Some people try very hard to be cool. Others don't seem to have that problem. At Lido, the Duchess of rock and roll reminded us that the coolest people in the room rarely need to prove it.
Celebrating Saint Patrick’s Day could only really be done one way: at Badehaus, with a Belfast band, big guitars and enough raised glasses to make it feel official.
Trying to throat sing for 15 years and failing is one thing. Watching UUHAI turn Lido into a room full of imaginary Mongolian warriors is another. Heavy, communal and much closer to a rite of passage than a normal gig.
If rock and roll was a hook, Neue Zukunft swallowed it whole. The Vienna band came with big riffs, zero posing and the kind of live energy that gets you.