Gig Reviews - 2026

9pm on the dot, if you get there for 8 the support are excellent

Jon Spencer - Room 2, Glasgow

Small venue with big pillars that blocked the view of the stage for a lot of the audience. A bar that only sold warm cans of Red Stripe. Not a great start. The gig was very good though. The drummer and bass player had great energy. They rattled through the tunes at pace. My vantage point meant I was getting more drums and bass than guitar and vocal. Hot and sweaty. So many things going against it but I enjoyed it!

Yes they were, thanks for that

Pixies were amazing in limerick again tonight.

Now there is a sentence i never thought i would say, to have them just 25 mins from my door, thanks to Mick dolan and his team.

Limerick punching well above its weight thanks to that man and his family and team

Forgot my loop earplugs yesterday and definitely damaged the hearing, its has got better but the loops tonight were a godsend

Also saw Pixies tonight. Awesome show. I love their style. No breaks, not a single word to the crowd, not even an encore, just arrived on stage and played for 90mins straight and then left. Love it. They played every single hit, including every song of theirs that I know. Can't complain.

Also, shout-out to the support before them. I couldn't tell you their name or a single lyric of the songs they were shouting, but they were absolutely amazing. Just 3 pure-mad, wild young fellas. I think they were English. One of them was alternating between a saxophone and a flute, and the drummer (who also seemed to be the lead singer) stopped drumming during one song, took off his clothes and jumped into the crowd and started rolling around on the floor. lol One of the more unique live sets I've seen but it was hugely entertaining.

Stuart Lee in the Olympia. Hilarious from start to finish. And there was music via his Dylan impression.

That's good to hear, seeing him in Derry on Thursday night.