Album review: THE DOWLING POOLE – Refuse

THE DOWLING POOLE Refuse

Bandcamp [Release date 14.10.22]

‘Refuse’, the new album from The Dowling Poole features all of the ‘digital only’ tracks the group occasionally released for short periods of time and are now collated on this physical release.  Each track has been carefully remixed and remastered, with the inlay sleeve containing some half-remembered thoughts and recollections (from Willie Dowling) and some actual facts and concise recalls (from Jon Poole) included in the CD liner notes.

The joy of this collection is the musical ideas the band cover, be it a touch of prog with ELO harmonies on ‘White Light’, the barbed pop of ‘F**k You Goodbye’ or the choral & pomp rock parts on ‘Deep Breath’.

‘Miles Checks Out’ is a beautifully crafted song, from the vocals through to the music it really should have been a hit. Speaking of hits that never were, ‘Optimum Delirium’, has that dreamy appeal of XTC and in a just world would be all over the airwaves.

‘Bricks From The Wall’ goes down an avenue inhabited by Talking Heads and Sparks. Wonderfully bizarre, yet always listenable and keeping a strong grip on melody.

The good news for fellow fans of the Dowling Poole is that the songs they recorded between 2020 and 2022 will be featured on the band’s next planned physical release.

The Dowling Poole, meaningful, melodic and above all enjoyable pop infused music. If you have any music from the likes of ELO, Squeeze, 10CC or XTC in your collection you will seriously love these guys and their songs. The best band you’ve never heard awaits your listening pleasure… ****

Review by Jason Ritchie


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Kenny Wayne Shepherd ‘Dirt on My Diamonds Vol. 1′ Provogue/Mascot

SIGNUM REGIS ‘Undivided’ Ulterium Records

SOLEDRIVER ‘Return Me to the Light’ Frontiers (Michael Sweet + Alessandro del Vecchio)

TEMIC ‘Terror Management Theory’ Season Of Mist

THUNDER ‘A Black Country Xmas’ (live album) Dodgy Discs

WICKED SMILE ‘Night Time Riders’ (EP)

WINGER ‘Chapter One: Atlantic Years 1988-1993′ BMG Records

24th

THE ALMIGHTY ‘Blood, Fire & Love’, ‘Soul Destruction’ (re-issues) Silver Lining Music

ATACK ‘Nine Lives’ Escape Music

CAMEL ‘Air Born: The MCA & Decca Years 1973-1984′ (32CDset) UMC

ELDRITCH ‘Innervoid’ Scarlet Records

FAMILY ‘Bandstand’ (remastered and expanded reissue)

FINAL STRIKE ‘Finding Pieces’ Reaper Entertainment

FREAKSTORM ‘Angel In The Dark’ Pride & Joy Music

HITTEN ‘ile Passion Lasts’ High Roller Records

STEVE HOWE ‘Motif Volume 2

Glenn Hughes & Robin George ‘Overcome’ Cherry Red Records

JOE JACKSON ‘Mr. Joe Jackson Presents Max Champion in ‘What a Racket!’

JETHRO TULL ‘War Child II’ (vinyl) Parlophone

LEVEL 42 ‘The Later Years: 1991-98′ (7CD)

LILLIAN AXE ‘The Box: Volume One – Resurrection’ Cherry Red Records

BERNIE MARSDEN ‘Working Man’ Conquest Music

NIGHTFOX ‘Chrome Tiger’ Lion’s Pride Music

MICK RAPLHS ‘On The Run 1984-2013′ (4CD) Cherry Red Records

SILENT TIGER ‘Twist of Fate’ Pride & Joy Music

SNAKE ‘III’ Lions Pride Music

SPOCK’S BEARD ‘Feel Euphoria’ (20th anniversary edition)

DEVIN TOWNSEND ‘Infinity’ (25th anniversary re-issue)

TRAPEZE ‘Lost Tapes Vol. 1′ Metalville Records

TINA TURNER ‘Queen Of Rock ‘N’ Roll’ (3CD/5LP)

JOHN WETTON ‘An Extraordinary Life’ (box set) Cherry Red Records

YES ‘The Yes Album’ (deluxe re-issue)

December

1st

AXENSTAR ‘Chapter VIII’ Inner Wound Recordings

BLACK SABBATH ‘Hand Of Doom 1970-1978′ BMG

COBRA SPELL ’666′ Napalm Records

Ron Coolen and Keith St John ‘Here to Stay’

THE DARKNESS ‘Welcome to The Darkness’ (digital, BluRay)

FATE ‘If Not For the Devil’, ‘Ghosts from the Past’, ‘V’ (digital re-issues) Frontiers

FLORENCE BLACK ‘Bed Of Nails’

ROBBEN FORD ‘Night In The City (Live)’

PETER GABRIEL ‘i/o’ Real World

TEDDY GEIGER ‘Teresa’

GENE LOVES JEZEBEL ‘X – Love Death Sorrow’

TREVOR HORN ‘Echoes – Ancient & Modern’ Deutsche Grammophon Records

PARADISE LOST ‘Icon’ (30th anniversary re-recording)

KATE RUSBY ‘Light Years’

SAFFIRE ‘Starhunter’ (EP)

STEELEYE SPAN ‘The Green Man’ Park Reecords

VISIONS OF ATLANTIS ‘A Pirate’s Symphony’ Naplam Records

VOODOO CIRCLE ‘15 Years of Voodoo’ (best of) AFM Records

WIZZARD ‘The Singles’ (2CD) Cherry Red Records

ZO2 ‘Begin Again’ Kivel Records

8th

BRYAN ADAMS ‘Live at the Royal Albert Hall’ (3CD box set)

ATREYU ‘The Beautiful Dark of Life’ Spinefarm Records

BAD TOUCH ‘Bittersweet Satisfaction’

BLUE OYSTER CULT ’50th Anniversary Live – First Night’ (2CD/DVD) Frontiers

CHAMELION ‘Legends & Lores’ Rockshots Records

ALAN CLAYSON ‘Greatest Hits’

DIMMU BORGIR ‘Inspiratio Profanus’ (covers) Nuclear Blast

ELLS ‘EELS So Good: Essential EELS Vol. 2 (2007-2020)’

EKTOMORF ‘Vivid Black’ AFM Records

EVERDAWN ‘Venera’ Frontiers

EVERGREY ‘From Dark Discoveries to Heartless Portraits’

FIFTH NOTE ‘Here We Are’ Frontiers

WARREN HAYNES ‘Warren Haynes Presents: The Benefit Concert Volume 20′ Provogue Records

THE KILLERS ‘Rebel Diamonds’ (best of) Island Records

MOON SAFARI ‘Himlabacken Vol. 2′ Blomljud Records

MOTT THE HOOPLE ‘All the Young Dudes: 50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition’ (5CD)

CASSIDY PARIS ‘New Sensation’ Frontiers

PINK FLOYD ‘Atom Heart Mother’ (deluxe re-issue)

PORCUPINE TREE ‘Closure/Continuation Live’ Music For Nations/Megaforce Records

SIX FOOT SIX ‘Beggar’s Hill’ Scarlet Records

STARCHILD ‘Magic Well’ Metalopolis Records

SUEDE ‘Autofiction: Expanded’

TRICK OR TREAT ‘A Creepy Night Live’ Scarlet Records

NEIL YOUNG ‘Before And After’ Reprise Records

15th

THE BLACK CROWES ‘The Southern Harmony and Musical Companion Deluxe’ UMR

CHILDREN OF BODOM ‘A Chapter Called Children of Bodom (Final Show in Helsinki Ice Hall 2019)’ Spinefarm Records

EVERGREY ‘From Dark Discoveries To Heartless Portraits’ Napalm Records

FALL OUT BOY ‘Take This To Your Grave’ (20th anniversary reissue limited to 5,000 copies on vinyl)

PALLAS ‘The Messenger’

THE ROLLING STONES ‘Hackney Diamonds Live Deluxe’ (2CD)

THERION ‘Leviathan III’ Napalm Records

20th

TRAGIK ‘Realm Angelic’ Rock Company Records

22nd

Eric Martin Band ‘Sucker For A Pretty Face -Original Sessions’

29th

DOMINIUM ‘Hey Living People’ Napalm Records

HEAD EAST ‘Full Circle’

LORD OF THE LOST ‘Weapons Of Mass Seduction’ (covers album) Napalm Records

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UK Blues Broadcaster of the Year (2020 and 2021 Finalist) Pete Feenstra presents his weekly Rock & Blues Show on Tuesday at 19:00 GMT as part of a five hour blues rock marathon “Tuesday is Bluesday at GRTR!”. The show is repeated on Wednesdays at 22:00, Fridays at 20:00). First broadcast on 21 April 2026

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Power Plays w/c 11 May 2026

BREITLER Sentinel (El Puerto Records)
FIRE IN HER EYES Too Late To Change (indie)
KING FALCON Wait (indie)
BEAUTIFUL SKELETONS Come What May (indie)
KARIN PARK Shadow (Size Records)
HARSH Don’t Mess With Me (indie)

Featured Albums w/c 11 May 2026

09:00-12:00 The Best of 2003 – 2025 (Melodic Rock)
12:00-13:00 The Best of 2003 – 2025 (Melodic Hard Rock)
14:00-16:00 The Best of 2003 – 2025 (Singer Songwriter)


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Upcoming: European, USA & World Tour Dates and Gig Listing (2023)

Compiled by Jason Ritchie

Please check with venue and/or relevant website(s) to confirm availability.

