GIG 349: Reading ’97 Day 3: Metallica / The Verve / Marilyn Manson / Terrorvision / Bush / Dinosaur Jr / 3 Colours Red / Descendents / Dog Eat Dog / Feeder / Radish – Reading Festival, 24th August 1997

Whilst saturday at Reading Festival was a little light on the bands I saw (only 5!) Sunday certainly made up for it with a grand total of 11 over the course of the day! Kicking things off at midday on the main stage were Radish, who I had seen the previous weekend at V97 and … Continue reading GIG 349: Reading ’97 Day 3: Metallica / The Verve / Marilyn Manson / Terrorvision / Bush / Dinosaur Jr / 3 Colours Red / Descendents / Dog Eat Dog / Feeder / Radish – Reading Festival, 24th August 1997

GIG 227: (Monsters of Rock ’95) Metallica / Therapy? / Skid Row / Slayer / Slash’s Snakepit / White Zombie / Machinehead / Warrior Soul / Corrosion of Conformity – Donnington Park, 26th August 1995

The legendary Monsters of Rock at Donnington Park. A one day open air festival celebration of METAL that had started back in 1980 with Rainbow and Judas Priest as the headline acts. It was a legendary festival and somewhere I'd been wanting to get to for years. Whilst I'd been to all-day open air events … Continue reading GIG 227: (Monsters of Rock ’95) Metallica / Therapy? / Skid Row / Slayer / Slash’s Snakepit / White Zombie / Machinehead / Warrior Soul / Corrosion of Conformity – Donnington Park, 26th August 1995

GIG 054: Metallica / Warrior Soul – Wembley Arena, 23rd May 1990

This was the tail end of the 'Justice For All World Tour', which was one of Metallica's best albums (although my favourite is their Black album that came out a few years later). I'd been in to Metallica during their Master of Puppets days and had been drifting away from them and more into goth and … Continue reading GIG 054: Metallica / Warrior Soul – Wembley Arena, 23rd May 1990