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Monthly Archives: February 2018
Gig review: STONE BROKEN – Islington Assembly Hall, London, 24 February 2018
One of the healthiest factors in the current music scene is that, alongside long-established and recently reformed names, a whole new generation of classic rock bands are coming through and growing in popularity. Indeed one of the fastest-growing Facebook groups … Continue reading
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Tagged Bad Flowers, blues rock, Chris Davis, gig, hard rock, Jared James Nichols, Kieron Conroy, review, Rich Moss, Robin Haycock, Stone Broken
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Book review: GORDY MARSHALL – Postcards From A Rock & Roll Tour
Splendid Books Limited – 251 pages paperback [Publication date: December 2012] ‘Postcards From A Rock & Roll Tour’ is: “a series of personal daily journals,” or as the Moody Blues co-drummer and author Gordy Marshall further elucidates: “more like extended … Continue reading
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Tagged book, Gordy Marshall, Graeme Edge, memoirs, Moody Blues, Postcards From A Rock & Roll Tour, review, rock, Tour
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Album review: PARADISE LOST – Host
Nuclear Blast [Release date 16.03.18] ‘Host’ was Paradise Lost’s seventh album and was originally released in 1999 on major label EMI. It certainly caused a major stir amongst their fans at the time with its electro/synth led sound, a far cry … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Depeche Mode, electronic, Gregor Macintosh, Host, Nick Holmes, Paradise Lost, re-issue, review, rock
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Album review: PHIL LANZON – If You Think I’m Crazy
Following the GRTR! reviewers’ choice for ‘Best of 2018′ Top Album, David Randall chatted to Phil Lanzon at the start of Uriah Heep’s UK tour in December 2018. First broadcast on Get Ready to ROCK! Radio. Phil Lanzon Ditties/Cargo Records … Continue reading
Album review: AXEL RUDI PELL – Knights Call
Steamhammer/SPV [Release date: 23.03.18] The prolific German axe-meister Axel Rudi Pell is back with another slab of committed power/melodic metal. Like clockwork, he releases an album of new material every two years. ‘Knights Call’ is Pell’s seventeenth release since leaving … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Axel Rudi Pell, Knights Call, metal, review, rock, Steeler
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Album review: BEN HARPER & CHARLIE MUSSELWHITE – No Mercy In This Land
Anti- [Release date 30.03.18] Ben Harper and Charlie Musselwhite were introduced to one another by blues legend John Lee Hooker, who thought the two men should play together, so he brought them into the studio to record a song called … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Ben Harper, blues, Charlie Musselwhite, Grammy, guitar, harmonica, No Mercy In This Land, review
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Gig review: ALESTORM – Forum, Kentish Town, London, 22 February 2018
I pitched up at the Forum as Rumahoy were prowling the stage bashing out infectious lumps of good time rock to an enthusiastic, packed house of swashbucklers and buccaneers. Pirate metal was in town. The band were suitably attired as … Continue reading
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Tagged 22 February 2018, Alestorm, Forum, gig, live, No Grave But The Sea, pirate metal, Piratefest 2018, review, Rumahoy
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Album review: GLEB KOLYADIN – s/t
KScope [Release date 23.02.18] Gleb Kolyadin is one half of the highy-rated (and award-winning) Russian progsters iamthemorning. This, his first solo album, reveals his inspirations no more so than on the breezy opener ‘Insight’, ‘Kaleidoscope’ and ‘Echo Sigh Strand’. These … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Gavin Harrison, Gleb Kolyadin, Iamthemorning, Jordan Rudess, Nick Beggs, piano, prog, progressive, review, Steve Hogarth, Theo Travis
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Gig review: NEW GENERATION BLUES 2018 – Boom Boom Club, Sutton, 23 February 2018