Updated 22/12/2023

UK & Ireland Tour Dates and Gig Listing (2023)

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BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN - Manchester Etihad Stadium, 22 June 2012

BLACKBERRY SMOKE

Fri December 29th 2023 – ROANOKE Berglund Center
Sat December 30th 2023 – HIAWASSEE Anderson Music Hall
Sun December 31st 2023 – SPARTANBURG Spartanburg Memorial Auditoriu

GOVT MULE

Fri December 29th 2023 – PHILADELPHIA Met
Sat December 30th 2023 – NEW YORK Beacon Theatre
Sun December 31st 2023 – NEW YORK Beacon Theatre

PHISH

Thu December 28th 2023 – NEW YORK Madison Square Garden
Fri December 29th 2023 – NEW YORK Madison Square Garden
Sat December 30th 2023 – NEW YORK Madison Square Garden
Sun December 31st 2023 – NEW YORK Madison Square Garden

TRANS SIBERIAN ORCHESTRA

Fri December 22nd 2023 – CLEVELAND Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse
Fri December 22nd 2023 – ORLANDO Amway Center
Sat December 23rd 2023 – DETROIT Little Caesars Arena
Sat December 23rd 2023 – TAMPA Amalie Arena
Tue December 26th 2023 – GRAND RAPIDS Van Andel Arena
Tue December 26th 2023 – INDIANAPOLIS Gainbridge Fieldhouse
Wed December 27th 2023 – MILWAUKEE Fiserv Forum
Thu December 28th 2023 – DAYTON Nutter Center
Thu December 28th 2023 – ROSEMONT Allstate Arena
Fri December 29th 2023 – CINCINNATI Heritage Bank Center
Sat December 30th 2023 – COLUMBUS Nationwide Arena
Sat December 30th 2023 – SAINT PAUL Xcel Energy Center


Upcoming: European, USA & World Tour Dates and Gig Listing (2024)


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David Randall presents a weekly show on Get Ready to ROCK! Radio, Sundays at 22:00 GMT, repeated on Mondays and Fridays), when he invites listeners to ‘Assume The Position’. The show signposts forthcoming gigs and tours and latest additions at getreadytorock.com. First broadcast 26 April 2026.


UK Blues Broadcaster of the Year (2020 and 2021 Finalist) Pete Feenstra presents his weekly Rock & Blues Show on Tuesday at 19:00 GMT as part of a five hour blues rock marathon “Tuesday is Bluesday at GRTR!”. The show is repeated on Wednesdays at 22:00, Fridays at 20:00). First broadcast on 21 April 2026

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Power Plays w/c 11 May 2026

BREITLER Sentinel (El Puerto Records)
FIRE IN HER EYES Too Late To Change (indie)
KING FALCON Wait (indie)
BEAUTIFUL SKELETONS Come What May (indie)
KARIN PARK Shadow (Size Records)
HARSH Don’t Mess With Me (indie)

Featured Albums w/c 11 May 2026

09:00-12:00 The Best of 2003 – 2025 (Melodic Rock)
12:00-13:00 The Best of 2003 – 2025 (Melodic Hard Rock)
14:00-16:00 The Best of 2003 – 2025 (Singer Songwriter)


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Album review: HUMBLE PIE – I Need A Star In My Life

HUMBLE PIE - I Need A Start In My Life

Cleopatra Records [Release date 02.09.22]

Humble Pie’s light shone for a few years in the early 1970s  when – with Peter Frampton in the line-up – they released the classic live album ‘Performance Rockin The Fillmore’.

By 1974 the band’s more commercial focus had changed and ultimately Humble Pie imploded.

These recordings represent an album that was gestating in late 1974.  Dave Thompson’s comprehensive liner note sets the scene.  He quotes keyboard player Tim Hinckley: “Steve (Marriott) and I wanted to record an album with no restrictions at his home studio.”

A&M rejected the recordings and it was ‘Street Rats’ that was released in 1975, essentially the band’s swansong.

With guests including Boz Burrell and Ian Wallace (King Crimson), BJ Cole and Mel Collins, the core line-up of original members Marriott, Greg Ridley and Jerry Shirley also feature.  Clem Clempson, who replaced Frampton in 1972, is the guitarist.

‘I Need A Star In My Life’ might be construed as the Humble Pie album that Steve Marriott always wanted to make, freed of the commercial expectation of the record label.

Unsurprisingly this is an album of mostly R&B/blues enhanced by an appearance from two-thirds of ‘The Blackberries’ , Vanetta Fields and Clydie King.  Musically, various covers (‘The Shake’, ‘Mona’, ‘Be My Baby’) are mixed with originals such as ‘Street Rat’, ‘High And Happy’ and the ominous  ‘It’s All Over’.

With later attempts to revive the Humble Pie name, by Marriott himself before his untimely death in 1991 and again by Jerry Shirley in 2018, this “lost album” is essential listening for both fans and those who wish to investigate more fully the band’s history.

It has previously been available as ‘The Scrubber Sessions’.  Collectors might like to know that a 7″ single of ‘The Shake’ is accompanied by the rare track ‘Bluestalk’ featuring one-time Rolling Stone Brian Jones.  ****

Review by David Randall


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UK Blues Broadcaster of the Year (2020 and 2021 Finalist) Pete Feenstra presents his weekly Rock & Blues Show on Tuesday at 19:00 GMT as part of a five hour blues rock marathon “Tuesday is Bluesday at GRTR!”. The show is repeated on Wednesdays at 22:00, Fridays at 20:00). First broadcast on 21 April 2026

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Power Plays w/c 11 May 2026

BREITLER Sentinel (El Puerto Records)
FIRE IN HER EYES Too Late To Change (indie)
KING FALCON Wait (indie)
BEAUTIFUL SKELETONS Come What May (indie)
KARIN PARK Shadow (Size Records)
HARSH Don’t Mess With Me (indie)

Featured Albums w/c 11 May 2026

09:00-12:00 The Best of 2003 – 2025 (Melodic Rock)
12:00-13:00 The Best of 2003 – 2025 (Melodic Hard Rock)
14:00-16:00 The Best of 2003 – 2025 (Singer Songwriter)


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Gig review: URIAH HEEP – London Palladium, 5 October 2022

URIAH HEEP- London Palladium, 5 October 2022

I wonder what the famous critic of their first album who threatened to commit suicide if they made it would think of Uriah Heep celebrating 50 years. Through that time the band, and sole remaining original member Mick Box in particular, have been an object lesson in persistence, in that time being critically reviled, ignored and criminally underrated, receiving a fraction of the attention and adulation given fellow heavy rock pioneers Purple, Sabbath and Zeppelin.

Yet the opening montage of tributes from various greying and balding rock greats, from Rob Halford  to Brian May was a touching sign of the affection in which they are held by those who followed in their wake and have toured with them. Actually the 50th anniversary and the big shows to accompany it including the prestigious London date at the Palladium should have been in 2020, but there was no way the occasion could be unmarked with a little poetic licence for the now 52 year old band.

URIAH HEEP- London Palladium, 5 October 2022

Having seen them post-pandemic at Stonedead and supporting Saxon, I was keen for something different so was delighted that a month or so before the show it was announced they would play two sets, effectively acting as their own support band with an acoustic set.

It’s a format they briefly dabbled with over 20 years ago and unlike many bands there are enough quieter and folkier songs in their catalogue to carry it off without needing to reinvent heavy numbers to fit the new format. They opened with two such in ‘Circus’ and ‘Tales’ before Bernie Shaw unexpectedly took to his feet to get the crowd to do likewise and orchestrate a singalong to ‘Free Me’. Mick, who told the stories behind the songs, then rightly said ‘Come Away Melinda’ had fresh resonance in today’s dangerous world and this disturbing, haunting song was brilliantly executed.

URIAH HEEP- London Palladium, 5 October 2022

He then left just Bernie and Phil Lanzon for an acapella medley of ‘Confession’ (a real obscurity this from ‘High and Mighty’) and ‘Rain’, Bernie carrying off a splendid effort on one of the songs original singer David Byron most made his own.

Mick then introduced a trio of ‘Demons And Wizards’ songs: ‘The Wizard’ is of course one of their two most famous acoustic songs,  though it did show up my one reservation, that the trademark Heep  harmonies are not as rich and layered as they were when Trevor Bolder and Lee Kerslake were still in the band.

It segued into one of my favourites in ‘Paradise’ then ‘Circle of Hands’,  but there could only be one song to end the 45 minute acoustic segment in ‘Lady in Black’ with again Bernie getting people to their feet as he conducted the wordless singalong.

In this gig of two halves, that meant the second set would consist of out and out rockers, preceded by a touching collage of photos across the years including portraits of former members, most sadly no longer with us, all to the strains of ‘Your Turn to Remember’ and adding to the sense of occasion.

