Aimee has been quite busy arranging lots of gigs over the coming months ... very good of her I'm sure you'll agree.
Anyway, here is a list of the events we're going to and will be reviewing for this year :
Jan 30th - We Are The Ocean, Nottingham Rescue Rooms
Feb 2nd - Angels and Airwaves, Manchester Academy
Feb 4th - Russell Howard, MEN Arena ... I know, I know, not exactly a rock gig but an event is an event!
Feb 11th - We The Kings, Manchester Academy 3
Feb 13th - Feeder, Manchester Academy
Feb 15th - Kerrang Tour featuring Good Charlotte, Four Year Strong and Framing Hanley, Manchester Academy
Feb 18th - My Chemical Romance, MEN Arena
Feb 23rd - We Are The Ocean, Stoke Sugarmill
Mar 4th - Plan B, Blackpool Empress Ballroom (Girls night out!)
Mar 9th - D.R.U.G.S, Nottingham Rock City
Mar 11th - All Time Low, Manchester Apollo
Mar 23rd - The Maine, Manchester Academy
Mar 28th - Funeral For A Friend, Stoke Sugarmill
Apr 8th - The Blackout, Manchester Academy 2
Apr 17th - Hit The Deck Festival, Nottingham Rock City
May 5th - Twin Atlantic, Manchester Academy 3
May 7th - Derren Brown Svengali, Regent Theatre Stoke
May 16th - Panic! At The Disco, Manchester Academy
June 1st - Framing Hanley, Wolverhampton Slade Rooms
June 10th-12th - Download Festival, Donington
June 17th - Breaking Satellites, Underground, Hanley (Aimee and her friends)
July 10th - Sonisphere Festival, Knebworth
July 18th - Deaf Havana, Wrexham Central Station
August 26th - Glassjaw, Sugarmill Stoke (Kids only)
August 27th - Leeds Festival
Sept 14th - Young Guns, Manchester Academy 2
Sept 16th - Attack! Attack! Manchester Academy 3
Oct 1st - Hard-Fi, Wolverhampton Wulfrun Hall
Oct 9th - Kids In Glass Houses, Wolverhampton Wulfrun Hall
Oct 10th - Kids In Glass Houses, Manchester Academy
Oct 12th - Kids in Glass Houses, Nottingham Rock City
Oct 19th - 36 Crazyfists, Stoke Sugarmill (Luke)
Oct 23rd - Bowling For Soup, Hanley Victoria Hall
Oct 27th - Funeral For A Friend, Manchester Academy
Oct 28th - The Blackout, Leeds University Union
Nov 5th - The Blackout, Manchester Academy
Nov 16th - Madina Lake, Manchester Academy 2
Judging by this list it would probably be easier for us to move to Manchester ... I'd save a fortune in petrol!
I've no doubt the list won't actually end there, but going to Download has limited how many other gigs we can go to this year ... unless my adorable children would care to get holiday jobs? Worth a try I suppose!