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Album review: CATFISH – Time To Fly

Posted on March 31, 2025 by petefeenstra
Catfish - Time To Fly

Self Release [Release date 22.03.25] ‘Time To Fly’ is both a well chosen title track and a conceptual theme for the final Catfish album which marks the legacy of the late Matt Long, the band’s singer songwriter, guitarist. It’s an … Continue reading →

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News: HOLLOW SOULS, BTO, LEMMY (April 2025)

Posted on March 31, 2025 by jason
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Bachman-Turner Overdrive have released the single ’60 Years Ago’, their first new music in over 25 years. Hinder release their new album ‘Back To Life’ on May 23. Kris Barras’ Hollow Souls (pictured) features Kris Barras, Josiah J Manning and Phoebe … Continue reading →

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Feature: GRTR! Greats – WISHBONE ASH

Posted on March 30, 2025 by GRTR! HQ
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Photos: Andy Nathan In 1977, after their successful ‘Front Page News’ tour, Wishbone Ash’s record label posted an advert in the music papers saying “not bad for four boring old farts’, or words to that effect. A time traveller from … Continue reading →

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Gig review: SOUTH OF SALEM – Thekla, Bristol, 27 March 2025

Posted on March 29, 2025 by GRTR! HQ
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It’s quite a novelty stepping on to an old German cargo ship to see a gig in the cargo hold and in 2024 Thekla celebrated its 40th anniversary as a live music venue. Judging by the snaking crowd greeting the … Continue reading →

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Album review: MILTON HIDE – Bungaroosh

Posted on March 29, 2025 by jason
MILTON HIDE - Bungaroosh

Bandcamp [Release date 19.04.25] Album number three from the Milton Hide, aka the duo of Jim Tipler (vocals, guitar) and Jo Church (vocals, clarinet) and the album was produced by Dandelion Charm’s John Fowler (who also played drums, guitar & … Continue reading →

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Gig review: JIZZY PEARL’S LOVE/HATE – The Underworld, Camden, March 13 2025

Posted on March 29, 2025 by jason
JIZZY PEARL'S LOVE HATE

Celebrating the 35th anniversary of the band’s debut album “Blackout in The Red Room”, Love/Hate frontman Jizzy Pearl led his current incarnation of the band through a decade defying gig that was reminiscent of the original band back in the … Continue reading →

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Album review: WISHBONE ASH – At The BBC 1970 – 1988

Posted on March 27, 2025 by petefeenstra
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Madfish [Release Date: 28.03.25] The Wishbone Ash At The BBC 1970 -88 box set will please more fans than it will disappoint. It comprises 11 CD’s of never-before-heard sessions and live concerts restored and re-mastered, plus a DVD spanning the 1971, ’77 … Continue reading →

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Album review: IZZY REIGN

Posted on March 25, 2025 by GRTR! HQ
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FiXT Music [Release date: 21.03.25] Each week, when compiling our radio sequence ‘New to GRTR!’, there have been an increasing number of artists fusing electronica elements or EDM (electronic dance music) with rock and alternative metal. Maybe I am just … Continue reading →

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Album review: ALLIANCE – Before Our Eyes

Posted on March 24, 2025 by brianmc
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Frontiers Music [Release date: 28.03.25] Before Our Eyes is the new album from Alliance: Robert (3, GTR) Berry, David (Sammy Hagar) Lauser and Gary (Boston) Pihl. It’s their first on Frontiers, and only their sixth in 30 years. The band … Continue reading →

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Album review : STONE FOUNDATION – The Revival Of Survival

Posted on March 23, 2025 by brianmc
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100% Records [Release date : 28.03.25] Eleventh album from English 8 piece soul band, Stone Foundation. It’s said that you should judge people by the company they keep. If four time Grammy nominee, Melba Moore; Nina Simone soundalike, Sheree Dubois; … Continue reading →

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Album review : CARE OF NIGHT – Live At The Sweden Rock Festival

Posted on March 23, 2025 by brianmc
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Frontiers Music [Release date: 28.03.25] With three highly rated Melodic Rock albums under their belt, Sweden’s Care Of Night were a welcome act at their home country’s annual Rock Festival last year. Along with others on Frontiers melodic rock roster, … Continue reading →

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Album review : THE QUIREBOYS – Hey You! The Parlophone Years 1989-93 (4 CD Boxset)

Posted on March 22, 2025 by brianmc
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Cherry Red [Release date : 28.03.25] From Choirboys to Queerboys to Quire Boys. This 4 CD set is a compact quartet of Quireboy’s music, comprising their first two charting albums, with bonus tracks, plus an album of demos and an … Continue reading →

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EP review: LITTLE LORE – River Stories

Posted on March 22, 2025 by jason
LITTLE LORE – River Stories

Bandcamp [Release date 04.04.25] Little Lore is back with another EP and one with an interesting back story. Over to Little Lore for more on the EP’s creation – “In November 2023, I was invited to become songwriter in residency … Continue reading →

