The Wildhearts live in concert.
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The Wildhearts

47
critic concert reviews
rock

How Good Are They LIVE?

Live Rating  

82
%
Based on 
47
critic concert
reviews
Last 12 Months Rating  
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Real Live Certified  

Real Live Certified badge for artists with consistent, high quality live performances and broad critical acclaim.

Critic Consensus

The Wildhearts is 'Real Live Certified' and is in the top 10% of all live performers. Based on 47 concert reviews, the critic consensus is that The Wildhearts is rated as a superb live performer, with remarkable shows that are worth seeing. The Wildhearts concert reviews describe live shows and performances as intense, powerful, thunderous, and vibrant.

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Latest Release

Acoustic Albums Are Shit Vol 4 (4 August 2023)

Artist Info

Genre
rock
Origin
Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom (1989 - present)
Bio
The Wildhearts (formed in 1989) are a rock group from Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom. The band's sound is a mixture of hard rock and melodic pop; punk metal with as much attention given to melody and songcraft as the high density of riffs, having been touted in the music press as combining influences as diverse as The Beatles and Metallica.
Has Performed With
Von Hertzen Brothers, Baby Chaos

Critic Concert Reviews

RockShot Magazine (UK)

June 6, 2024
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The Wildhearts Return With Hot New Line-Up At Shepherd’s Bush Empire

Distorted Sound Magazine (UK)

August 24, 2021
70
%
When festival season was wiped out last year thanks to the raging COVID-19 pandemic, for us music fans, it felt a hammerblow with our summer being quiet and solitary away from the buzz of a packed crown or the roar of amplified noise on an outdoor stage.

V13 (Canada)

June 29, 2021
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Normality Resumes as The Wildhearts Return to Rock Bradford Nightrain on June 18, 2021 [Show Review & Photos]

Distorted Sound Magazine (UK)

June 27, 2021
50
%
It's been a long sixteen months, hasn't it? Sixteen months that have upended the world as we knew it, imposing new restrictions on the way people go about their lives from the more mundane like face masks when shopping, to shutting down live music in its entirety.

Buzz Magazine (UK)

February 5, 2020
60
%
Tramshed, Cardiff, Mon 3 Feb

Distorted Sound Magazine (UK)

August 18, 2019
50
%
Bloodstock Festival 2019

V13 (Canada)

May 15, 2019
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THE WILDHEARTS, TOWERS OF LONDON and MASSIVE WAGONS Hit London’s Brixton Electric with a Dose of Nostalgia [Show Review]

Past critic reviews published in

Seattle Music News (USA), The AU Review (Australia), Exclaim (Canada), The Guardian (UK), mxdwn.com (USA) and more

Image Credit

Emma Farrer [CC BY-SA 4.0] via Wikimedia Commons