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Radstock Festival Returns To The 02 Academy in 2014.

RADSTOCK FESTIVAL, the U.K.’s newest one-day, ten hour indoor festival is back for 2014 with not one, but two all-day festival dates, now in the North East as well as the North West, each with more than 24 bands across three stages!

Radstock Festival 2014 returns to its home in O2 Academy Liverpool on Saturday 29th March with an additional date at the O2 Academy Newcastle on Sunday 30th March, both from 1pm-11pm.

Headlining RADSTOCK 2014 will be Welsh screamo pioneers and veterans, Funeral For A Friend, plus the mighty Kids In Glass Houses, Yashin, Feed The Rhino, Fearless Vampire Killers, Heights, Me Vs Hero, Crooks, The Hype Theory, Hey Vanity, Cytota and Bentley Park with even more artists still to be announced!

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Shakespears Sister, Gig Review. o2 Academy Liverpool.

Photograph by Ian D. Hall.

Originally published by L.S. Media. April 17th 2010.

Although Siobhan Fahey has been around the music scene since the early eighties, (originally with the pop friendly girl group Bananarama and then with the critically successful Shakespears Sister), the opening night of the tour seemed like the start of new career for this artistically creative woman.

Coming on stage, dressed in a silver, futuristic sci-fi outfit, she wowed everybody present by producing one hell of a gig. Opening the set with the vocally strong Heroine and Goodbye Cruel World Siobhan banished any fears of how she would come across on stage by being enigmatic and a true performer in every sense of the word.

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The Alarm, Gig Review. o2 Academy Liverpool.

The Alarm in Liverpool. Photograph by Ian D. Hall.

Originally published by L.S. Media. May 4th 2010

The last night of a tour is always quite emotional for any band, but for Mike Peters and the Alarm it is always special when they finish their tour in Liverpool. Mike has a lot of affection for this city and it comes through in a lot of the lyrics that the band has written over the years.

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(451 words, 1 image, estimated 1:48 mins reading time)

Gary Numan, Gig Review. O2 Academy Liverpool.

Gary Numan at the o2 Academy, Liverpool. Photograph by Ian D. Hall

Originally published by the L.S. Media. September 21st 2011.

L.S. Media Rating *****

Gary Numan has some of the most faithful followers in the music industry. From his beginning at the end of the 1970’s as the new pop hero with his new and experimental sounds and film noir look through to the present day where he is seen by some as the Godfather of Industrial Metal, they have stuck by him, added more along the way and through it all, Gary has been given everything back in stunning performances and music that can make grown men act like children in his presence.

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U.F.O, Gig Review. o2 Academy Liverpool.

Photograph by Ian D. Hall.

Originally published by L.S. Media. December 5th 2010.

For the best part of the last 40 years U.F.O. have been one of definitive names of the British Rock and Heavy Metal. They are consistent in their approach to studio albums and the energy they thrive upon is all laid out before them whenever they do a tour or show.

The band opened up a night of pulsating, ear drum splitting music with Saving Me from 2009’s The Visitation. This was the bands 20th studio album and on the evidence of the night’s performance, they show no sign of slowing down and calling it a day.

U.F.O, Gig Review. o2 Academy Liverpool. full post

(345 words, 1 image, estimated 1:23 mins reading time)