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Album review : URIAH HEEP – The Shadow And The Wind: 1973-74 (5 CD Boxset)

Posted on November 23, 2025 by brianmc

Cherry Red [Release date 28.11.25] CD1: Live 1973 CD2: US Radio Show plus Radio shows, Mixes for radio, Love Machine Rock’n’Roll Medley CD3 : Sweet Freedom +5 bonus (1973) CD4: Wonderworld +6 bonus (1974) CD5 : Live At Shepperton Another … Continue reading →

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Gig review: CURVED AIR – The Sub Rooms, Stroud, 20 November 2025

Posted on November 22, 2025 by GRTR! HQ

To those of a certain age and male – most of the audience here tonight in fact – Sonja Kristina was a poster girl for rock in the early 1970s. Pre-Stevie Nicks, pre-Debbie Harry. Interestingly she told me in 2015 … Continue reading →

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Gig review: MARTIN BARRE & FRIENDS – Theatre Severn, Shrewsbury, 18 November 2025

Posted on November 22, 2025 by GRTR! HQ

Theatre Severn was a lot more salubrious than the Lomax in Liverpool 11 years before. In my recent interview with Martin Barre I reminded him of our last face to face chat before a gig he described as the … Continue reading →

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Single reviews: PYLON POETS, FOARN, FORGE HOUNDS, CHOLE CHADWICK

Posted on November 22, 2025 by jason

Pylon Poets – Not to Blame (feat. Call Yourself Karma) Big fans of Pylon Poets here at GRTR! and following the release of their album ‘Demise of the Divine’ in Jun, Pylon Poets have teamed up with Call Yourself Karma … Continue reading →

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Single review: THE SIDESHOWS – Brand New

Posted on November 22, 2025 by jason

European Phonographic Sami Yaffa has been the bass player for some mighty fine bands over the years – Hanoi Rocks, New York Dolls, Michael Monroe Band, Joan Jett & The Blackhearts and several more. He has now teamed up with … Continue reading →

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Gig review: NINEBARROW – Harwell Village Hall, 21 November 2025

Posted on November 22, 2025 by jason

Ninebarrow (Jon Whitley and Jay LaBouchardiere) are back for another sold out gig at Harwell Village Hall and an early start & finish as they are now parents and have babysitters to consider! In fact, as seemingly many gig goers … Continue reading →

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Album review : THE BLUES BROTHERS – The Lost Recordings (blue vinyl)

Posted on November 22, 2025 by brianmc

Z2Comics [Release date : 21.11.25] “From The Vaults Of John Belushi Comes 13 Unreleased Live Performances of THE BLUES BROTHERS” An apocryphal tale you might think, but apparently the tapes referenced were found by his late wife, Judy Belushi, in … Continue reading →

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Gig review: ERJA LYYTINEN- Half Moon, Putney, London, 18 November 2025

Posted on November 21, 2025 by andynathan

Finnish blues rocker Erja Lyttinen, dubbed ‘the queen of the slide guitar’, has been a familiar name on the British scene for a while. Indeed I see it was as long ago as 2005 that our blues guru Pete Feenstra … Continue reading →

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EP review: CHASING TWISTERS – Chasing the Season

Posted on November 21, 2025 by jason

Website [Release date 28.11.25] Chasing Twisters released an original Christmas single ‘The Only Christmas Present’ written by lead singer/bassist Laura Holden, on November 21, as precursor to this five song EP. The rest of the EP is made up of … Continue reading →

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Album review : CASSIDY PARIS – Bittersweet

Posted on November 19, 2025 by brianmc

Frontiers Music [Release date : 21.11.25] Bittersweet is Australian songbird, Cassidy Paris’s second long player on the Frontiers Music label, a follow up to the debut, New Sensation. Paris was “discovered” in her youth, and subsequently mentored, by Paul (Danger … Continue reading →

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Gig review: JIM KIRKPATRICK – The Cavern, Raynes Park, London, 12 November 2025

Posted on November 17, 2025 by andynathan

Jim Kirkpatrick has been an even busier man than usual this year- with FM’s acoustic tour, new album and further tour, in between helping out The Sweet as Andy Scott got back to full fitness. Now a brief run of … Continue reading →

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Gig review: SAXON – Hammersmith (Eventim) Apollo, 15 November 2025

Posted on November 17, 2025 by jason

SAXON – Hammersmith Apollo, 15 November 2025

A wonderful evening of classic rock at Eventim Apollo (that’s the Hammersmith Odeon in English), and well attended it was too, having the aura of a sellout. And after Saxon vocalist Biff Byford’s recent health scare (now clear of cancer), … Continue reading →

