, you had to learn an instrument and get very good and very lucky before you made it.
Review: Charlemagne Palestine, St Thomas's Church, Newcastle
FOR four and three-quarter hours, the organ of St Thomas’s Church in Newcastle proved equal to the demands of avant garde composer and musician Charlemagne Palestine.
Review: Newcastle Bach Choir, The Sage Gateshead
JS BACH blew forth from his 18th Century Leipzig to the banks of the Tyne on Sunday night courtesy of Newcastle Bach Choir.
Review: Katherine Jenkins, Metro Radio Arena
CIRCUS acts and trapeze artists are not the kind of visuals you would expect to see at a Katherine Jenkins show.
Review: The Futureheads, O2 Academy, Newcastle
THE Sunderland post-punk favourites topped the bill at a packed-out Academy on Thursday for a night of some of the best new music from across the UK.
