Festival review: Red Roar Festival - 11-13/09/09
(alan@rockmatrix.co.uk)
When a group of promoters get together and plan to organise, promote and run a festival within an 8 week period, some of you would think it is time to pull out the strait-jackets! Despite this incredibly tight schedule over 100 bands and 1500 fans squeezed into the Red Lion music venue/pub in Gravesend between Friday 11th and Sunday 13th September for...
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Gig Review: Band Quest Kent Metal Heat 2 @ Red Lion - 19/02/10
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Tonight saw three very professional bands competing against each other in another heat of Band Quest 2010. rnrnTempestora (8/10) opened the night with some gnashing, metallica-style thrash metal. For a three-piece they had a solid wall of sound and the solos blared through, gritty and fast. The vocals had a Tom Araya style rasp and the drums beat out...
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Gig review: Band Quest Kent Metal Semi 2 @ Red Lion - 23/04/10
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The Band Quest pressure is certainly on, now that the metal semi-finals have come to the Red Lion. It's been a while since the first band of the night has played to a full room, but tonight was a good night for Training Icarus (9/10), unleashing their exotic sounding set upon the crowd. The singer returned to the venue with more confidence, bantering with...
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Gig review: Band Quest Kent Metal Final @ Red Lion - 30/05/10
(alan@rockmatrix.co.uk)
It was only a year ago when Snakebite stormed to the Bloodstock Metal 2 The Masses Kent title with Denounce taking the overall Band Quest honours. A year can be a long time though and since then some of the local acts had split, fallen into a state of comatose or simply moved on.rnrnWhile Falling Empire opened up last years final with a ferocious set of...
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Gig review: Splintered Soul + Zocalo @ Red Lion - 17/07/10
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Any traveller, for whom Crete Hall Road is virgin territory, is met by a demolition site, a dead end, and barely a breath of life for around 3 miles. That is, until they spot The Red Lion: Gravesend's primary epicenter for rock 'n' roll spice. And that epicenter is in full swing at 8.30 tonight, as the main stage kicks off with SONS OF TORMENT (7/10). An...
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