The New Generation Blues 2018 rolled into the Boom Boom Club for the penultimate date of a UK tour that has seen them work their way from Hartlepool to Worthing. The Danny Giles Band (aka The DBG), Red Butler and … Continue reading
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Tagged Alex Butler, Billy Cobham, Boom Boom Club, Brent Hutchinson, Brent Hutchinson Band, Connor Osgood, Dan Spellman, Danny Giles, Danny Giles Band, Danny Giles Jon Chase, gig, ian Hill, Johnny Guitar Watson, Mike Topp, New Generation Blues 2018, Pat Garvey, Red Butler, review, Sutton, The DGB
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Album review: BOREALIS – The Offering
AFM Records [Release date 23.03.18] Borealis started out in 2005 as a female fronted symphonic metal band before guitarist Matt Marinelli took over vocal duties in 2007. They have changed bassists since their last album with Trevor McBride replacing original … Continue reading
Album review: VOODOO CIRCLE – Raised On Rock
AFM Records [Release date 09.02.18] Inspired by the likes of Rainbow and Deep Purple, Germany’s Voodoo Circle have been delivering melodic hard rock for a decade now. Recently, Voodoo Circle underwent a metamorphosis that both of those aforementioned bands have had … Continue reading
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Tagged AFM Records, album, Alex Beyrodt, hard rock, melodic, Rainbow, Raised On Rock, review, rock, VOODOO CIRCLE
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Quick plays: VARVARA, I’M WITH HER, CHIARA BERARDELLI
VARVARA Go [Release date 23.02.18] Hailing from Finland (the most exciting thing to come out of Finland since fromer Liverpool player Jari Litmanen according to one previous review), are based around guitarist/vocalist Mikko Kari. This is the band’s fourth album and is one for … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Chiara Beradelli, Crooked Still, folk, I'm With Her, indie, melodic, Mikko Kiri, Nickel Cfeek, reviews, rock, Varvara
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Album review: CATS IN SPACE – Cats Alive!
Harmony Factory [Release date 23.02.18] Cats In Space had a busy 2017 live-wise, supporting the likes of Thunder (where this show was recorded at Cardiff Motorpoint Arena in March), Deep Purple and Status Quo, along with festival appearances at Cropredy … Continue reading
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Tagged 10CC, 70s music, album, Cats Alive!, Cats In Space, classic rock, ELO, live, pop rock, power pop, review, rock
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Album review: THE TEMPERANCE MOVEMENT – A Deeper Cut
Earache [Release date 16.02.18] Where to begin when all the superlatives have been exhausted? Widely and justifiably-touted as Britain’s Best New Band since……that “Classic Rock Best New Band 2013″ award still sits on their shoulders like your trusty old college … Continue reading
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Tagged A Deeper Cut, album, blues, Phil Campbell, review, rock, The Black Crowes, The Temperance Movement
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Album review: STYX – Caught In The Act
BGO Records [Release date 09.02.18] BGO Records are re-issuing ‘Caught In The Act’, Styx’s live album originally released in 1984, as a double CD in a slip case, remastered and with sleeve notes from Neil Daniels. ‘Caught In The Act’ … Continue reading
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Tagged album, BGO Records, Caught In The Act, classic rock, concert, Dennis De Young, James Young, Kilry Was Here, live, melodic, melodic rock, review, rock, Styx, Tommy Shaw
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Gig review: TOWERS OF LONDON – New Cross Inn, London 14 February 2018
A decade or so ago glam punk outfit the Towers Of London were steadily building up a reputation. Tours supporting the likes of the Pogues and the New York Dolls. Festival slots at Reading and Leeds and Download. But then … Continue reading
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Tagged 14 February 2018, Donny Tourette, gig, glam, London, New Cross Inn, punk, review, rock, Towers Of London
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Album review: RICHIE KOTZEN, IAN GILLAN (reissues)
The Store For Music [Release date 17.11.17/23.02.18] A welcome outing for three late-1990s solo albums from the underrated Richie Kotzen, repackaged as Telecasters & Stratocasters: Klassic Kotzen. Kotzen might be best known for his stints in Poison and Mr.Big and … Continue reading
