Tag: Hard Rock Calling

  • Cold Chisel and Jimmy Barnes at Hard Rock Calling

    Cold Chisel and Jimmy Barnes at Hard Rock Calling

    It was great to see Jimmy Barnes again – fronting Cold Chisel at Hyde Park. If you were wondering around Earls Court at 6pm on Friday night and saw tumbleweed drift across a veritable ghost town, I think I have the explanation. Cold Chisel, fronted by Jimmy Barnes, were playing at the Hard Rock Calling…

  • Iggy and The Stooges at Hard Rock Calling, Hyde Park

    Iggy and The Stooges at Hard Rock Calling, Hyde Park

    It was fantastic to see Iggy Pop and The Stooges play live again at Hyde Park at the Hard Rock Calling Festival. Iggy is such a force of Nature. When Paul McCartney sang When I’m Sixty Four he sang of holidays in the Isle of Wight (if it’s not too dear). He made little mention…

  • Hard Rock Calling: Soundgarden, Iggy and Rain…

    Hard Rock Calling: Soundgarden, Iggy and Rain…

    Soundgarden – live at Hyde Park’s Hard Rock Calling Festival Without a doubt, the best thing to have come out of the dreadful weather that the UK has nearly drowned in during this ridiculous excuse for a summer (or as it will become known, the Great Hosepipe Ban of 2012) is the cancellation of Wednesday’s…

  • Bruce Springsteen: Live at The Isle of Wight Festival

    Bruce Springsteen: Live at The Isle of Wight Festival

    Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band live at The Isle of Wight Festival “So this is your idea of a summer’s day?” (it rained all last night and whilst gloriously sunny, it is barely 20c) Bruce asks, looking at the crowd pityingly. “We came by plane, car and f-ing boat to get here” he…