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Dead Letter Circus at Cambridge Hotel, Newcastle – 13 December 2018
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Continue reading Photo Gallery : Dead Letter Circus at Cambridge Hotel, Newcastle – 13 December 2018
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Circles at Cambridge Hotel, Newcastle – 13 December 2018
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Continue reading Photo Gallery : Circles at Cambridge Hotel, Newcastle – 13 December 2018
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First a word of advice: It can really pay to check the opening times for a gig on more than one website! Thanks to an erroneous door time listing on one ticket website, this humbled reviewer ended up missing the brutal Thy Art is Murder.
Thankfully I didn’t miss the mighty Killswitch Engage, who tonight were playing the role of main support. For some, that might seem like an odd place for a renowned international act. However, when you look out across the sold out room at NEX in Newcastle (the old Worker’s Club), it seems like a pretty shrewd move and one that will no doubt win the Massachusetts band plenty of new fans off the back of a typically super strong performance.
Continue reading Live Review : Parkway Drive and Killswitch Engage at NEX, Newcastle – 27 October 2018
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Parkway Drive at NEX, Newcastle – 27 October 2018
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Continue reading Photo Gallery : Parkway Drive and Killswitch Engage at NEX, Newcastle – 27 October 2018
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Newcastle’s Cambridge Hotel has been playing host to a run of great metal shows of late. The latest gig to warm up the cold winter nights is Perth’s Make Them Suffer and despite being a mid-week show, Hunter punters turned out in their masses to witness a strong international line up of modern heaviness.
Continue reading Live Review : Make Them Suffer + Silent Planet + Oceans Ate Alaska + Thornhill at Cambridge Hotel, Newcastle – Wed, August 15, 2018
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Continue reading Photo Gallery : Make Them Suffer + Silent Planet + Oceans Ate Alaska + Thornhill at Cambridge Hotel, Newcastle – 15 August 2018
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I pity any metal head in the hunter region that missed out on tonight’s show at the Cambridge Hotel. Between the four acts on show, just about any genre-loyal fanatic would have been well catered to.
Continue reading Live Review : Polaris + Justice for the Damned + Diamond Construct + Junkhead at Cambridge Hotel, Newcastle – Saturday, July 21, 2018
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Photographer: Ben Hosking – www.hoskingindustries.com.au
Continue reading Photo Gallery : Polaris + Justice for the Damned + Diamond Construct + Junkhead at Cambridge Hotel, Newcastle – Saturday, July 21, 2018
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It was a cold, wet night in Newcastle when Las Vegas band Escape the Fate rolled into town. But behind the storied walls of Newcastle's iconic Cambridge Hotel you'd have been forgiven for thinking it was a balmy summer evening – such were the conditions created by the teeming mass of bodies in attendance to watch the American rock band smash through its lauded 2008 album 'This War is Ours' in its entirety.
Continue reading Live Review : Escape the Fate + Awaken I Am + Between Kings at the Cambridge Hotel, Newcastle – 2 June 2018
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Photographer: Ben Hosking
Continue reading Photo Gallery : Escape the Fate + Awaken I Am + Between Kings at the Cambridge Hotel, Newcastle – 2 June 2018
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Newcastle has always played host to international bands. It’s just that it has never been with the same kind of frequency of our neighbours south to Sydney. In fact, my very first proper concert experience was Pantera when they played the Newcastle Entertainment Centre on their Far Beyond Driven tour.
Still, it’s always exciting when a good international band gets booked into one of our remaining live venues. So when Red Fang announced a show at the Cambridge Hotel, you can bet this scribe had his hand up waving wildly like an excited kid at the front of the classroom with the answer to a geography question.
Continue reading Live Review: Red Fang + Drunk Mums + Black Rheno at Cambridge Hotel, Newcastle – 11 May 2018
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Red Fang at the Cambridge Hotel, Newcastle – 11 May 2018
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Continue reading Photo Gallery : Red Fang + Drunk Mums + Black Rheno at the Cambridge Hotel, Newcastle – 11 May 2018
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Darko at Small Ballroom, Newcastle – 12 April 2018
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Continue reading Photo Gallery : Darko + Mucho Sonar + Trashed Again at Small Ballroom, Newcastle – 12 April 2018
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Continue reading Photo Gallery : Katatonia + Dumbsaint at Manning Bar, Sydney – 8 December 2016
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Ahead of their Headline Australian Tour in December, we caught up with JONAS RENKSE of Swedish melodic metal heavy weights KATATONIA for a chat.
Continue reading Interview with Jonas Renkse – Katatonia