URIAH HEEP- London Palladium, 5 October 2022

They began with ‘Against the Odds’ which was fitting, both as what could almost be their motto and as the opener on the ‘Sea of Light’ album that marked a return to vintage Heep when they were at their lowest ebb in the nineties, after which arguably they have never looked back.

It wasn’t the most obvious choice though and Bernie had to rouse people to their feet, where thankfully they stayed, for ‘The Hanging Tree’ a welcome dip into the John Lawton era, with its distinctive shuffle and Mick’s solo making one guitar sound like two.

There was classic Heep in ‘Traveller in Time’ and ‘Rainbow Demon’ (could those lyrics and Phil’s pulsating Hammond organ be any more quintessentially early seventies?) either side of another from their nineties revival, ‘Between Two Worlds’, dedicated to late former members and a lengthy number really grew on me with some splendid work from Mick, king of the wah-wah pedal.

URIAH HEEP- London Palladium, 5 October 2022

Whereas their previous London show four years ago saw them plugging the new ‘Living the Dream’ album heavily, this was one Heep classic after another- whether a sole pick from their early 80’s renaissance in a rollicking ‘Too Scared to Run’ or seminal material such as ‘Stealin’, Bernie successfully orchestrating crowd participation, and ‘Sunrise’.

Historically never my favourite Heep singer, I was realising what an exemplary job Bernie was doing as an energetic frontman, while in the hands of the relatively youthful rhythm section of Dave Rimmer and the ever smiling Russell Gilbrook these songs somehow have taken on a new lease of life and I don’t remember Heep sounding heavier in the 34 years since I first saw them.

URIAH HEEP- London Palladium, 5 October 2022

The pace only relented once, for the interesting, more progressive sounds of ‘What Kind of God’ which, from 2008, was the most recent song in a set which, for good reason, primarily looked backwards.

Possibly my biggest surprise of the set was the almost forgotten ‘Sweet Lorraine’, boasting an incredibly catchy hook that somehow was not a hit in the day yet with several musical twists and turns, followed by what Bernie described as some metal as ‘Free ‘n’ Easy’ showed why the likes of Steve Harris and Biff Byford had been among those on the tribute reel. ‘July Morning’ was majestic with each of the four musicians showing their paces and its ten-plus minutes flew by before the set ended a tad abruptly.

Saved to the encore and with a lengthy organ intro, ‘Gypsy’ maintained the heaviness, but I was rather disappointed that Bernie then introduced traditional set closer ‘Easy Living’, which as usual flew by, as the ‘electric’ set ended to the strains of ‘Land of Hope and Glory’ a relatively short 80 minutes in, as I’d still been secretly hoping for more gems such as ‘Return to Fantasy’ or ‘Bird of Prey’, both played on the tour on occasion.

URIAH HEEP- London Palladium, 5 October 2022

That minor gripe aside, it would be hard to improve upon the gig. The presentation – allied to the history of the venue and a very impressive light show- helped give this night the sense of a special commemoration, and a setlist to die for covered nearly all phases of their career. But just as importantly ‘the Heep’ are sounding more vibrant as a live act than veterans of a 52 year career have a right to be.

Review and Photos by Andy Nathan


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UK Blues Broadcaster of the Year (2020 and 2021 Finalist) Pete Feenstra presents his weekly Rock & Blues Show on Tuesday at 19:00 GMT as part of a five hour blues rock marathon “Tuesday is Bluesday at GRTR!”. The show is repeated on Wednesdays at 22:00, Fridays at 20:00). First broadcast on 21 April 2026

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Power Plays w/c 11 May 2026

BREITLER Sentinel (El Puerto Records)
FIRE IN HER EYES Too Late To Change (indie)
KING FALCON Wait (indie)
BEAUTIFUL SKELETONS Come What May (indie)
KARIN PARK Shadow (Size Records)
HARSH Don’t Mess With Me (indie)

Featured Albums w/c 11 May 2026

09:00-12:00 The Best of 2003 – 2025 (Melodic Rock)
12:00-13:00 The Best of 2003 – 2025 (Melodic Hard Rock)
14:00-16:00 The Best of 2003 – 2025 (Singer Songwriter)


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Recent (last 30 days)


Upcoming: New releases (CD/DVD) July 2022 – December 2022

Compiled by Jason Ritchie

Upcoming: New releases (CD/DVD)  2023

CATS IN SPACE - Kickstart The Sun

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2022

July

1st

CELLAR STONE ‘Rise & Fall’ Rock Of Angels Records

CONJURER ‘Pathos’ Nuclear Blast

LAURA EVANS ‘State Of Mind’

IMAGINE DRAGONS ‘Mercury — ACTS 1 & 2′ KIDinaKORNER/Interscope

Municipal Waste ‘Electrified Brain’ Nuclear Blast

Derek Sherinian ‘Voretx’ InsideOut

SHINEDOWN ‘Planet Zero’ Atlantic Records (delayed from April 22)

8th

ALTARIA ‘Wisdom’ Atomic Fire Records

ARDOURS ‘Anatomy Of A Moment’ Frontiers

BLIND CHANNEL ‘Lifestyles of the Sick & Dangerous’ Century Media

BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE (re-issue)

CLEANBREAK ‘Coming Home’ Frontiers (features JAMES DURBIN plus members of RIOT V & STRYPER)

CROSSING RUBICON ‘Perfect Storm’ Frontiers

DIO ‘Holy Diver’ (super deluxe edition) Rhino Records

HAIL MARY ‘Disturbing The Peace’ Eonian Records

JOURNEY ‘Freedom’ Frontiers/BMG

NELSON ‘Greatest Hits (And Near Misses)’

POWERWOLF ‘The Monumental Mass – A Cinematic Metal Event’ Napalm Records

TANGO DOWN ‘This Is Gonna Hurt’ Kivel Records

Neil Young & Crazy Horse ‘Toast’

15th

…And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead ‘XI: Bleed Here Now’ InsideOut Music

JEFF BECK & JOHNNY DEPP ’18′

CHICAGO ‘Born For This Moment’ BMG

DEAF HAVANA ‘The Present is a Foreign Land’

LEAF HOUND ‘Growers Of Mushrooms’/'Unleashed’ (2CD re-issue)

ORIANTHI ‘Live From Hollywood’ Frontiers

PALACE ‘One 4 The Road’ Frontiers

ALAN PARSONS ‘From The New World’ Frontiers

PRIMAL FEAR S/T (re-issue) Atomic Fire Records

SENSES FAIL ‘Hell is in Your Head’ Pure Noise

SINNER ‘Brotherhood’ Atomic Fire Records

TALK TALK ‘The Party’s Over’ (vinyl re-issue) EMI

THIRD EYE BLIND ‘A Collection’

Ed wynne (Ozric Tentacles) ‘Tumbling Through The Floativerse’ Kscope Records

22nd

FATAL VISION ‘Once’ Pride & Joy Music

HIGHWAY SENTINELS ‘The Waiting Fire’ (inc. David Reece, Jimmy Waldo, Mark Zonder)

Lessmann/Voss ‘Rock is the Religion’ Atomic Fire Records

GILBERT O’SULLIVAN ‘Driven’

SHE BITES ‘Superhero’ Pride & Joy Music

UFO ‘High Stakes & Dangerous Men/Lights Out In Tokyo’ (2CD) Cherry Red Records

WHIPLASH ‘The Raodrunner Years’ (3CD) Cherry Red Records

JACK WHITE ‘Entering Heaven Alive’ Third Man Records

SNOWY WHITE ‘Driving On The 44′ Soulfood

ZZ TOP ‘Raw’ (live album)

29th

ADELLAIDE ‘ Deja-Vu’ Lions Pride Music

CATS IN SPACE ‘Kickstart The Sun’ (double album) Harmony Factory Records

COMPASS ‘Theory Of Tides’ Escape Music

C.T.P ‘Now & Then Encore’ Chris Tones Music

GATHERING OF KINGS ‘Enigmatic’ RN Records

THE GRATEFUL DEAD ‘Europe ’72′

JESSE HARMS ‘All sides’ (6CD box set) MelodicRock Classics

Keef Hartley Band ‘Sinnin’ For You – The Albums 1969-1973′ (7CD Box Set) Cherry Red Records

HATS OFF GENTLEMEN IT’S ADEQUATE ‘The Confidence Trick’

DAVE KERZNER ‘The Traveller’

MATT MITCHELL & THE COLDHEARTS ‘Mission’

MONTROSE ‘I Got The Fire – Complete Recordings 1973-1976′ (6CD Box Set) Cherry Red Records

Ryo Okumoto (Spocks Beard) ‘The Myth Of The Mostrophus’ InsideOut Music

WAYSTED ‘Heroes Die Young’ (5CD box set) Cherry Red Records

WHERE RIVERS MEET ‘The Flying Free Tour Live’

WHISKEY MYERS ‘Tornillo’

WHITE SPIRIT ‘Right Or Wrong’ Conquest Music

August

1st

MIKE BATT ‘Songs From Croix-Noire’ Madhouse Rag Records

5th

TIM BOWNESS ‘Butterfly Mind’ InsideOut Music (delayed from June 17)

