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YouTube video by MaximoParkVEVO Maximo Park - Girls Who Play Guitar

Not to be confused with one of my favourite ever tracks, by one of my favourite ever bands! 😁

Maximo Park - Girls Who Play Guitar

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🗓️ 05/11/2025
📍 The Grove, Newcastle
🎸 Swim School
🎧 open.spotify.com/artist/7hC74...

New album is good, but this was fucking woeful tonight. Sounded like absolute dogshit, not helped playing in the worst venue in the NE.

Couldnt hear the guitars, vocals completely lost, crowd shite.

📍 The Grove, Byker
🍺 Eazy IPA (Camden Brewery)
💸 £6.00 (cheers @slackya.bsky.social

Fuck the mags, awaiting Swim School

🗓️ 05/11/2025
📍 The Grove, Newcastle
🎸 Basht.
🎧 open.spotify.com/artist/0bIaF...

Decent little opener. Post-punk, similar to early Fontaines DC, The Murder Capital and Wunderhorse.

🆕🆕🆕 www.youtube.com/watch?v=BA6J...

Damn, @asdecemberfalls.bsky.social back so soon, with an absolute banger! 🔥❤️‍🔥🔥

#MusicSky

Cats love TV! This was mine a few years ago lol

The daft owld cunt blocked me 😂😂😂

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(Regards, Pie 😂😂😂😂😂)

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Ah knar it's owa the road, but @reluctantnicko.bsky.social fighting a #SWFC pie (and losing) is fucking gerld!

I don't have an account over there, I just nicked the screenshots from Reddit

🧵 1/4

Enjoyed it! A little release every Halloween would be canny!

⚠️ Loud as fuck 🔊⚠️

What a great gig. Hope to see @adultleisure.bsky.social again soon 🫡

🗓️ 01/11/2025
📍 Zerox, Newcastle
🎸 Adult Leisure
🦋 @adultleisure.bsky.social
🎧 open.spotify.com/artist/1x8fy...

What a cracker of a gig! So great to hear one of my favourite albums of the year. Non-stop from Neil, who kept the crowd going! 🔥

Please, please, please check them out! 🎸🥁💙

🗓️ 01/11/2025
📍 Zerox, Newcastle
🎸 Nervous Twitch
🎧 open.spotify.com/artist/1aPMQ...

A canny little punk band, from Leeds. New album just released, punchy, short tracks, managed to squeeze in a good few songs for a support act!

📍Zerox, Newcastle
🍺 Double Maxim (Maxim Brewery). £6.75 🤯🤯🤯

Shite day, so having my (rebellious) one, in Newcastle. Onya 🍻

Awaiting @adultleisure.bsky.social 🥁🎸

Back when things were a bit cheaper, a certain rock bar in Newcastle did 3 x Triple Vodkas for £5. I miss Gotham.

Loads of other places did trebles for £3, too.

Can't even smell the stuff without gagging 🤢

I wouldn't let him anywhere near kids tbh

Evening. We're at the Stadium of Light now, but rather than focusing on the ground, we're focusing on what's under it!

This was the site of one the largest, modern and the deepest coal mine in the world when it opened in 1835. It also had one of the longest lifespans, closing within living memory.

🗓️ 30/10/2025
📍 The Cluny², Newcastle
🎸 Litany
🎧 open.spotify.com/artist/2z6Jj...

Pop perfection ✨ I first discovered Litany through @johnkennedydj.bsky.social 's show, back in 2018, and finally got a chance to see her live! Such a good voice, and great writer - she needs more listeners!

🗓️ 30/10/2025
📍 The Cluny², Newcastle
🎸 Loren Heat
🎧 open.spotify.com/artist/43Fg9...

I missed Loren's headline show, at Sage 2, back in June (as part of the BBC Introducing program), so was nice to see a little set live.

Loved the track see did with ZELA (released last month)

🗓️ 30/10/2025
📍 The Cluny², Newcastle
🎸 Lottie Willis
🎧 open.spotify.com/artist/56QqC...

New track to be released next week - sounded canny, so keep your ears peeled!

Great seeing Lottie, again, so soon after seeing her support Marketplace. This won't be the last time seeing her this year, too!

🗓️ 24/10/2025
📍 NUSU, Newcastle
🎸 The Lovely Eggs
🎧 thelovelyeggs.co.uk

The pair were back, and celebrating their 20th anniversary as a band. Cracking night, their energy was so much better than the gig at Pop Recs, earlier in the year.

Independent and DIY as fuck. Love 'em!

🗓️ 24/10/2025
📍 NUSU, Newcastle
🎤 Simon Donald
🌐 viz.co.uk

Yep, Simon from Viz Magazine. He started straight away with some audience participation, like one of those interviewers you might see on the high street.

It finished with a Geordie version of 'Wheels on the Bus', which was canny funny tbf

🗓️ 24/10/2025
📍 NUSU, Newcastle
🎸 Polite Bureaux
🎧 open.spotify.com/artist/4Xtw6...

Despite a few technical gremlins spoiling the support act, Polite Bureaux kicked off a great night.

Think synthy Sleaford Mods.

The site undoubtedly familiar to many and as much part of Sunderland's sporting & industrial heritage as the sites we've mentioned countless times - the Colliery Tavern.

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