Concert Reviews

Wow, wow and wow – that was fucking awesome!! Led Zeppelin tribute act ‘Fred Zeppelin’ rocked the Station and with eyes closed they sounded just like the real McCoy. Now in their 26 th year of existence this may be hardly surprising. Watching down to earth guys play the music of their musical idols with commitment and passion is amazing. No surprise to hear that Led Zeppelin frontman Robert Plant himself has thus far attended three of their gigs and legendary Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page invited Fred Zeppelin to a charity event where they got to hang out with their idol. In a reader’s poll in the Kerrang magazine they ranked in the Top 10 of live bands to go see and rightly so. Fred Zeppelin were awesome, and the audience afforded them a whole lotta love and deservedly so.

To call this night phenomenal would be an understatement – this night was stellar, awesome and just superb. It isn’t an everyday thing to see three bands that are all amazing in their own right and rock the venue. Scarlet Rebels hail from south Wales and their music is uplifting, hard hitting and fun to watch and to listen to. When the drummer put a hole in his snare drum their vocalist doesn’t miss a beat and entertains us about how they have changed from ‘Void’ to Scarlet Rebels and after a few minutes they continue as normal with a new snare drum courtesy of The Station or perhaps one of the other bands playing here tonight. They are a well-oiled rock machine and it showed, not surprising to hear that Scarlet Rebel has won the ‘Exposure Music Award’ for best rock act and best live act repeatedly. The Howling Tides from Uttoxeter were next on the bill and apart from their sheer skill I was also blown away by how natural they were on stage. They si