DREAMTIDE ‘Drama Dust Dream’ Pride & Joy Music

GENERATION RADIO Frontiers

H.E.A.T. ‘Force Majeure’ earMUSIC

HYDRA ‘ point Break’ Frontiers

BERNIE MARSDEN ‘Trios’ Conquest Music

Andy McCoy (Hanoi Rocks) ‘Jukebox Heart’ (covers)

NORDIC UNION ‘Animalistic’ Frontiers

DAVID READMAN ‘Medusa’

RESTLESS SPIRITS ‘Second To None’ Frontiers

SOULFLY ‘Totem’ Nuclear Blast

SUNSTORM ‘Brothers In Arms’ Frontiers

TOXIUC ‘Dis Morta’ Massacre Records

VANDEN PLAS ‘Live & Immortal’ Frontiers

12th

ARCH ENEMY ‘Deceivers’ Century Media

AZ S/T Metal Blade Records

COLLECTIVE SOUL ‘Vibrating’

JEFF COTTON (ex-Captain Beefheart) ‘The Fantasy of Reality’ Madfish Records

GOO GOO DOLLS ‘Chaos In Bloom’ Warner

HYDRA ‘Point Break’ Frontiers

JACKYL ‘30 Coming In Hot’ (live best if + 3 new songs)

JIMI JAMISON ‘Rock Hard’ Iconoclassic

KASABIAN ‘The Alchemist’s Euphoria’

KREATOR ‘Live At Bloodstock’ Nuclear Blast

LILLIAN AXE ‘From Womb To Tomb’ Global Rock Records

LITTLE TEXAS (four albums re-issued on 2CD) Cherry Red Records

PAVEMENT ‘Slanted & Enchanted’ (30th anniversary re-issue)

SEVENTH STORM ‘ Maledictus’ Atomic Fire Records

SHIRAZ LANE

19th

CONAN ‘Evidence Of Immortality’ Napalm Records

CROWNE ‘Live from Studio Gröndahl’ (EP) Frontiers

DEAD CITY RUINS ‘Shockwave’ AFM Records

FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH ‘AfterLife’

HAMMER KING ‘Kingdemonium’ Napalm Records

DAVID PAICH (TOTO) ‘Forgotten Toys’ Mascot Label Group

Panic! At The Disco ‘Viva Las Vengeance’

R.E.M. ‘Chronic Town’ (EP reissue – CD, picture disc, cassette) I.R.S./UMe

SiX By SiX S/T Ian Crichton (Saga), Nigel Glockler (Saxon) & Robert Berry (3, Alliance) InsideOut

SOILWORK ‘Övergivenheten’ Nuclear Blast

STEELOVER ‘Stainless’ Escape Music

THUNDERMOTHER ‘Black And Gold’ AFM Records

PAT TRAVERS The Art of Time Travel’ Cleopatra Records

26th

ALCATRAZZ ‘Official Bootleg Box Set Volume 2: 1983-1984′ HNE

ALTERED IMAGES ‘Mascara Streakz’

BAD BARON ‘Ace Of Harts’ Pride & Joy Music

BLONDIE ‘Blondie: Against the Odds 1974-1982′ (box set)

DYNAZTY ‘Final Advent’ AFM Records

EDENBRIDGE ‘Shangri-La’ AFM Records

EMBRACE ‘How To Be A Person Like Other People’

GRAVE DIGGER ‘Symbol Of Eternity’ Rock Of Angels Records

THE HALO EFFECT ‘Days of the Lost’ Nuclear Blast

IRON SAVIOR ‘Reforged – Ironbound (Vol. 2)’ AFM Records

LONELY ROBOT ‘A Model Life’ InsideOut Music

MACHINE HEAD ‘Øf Kingdøm And Crøwn’ Nuclear Blast

MUSE ‘Will Of The People’ Warner Records

SOIL ‘Play It Forward’ (covers album) Cleopatra Records

TAD MOROSE ‘March of the Obsequious’ GMR Music

BUTCH WALKER ‘Butch Walker As…Glenn’ The Orchard

September

2nd

THE AMAZONS ‘How Will I Know If Heaven Will Find Me?’ Fiction Records

BLIND GUARDIAN ‘The God Machine’ Nuclear Blast

DIM GRAY ‘Firmament’ English Electric Recordings

EPICA ‘We Still Take You With Us’ (6CD box set) Nuclear Blast

PETER GOABLY ‘The Solo Anthology’ Cherry Red Records

STEVE HACKETT ‘Genesis Revisited Live: Seconds Out & More’ InsideOut

HAWKWIND ‘We Are Looking In On You’ Cherry Red Records

THE HU ‘Rumble Of Thunder’ Better Noise Music

JON & VANGELIS ‘Page Of life’ (reissue) Cherry Red Records

KING’S X ‘Three Sides Of One’ InsideOut Music

MAD MAX ‘Wings Of Time’ Rock Of Angels Records

MEGADETH ‘The Sick, The Dying…and the Dead!’ Universal

MISS MAY I ‘Curse Of Existence’

THE PETAL FALLS ‘Everything About You’

ROXY MUSIC ‘The Best Of Roxy Music’ (vinyl) Virgin/UMC

MIKE TRAMP ‘For Første Gang’ Target Records

TWO DOOR CINEMA CLUB ‘Keep Smiling’

THE WEDDING PRESENT ‘The Hit Parade’ (30th anniversary edition)

YUNGBLUD S/T

9th

ALLEN/OLZEN ‘Army Of Dreams’ Frontiers

BLOODBATH ‘Survival of the Sickest’ Napalm Records

TYLER BRYANT & THE SHAKEDOWN ‘Shake The Roots’

COSMOGRAF ‘Heroic Materials’ Gravity Dream Music

CRIPPLED BLACK PHOENIX ‘Banefyre’ Season Of Mist

THE DARKER MY HORIZON ‘When Two Worlds Collide’

DEMON HUNTER ‘Exile’

FLOGGING MOLLY ‘Anthem’ Rise Records

LAURENCE JONES ‘Destination Unknown’ Marshall Records

THE KINKS ‘Muswell Hillbillies’ & ‘Everybody’s In Show-Biz – Everybody’s A Star’ (50th anniversary editions)

KISS ‘Live in Des Moines 1977′

JULIAN LENNON ‘Jude’ BMG

JESSICA LYNN ‘Lone Rider’

MANIC STREET PREACHERS ‘Know Your Enemy’ (reissue)

OZZY OSBOURNE ‘Patient No. 9′ Epic/Sony Music

PARKWAY DRIVE ‘Darker Still’ Epitaph Records

SLADE ‘All The World Is A Stage’ (5CD) BMG

TABOO S/T Frontiers

KT TUNSTALL ‘Nut’

ULTIMA GRACE S/T Frontiers

ROBBIE WILLIAMS ‘XXV’

16th

BEHEMOTH ‘Opvs Contra Natvram’ Nuclear Blast

MICHELLE BRANCH ‘The Trouble With Fever’

CLUTCH ‘Sunrise On Slaughter Beach’ Weathermaker Music

Creedence Clearwater Revival ‘At The Royal Albert Hall 1970′

DEATHCAB FOR CUTIE ‘Asphalt Meadows’ Atlantic

The Devil Wears Prada ‘Color Decay’ Solid State

EDENBRIDGE ‘Shangri-La’ AFM Records

FANS OF THE DARK ‘Suburbia’ Frontiers

GINEVRA ‘We Belong To The Stars’ Frontiers

THE GODFATHERS ‘Alpha Beta Gamma Delta’

JIMMY HALL (WET WILLIE) ‘Ready Now’

HARTMANN ‘Get Over It’ Sonic 11 Records

HOUSE OF LORDS ‘Saints and Sinners’ Frontiers

MARILLION ‘Holidays In Eden’ (re-issue)

THE MARS VOLTA S/T

MARCO MENDOZA ‘New Direction’ Mighty Music/Target

MENTALIST ‘Empires Falling’ Pride & Joy Music

PINK FLOYD ‘Animals’ (2018 remix)

THE PROCLAIMERS ‘Dentures Out’ Cooking Vinyl

SMITH/KOTZEN ‘Better Days… And Nights’ (EP) BMG

RINGO STARR ‘EP 3′

STATUS QUO ‘Quo’ing In – The Best Of The Noughties’ earMUSIC

JOE STRUMMER ‘The Mescaleros Years’ Dark Horse

SUEDE ‘Autofiction’ BMG

22nd

WEEZER ‘SZNZ: Autumn’

23rd

TIM BURGESS (The Charlatans) ‘Typical Music’ Bella Union

BUZZCOCKS ‘Sonics In The Soul’ Cherry Red Records

DECOY ‘Without Warning’ Perris Records

SANDY DENNY ‘The North Star Grass Man And The Ravens’, ‘Sandy’ (vinyl) Proper Records/BMG

DIO ‘Live at At Donington 1983′ & ‘Live at At Donington 1987′

EDITORS ‘EBM’ Play It Again Sam

EVA ‘Love, Drugs & Misery’

