Great gig, good mix of songs from old & new. Good banter with the audience. Good support act. Good venue, staff friendly
Posted by Graeme on 06/02/2019
An Evening With Brian Fallon - Songs From The Hymnal, Wylam Brewery, Newcastle Upon Tyne - 5th February 2019
A nice compact venue and centrally located. Brian Fallon was, as usual, top class and cant wait for the Gaslight Anthem tour in July!
Posted by Nobby on 12/03/2018
Brian Fallon & The Howling Weather, Boiler Shop, Newcastle Upon Tyne - 8th March 2018
As expected, a fantastic night of music & banter. It was the first time we had been to the boiler shop so we arrived early & were quite impressed with the set up. Clean modern toilets ! Plenty bar staff working, decent selection of beers at main bar however only 2 beers available at mini bar & when it got busy later on& the queues started some people were getting upset to get to the front & then be told the lager pump is off. It was a bit cramped in front of the stage so we stood to the right of the stage & vision to the stage was quite limited due to the black curtained off area ? I think this was where photographers were allowed in for a short time. Vision could have been a lot better if that was removed. But overall a great night !
Posted by Graeme H on 10/03/2018
Brian Fallon & The Howling Weather, Boiler Shop, Newcastle Upon Tyne - 8th March 2018
Was great to see Dave Hause again and interesting to see how many instruments he and his brother could fit into a warm-up act! Thought Brian's voice was a bit off when he came out for the first song but may have just been nerves or just needed a bit of warming up as it was great from the second song onwards. The venue was a bit strangely shaped and a lot of people were very far away from the stage but nothing can be done about that. Great gig!
Posted by Luke C on 26/02/2018
Brian Fallon & The Howling Weather, SWX, Bristol - 25th February 2018
Excellent performance. Good sound balance throughout. A good solid and chatty performance, although if did seem a little measured again, but I suppose I've been spoiled by marathon 'give it your all' Springsteen performances. Would definitely see Brian Fallon and or Gaslight again but not at SWX - O2 Academy much better organised. Bad venue - queued for an hour and then ticket entry was split between posted tickets and emailed printed tickets and the checking for those was manual and v slow. So many further back in the queue ended up getting entry first. On leaving the single entry/exit was narrow and bottlenecked further by queues for bars, merchandising desk and toilets. The stairs were covered with discarded cups and soaking wet with no evidence of any organisation and marshalling. Any fire/security issues would have resulted in mayhem and probable injury.
Posted anonymously on 26/02/2018
Brian Fallon & The Howling Weather, SWX, Bristol - 25th February 2018