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Heaven’s Basement, Gig Review. o2 Academy, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

The walls at the o2 Academy have seen some incredible acts in the long years that it has stood on Hotham Street, it has held those memories within its brickwork and steel framing for so long that perhaps it is unsurprising that those reminiscences, the ghosts of fantastic sessions decided to come out of the stonework, to bleed themselves out and drench the audience in sweat at the outstanding and ear obliterating concert given by Heaven’s Basement.

Soundgarden, Gig Review. Download 2012, Donington.

Photograph by Ian D. Hall

Originally published by L.S. Media. June 12th 2012.

L.S. Media Rating ***

There was a general air of expectancy about the reformation of Soundgarden that buzzed around Donington and the overall weekend of Download. Plenty of T-Shirts were spotted being worn with semblance of pride; many conversations were overheard on how people were perhaps looking forward to this slot more than many others. It was therefore a shame that the hype really didn’t lend itself to time that the band were on stage.