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Tonight!

Separation have needed to pull out so Spliff Witchard will be taking their place

https://spliffwitchard.bandcamp.com

Any word on support for this?

Tickets available on the door for this? Ticketmaster wont let me buy tickets anymore unless I send them my passport which I'm not doing and now I'm blocked from even viewing the site for details.

There's a thread here for the belfast date https://forum.metalwarfare.com/index.php?topic=3472.0

I vaguely remember Empires Of The World by Biomechanical to be a kind of decent album but it's been about 20 years since I last heard it. They always seemed like a band with big potential and then they disappeared.

I think it's great. I had a lovely roast dinner during the benediction gig

Candlemass VS Entombed is an interesting listen. Candlemass covering "To Ride, Shoot Straight And Speak The Truth" and Entombed covering "Black Dwarf"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqL_T_x8YlI

The When In Sodom EP is also pretty good!

"Your band probably doesn't need another app"

So you made another one? This website is slop vomited out by AI.

Mid 30s so I wouldn't have been listening to metal when it was released. I enjoy death metal and I'm not saying Left Hand Path is bad. It just never clicked with me. ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

When it comes to Entombed I prefer the later albums than the early stuff. I don't care much for Left Hand Path. Morning Star and Inferno are excellent.

The company is Persona: https://fortune.com/2026/02/24/discord-peter-thiel-backed-persona-identity-verification-breach/

Thankfully you can still view previously purchased tickets without verification but they don't make it immediately clear. You can't buy any new tickets unless you verify. I haven't tried creating a new account but I'm also don't want to play their games or jump through more hoops for the ability to give them more money.

Is there anything to show this has helped with the bot/scalping problem or is it simply another data grab?

I got that message last week. They were totally fine with me buying the ticket but suddenly an hour before the gig they decided they needed ID and a face scan when they know you're more likely to be in a panic and give them whatever they want so you don't miss the gig. I'm already at the point where a venue using Ticketmaster will put me off unless I know I can pay at the door. This will be the final nail in the coffin. There's 100% going to be some kind of data leak in a few months.

The only real rock bar here, Voodoo, charges around £6.50 a pint. There's still a few places you can find a sub-5 pint but they're increasingly rare. There's always Wetherspoons where you can get a £2.40 pint of ale if you don't mind the sticky carpets/tables/seats/glasses etc

Unfortunately £7 isn't far off the average price you'll pay in Belfast these days.

I came away from this feeling a little disappointed and underwhelmed. The whole thing seemed hastily thrown together and unprepared. There was a lot of mistakes and trying to remember riffs which was funny at times but it stings to have paid £50 for what felt like a rehearsal, and that's without the £7 pints in Limelight. Playing the first 30 seconds of a song and then stopping and moving onto another song was annoying. I'd have preferred if one half was spoken word and the second half was a normal set instead of a mash of both.