Erica's Gigs

YouTube video by Roderica's Gig Clips Riverside - Friend or Foe? (Live in Birmingham 13/05/2024)

One Year Ago Today: Riverside live at the O2 Institute2 in Birmingham with acoustic support from Klone. They played at the same venue just over a year earlier - whilst I would have liked the setlist to have changed more, the second show was better than the first. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1SN...

YouTube video by Roderica's Gig Clips Running With Knives - Echoes (Live in Leicester 12/05/2024)

One Year Ago Today: Running With Knives live at the Firebug in Leicester, playing in the regional Metal 2 the Masses semi-final alongside Inflictions, Black Annis and Break Them. This was the first time I heard them play new song Echoes: www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8ke...

YouTube video by Roderica's Gig Clips Arena - Crying for Help VII (Live in Bilston 01/05/2025)

Last Thursday I saw Arena play at The Robin in Bilston as part of their 30th anniversary tour. Here's the final song, featuring a rousing singalong with frontman Damian Wilson performing in the crowd. www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAFV...

YouTube video by Roderica's Gig Clips Something or Other - Strike Me Down (Live in Brighton 22/04/2024)

1 year ago today: I went on an expedition to Brighton to see Something or Other live for the first time alongside Leoni Jane Kennedy, Azure and @kyrosofficial.bsky.social. www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMLi...

YouTube video by Roderica's Gig Clips Pupil Slicer - Glaring Dark of Night / Momentary Actuality (Live in Birmingham 10/04/2024)

A year ago today: @pupilslicer.bsky.social live at the now-defunct Devils Dog Digbeth in Birmingham. This was part of their first ever headlining tour and featured support from God Alone. and Coilguns. www.youtube.com/watch?v=omaS...

YouTube video by Roderica's Gig Clips Bury Tomorrow - Begin Again (Live Debut) (Live in Birmingham 01/04/2023)

Two years ago today: Bury Tomorrow kicked off their release shows for The Seventh Sun with an in-store performance at the HMV Vault in Birmingham. Quite a different vibe for a show, especially when Dani Winter-Bates went for a wander around the shop mid-set! www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2Sk...

YouTube video by Roderica's Gig Clips Bravado - Distant Early Warning, A Passage to Bangkok & Limelight (Rush) (Live in Stoke 22/03/2025)

Last night: Bravado (Tribute to Rush) at Eleven in Stoke. It was great to hear classic Rush tracks live for pretty much the first time for me and I was impressed by how closely the band recreated the tones and gear set-up of the originals. www.youtube.com/watch?v=F46W...

YouTube video by Roderica's Gig Clips Botch - Spaim, Japam & Framce (Live in Bristol 21/03/2024)

One year ago today: mathcore legends Botch on their reunion/farewell tour live at The Marble Factory in Bristol. It was such a pleasure to be on the barrier for this show with my friends and witness something very special for the genre. www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBc2...

I enjoyed the first one, Apocalypse and Retribution as fun action movies but I struggled with the other half. Extinction in particular felt off for I reason I can't quite put my finger on, maybe I just didn't like the different director on that one.

YouTube video by Roderica's Gig Clips Ronnie Romero - Kill the King (Rainbow) & Rainbow in the Dark (Dio) (Live in Stoke 11/03/2025)

Saw Ronnie Romero (singer with Rainbow and many other bands) on Tuesday and my word have the videos been doing numbers, 26K views on this one! www.youtube.com/watch?v=a02Y...

YouTube video by Roderica's Gig Clips Thornhill - Obsession (Live in Birmingham 05/03/2024)

One year ago today: Paledusk, Thornhill, Silent Planet and headliners Polaris played at the O2 Institute in Birmingham. Here's horny Thorny playing what was their latest single at the time: www.youtube.com/watch?v=M533...

YouTube video by Roderica's Gig Clips Knocked Loose - Deep in the Willow (Live in Birmingham 04/03/2024)

One year ago today: Headbussa, Deafheaven and Knocked Loose played at the O2 Institute in Birmingham. One of the best triple bills I've ever seen and I somehow survived being on the barrier without much damage. www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XEj...

YouTube video by Roderica's Gig Clips Running With Knives - Masochist (Live in Birmingham 03/03/2024)

One year ago today: My friends in Running With Knives returned to Birmingham to play at Subside. Check out the bass-led breakdown on this one: youtu.be/dziCI6FEi4A?...

YouTube video by Roderica's Gig Clips Opeth - Sorceress & Deliverance (Live in Birmingham 28/02/2025)

Here's the encore from Opeth's show at Birmingham Symphony Hall on Friday: www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmHY...

YouTube video by Roderica's Gig Clips The Callous Daoboys - Pushing the Pink Envelope (Live in Manchester 24/02/2024)

One year ago yesterday: I went for a second helping of The Callous Daoboys/Unprocessed/TesseracT tour at the O2 Ritz in Manchester. Really looking forward to the new Daoboys album so here's some of them being silly mathcore goobers. www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGxL...

YouTube video by Roderica's Gig Clips Fish - The Company (Live in Wolverhampton 22/02/2025)

Last night: The final song from a bumper set by Fish (ex-Marillion) as part of his Road to the Isles farewell tour. www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5ju...

YouTube video by Roderica's Gig Clips TesseracT - Natural Disaster (Live in Birmingham 21/02/2024)

One year ago today: A fantastic triple bill combo of The Callous Daoboys, Unprocessed and TesseracT at the O2 Institute in Birmingham. Not pictured: Dan Tompkins looming directly over me when he came down to the barrier during Juno. www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfwA...

YouTube video by Roderica's Gig Clips SiM - The Rumbling (Live in Birmingham 20/02/2024)

One year ago today: Nothing More with Siamese and SiM at the O2 Institute in Birmingham. Sometimes I film a song specifically because the video might get a lot of views and this time it paid off, almost 2K views. I believe this song was featured in Attack on Titan. www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0p9...

YouTube video by Roderica's Gig Clips Periphery - Atropos (Live in London 13/02/2025)

Hit 1K views on my Periphery video from last week, pretty pleased with that. Good to see all of the band in one place, even if Nolly didn't technically play with them. www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVYs...

YouTube video by Roderica's Gig Clips Dream Theater - Pull Me Under (Live in Birmingham 18/02/2023)

2 years ago today: Dream Theater played at Birmingham Symphony Hall as part of their final tour with Mike Mangini. A bit of an odd one in hindsight but it was a good show with an interesting setlist. www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7HL...

"I feel like crying, that was beautiful." Spiritbox's Alexandra Palace show is the end of an era: where they go from rising stars to metal's next big thing With live debuts, old favourites and stunning visuals, Spiritbox's headline show at Alexandra Palace is nothing short of magic

If I had a nickel for every time Loudersound used one of my videos for a Spiritbox support act I'd have two nickels but it's cool it's happened twice. (Stray From the Path playing their new single Kubrick Stare)
www.loudersound.com/reviews/spir...

YouTube video by Roderica's Gig Clips Spiritbox - No Loss, No Love (Live in London 13/02/2025) LIVE DEBUT

I captured the live debut of Spiritbox's new single 'No Loss, No Love' at the Alexandra Palace the other day and it's been one of my most successful videos yet. www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYZO...

I could probably talk about this album for hours but here's a thousand-word summary of my thoughts on the new Dream Theater record Parasomnia: proghurst.co.uk/2025/02/drea...