GENTLE GIANT ‘Front Row Center: US Dates 1976-1980′ Madfish Records

VIRGIL & STEVE HOWE ‘Lunar Mist’ InsideOut Music

KINGS OF MERCIA S/T Metal Blade Records

LAMBCHOP ‘The Bible’

LASTWORLD ‘Escape The Eclipse’ Perris Records

JONI MITCHELL ‘The Asylum Years (1972-1975)’ Rhino

(TONY) MITCHELL’S KISS OF THE GYPSY ‘Unfinished Business’ Melodic Rock Records

MOTORHEAD ‘Iron Fist’ (40th anniversary reissue)

MUNICIPAL WASTE ‘Electrified Brain’

BETH ORTON ‘Weather Alive’ Partisan Records

PURPENDICULAR ‘Human Mechanic’ Metalville Records

THE RASMUS ‘Rise’ Playground Music

SILENT KNIGHT ‘Full Force’

STATUS QUO ‘Heavy Traffic’ (3CD), ‘Riffs’ (2CD) UMC

STATUS QUO ‘Quo’ing In – The Best of the Noughties’ earMUSIC

STRATOVARIUS ‘Survive’ earMUSIC

STREETLIGHT CIRCUS ‘Super Fine Sugar’ Escape Music

TALAS ’1985′ Metal Blade Music

ULTRAVOX ‘Rage In Eden’ (6CD/DVD box set) Chrysalis

VAN DER GRAAF GENERATOR ‘Interference Patterns – The Recordings 2005-2016′ (box set) Esoteric Recordings

VENOM INC ‘There’s Only Black’ Nuclear Blast

DARRYL WAY ‘The Rock Artist’s Progress’

30th

ALICE COOPER BAND ‘Live From The Astroturf’ earMusic

AUTOPSY ‘Morbidity Triumphant’ Peaceville Records

THE DEAD DAISIES ‘Radiance’ SPV/Steamhammer

DROPKICK MURPHYS ‘This Machine Still Kills Fascists’

DROWNING POOL ‘Strike A Nerve’

Sammy Hagar & the Circle ‘Crazy Times’

IMPELLITTERI ‘Wake The Beast Anthology’ Global Rock Records

JELLYFISH ‘When Memories Fade’ (7″ box set)

LAMARCA S/T MelodicRock Classics

MAN ‘Life On The Road – On Air: 1972-83′ (6CD) Cherry Red Records

MARENNA ‘Voyager’ Lions Pride Music

RICHARD MARX ‘Songwriter’

MONSTER TRUCK ‘Warriors’ BMG

NESTOR ‘Kids In A GhostTtown + 3′ Napalm Records

PIXIES ‘Doggerel’ BMG

SUZI QUATRO ‘Uncovered’ (EP) Sun Records

RAGE ‘Spreading the Plague’ (EP) SPV/Steamhammer

RAVEN ‘Leave ‘Em Bleeding’ SPV/Steamhammer

RED BAZAR ‘Inverted Reality’ White Knight Records

SCARLET DORN ‘Queen Of Broken Dreams’ Steamhammer/SPV

SLIPKNOT ‘The End, So Far’ Roadrunner Records

SONATA ARTICA ‘Acoustic Adventures Vol. II’ Atomic Fire Records

TANKARD ‘Pavlov’s Dawgs’ Reaper Entertainment

ROGER TAYLOR ‘The Outsider Tour Live’

PETE WAY ‘Solo Albums 200-04′ 3CD) Cherry Red Records

YAYA ‘II’ MelodicRock Classics (deluxe reissue)

YEAH YEAH YEAHS ‘Cool It Down’ Secretly Canadian

October

1st

TRISHULA ‘We All Fall Down’

7th
BLIND ILLUSION ‘Wrath of the Gods’ Hammerheart Records

BUSH ‘The Art Of Survival’

CAPTAIN BLACK BEARD ‘Neon Sunrise’ Mighty Music

COP ‘Enemy’ Prode & Joy Music

HUGH CORNWELL ‘Moments Of Madness’

THE CULT ‘Under the Midnight Sun’ Black Hill Records

THE CURE ‘Wish’ (30th anniversary deluxe edition)

DEEP PURPLE ‘Live In Tokyo 2021′

ELLEFSON-SOTO ‘Vacation In The Underworld’ Rat Pak Records

GLASS HAMMER ‘At The Gate’

JETHRO TULL ‘Thick As A Brick’ (40th anniversary box set)

LAMB OF GOD ‘Omens’ Epic

PEARLS & FLAMES Pride & Joy Music

QUEENSRYCHE ‘Digital Noise Alliance’ Century Media Records

THE SNUTS ‘Burn The Empire’ Parlaphone

TERAMAZE ‘Flight of the Wounded’ Wells Music

WEDNESDAY 13 ‘Horrifier’

CHARLOTTE WESSELS (ex-DELAIN) ‘Tales From Six Foot Under Vol.2′

GINGER WILDHEART & THE SINNERS S/T Wicked Cool Records

TONY WRIGHT (TERRORVISION) ‘The Anti Album’

14th

ALTER BRIDGE ‘Pawns & Kings’ Napalm Records

BIG BIG TRAIN ‘Summer Shall Not Fade – Live At Loreley’ English Electric Recordings

BLUE OCTOBER ‘Spinning The Truth Around (Part I)’

BOSTON MANOR ‘Datura’

DANCING ON THE TABLES ‘Colour In The Grey’ Enci Records

DURAN DURAN ‘Medazzaland’ (25th anniversary edition) EMI

ELECTRIC MOB ‘Make U Cry & Dance’ Frontiers

BRIAN ENO ‘FOREVERANDEVERNOMORE’ UMC

GUN ‘The Calton Songs’ Cherry Red Records

KILLER KINGS ‘Burn For Love’ Frontiers

LACUNA COIL ‘Comalies XX’ Century Media Records

DAVID LANGDON (BIG BIG TRAIN) ‘Door One’ English Electric Recordings

ORIANTHI ‘Rock Candy’ Frontiers

PERFECT PLAN ‘Brace For Impact’ Frontiers

P.O.D. ‘When Angels & Serpents Dance’ (re-issue)

TODD RUNDGREN ‘Space Force’ Cleopatra Records

SKID ROW ‘The Gang’s All Here’ earMUSIC

SLEEPING WITH SIRENS ‘Complete Collapse’

SUNJAY ‘Black & Blues Revisted’

TRAGIK ‘Cry For Love’ Rock Company Records

WE CAME AS ROMANS ‘Darkbloom’

Ginger Wildheart & The Sinners S/T Wicked Cool Records

WILDNESS ‘Resurrection’ Frontiers

21st

A-HA ‘True North’

ARCTIC MONKEYS ‘The Car’

ARENA ‘The Theory Of Molecular Inheritance’ Verglas Music

AVANTASIA ‘A Paranormal Evening with the Moonflower Society’ Nuclear Blast

BLACK VEIL BRIDES ‘The Mourning’ (EP) Sumerian Records

COLLATERAL ‘ReWired’ Cargo Records

HUGH CORNWALL ‘Moments Of Madness’

ELECTRIC MOB ’2 Make U Cry & Dance’ Frontiers

GRAND S/T Frontiers

Robyn Hitchcock ‘Shufflemania!’ Tiny Ghost Records

IRON ALLIES ‘Blood In Blood Out’ AFM Records

Jean-Michel Jarre ‘Oxymore’ Sony Music

CHEZ KANE ‘Zone’ Frontiers

THE NEW ROSES ‘Sweet Poison’ Napalm Records

O.R.k. ‘Screamnasium’ KScope

RED HOT CHILLI PEPPERS ‘Return of the Dream Canteen’ (double CD) Warner Records

SIMPLE MINDS ‘Direction of the Heart’

STRYPER ‘The Final Battle’ Frontiers

SUNSTORM ‘Still Roaring: The Studio Session’ Frontiers

SAM SWEENEY ‘Escape That’ Hudson Records

TURKISH DELIGHT ‘Volume 1′ Escape Music

TWISTER ‘Only The Strong Survive’ (EP)

UGLY KID JOE ‘Rad Wings Of Destiny’

WHITE SKULL ‘Metal Never Rusts’ Rock Of Angels Records

24th

GALAHAD ‘The Last Great Adventurer’ Avalon Records

28th

BRYAN ADAMS ‘So Happy It Hurts’ (2CD deluxe edition)

CARDINAL BLACK ‘January Came Close’

CELTIC FROST ‘Danse Macabre Box’ Century Media

ROGER CHAPMAN ‘Turn It Up Loud – The Recordings 1981-1985′ (5CD set) Esoteric Recordings

THE DAMNED ‘A Night Of A Thousand Vampires’ (live CD/DVD) earMUSIC

DEAD CROSS ‘II’ Ipecac Recordings

JULIE DRISCOLL ’1969′ (re-issue) Esoteric Recordings

FOO FIGHTERS ‘The Essentail Foo Fighters’ Sony Music

FROM THE GODS ‘Soul Revolution’

Michael Bormann´s JADED HEART ‘Power To Win’ RMB Music

MASSIVE WAGONS ‘Triggered’ Earache Records

JOHN NORUM ‘Gone To Stay’ Fifth Island Music/Gain

RENAISSANCE S/T (reissue) Repertoire

RIPPER ‘Return To Death Row’ (EP)

