Gig Reviews

Accept still has a beating metal heart. Joel Hoekstra’s final gig with the band was a masterclass in how it should be done. What a great heavy metal band this is. Long may they keep touring and entertain us.

Groove to the max when Electric Boys rocked Sweden’s best rock festival.

A knockout performance by The Darkness in a dark Swedish forest. A fantastic rock show based on sweat, passion and four guys applying themselves.

Mr Big’s Big Finish at the Skogsröjet festival in Sweden. While it is sad when a great band calls it quits, Mr Big does so while they are still in their prime.

A reunited Swedish Erotica built a high-energy rock’n’roll city in the woods.

A tearful confession of a guitar-loving rock critic: Maestro Marty Friedman can do no wrong when he holds a guitar.

Girlschool is still all about denim and leather and catchy classic British hard rock. Fabulous no nonsense rock’n’roll.

British rockers The Cult showed us they are still relevant with a headline gig at Skogsröjet.

Is Canadian power trio Danko Jones the perfect rock festival act? Quite possibly so.

Dutch guitarist Adrian Vandenberg celebrated the music of Whitesnake and Vandenberg at the Skogsröjet festival in Sweden.

Deep Purple isn’t a bunch of lazy sods. They are a hardworking veteran rock band that still delivers.

47 years after their legendary Japan tour of 1977, Angel finally returned to Japan.

Welsh rockers Skindred slayed Tokyo with a headline show in Shibuya.