The phrase ‘Heavy Metal’ being used to describe a genre of music is now such a well-known term that it’s hard to imagine a time before it. How were the first bands described without that ubiquitous wording? The origins of the phrase ‘Heavy Metal’ are a little bit lost to Read more…
Download Festival 2020 was supposed to take place this weekend. However, due to the Coronavirus pandemic, it’s been cancelled. There is a virtual festival taking place in its stead though; Download Festival TV. Dozens of the artists booked to play in 2020 will have some of their content or previous Read more…
Music concerts have been around forever. Well, okay, concerts have existed since the mid-17th Century. And if you want to get technical, ancient Greeks did open-air performances to crowds, which isn’t a million miles away from a gig. But whatever. The modern ‘gig’ has been around for less than a century. Read more…
In 1986 the Monsters of Rock music festival took place at Donington park in England. Some of the classic bands performing that day included Ozzy Osbourne, Motörhead and Def Leppard. The festival is remembered now as a day full of world-famous and genre-defining bands. However, in the early afternoon, a Read more…