ROYAL HUNT ‘Dystopia, Part II’ Northpoint Productions

SIMPLE PLAN ‘Harder Than It Looks’

SNAKECHARMER ‘Anthology’ Cherry Red Records

SODOM ’40 Years At War – The Greatest Hell of Sodom’ Steamhammer/SPV Records

Joanne Shaw Taylor ‘Nobody’s Fool’ KTBA Records

THEM ‘Fear City’

DEVIN TOWNSEND ‘Lightwork’ InsideOut Music

JOE LYNN TURNER ‘Belly of the Beast’ Mascot Records

EDDIE VANTEZ ‘Rough Diamond’ Lions Pride Music

VARIOUS ‘Metal Hall Of Fame All Stars (CD/DVD box set) Deko Entertainment

November

4th

FRANK BELLO ‘Then I’m Gone’ (EP)

BLACK SABBATH ‘Heaven And Hell’ (vinyl re-issue) BMG

BONFIRE

THE COMMONERS ‘Find A Better Way’

BILLY JOEL ‘Live At Yankee Stadium’

THE JOKERS ‘Rock And Roll Bones’ Metalapolis Records

JOHN MELLANCAMP ‘Scarecrow’ (re-issue)

THE MOON CITY MASTERS ‘The Famous Moon City Masters’

THE PRETTY RECKLESS ‘Other Worlds’ Fearless Records

SLADE ‘Sladest’ (vinyl re-issue)

STARCHILD ‘Battle Of Eternity’ Metalopolis/SPV

THE THREE TREMORS ‘Guardians of the Void’ Steel Cartel Records

VOIVOD ‘Ultraman’ (EP) Century Media Records

WHITE SKIES ‘Black Tide’ Pride & Joy Music

WHITEABBEY ‘Volume Two’

XENTRIX ‘Seven Words’ Listenable Records

11th

ABOUT US S/T Frontiers

SANDY DENNY ‘Like An Old-Fashioned Waltz’, ‘Rendezvous’ (vinyl) Proper Records/BMG

ENUFF Z’NUFF ‘Finer Than Sin’ Frontiers

GUNS ‘N’ ROSES ‘Use Your Illusion I & II’ (Super Deluxe 7CD/Blu-ray, Super Deluxe 12LP/Blu-ray, separate 2CD deluxe editions of Use Your Illusion I & II and separate 1CD and 2LP) UMG

KING CRIMSON ‘In The Court Of The Crimson King, King Crimson At 50’ (Blue-ray/DVD) Panegyric Recordings

LARKIN POE ‘Blood Harmony’

LAST IN LINE ‘A Day In The Life’ (EP) earMUSIC

L.S. DUNES ‘Past Lives’ Fantasy Records

MANTRIC MOMENTUM ‘Trual By Fire’ Frontiers

MONSTER MAGNET ‘Test Patterns: Vol. 1′ God Unknown Records

VINNIE MOORE (UFO) ‘Double Dxposure’ Mind’s Eye Music

NELSON ‘A Nelson Fanily Christmas’

RING OF FIRE ‘Gravity’ Frontiers

SEETHING AKIRA ‘Nozomi’

BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN ‘Only The Strong Survive’ (soul covers album)

WARKINGS ‘Morgana’ Napalm Records

XTC ‘The Big Express’ (vinyl reissue) Ape House Records

15th

THE SMASHING PUMPKINS ‘ATUM – Act 1’

18th

ARC OF LIFE ‘Don’t Look Down’ Frontiers

RONNIE ATKINS ‘Symphomaniac’ (EP) Frontiers

AUTOGRAPH ‘Beyond’ Frontiers

THE BEACH BOYS ‘Sail On Sailor’ (deluxe reissue)

BLACK SABBATH ‘Mob Rules’ BMG

CANDLEMASS ‘Sweet Evil Sun’ Napalm Records

DISTURNED ‘Divisive’ Reprise Records

ELDRITCH ‘EOS’ Scarlet Records

ENEMY EYES ‘History’s Hand’ Frontiers

GORDON GILTRAP ‘Scattered Chapters’ Psychotron Records

JIMI HENDRIX EXPERIENCE ‘Los Angeles Forum: April 26, 1969′

ROBYN HITCHCOCK ‘Shufflemania’

IRON MAIDEN ‘The Number of the Beast’ (vinyl re-issue)

KISS ‘Creatures of the Night’ (40th anniversary edition) UMe

NICKELBACK ‘Get Rollin’ BMG

QUEEN ‘The Miracle – Collector’s Edition’ (vinyl & box sET) emi

RISING STEEL ‘Beyond the Gates of Hell’ Frontiers

THE ROAD ‘Simple Man’ Escape Music

SEON ‘Atlantis’ Silver Lining Music

THRESHOLD ‘Dividing Lines’ Nuclear Blast

U.D.O. ‘The Legacy’ (best of) AFM Records

UNLEASH THE ARCHERS ‘Apex’ (deluxe reissue)

VIOLET ‘Illusions’ Yellow Muffin Records

NEIL YOUNG & CRAZY HORSE ‘World Record’

25th

LEE AARON ‘Elevate’ Metallville Records

BAD SISTER ‘Where Will You Go’ Pride & Joy Music

BLACK PAISLEY ‘Human Nature’

BLACKRAIN ‘Untamed’ Steamhammer/SPV

DAVID BOWIE ‘Divine Symmetry’ (box set)

THE DOORS ‘Paris Blues’

FASTWAY ‘A’s & B’s – The Sony Years’

INDUCTION ‘Born From Fire’ Atomic Fire Records

JAMIE KYLE ‘Wild One’

PERTICONE ‘Stuff in the Basment’ Lions Pride Music

Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers ‘Live At The Fillmore (1997)’ Warner Records

CLIFF RICHARD ‘Christmas With Cliff’

Siouxsie And The Banshees ‘All Souls’ (best of & rarities) UME

STREETLORE S/T Art Of Melody Music

SWORD ‘III’ Massacare Records

BERNIE TORME ‘Final Fling’ (live album)

December

2nd

AMBERIAN DAWN ‘Take A Cahnce On Me: A Metal Tribute To ABBA’

HUMBLE PIE ‘The A&M CD Box Set (1970-1975)’ A&M/UMe

KING CRIMSON ‘In The Court Of The Crimson King, King Crimson At 50′ (8CD) Panegyric
Recordings

LOUD SOLUTION ‘Throwback’ Lions Pride Music

Kenny Wayne Shepherd ‘Trouble Is…25’ Mascot Records/Provogue

TARJA TURUNEN ‘Best Of: Living the Dream’ earMUSIC

NEIL YOUNG ‘Harvest’ (50th anniversary edition) Reprise

9th

AFTER LAPSE ‘Face The Storm’ Frontiers

TOMMY DECARLO ‘Dancing in the Moonlight’ Frontiers

SAM FENDER ‘Live From Finsbury Park’ Polydor

JOURNEY ‘Live In Concert At Lollapalooza’

HIGHLORD ‘Freakin’ Out Of Hell’ Rockshots Records

KANSAS ‘Another Fork In The Road – 50 Years Of Kansas’ InsideOut

LANDFALL ‘Elevate’ Frontiers

NEVENA S/T Frontiers

ROB MORATTI ‘Epical’ Frontiers

SABU ‘Banshee’ Frontiers

TARMAT ‘ Out of the Blue’ Frontiers

TOY CANON ‘Forever One’

21st

AUTUMN’S CHILD ‘Starflower’ Avalon Records

WEEZER ‘SZNZ: Winter’

TBA

GANDALF’S FIST ‘Widdershins’

THE QUIREBOYS ‘The Band Rolls On…’ Off Yer Rocka Recordings

**** 2023 ****

January

6th

ANTI-FLAG ‘Less They Tell Our Children’

13th

BEYOND THE BLACK S/T Nuclear Blast

GAZ COOMBES (SUPERGRASS) ‘Turn The Car Around’

SCREAMER ‘Kingmaker’

THE SUBWAYS ‘Uncertain Joys’ Alcopop! Record

20th

BLACK STAR RIDERS ‘Wrong Side Of Paradise’ Earache Records

GUIDED BY VOICES ‘La La Land’

ISSA ‘Lights Of Japan’ Frontiers

TEN ‘Something Wicked This Way Comes’ Frontiers

WE ARE SCIENTISTS ‘Lobes’

31st

THE SMASHING PUMPKINS ‘ATUM – Act 2’

February

10th

IN FLAMES ‘Foregone’

PARAMORE ‘This Is Why’ Atlantic Records

17th

THOSE DAMN CROWS ‘Inhale/Exhale’

24th

GORILLAZ ‘Cracker Island’

STEEL PANTHER ‘On The Prowl’

March

10th

THE COLD STARES ‘Voices’

STORY OF THE YEAR ‘Tear Me To Pieces’ SharpTone Records

24th

BABYMETAL ‘The Other One’

John Diva & The Rockets Of Love ‘God Made Radio’ SPV/Steamhammer

31st

AD INFINITUM ‘Chapter III – Downfall’

