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If you haven’t yet been to Leicester’s Punk Festival exhibition ‘Rage and Revolution’ you’d better be quick as it finishes in a couple weeks. The main exhibition at Leicester museum on New Walk is the best produced exhibition I’ve seen in Leicester and looks more akin to something you’d see in London or Liverpool.     The exhibition focuses on the history of punk in the UK with an additional magnifying glass on its influence in Leicester and those who played an active part in shaping the culture of punk through music, fashion, art and the political statements attached to them....

If you love the punk scene or just fancy a trip back to an era full of rage and revolution, then this exhibition is for you. Kicking off May 27th at Leicester's New Walk museum, the opening weekend features nostalgic talks, live music and dance performances, a convoy of mods and a pop up record shop hosted by yours truly. If you went to the excellent '2019 Mods: Shaping a Generation exhibition' and enjoyed it as mush as we did then this one promises to be even better. Leicester creative stalwarts: Soft Touch Arts, Arch Creative and Shaun Knapp, are...

By Mike Garnett The idea of creating a list of the 5 best metal albums of all time is fairly preposterous, the idea of the 5 best thrash albums is still daft but a bit more palatable.  There are of course many fine thrash albums. These are my own 5 killer LPs whose face melting guitar riffs have helped spawn and influence death metal, black metal, metalcore etc.  Enjoy and let us know who you think should have made the list?   Judas Priest – Painkiller (1990)   Judas Priest’s place in the pantheon of the metal gods had long-since...

The Leicester quartet that make up Goldwater may have started life fairly quietly five or so years ago, and let’s face it, Covid didn’t do much to help the live music scene. But the band, comprising Grant Decker, Jay (Junior) Kenna, John Kenna and Carl Dawson, have not so much as burst onto the scene, as built it, only to discover that the audience will most definitely come and enjoy the show. Their psychedelic blues rock has built up a firm fan base, making them a popular fixture at festivals up and down the country, including the Midlands. Decker, who...