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Tagged Accidentally On Purpose, album, Break It All Down, compilation, Deep Purple, funk, Gillan, Ian Gillan, Ian Gillan Band, Naked Thunder, R&B, reissue, review, Richie Kotzen, rock, Roger Glover, Something To Say, soul, Telecasters & Stratocasters: Klassic Kotzen, What Is
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Album review: DEAD CITY RUINS – Never Say Die
AFM Records [Release date 13.04.18] Now here’s something of a novelty, a rock band from Australia who actually don’t sound like AC/DC – meet Dead City Ruins from Melbourne and their third offering Never Say Die. Built on very solid … Continue reading
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Tagged Budgie, Dead City Ruins, Glenn Hughes, hard rock, Never Say Die, review, rock, Thin Lizzy
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Album review: GEOFF EVERETT – Night Patrol
www.geoffeverett.co.uk A couple of years ago, GRTR! reviewed a very tasty trio of albums by The Geoff Everett Band – “Adult Show” (2011), “The Quick and the Dead” (2014) and “Cut and Run” (2015). Geoff is one of Britain’s finest … Continue reading
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Tagged album, blues, Geoff Everett, guitarist, John Peel, Night Patrol, review, rock, THE WHO
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Album review: DANNY BRYANT – Revelation
Jazzhaus Records [Release date 20.04.18] For an album that Danny Bryant tells us features songs that: “confront memories and emotions I didn’t really want to face”, and material with: “dark subject matter”, it might have made sense to include a … Continue reading
Album review: TINSLEY ELLIS – Winning Hand
Alligator Records [Release date 12.01.18] Tinsley Ellis has long been a dependable roadhouse rocke who is equally happy tearing things up as he is searching for an emotive connection. Following in the slipstream of his last CD the soulful ‘Red … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Alligator Records, B.B. King, blues, funk, guitar, Kevin McKendree, Leon Russell, review, Robert Cray, Robin Trower, rock, Tinsley Ellis, Winning Hand
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Album review: MITCH WOODS – Friends Along The Way
eOne Music [Release date 29.09.17] It takes a brave musician to oversee a mostly unplugged, all star duo and trio compilation album spanning over 30 years. But West coast pianist Mitch Woods is as fearless as he is musically talented … Continue reading
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Tagged album, blues, boogie, Champion Jack Dupree, Charlie Musselwhite, Cyril Neville, Elvin Bishop, Friends Along The Way, James Cotton, John Hammond, John Lee Hooker, Jump, Kenny Neal, Marcia Ball, Mitch Woods, piano, review, Ruthie Foster, Taj Mahal Joe Louis Walker, Van Morrison
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Album review: KRIS BARRAS – The Divine And Dirty
Provogue [Release date 23.03.18] If there’s a dichotomy at the heart of ’The Divine And Dirty’ – Kris Barras’s debut album for Provogue – it’s probably a reference to his first hand knowledge of what to takes to make it. … Continue reading
Album review: TOM TOOMEY – Turquoise
Pete Feenstra chatted to Tom Toomey in his Feature show broadcast on Get Ready to ROCK! Radio, Sunday 25 February 2018, including tracks from ‘Turquoise’. Giant Records [Release date 06.01.18] Tom Toomey is best known as the guitarist with The … Continue reading
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Tagged album, blues, Colin Blunstone, David Bowie, Flora Purim, Frank Zappa, fusion, guitar, interview, John Devine, Jon Anderson, Latino, Mark Knopfler, Melissa Kaplan, Pat Metheny, Paul Young, pop, review, rock, soul, Steely Dan, The Zombies, Tom Toomey, Turquoise, William Purefoy, world music
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Album review: JOHN MAYALL – Three For The Road – A 2017 Live Recording
Forty Below Records [Release date 23.02.18] Now here’s a British blues legend of ever there was one. A noted vocalist, pianist and guitarist, John Mayall is probably best known for his band The Blues Breakers, part of the 60s blues … Continue reading
