Pilgrim Fathers set the controls for the heart of the south and open a door to another dimension in Portsmouth’s Wedgewood Rooms.

Controversial spazzcore homoeroticists Gay For Johnny Depp prove to Portsmouth that they’re all mouth and no trousers … literally.

Texan doom-thrashers The Sword gallop rough-shod through Portsmouth, leaving dead scenes and punctured eardrums in their wake.

Clean-cut rockers Brigade bring the acceptable face of guitar-driven pop to a largely indifferent audience on the opening night of the Aiden tour.

Stoner bluesmen Dead Meadow finish their short jaunt around the UK with an intensely brilliant set at Brighton’s The Freebutt.

As they end their UK tour in Brighton, The Dillinger Escape Plan’s mathcore blitzkrieg is not only louder than war but also more compelling and intense.

Tairrie B of My Ruin doesn’t take kindly to sexist hecklers - and nor does the audience at the band’s Southampton show.

Hard-hitting London three-piece Die So Fluid play a strong professional set of modern alternative rock as support for My Ruin in Southampton.

It’s good-time hard-rock fun all the way as Stone Gods command worship and praise from a small Sunday crowd in Portsmouth’s Wedgewood Rooms.

Hardcore heroes From Autumn To Ashes reappear on British soil after a lengthy hiatus, and set about proving that emo wasn’t always a term of contempt.