Author Archives: Ian
Blind Eye–Fibbers, 01/04/16
Tonight reminded me of those halcyon days when I first started attending local gigs, with my then-regular gig-buddies. Evenings where York bands would headline a bill of three or four bands, some of which we might have come across in … Continue reading
Posted in Live Music
Tagged Blind Eye, Fibbers, Minster Conspiracy, Sugarking, The Blinders
Leave a comment
Von Hertzen Brothers–The Duchess, 22/03/16
Back in 2013, at the end of their double-headline gig with Touchstone, Mikko Von Hertzen told the crowd at The Duchess that they would be coming back. At the time, after what ended up being one of my favourite gigs … Continue reading
Reef–Fibbers, 18/03/16
Photos provided by and © Marc McGarraghy, whose work can be found on Facebook or the Yellow Mustang website. Thanks, as always, go to him for allowing me to use them. Desert Mountain Tribe kicked off their set with a … Continue reading
Týr–Fibbers, 19/02/16
Until last year I hadn’t realised that there was a traditional Viking metal gig at Fibbers to mark the end of York’s annual Viking festival. Moonsorrow, the headliners in 2015 might have been just outside my musical comfort zone – … Continue reading
Ben Poole/Stevie Nimmo–Fibbers, 05/02/16
Big bloke, Scottish, playing the Blues, name of Nimmo – we’ve been here before, haven’t we? Well, no. While I’ve seen Alan Nimmo’s band three times, I’ve never seen his brother, Stevie, before tonight. In fact, being a relative newcomer … Continue reading
FM–Fibbers, 27/01/16
Although it’s no secret that my current musical genre of choice is prog-rock (and that it will take some shifting), my first love, when I started to listening to music properly, back in secondary school, was a the more generic … Continue reading
Lindi Ortega–The Duchess, 20/01/16
Despite once being accused, somewhat inaccurately, of having a preponderance of Canadian artistes in my CD collection, tonight was to be, as far as I can remember, the first time I have seen a Canadian perform live since I saw … Continue reading
2015 In Review–Part 2, The CDs
I hit a major milestone in my CD collection in 2015 – breaking through the one thousand album mark (with the slight caveat that that figure includes four duplicates – more on that later). This was achieved through that fact … Continue reading
Posted in CD Review, Year in Review
1 Comment
Not Quite Music Journalism 