News: FM – new album and Steve Overland interview (March 2018)

On Sunday 4 March in the first hour of his weekly show on Get Ready to ROCK! Radio, David Randall chatted to FM’s Steve Overland and played tracks from ‘Atomic Generation’. In this exclusive edit, Steve chats about career highlights since the 1970s with Wildlife and FM in 2018 (6:32) Full interview…

Melodic rockers FM released their eleventh studio album – ‘Atomic Generation’ – in March via Frontiers Records. The band’s frontman Steve Overland chatted to Get Ready to ROCK! about FM and the album and this interview is now available via Mixcloud.

The album release will be followed by the band’s first-ever USA appearance in May headlining MelodicRock Fest 5 in Chicago, IL. FM will also headline at the sister festival MelodicRock Fest Scandinavia in June.

UK dates with Dare and Toby Jepson in May will be followed by a further UK tour later this year.

18 May London O2 Shepherds Bush Empire
19 May Norwich Waterfront
25 May Glasgow Garage
26 May Newcastle O2 Academy
9 June Manchester O2 Ritz

On Sunday 4 March Steve Overland chatted to David Randall on David’s weekly show on Get Ready to ROCK! Radio. The feature included tracks from the new album.

Says David: “Get Ready to ROCK! has supported FM since 2007 when they reformed and featured many album and gig reviews. We were there at the Metropolis album launch in February 2010 – their “comeback” album – and it is timely to catch up with the band again via our chat with Steve ahead of a new album release.”

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