Papa Roach is touring up a frenzy this year but the band has made time, amidst its busy schedule, to return to London for tonight’s gig, just five months after performing at The Forum in April. The band’s charisma is a giant fan-magnet and the crowd gathered at Brixton Academy waits in anticipation for what it knows will be one heck of a show. The event is opened with the rock ‘n roll sound of UK-born Heaven’s Basement and Madina Lake have been allocated the all important task of pumping up the crowd before the Roaches hit the stage. (more…)

Equation: London + Magic + Nightwish/In Flames/Deathstars = Dreams = Madness. Translation: “the capital of both England and the United Kingdom, and the most populous municipality in the European Union. An important settlement for two millennia” and place where bands like to tour plus Stanely Kubrick’s definition of screen magic likened to the magic felt at a live performance, which “has such power that it can retain interest as it conveys emotions and moods that no other art form can hope to tackle” plus

equals the realisation of “something that you want to happen very much but that is not very likely” and “hopes and ideas which are not practical or realistic” equals “unrestrained excitement or enthusiasm”. Confusing Perhaps? I’ll simplify. This is LIFE. Some of us need to move half way across the world to live our dreams. That’s what LIVING is about – realising dreams, whatever they may be. (more…)