Author Archives: Liam

When I was working on the vinyl release of Kids In Glass Houses debut album, Smart Casual in 2012 I wrote a letter to people who bought a copy via the Saint November Records store, printed on a page of A4 paper and included in the vinyl mailer. The letter chartered my early journey with KIGH. Here’sContinueContinue reading “Wednesday 4th June 2008 – Kids In Glass Houses w/ Valencia and Not Advised at Wedgewood Rooms, Portsmouth”

The Good To Go Tour was an annual package tour of punk and ska bands. 2008 would have been the third, possibly fourth year that it ran. It must have been considered a success to have made it to this point and the previous years’ local dates that I went to were well attended. WhichContinueContinue reading “Wednesday 13th February 2008 – The Good To Go Tour w/ MxPx, Punchline and The Get Go at Wedgewood Rooms, Portsmouth”

After their UK mega tour with Paramore in early 2008, New Found Glory played a handful of their own headline shows. One of which was this packed Saturday night at the Wedgewood Rooms.  It’s worth a little context for where New Found Glory were ‘at’ in 2008. In late 2006 they released a mid tempoContinueContinue reading “Saturday 9th February 2008 – New Found Glory w/ You Me At Six and Conditions at Wedgewood Rooms, Portsmouth”

Head Automatica are one of a handful of bands that went on to become personal favourites of mine after first hearing them on a mixtape swap with my friend Vicky in 2005 (other notable names from this CD included Motion City Soundtrack and Death Cab For Cutie). I liked the song she included, Beating Heart Baby,ContinueContinue reading “Wednesday 23rd May 2007 – Head Automatica at University of Southampton Student Union”

In the space of three years Fall Out Boy went from an obscure band my girlfriend of the time was into, to packing out venues for an arena tour. Time moved much slower for me at this age and a year felt like a more significant amount of time to these days where three yearsContinueContinue reading “Saturday 31st March 2007 – Fall Out Boy w/ Shiny Toy Guns and Cobra Starship at Bournemouth International Centre”

There’s been quite a few gigs from this week in February throughout the years, and I’ll be honest, the wheels are starting to fall off a bit. I was missing the +44 ticket yesterday (full story to follow) and now I’m without all the correct facts for today’s post. I’ll do my best for thisContinueContinue reading “Saturday 10th February 2007 – Gym Class Heroes w/ I can’t remember their name at I’m not actually sure, Yeovil”

This tour was the first under Bowling For Soup’s ‘Get Happy Tour’ banner, named after a song from their best album A Hangover You Don’t Deserve. Usually I would attempt to be respectful to others and say “my personal favourite”, but this is a hill I’m willing to die on and I say it inContinueContinue reading “Wednesday 7th February 2007 – Bowling For Soup w/ Son of Dork, Wheatus and Army of Freshmen at Southampton Guildhall”

This post is dedicated to my friend Greg Hague. A man who has seen some of the biggest names of all time perform live. Phil Collins, Meatloaf (RIP), U2.. and yet I know, with some certainty, he would trade the lot for another Capdown show. Greg saw that ‘When We Were Young’ festival poster lastContinueContinue reading “Monday 5th February 2007 – Capdown w / Howards Alias and Desperate Cycle at The Consortium, Bournemouth”

I have one stand out memory from this gig. I went with a few friends including Ben and Chris, who had a band you may remember called Amy Can Flyy. Around this time they’d recorded an EP with my friend George, who was the drummer in our band, but also recorded all of our demos.ContinueContinue reading “Tuesday 23rd January 2007 – Hellogoodbye w/ Plain White T’s and Houston Calls at Portsmouth Pyramids Centre”

This show was my second time seeing Get Cape. I’d been introduced to his music about three months earlier when we bought last minute tickets outside the venue for his show at Bridport Arts Centre (why we were in Bridport on a chilly October night is probably a story for another time). I wasn’t reallyContinueContinue reading “Thursday 18th January 2007 – Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly w/ Walter Schreifels at University of Southampton Student Union”