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Written by Mark Ashby
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Saturday, 03 September 2011 05:00 |
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 Uber Rock welcomes writer Mark Ashby into the fold today, representing Northern Ireland as the UR massive continues to infect all corners of this rock 'n' roll world. How do we know that Mark fits the uber bill? Read on as he leaves one gig early as the headliners are a tribute band and heads straight off to another! This is debut double gig trouble! Click that link to pop his UR cherry....
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Written by Rob Watkins & Gaz E
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Sunday, 28 August 2011 05:00 |
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 A two day festival, on a mountain, featuring the likes of Black Spiders, Tigertailz and The Quireboys, and all in earshot of URHQ? How awesome did that sound? With two men and a little lady representing Uber Rock, your favourite website took a trip to the UK's highest altitude festival....and loved it. Read on for the leafy lowdown....
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Written by David Whistance
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Friday, 26 August 2011 05:00 |
 With over 80 bands, 3 stages and 4 nights of camping, Bloodstock is fast becoming the "fan's choice" real metal festival here in the UK. It's also David Whistance's choice and after missing last year's event he wasn't about to miss this year's with a line up that boasted W.A.S.P, Immortal and Motorhead as headliners, that's for sure.
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Written by Dom Daley
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Sunday, 21 August 2011 05:00 |
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 New York spazzcore mentalists Gay For Johnny Depp decided to spend at least one day of their Summer in a South Wales venue named after an AC/DC song and filled with but a spattering of paying punters. One of those though was Uber Rock's Dom 'Dirty Deeds' Daley, waiting with crayon and jotter in hand to educate you good people in the ways of the GFJD live experience.....
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Written by Johnny H, Dom Daley and Rich Hobson
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Sunday, 14 August 2011 05:00 |
 Rebellion 2011 reaches its Sunday climax and suddenly the Uber Rock crew is one man down, but with a football session with Cock Sparrer to come and great bands such as The Adicts, Jello Biafra, and UK Subs to come Dom Daley, Rich Hobson and our resident tour guide Johnny H were not about to give up the rocking just yet.....
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Written by Johhny H, Ian Bell, Dom Daley and Rich Hobson
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Friday, 12 August 2011 05:00 |
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Day two of our coverage of this year's Rebellion Festival and it's Punk Rock action a-go-go as we cover more bands than is possibly capable for four people who have had very little to eat, plenty to drink and about four hours shut eye between them. Friday's line up always looked like it was going to be mental...and it certainly didn't disappoint
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Written by Darrel Sutton
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Saturday, 04 September 2010 06:00 |
 Deep in the heart of Bristol on an August Bank Holiday, our resident connoisseur of all things 'needle in the red' Mr Darrel Sutton is sweating it out on possibly the best four band bill money could buy you right now.
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Written by David Whistance
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Sunday, 29 August 2010 06:00 |
 Having forsaken the previous weekend's metal extravaganza at Bloodstock, David Whistance was hankering for some blood. So what better way to satisfy his thirst for some prime UK metal than with a night out in the company of the legendary Sabbat, somewhere in the West Country?
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Written by Johnny H
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Sunday, 15 August 2010 06:00 |
 Four days, over 200 bands, and as many "kiss me quick" hats he could wear, what else could Johnny H want from his first ever trip to Blackpool for the annual Rebellion Festival? Not so much a gig review as a story of survival of the fittest, what would be the highlights and lowlights of possibly the best festival line up anywhere in the UK in 2010? Read on and all your questions will be answered.
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Written by Dom Daley
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Thursday, 03 September 2009 06:42 |
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 It's like the nineties never happened in Swansea's Sin City tonight. I'm waiting for a four-band sleaze rawk show to start and that's Jay Pepper from Tigertailz stood just yards way. Jesus I'm starting to doubt if Britpop ever really happened here. Then the harsh realisation that this was in fact a gig celebrating Love Hate's twentieth anniversary of their seminal 'Blackout in the Red Room' sent me back down to earth with an age defining bump.