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Album review : SPIRIT – Sea Dream (4CD Expanded and Remastered boxset)

Posted on November 16, 2025 by brianmc

Cherry Red [Release date : 28.11.25] Californian band, Spirit, blossomed in the fertile fields of psychedelic rock. They came together in 1967, the year of “The Summer Of Love”, a year later they released their self titled debut. Its febrile … Continue reading →

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Album review : CHEAP TRICK – All Washed Up

Posted on November 16, 2025 by brianmc

BMG [Release date 14.11.25] Cheap Trick’s best since Rockford. Some people thought it was all over, thus the tongue-in-cheek title. It’s no exaggeration to call this 40 minute album’s worth of expertly crafted songs a heavy hitting tour de force. … Continue reading →

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Gig review: KINGDOM OF MADNESS – The Carlisle, Hastings, 7 November 2025

Posted on November 16, 2025 by andynathan

Kingdom of Madness, formed by one-time Magnum keyboardist Mark Stanway and boasting four past band members or contributors, have even doing a great job recreating the classic Magnum years before the original band split up in the mid-nineties. Their touring … Continue reading →

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Album review : TOKYO BLADE – Beware The Blade – Classic, Rare and Unreleased, 4 CD Boxset

Posted on November 12, 2025 by brianmc

Cherry Red [Release date : 21.11.25] A 4CD boxset of the best of Tokyo Blade’s 14 albums (and more). It’s not called a “Best Of”, but that’s what it is. CD1 : selections from Midnight Rendezvous (1984) and Night Of … Continue reading →

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Gig review: MIKE TRAMP’S WHITE LION – Camden Underworld, London, 5 November 2025

Posted on November 12, 2025 by andynathan

The White Lion itch is one that singer Mike Tramp feels the need to scratch every so often, despite the quality of his work with Freak of Nature and more recent stripped down and more personal material. On some of … Continue reading →

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Album review: MEN WITHOUT HATS – On The Moon

Posted on November 12, 2025 by jason

Website [Release date 14.11.25] Men Without Hats, perhaps best known by many for their 1982 hit ‘The Safety Dance’, first formed back in 1977, split in 1993, before returning briefly in 2002-03 and returned full time in 2010. Since then, … Continue reading →

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Gig review: SAXON – 02 Academy, Glasgow, 9 November 2025

Posted on November 11, 2025 by david.wilson

Mention Saxon to anyone and they will probably reply with ‘Ah, Wheels Of Steel!’. This song and album have become fixtures in any self-respecting rock fans collection and one of the defining albums from the NWOBHM period. The album has … Continue reading →

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EP review: PARKER BARROW – Hold The Mash

Posted on November 11, 2025 by jason

Streaming [Release date 05.11.25] Oh my goodness what have we here – with a vocalist who makes Janis Joplin sound like Mary Poppins, a pair of duelling, weaving guitars, a bass player walking in John Entwistle’s footsteps, a Hammond organ player … Continue reading →

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Album review: JAN AKKERMAN – My Focus Live Under The Rainbow

Posted on November 10, 2025 by GRTR! HQ

Music Theories Recordings [Release date: 12.12.25] Possibly missed by some, Jan Akkerman played a short series of dates in the UK in February 2025. Fortunately this rare excursion has been captured on a new live album. It seems that Akkerman … Continue reading →

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Album review: D’ERCOLE – Reactance Theory

Posted on November 10, 2025 by jason

Rock Company [Release date 05.11.25] It’s album number eleven from D’Ercole and lost count of the number of albums featuring the talented & never seemingly out of the studio Phil Vincent! Joining him are the D’Ercole stalwarts – drummer B.F. D’Ercole, … Continue reading →

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Gig review: ROMEO’S DAUGHTER – Pizza Express, Holborn, London, 2 November 2025

Posted on November 9, 2025 by andynathan

2025 has seen Romeo’s Daughter explore a side to themselves that they have never previously pursued in their career with shows in an acoustic format. At the start of the year they recorded a live album in Barnoldswick, Yorkshire and … Continue reading →

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Gig review: GONG – Esquires, Bedford, 8 November 2025

Posted on November 9, 2025 by jason

There are gigs you enjoy—and then there are gigs that leave you floating somewhere between dimensions. Gong’s performance at Bedford Esquires last night was firmly in the latter category. The support act Snorkel took the stage first, the evening promised … Continue reading →

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Single review: LAURENCE JONES – One Life

Posted on November 7, 2025 by jason

Website [Release date 07.11.25] Laurence Jones’ accolades and achievements are too long to write on the neck of a Stratocaster, which is just as well, as he is playing acoustic guitar on the single One Life, taken form forthcoming acoustic … Continue reading →