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Gig review: GRAHAM GOULDMAN – Cadogan Hall, London, 20 March 2025

Posted on March 22, 2025 by GRTR! HQ
GRAHAM GOULDMAN - The Apex, Bury St Edmunds, 7 March 2025

Graham Gouldman’s ‘Heart Full Of Songs’ is an inspirational evening built round his own remarkable song history and related stories. The show is fleshed out by glistening harmonies, salient hooks and a set list which interweaves the substance of his … Continue reading →

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Album review : GINEVRA – Beyond Tomorrow

Posted on March 21, 2025 by brianmc
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Frontiers Music [Release date : 28.03.25] The name of Swedish “supergroup”, Ginevra has its origins in the Celtic, Norman and Italian languages. Sources seem to settle on “White Phantom” as its meaning. This is the band’s second album. The band: … Continue reading →

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Album review : JINGLE JANGLE MORNING – The 1960′s US Folk Rock Explosion,

Posted on March 20, 2025 by brianmc
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Cherry Red [Release date : 28.03.25] From the beginning to the end, this is five star stuff. Heavily influenced by The Beatles “invasion” of the USA in the sixties, electrified Folk Rock became the currency of US rock’n’roll. This 3 … Continue reading →

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Gig review: THE DARKNESS – G Live, Guildford, 11 March 2025

Posted on March 15, 2025 by andynathan
THE DARKNESS – Regent Theatre, Ipswich, 6 March 2025

Say what you like about them- and many still do- the tale of The Darkness is a classic tale of redemption. The band that rose too fast to be the biggest thing in the pop let alone the rock world, … Continue reading →

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Album review : CLIMIE FISHER – Everything (Deluxe 5 CD boxset)

Posted on March 14, 2025 by brianmc
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Cherry Red [Release date : 21.03.25] Cherry Red released a hugely expanded version of Climie Fisher’s second album, Coming In For The Kill, last year. They’ve now totally outdone themselves with this 5 CD boxset of the duo’s preceding (and … Continue reading →

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Book review: HOGGIN’ THE PAGE – Groundhogs The Classic Years by Martyn Hanson

Posted on March 13, 2025 by GRTR! HQ
HOGGIN' THE PAGE - Groundhogs The Classic Years by Martyn Hanson

Sonicbond Publishing [Publication date 07.02.25] Sonicbond have been well featured at GRTR! with their “On track…” and “Decades” imprints amongst a plethora of publications since 2018. The publisher has now taken to resurrecting books out of print or giving these … Continue reading →

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Album review: DON AIREY – Pushed To The Edge

Posted on March 13, 2025 by jason
DON AIREY - Pushed To The Edge

earMUSIC [Release date 28.03.25] Current Deep Purple ivory tinkler Don Airey, he of over 300 album recordings since the mid 70s, releases his new album while Deep Purple are still working hard. This man never stops. And this is Don’s … Continue reading →

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Album review: LIV KRISTINE – Amor Vincit Omnia

Posted on March 13, 2025 by GRTR! HQ
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Metalville [Release date 25.04.25] Following Liv Kristine’s acrimonious departure from Leaves Eyes there have been a series of solo album reissues, a new solo album in 2023, although combining now with her other interests in wellness and voice coaching. Liv’s … Continue reading →

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Book review: On track… DAVID BOWIE, GERRY RAFFERTY, TALKING HEADS, THE BEATLES, DEEP PURPLE

Posted on March 12, 2025 by GRTR! HQ
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Sonicbond Publishing [Publication dates Feb.-Mar. 2025] The On track… series continues and the first of 2025 includes David Bowie 1983-2016, the perfect complement to the earlier tome covering 1964-1982. This time Don Klees reflects the genre-changing nature of Bowie, especially … Continue reading →

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Album review: SIGN OF THE WOLF

Posted on March 11, 2025 by jason
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Escape Music [Release date 25.04.25] Sign of the Wolf’s debut album is an interesting one as it was created by Fireworks magazine’s Bruce Mee, who wanted to bring back that gloriously epic and melodic hard rock sound from the early … Continue reading →

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Gig review: FISH – O2 Academy, Glasgow, 9 March 2025

Posted on March 11, 2025 by david.wilson
FISH – O2 Academy, Glasgow, 9 March 2025

‘So here I am once more in the playground of the broken hearts…’ Fish and his music have been a constant in my life for the past 42 years. I first saw him onstage back on the 31st December 1983 … Continue reading →

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Gig review: WILL WILDE- 100 Club, London, 4 March 2025

Posted on March 10, 2025 by andynathan
WILL WILDE- 100 Club, London, 4 March 2025

In the new wave of rising British blues stars, Will Wilde is something of an anomaly in that among all those guitar hot shots, his chosen instrument of speciality is the harmonica. He is clearly building a name for himself … Continue reading →

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