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Written by John Oakley
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Tuesday, 30 August 2011 05:00 |
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 John Oakley and his wife Kay are so Uber Rock that if you cut them they would bleed magma. Not content with simply "holidaying" like the rest of us they decided to travel across the US of A catching as many bands as they could in the space of two weeks. First up, a trio of glam rock that has all of us glowing with envy, as John picks up the story.....
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Written by Ross Welford
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Saturday, 27 August 2011 05:00 |
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 Hair metal aficionado Ross Welford might want everyone to think that he is all about the cock rock but, and this may shock, he has a dark side. Alongside his Cats In Boots, Every Mother's Nightmare and Roxx Gang complete collections he has a plethora of decidedly heavier musical meanderings. Don't believe us? Then read on as The Boss heads to Camden to check out the legendary Suicidal Tendencies.......
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Written by Rob Watkins
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Thursday, 25 August 2011 05:00 |
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 Ebbw Vale's EVI is quickly becoming a venue favoured by your humble Uber Rocker. Rob Watkins checked out the launch night for Hostile Promotions featuring Outgunned, Counterhold, Ten Cent Toy, The Catharsis, Cannibal God and the UR approved Fell On Black Days....
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Written by Dom Daley
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Friday, 19 August 2011 05:00 |
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 Dom Daley is so rock 'n' roll that, after seeing 200 bands at the Rebellion festival, he still went searching for more after the doors had closed. What did he find? Only The Adjusters, the uber-approved punk 'n' roll saviours from Wigan, playing a post-festival gig in the small hours. How were they? Read on to find out but, c'mon, you have a clue, right?....
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Written by Johnny H, Ian Bell, Dom Daley and Rich Hobson
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Saturday, 13 August 2011 05:00 |
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The Rebellion weekend passes its half way point as Saturday's line up welcomes the return of Cock Sparrer to Blackpool's majestic Winter Gardens. Our four musketeers are bravely battling the kiss me quick hat mentality that surrounds them by starting their day with a "literary review". Johnny H picks up the story of day three, as our boys get all cultural.
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Written by Johhny H, Ian Bell, Dom Daley and Rich Hobson
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Thursday, 11 August 2011 05:00 |
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The first weekend of August means two things at URHQ, the start of a new football season and a weekend of Punk Rock mayhem courtesy of the UK's leading independent music festival Rebellion. With our team four man (and a lady) strong this year here's what happened on the opening day, so sit back relax and get ready for some old school Rebellion.
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Written by Matt Phelps
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Thursday, 02 September 2010 05:30 |
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 New Jersey crossover ska played in the raucous, sweaty confines of a bus station? Über Agent Phelps follows the white rabbit all the way to Plymouth to check out the fourteen-legged ska machine that is Streetlight Manifesto.
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Written by Darrel Sutton
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Saturday, 21 August 2010 06:00 |
 When this gig was first announced, a few people at ÜRHQ got more than just a little bit excited. When they also realised the venue was going to be the size of most people's living rooms they started to get more than just a little bit frightened. Darrel Sutton was our man in the tin can as the muthafucking Dwarves were about to be born again.
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Written by Tazz Stander
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Wednesday, 11 August 2010 06:00 |
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 With the great weather and music from the previous weekend's High Voltage Festival still leaving a lasting impression on Tazz it was to a field slightly further afield that she set sail for this year's sold out Sonisphere Festival. Read on to find out if the previous weekend's shenanigans could be bettered.
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Written by Johnny H
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Thursday, 03 September 2009 06:25 |
 It's mid way through Lostprophets set, and keyboardist/DJ Jamie Oliver turns to a sweat drenched Ian Watkins and proclaims to the masses "Water? They want water? We didn't want water when we saw Pantera here, did we Ian!"
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Gig Reviews 
Fresh from an appearance at the Bloodstock Open Air festival, the Joey Jordison approved metallers Sanguine hit the capital and we asked our most denim and leather clad hard rock monster to check them out. He couldn't make it so flowery fopp Craggy went in his place. Read on to see if he survived and what, if anything, would be left of him....