April

21st

THE SMASHING PUMPKINS ‘ATUM – Act 3′

TBA

OVERKILL

May

TBA

Samantha Fish & Jesse Dayton Rounder Records

2023 TBA

AGENT STEEL

AIRBOURNE

ALICE IN CHAINS BMG

THE ANSWER Golden Robot Records

ANTHRAX Nuclear Blast

ART NATION Frontiers

BODYCOUNT ‘Merciless’

BUCKCHERRY

DARK ANGEL

DEPECHE MODE ‘Memento Mori’

DRAGONFORCE

EXTREME

KING DIAMOND ‘Institute’ Metal Blade Records

LAST IN LINE earMUSIC

MOTLEY CRUE

RAVEN Silver Lining Music

STATE OF SALZAR Frontiers

SUICIDE SILENCE ‘Remember… You Must Die’ Century Media

SWEET & LYNCH Frontiers

SYMPHONY X

STEVEN WILSON

THE WINERY DOGS

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In the works – no set date as yet

12.6 ‘The Barnum Effect’ Dennis Churchill Dries (White Sister) and Stan Cotey (Giraffe)

AEROSMITH

ALL THAT REMAINS

AMMUNITION

ANGEL Cleopatra Records

ANY GIVEN SIN Mascot Records

APOCALYPTICA

ARTIC MONKEYS

AT THE MOVIES ‘Soundtrack To Your Life Vol.3′

Æther Realm Napalm Records

STEVE AUGERI (ex-JOURNEY/TYKETTO) ‘In The Moment’

AVA (features BILLY SHERWWOD) Golden Robot Records

AVENGED SEVENFOLD

BABYLON A.D.

SEB BACH

BAD COMPANY

BATON ROGUE Frontiers

BEYOND THE BLACK Nuclear Blast

DAVE BICKLER (ex-SURVIVOR) Deko Entertainment

BIG COUNTRY (covers album)

BIG COUNTRY

BLACK COUNTRY COMMUNION

BLACK SABBATH (Tony Martin era albums box set)

BLACK STONE CHERRY

BLINK 182

BLONDIE

THE BLUES BAND (farewell album)

JOE BONAMASSA

BRING ME THE HORIZON

BUCKETS REBEL HEART

BULLETBOYS

GLEN BURTNICK

CAMEL

CHELSEA

CHICKENFOOT

DESMOND CHILD & ROUGE

CLUTCH

COLDSPELL

ALICE COOPER (two albums in the works)

COVERDALE/PAGE (30th anniversary reissue with newly recorded material)

CREDO

DAVID CROSBY

CROWNE Frontiers

CRYPTA Napalm Records

THE CURE ‘Songs of the Lost World’

DANGEROUS TOYS EMP Music

DANTE FOX

DELAIN

DEMON

DIABLO SWING ORCHESTRA

DIAMOND HEAD

BRUCE DICKINSON

DIRTY THRILLS Frontiers

DISTRICT 97

DOGS D’AMOR

DOKKEN

DOMAIN

DORO

DREAM THEATER

DVNE Metal Blade Records

EASY ACTION

EDEN’S CURSE

ELIXIR Dissonace Productions

EMPYRE KScope

THE ENID

ENTOMBED A.D.

EUROPE

EXCITER

THE FACES

FAITH NO MORE

FASTER PUSSYCAT Golden Robot Records

RICHIE FAULKNER (JUDAS PRIEST)

FILTER ‘Murica’ Golden Robot Records

FLEETWOOD MAC

LITA FORD

ACE FREHLEY (studio album)

ACE FREHLEY ‘Origins Vol. 3′ (covers album)

PETER GABRIEL

JANET GARDNER (ex-VIXEN)

THE GASLIGHT ANTHEM

THE GATHERING

ROBIN GEORGE ‘Dangerous Daze Guest List’ (inc. unreleased material with JOHN WETTON)

DAVE GILMOUR

GUIFFRIA Frontiers

LOU GRAMM

GREAT WHITE

GUNS ‘N’ ROSES ‘Use Your Illusion’ (30th year anniversary edition)

GYPSY ROSE

ROB HALFORD (blues album)

DARRYL HALL (DAVE STEWART producing)

HALL & OATES

HARD-FI

HEART

HEAVY PETTIN’

HEKZ ‘Terra Nova’ (double concept album)

THE HIVES

HOUSE OF SHAKIRA

HURRICANE

IMMORTAL Nuclear Blast

INTRONAUT Metal Blade Records

IT BITES InsideOut Music

JANE’S ADDICTION

JUDAS PRIEST

KAMELOT Napalm Records

KELLY KEAGY (NIGHT RANGER)

NEIL KERNON

KILL SWITCH ENGAGE

KILLER DWARFS EMP

KING KOBRA ‘Music Is A Piece Of Art’ Frontiers

THE KINKS

KROKUS

L.A. GUNS ‘Black Diamonds’

LAND OF TALES S/T Frontiers

LAWLESS

LEATHERWOLF

LEVELLERS (acoustic album)

LION’S SHARE

Noora Louhimo (BATTLE BEAST)

George Lynch and the Electric Freedom

LYNYRD SKYNYRD

MANIC EDEN (re-issue) Mascot Records

MICK MARS (MOTLEY CRUE)

ERIC MARTIN (MR BIG)

MC5

MECCA ‘IV’ Frontiers

JOHN MELLANCAMP

MERCYFUL FATE

METAL CHURCH

METALLICA

MISERY INDEX Century Media

MOLYBARON Inside Out

MR BIG

MY BLOODY VALENTINE

1914 Napalm Records

NIGHTWISH Nuclear Blast

NOTORIOUS (Robin George & Sean Harris)

OBITURY

OBSCURA Nuclear Blast

ORANGE GOBLIN Peaceville

TIM ‘Ripper’ OWENS

PANIC ROOM

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STORM FORCE

NINA STRAUSS

SUM 41 ‘Heaven And Hell’ (double album)

21 GUNS

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ANDY TAYLOR BMG

TESTAMENT

TOOL

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TYKETTO

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VAIN

VANA

VOIVOD

VOYAGER

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RONNIE WOOD

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JOHN YOUNG (LIESIGNS)

XTC ‘Apple Venus Vol.1′ (reissue/remastered by Steven Wilson)

XYZ

Release date unknown – may not happen

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DIO’S DISCIPLES (on hold as band plans touring more)

FIREHOUSE

LOU GRAMM & MICK JONES (working on older FOREIGNER songs not previously released)

LEMMY (solo album)

MEAT LOAF (EP)

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PAUL RODGERS (new songs)

SHAW/BLADES ‘Influence II’ (covers album)

JOHN SYKES

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UK Blues Broadcaster of the Year (2020 and 2021 Finalist) Pete Feenstra presents his weekly Rock & Blues Show on Tuesday at 19:00 GMT as part of a five hour blues rock marathon “Tuesday is Bluesday at GRTR!”. The show is repeated on Wednesdays at 22:00, Fridays at 20:00). First broadcast on 21 April 2026

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Power Plays w/c 11 May 2026

BREITLER Sentinel (El Puerto Records)
FIRE IN HER EYES Too Late To Change (indie)
KING FALCON Wait (indie)
BEAUTIFUL SKELETONS Come What May (indie)
KARIN PARK Shadow (Size Records)
HARSH Don’t Mess With Me (indie)

Featured Albums w/c 11 May 2026

09:00-12:00 The Best of 2003 – 2025 (Melodic Rock)
12:00-13:00 The Best of 2003 – 2025 (Melodic Hard Rock)
14:00-16:00 The Best of 2003 – 2025 (Singer Songwriter)


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2022

AIRBOURNE + BLUES PILLS + CROBOT

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IAN ANDERSON

20 Dec EXETER Cathedral

BAD MANNERS

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STEVE HARLEY & COCKNEY REBEL

DEC 20 TUE Birmingham Town Hall

Jools Holland And His Rhythm And Blues Orchestra

Tue December 20 2022 – BIRMINGHAM Symphony Hall

MOGWAI

Tue December 20 ABERDEEN Music Hall

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ROD STEWART

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UK Blues Broadcaster of the Year (2020 and 2021 Finalist) Pete Feenstra presents his weekly Rock & Blues Show on Tuesday at 19:00 GMT as part of a five hour blues rock marathon “Tuesday is Bluesday at GRTR!”. The show is repeated on Wednesdays at 22:00, Fridays at 20:00). First broadcast on 21 April 2026

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Power Plays w/c 11 May 2026

BREITLER Sentinel (El Puerto Records)
FIRE IN HER EYES Too Late To Change (indie)
KING FALCON Wait (indie)
BEAUTIFUL SKELETONS Come What May (indie)
KARIN PARK Shadow (Size Records)
HARSH Don’t Mess With Me (indie)

Featured Albums w/c 11 May 2026

09:00-12:00 The Best of 2003 – 2025 (Melodic Rock)
12:00-13:00 The Best of 2003 – 2025 (Melodic Hard Rock)
14:00-16:00 The Best of 2003 – 2025 (Singer Songwriter)


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Album review: GUN – The Calton Songs

Cherry Red [Release date 14.10.22]

Gun trade in emotions – nostalgia, melancholy and ultimately, optimism. Always have, and they have become expert.

