Live Review : Graveyard + Kadavar + Polymoon @ Academy 3, Manchester on May 4th 2023

The blues are the foundation on which all modern music is built. If you slice hard enough into any current genre, be it black metal or be it trap hop you will eventually find the blues. It is a quintessential cornerstone of everything we consider to be rock, pop, dance or metal. Sometimes it's a hidden, almost silent ingredient, but in others, it is worn very much on the sleeve. Tonight, is a case of the latter as this is a trilogy of young (-ish) bands delving into the past and creating authentic retro-blues rock that sounds like it has been plucked from an episode of old Grey Whistle test circa 1971.

Gig ReviewAuthor : Stewart Lucas5 May 2023Manchester Academy 3Graveyard, Kadavar, Polymoon, Academy 3, Manchester, 2023, Live Review, Stewart Lucas, Johann WierzbickiComment

Live Review : Graveyard + Bombus @ Academy 3, Manchester on December 6th 2018

It may be cold out but tonight, in the wind tunnel that is the Academy 3 we are gathered to be warmed once more by the great blues rock revival (though I was at University here in the nineties so this room with always be the Hop and Grape or even the hope and grope…). Anyway there is a vague feeling of hip and trendy about this evening as the moustaches and beards are out in strength and the PA is pumping out obscure Swedish rock n roll, sung in Swedish.

Gig ReviewAuthor : Stewart Lucas10 December 2018Academy 3Graveyard, Bombus, Academy 3, Manchester, 2018Comment