Up until tonight I’ve never seen Mötley Crüe live. Though never their biggest fan, I’ve been listening to them for years and yet never spent the exuberant ticket price to go see them before. I’ve heard great things about their live shows in the past, and I’ve seen all sorts of stuff on the internet that I thought looked really cool, and so I built up the anticipation of a blinder of a gig. In my head, I’d already enjoyed the greatest show on Earth even before they come on stage.
But it’s said you should never meet your heroes, and although I wasn’t that lucky, I should have treated this event with the same trepidation as I believe I haven’t been so disappointed by a band in my entire life. Perhaps some of it was my own fault, but the dream just didn’t match the reality at all. Continue reading
This week is like the Musicscramble old man festival, in that we get to go home and have dinner and a nice kip between bands. Dec 5th saw Machine Head (read Gareth’s review 
The mammoth Machine Head Eighth Plague tour rolled into Glasgow tonight with a stellar four band line-up. Well almost stellar.
King Tut’s Wah Wah Hut in Glasgow was creaking at the seams on Saturday night. Expectation was high, and at 10pm when Rival Sons hit the stage it was suddenly all justified.
Electric. The atmosphere inside Edinburgh’s Usher Hall for this – Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds’ third ever gig – was electric. Noel and his band weren’t on yet, but already you could feel that tonight was going to be special.
I know what you’re thinking…Rihanna!?, on musicscramble.co.uk? Well as it turns out tonight proved we aren’t just about rock and metal, though admittedly it does seem that way most of the time! Put simply: good music is good music regardless of genre and tonight was an exercise in proving just that.
