One Year Ago Today: Riverside live at the O2 Institute2 in Birmingham with acoustic support from Klone. They played at the same venue just over a year earlier - whilst I would have liked the setlist to have changed more, the second show was better than the first. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1SN...

One Year Ago Today: Running With Knives live at the Firebug in Leicester, playing in the regional Metal 2 the Masses semi-final alongside Inflictions, Black Annis and Break Them. This was the first time I heard them play new song Echoes: www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8ke...

Last Thursday I saw Arena play at The Robin in Bilston as part of their 30th anniversary tour. Here's the final song, featuring a rousing singalong with frontman Damian Wilson performing in the crowd. www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAFV...

1 year ago today: I went on an expedition to Brighton to see Something or Other live for the first time alongside Leoni Jane Kennedy, Azure and @kyrosofficial.bsky.social. www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMLi...

A year ago today: @pupilslicer.bsky.social live at the now-defunct Devils Dog Digbeth in Birmingham. This was part of their first ever headlining tour and featured support from God Alone. and Coilguns. www.youtube.com/watch?v=omaS...

Two years ago today: Bury Tomorrow kicked off their release shows for The Seventh Sun with an in-store performance at the HMV Vault in Birmingham. Quite a different vibe for a show, especially when Dani Winter-Bates went for a wander around the shop mid-set! www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2Sk...

Last night: Bravado (Tribute to Rush) at Eleven in Stoke. It was great to hear classic Rush tracks live for pretty much the first time for me and I was impressed by how closely the band recreated the tones and gear set-up of the originals. www.youtube.com/watch?v=F46W...

One year ago today: mathcore legends Botch on their reunion/farewell tour live at The Marble Factory in Bristol. It was such a pleasure to be on the barrier for this show with my friends and witness something very special for the genre. www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBc2...

Saw Ronnie Romero (singer with Rainbow and many other bands) on Tuesday and my word have the videos been doing numbers, 26K views on this one! www.youtube.com/watch?v=a02Y...

One year ago today: Paledusk, Thornhill, Silent Planet and headliners Polaris played at the O2 Institute in Birmingham. Here's horny Thorny playing what was their latest single at the time: www.youtube.com/watch?v=M533...

One year ago today: Headbussa, Deafheaven and Knocked Loose played at the O2 Institute in Birmingham. One of the best triple bills I've ever seen and I somehow survived being on the barrier without much damage. www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XEj...

One year ago today: My friends in Running With Knives returned to Birmingham to play at Subside. Check out the bass-led breakdown on this one: youtu.be/dziCI6FEi4A?...

Here's the encore from Opeth's show at Birmingham Symphony Hall on Friday: www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmHY...

One year ago yesterday: I went for a second helping of The Callous Daoboys/Unprocessed/TesseracT tour at the O2 Ritz in Manchester. Really looking forward to the new Daoboys album so here's some of them being silly mathcore goobers. www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGxL...

Last night: The final song from a bumper set by Fish (ex-Marillion) as part of his Road to the Isles farewell tour. www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5ju...

One year ago today: A fantastic triple bill combo of The Callous Daoboys, Unprocessed and TesseracT at the O2 Institute in Birmingham. Not pictured: Dan Tompkins looming directly over me when he came down to the barrier during Juno. www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfwA...

One year ago today: Nothing More with Siamese and SiM at the O2 Institute in Birmingham. Sometimes I film a song specifically because the video might get a lot of views and this time it paid off, almost 2K views. I believe this song was featured in Attack on Titan. www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0p9...

Hit 1K views on my Periphery video from last week, pretty pleased with that. Good to see all of the band in one place, even if Nolly didn't technically play with them. www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVYs...

2 years ago today: Dream Theater played at Birmingham Symphony Hall as part of their final tour with Mike Mangini. A bit of an odd one in hindsight but it was a good show with an interesting setlist. www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7HL...

If I had a nickel for every time Loudersound used one of my videos for a Spiritbox support act I'd have two nickels but it's cool it's happened twice. (Stray From the Path playing their new single Kubrick Stare) www.loudersound.com/reviews/spir...

I captured the live debut of Spiritbox's new single 'No Loss, No Love' at the Alexandra Palace the other day and it's been one of my most successful videos yet. www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYZO...

I could probably talk about this album for hours but here's a thousand-word summary of my thoughts on the new Dream Theater record Parasomnia: proghurst.co.uk/2025/02/drea...