Arctic Monkeys – Manchester Arena Review 06/09/18

After the critically acclaimed record that was AM, Arctic Monkeys are back, touring their latest and most divisive album to date; Tranquility Base Hotel + Casino. Delivering a career spanning set, the band take to the stage for the first night of their latest mammoth UK tour to a sell out crowd, showing why the band have become […]

Leeds & Reading 2019: Who Should Play

Now that Leeds & Reading 2018 is over, its time to look ahead to next year. This year was probably the most ambitious line up the festival has tried in recent memory. However, it felt like it fell a bit flat as many of the acts didn’t fit well on the line up amongst others. […]

Lewis’ Album Reviews Presents: Regret The Past #1: What About Now by Bon Jovi.

Source: Wikipedia Album Information Album: What About Now Artist: Bon Jovi Genre: Rock Release Date: 8th March 2013 Bon Jovi are: Jon Bon Jovi: Vocals/Acoustic Guitar Richie Sambora: Guitars/Backing Vocals David Bryan: Keyboards Tico Torres: Drums & Percussion Hugh McDonald: Bass Additional Musicians John Shanks: Production/Assistant Guitarist Introduction We all have our favourite albums, the […]

Lewis’ Album Reviews: All The Right Reasons by Nickelback

Album Information Album: All The Right Reasons Artist: Nickelback Genre: Alternative Rock/Metal Released: 4th October 2005 Nickelback are: Chad Kroeger: Lead Vocals/Guitar Ryan Peake: Rhythm Guitar/Backing Vocals Mike Kroeger: Bass Daniel Adair: Drums & Percussion/Backing Vocals Other Musicians: Timmy Dawson: Piano on Savin’ Me and If Everyone Cared Dimebag Darrell: Guitar Solo on Side Of […]

The Gaslight Anthem – Manchester Apollo Review 25/07/18

Ten years ago, New Jersey rockers; The Gaslight Anthem released their seminal album; The ’59 Sound and after being on hiatus since 2015, the band decided to hit the road for a string of shows to celebrate the anniversary of its release by playing the album in its entirety. Since I heard this album for the […]

Lewis’ Favourite Songs That Tell Stories Relating To Him: When We Were Us: By Bon Jovi

Hello everyone, Lewis is back here again, and I know I didn’t do an album review last week, as I have been busy with work and also it was the World Cup Semi Final last week, and everything else, and last Thursday, there was this awful news of Autistic Children becoming excluded from schools across […]

Five Songs To Listen To This Week

Decided that I’m going to take a break from writing about films lately in order to write a little bit more about music instead. I am always listening to music and I love recommending great bands/artists to people and people recommending music to me. So each week I’m going to give ten songs for you […]

Lewis’ Album Reviews: The Circle By Bon Jovi

Source: Wikipedia Album Information Album: The Circle Artist: Bon Jovi Release Date: 10th November 2009 Genre: Rock Bon Jovi: Jon Bon Jovi: Vocals Richie Sambora: Guitar/Backing Vocals David Bryan: Keyboards/Piano Tico Torres: Drums/Percussion Information Of The Band and Album When a classic rock band has been going on for over 25 years (at the time […]

My Top 10 All Time Favourite Albums #9: WALLS By Kings Of Leon

Source: eBay Album Information Album: WALLS Artis: Kings Of Leon Genre: Alternative Rock/Punk/Southern Rock Release Date: 14th October 2016 Hello, everyone, it’s Lewis here again and I am back again, carrying on down the list of my Top 10 Favourite Albums of all time and not jumping it, like on the last album review I […]

Foo Fighters – Etihad Stadium Review 19/06/06

Should have posted this a few days ago but I’ve only just recovered from it! On their enormous world tour in support of ninth album; Concrete & Gold, Foo Fighters roll into Manchester to perform at the Eithad Stadium which is packed to the rafters with 65,000 fans eagerly waiting to see Dave Grohl and co […]

My Top Ten Favourite Albums Of All Time #4: Feed The Machine By Nickelback

Source: Wikipedia Album Information Album Name: Feed The Machine Artist: Nickelback Released: 16th June 2017 Genre: Alternative Rock/Metal Nickelback are: Chad Kroeger: Lead Vocals/Guitar. Ryan Peake: Rhythm Guitar/Backing Vocals. Mike Kroeger: Bass. Daniel Adair: Drums/Percussion/Backing Vocals Hello, everyone, it’s Lewis here, and I am back with another album review, for my Top 10 Favourite Albums […]

‘Secrets For The Mad’: Review

I am late to this bandwagon but this is a review for ‘Secrets for the mad’ by Dodie Clarke. Dodie is a Youtuber/musician who’s original songs are almost guaranteed to hit you in the feels. The book was released on the 2nd of November 2017 and shares a similar name with her song ‘Secret for […]

Album Review: Kanye west- Ye

Kanye West’s newest album Ye feels a little out of the blue. He had himself hinted an album would be dropping soon, but many Kanye fans have learnt not to expect anything from one of mainstream hip-hop’s most infamous stars. Another surprise might be the 7 track 23 minute run time of the album, another […]

My Top 10 Favourite Albums Of All Time #10: Weathered By Creed

Source: Wikipedia Album Information Name: Weathered Artist: Creed Release Date: 20th November 2001 Genre: Alternative Rock/Metal Creed: Scott Stapp: Vocals. Mark Tremonti: Guitar/Bass. Scott Phillips: Drums/Keyboards Hello, everyone, it’s Lewis here, now this is my first review of my Top 10 Favourite Albums Of All Time, counting down from 10 to 1, and that doesn’t […]

Top 10 Favourite Albums Of All Time

Hello, everyone, it’s Lewis here and I am here to do something that is quite special to me and something easy to get me started in the Quixotic group. It’s probably safe to say, that everyone has their favourite albums and for the next few weeks I will be posting reviews of my top ten […]

SHINee say “Good Evening” in colourful new music video

Having recently celebrated their 10 year anniversary since their debut; SHINee are finally back, back, back with a new MV! The long-awaited comeback has definitely been received by the fans as in just two days the music video has already been viewed over 5 million times. SHINee’s songs are always a breath of fresh air; […]

Smooth Driving Playlist

Keeping with this weeks theme, I thought about sharing my driving playlist with you all. It’s what makes driving easier, special and put my nerves at rest when at the wheel, I just feel myself and apart from being safe (to me) that’s what driving should be about. DISCLAIMER; PLEASE DON’T MESS WITH MUSIC WHEN […]

Frank Turner – Manchester Academy Review 13/04/18

Let’s begin at the beginning…. On Friday the 13th of April, singer/songwriter Frank Turner and his band; The Sleeping Souls started their mammoth new world tour in support of their upcoming seventh album Be More Kind at Manchester Academy. This was my thirteenth time seeing Frank, but this time I was unable to experience the intimacy of the […]

Quixotic’s Very First Podcast: The Marvel One

It’s finally come a time where team Quixotic (well, most of us) got together and made a podcast! We thought long and hard… for all of five seconds… as to what we’d be chatting about this week and Marvel was certainly the only thing most of us wanted to talk about! So, join Alan […]

My Top 5 Anime BGM

Hello, I’m feeling very musical this week and so I’m going to be listing off my top 5 pieces of music from anime, these pieces of music specifically are my top 10 background pieces of music, selected from OST’s. Some of these are addictive, some are mystical, some are just good beats and some are […]