Born out of San Francisco, way before Bay Area Thrash metal and its like, this Californian city was the proud home of one of the most respected Hard Rock bands that that proud city produced, Yesterday And Today.

But it wasn’t until the bands third album 'Earthshaker' and a shortened moniker of Y&T that the band struck gold and from this point on it's rock n' roll history all the way, as the band stepped out of the darkness and into the limelight and set about changing the way we heard guitar driven rock n' roll.

The band are still going better and stronger than ever before with the main man Dave Meniketti at the forefront of the band, along with Phil Kennemore, John Nymann and Mike Vanderhule, this is not yesterday's band but today’s.

Opening up tonight’s show were the mighty Glyder who's first album ignited the bands rise and with their second release this continued.  Even the bands EP produced the same positive ripples throughout the rock community.  Now it was time for the band to hit the stages once more and give us a slice of pure Celtic Hard Rock Glyder style.

The pace was brought down just a little as the band went into the title track of their second opus ‘Playground For Life’, which sounded quite superb much better live. Then it was time to return to the debut release for ‘Stargazer’, during which Cullen tried to get the Academy choir going.

Something from the new 'Weather The Storm' EP was next, the storming ‘Love Never Dies’, which gave guitarist Pete a real chance to show off his stuff as he whipped up a storm.  This was followed by a short drum solo from Dave Ryan which led nicely into the highlight of the set the monstrous rocker 'PUP (Pretty Useless People)', a song that really got the crowd going and deservedly so, as it’s a top notch rock track.

The set was rounded off with another high point in the set the fantastic ‘Gambler Blues’, a thumping hard rocker that rounded off yet another superb set from the Emerald Isles finest export.

Now when it comes to influential bands that made their mark on a generation then you can't get any bigger than Y&T.  Their mix of great guitar driven rock and Meniketti’s superb rock vocals have made their mark on most rock fans over the years.  And many of those diehard fans have come out in force tonight to see their heroes once more tread the boards here in Newcastle.

The crowd had come to see a rock show and by god they got one! As the band whipped the crowd once more with ‘Don’t Stop Running’ before bringing a little bluesy feel to the proceedings with ‘Lucy’, again with Meniketti whipping up a storm with Nymann not far behind.

But it was the likes of ‘Dirty Girl’ and ‘Don’t Wanna Lose’ that really made the venue a melting pot of rock as these classics turned grown men into teenagers once more and saw more than a few let their passions run wild as they reached eagerly out to the band like the excited teenagers they once were.

The rock n' roll freight train just kept on running as hit after hit were played with ‘Black Tiger’ and 'Meansteak’ getting some of the biggest cheers from the crowd.  These songs needed no introductions, just the first few chords and everyone and I mean everyone, was ready to sing along with Meniketti.

But highlight of the night for many fans was ‘Rescue Me’, a track that featured heavily on Alan Robson’s "Hot And Heavy Radio Show" many moons ago and became a North East anthem as one of the most requested tracks on the show.

It wasn’t long before the band returned on stage for just one more and this one Meniketti dedicated to the audience tonight, the superfluous tones of ‘I Believe In You’ rounded off a great set for a band that just keep on going and going.