Glyder rocking The Village, Dublin last night - during the second half of their show...

After completely forgetting about Gama Bomb’s gig in Dublin on Friday night (still kicking myself) I made sure I got to The Village for Glyder’s album launch show last night. For a band that’s got such a lot right recently I won’t kick them too much over a few things they got wrong in staging last night’s gig.

I’ll keep it to one sentence and simply say that the venue was too big, start too early and playing the entire new album, Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow from start to finish without even a support act to warm the crowd up, just didn’t work. Thankfully the second half of the show was excellent with the band playing tracks from their first two albums to a very enthusiastic audience before being very loudly beckoned back for a number of encores.

This band are made for the big stage (and big audiences) and its only a matter of time before that comes. At just two listens so far the jury is still out on how the new album stacks up to the other two, but if you are a hard rock fan and don’t have at least one of them then you are missing out. Check out what the band’s guitarist Bat Kinane had to say in an interview in The Ticket on the new album, recognition in Ireland and how the band is faring abroad.

Airbourne on Wednesday night – grounded for the rest of the week. Photo: © Damien James O'Farrell

After dazzling a sold-out Academy in Dublin on Wednesday night with the kind of aerial acrobatics that would make a kangaroo sick, Airbourne were kept well and truly on the ground in Dublin for the rest of the week. The volcanic ash clouds that closed airports and airspace across Europe meant that the aussies had to reschedule the remaining two dates of their European tour, which had been due to finish tonight in Barcelona.

No ropes....Honest!! Photo: © Damien James O'Farrell

Stranded in Dublin (and reportedly still here) the four lads were spotted getting tattoos and walking around the Temple Bar area. I heard this from several people (ok so some of them were intoxicated at the time).

To see more excellent photos from the Academy show please visit Damien James O’Farrell’s photostream on Flickr here and here.

Andreas Kisser keeps the Sepulshow on the road. Photo © sepultura.uol.com.br

The name Sepultura still packs quite a punch in these parts, this despite the lasting legacy of former front man Max Cavalera’s departure some 14 years ago. I mention the Max factor because its without doubt what came to mind for every other Irish Sepultura fan when they heard about this Dublin date.

However well the band has done since his departure, and there are many, many fans of the band’s more recent work and of the virtues of current front man Derrick Green, most fans would probably give their right testical to see the old Chaos AD era line-up rip through a set full of their old death/thrash classics.

None the less, in rock n roll you’ve often got to dance to the tunes you’re given and there is little doubt that Dublin’s Academy will be anything other than completely wedged for this show on July 18th.

Tickets from the usual suspects - soon. News on supports as soon as it comes in. . . .