The title of their new album, The Calton Songs, confirms this. Born and brought up in “The Calton”, a district near Glasgow city centre (home of the Barrowlands), they learned early on that limited opportunities were no barrier to success.

And so the brand new (all electric) track that introduces this new album is called ‘Backstreet Brothers’. It’s a song for those who can look back on the hardships of their youth and be thankful for those humble beginnings, and the friendships they formed. Not to mention the defiance and drive they instilled.

Coming out of the pandemic intact, the band – Dante Gizzi, Jools Gizzi, Andy Carr, Paul McManus and Tommy Gentry – decided to celebrate by recording acoustic versions of their better known songs.

This 14 track album, The Calton Songs, is the result.

Considering the limitations of such an approach, it’s a very distinctive recording. In fact it’s unlikely that the band’s previous (and well thought of) vocalists, Mark Rankin and Toby Jepson could have pulled this off any better than current vocalist and founder member, Dante Gizzi.

Unplugging the music from its powered up life support system is a huge risk of course, and they’ve been careful to pick those songs most likely to survive a power down.

The bluesy, lived in timbre that Gizzi’s voice has taken on over the years adds a strong, driven sense of yearning to enduring songs like ‘Higher Ground’, ‘Better Days’ and ‘Coming Home’, and a weighty lyrical dynamic to ‘Frantic’, ‘Steal Your Fire’ and most especially to the band’s touchstone, ‘Taking On The World’.
But there’s not much to choose between them.

It’s a remarkably lean and confident collection of songs on which the underlying soundtrack to the band’s worldview rings out loud and clear. *****

Review by Brian McGowan

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David Randall presents a weekly show on Get Ready to ROCK! Radio, Sundays at 22:00 GMT, repeated on Mondays and Fridays), when he invites listeners to ‘Assume The Position’. The show signposts forthcoming gigs and tours and latest additions at getreadytorock.com. First broadcast 26 April 2026.


UK Blues Broadcaster of the Year (2020 and 2021 Finalist) Pete Feenstra presents his weekly Rock & Blues Show on Tuesday at 19:00 GMT as part of a five hour blues rock marathon “Tuesday is Bluesday at GRTR!”. The show is repeated on Wednesdays at 22:00, Fridays at 20:00). First broadcast on 21 April 2026

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Power Plays w/c 11 May 2026

BREITLER Sentinel (El Puerto Records)
FIRE IN HER EYES Too Late To Change (indie)
KING FALCON Wait (indie)
BEAUTIFUL SKELETONS Come What May (indie)
KARIN PARK Shadow (Size Records)
HARSH Don’t Mess With Me (indie)

Featured Albums w/c 11 May 2026

09:00-12:00 The Best of 2003 – 2025 (Melodic Rock)
12:00-13:00 The Best of 2003 – 2025 (Melodic Hard Rock)
14:00-16:00 The Best of 2003 – 2025 (Singer Songwriter)


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Album review: GRAND – Grand

Frontiers [Release date 14.10.22]

Swedish songwriter/singer Mattias Olofsson teamed up with Wigelius guitarist, Jakob Svensson and drummer Anton Martinez to form Grand in 2020. The band subsequently signed with Frontiers. This is the debut.

Grand are as good an AOR/Melodic Rock band as we’ve heard on Frontiers for some time now. They make it sound effortless, and you’ve got to work damn hard to achieve that.

Olofsson’s subtle, understated Melodic Rock production balances guitars, keys and voices on a tightrope of solidly constructed melodies, embracing just enough aural hooks to constantly enthral.

The singer’s vocal similarities to Jon (Yes) Anderson on opener ‘Caroline’ is something of a distraction though, edging the track’s dreamily textured AOR into Proglite territory.

Then the album bursts into life. ‘Stone Cold’ is the killer cut, a heartstopping AOR thrill machine that shares its DNA with Work Of Art’s magnum opus, ‘Why Do I’.

None of the tracks that follow measure up to ‘Stone Cold’, but each one has its own melody to sell, it’s own story to tell, and all seem happy existing in the penumbra of that explosive slice of AOR.

The slickly manufactured soft rock of ‘The Price We Pay’, a high quality Starship styled retread from their poppified Peter Wolf days, and the swirling, chiming radio rock of ‘Johnny On The Spot’, a John Waite/Giant soundalike that stops just short of being too flamboyant, aren’t far behind.

‘Make It Grand’ goes off piste, taking a welcome detour through US sleaze/glam rock, brimful of attitude, big guitars and na-na-nas.

But we’re brought back into line by the band’s undeniable AOR songcraft. The ‘endless summers’ of the gentle westcoast rock of ‘Those Were The Days’ and the romantic, understated ‘After We Said Goodbye’ stand side by side with the the ghosts of a thousand influences.

No question, the music plays to the past, but it’s right here with us in the present. ****1/2

Review by Brian McGowan


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UK Blues Broadcaster of the Year (2020 and 2021 Finalist) Pete Feenstra presents his weekly Rock & Blues Show on Tuesday at 19:00 GMT as part of a five hour blues rock marathon “Tuesday is Bluesday at GRTR!”. The show is repeated on Wednesdays at 22:00, Fridays at 20:00). First broadcast on 21 April 2026

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Power Plays w/c 11 May 2026

BREITLER Sentinel (El Puerto Records)
FIRE IN HER EYES Too Late To Change (indie)
KING FALCON Wait (indie)
BEAUTIFUL SKELETONS Come What May (indie)
KARIN PARK Shadow (Size Records)
HARSH Don’t Mess With Me (indie)

Featured Albums w/c 11 May 2026

09:00-12:00 The Best of 2003 – 2025 (Melodic Rock)
12:00-13:00 The Best of 2003 – 2025 (Melodic Hard Rock)
14:00-16:00 The Best of 2003 – 2025 (Singer Songwriter)


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Gig review: RICHARD MARX – Union Chapel, London, 3 October 2022

RICHARD MARX- Union Chapel, London, 3 October 2022

Autumn 2022 has seen a number of eagerly awaited shows announced pre-Covid finally come to fruition. One such is Richard Marx, who after his first UK show in ages supporting Barbara Streisand at Hyde Park then announced some solo acoustic shows at the Union Chapel for April 2020. Well, look how that turned out.

Fortunately the American was true to his word and after queuing outside to bag an unreserved spot on the hard pews of this converted Church, the crowd was crackling with anticipation long before a rather humblebragging on screen montage of his achievements and archive interviews heralded his arrival. Casually dressed in denim, his ever youthful appearance belied his 59 years (cue the Dorian Gray clichés).

RICHARD MARX- Union Chapel, London, 3 October 2022

With happy timing these shows coincided with the release of a new (and bumper) album, ‘Songwriter’, though this was not the focus of the show. Indeed he admitted that as a fan he always wanted his favourite bands to play the hits, so, armed only with an acoustic guitar, he opened with three songs that were exactly that in ‘Endless Summer Nights’, ‘Take This Heart’ and ‘Satisfied’, with a bit of a sing-along on the latter. After initially there was a slightly raspy edge to his usually pure voice, on ‘Keep Coming Back’ he hit his stride with a super smooth delivery including holding an extended note at the end.

To carry off an intimate solo show requires warmth of personality as well as musical talent, and he showed a healthily irreverent sense of humour, affable but with a sense of mischief never far away (notably an anecdote about failing to give Bryan Adams quite the correct information about a sore throat treatment!).

RICHARD MARX- Union Chapel, London, 3 October 2022

He invited people to shout out requests for songs that otherwise wouldn’t be in the set and after ‘The Way She Loves Me’ a snatch of ‘My Confession’ was one such. Of course there had to be a smattering of songs from the new album. Divided into pop, country, rock and ballads as if to show his wide talent, the former was represented by new single ‘Same Heartbreak Different Day’.

And though a one man show, on certain songs such as that he was aided from time to time by a video projection, also providing a recorded accompaniment.  Another showed his three adult sons harmonising with him to ‘When You Loved Me’ while a surprisingly early ‘Hazard’ was also accompanied by the story song’s video.

RICHARD MARX- Union Chapel, London, 3 October 2022

Richard then moved to a grand piano for a request in ‘Chains Around My Heart’ and the song penned for Josh Groban ‘To Where You Are’. He then complied with another shouted request for ‘Through My Veins’ which he wrote as a tribute to his late musical father. It seemed to knock him sideways as he spent a moment rubbing away tears from his face before saying ‘to whoever requested that, I don’t know whether to say thank you or ‘f— you’, before composing himself,  looking up at the chapel’s high ceilings and saying ‘he would have loved this place ‘. He then spoke equally proudly of his collaboration with a 94 years young Burt Bacharach on new song ‘Always’.

Returning to guitar, I was pleased to hear one of my favourite songs ‘Too Late To Say Goodbye’ before singing the praises of son Jesse and introducing a rocker they had written together in ‘Shame On You’ with the surprisingly angry lyrics from the usually mild-mannered figure- ‘sitting in that chair, wasting all that air…’.

RICHARD MARX- Union Chapel, London, 3 October 2022

A single ‘Front Row Seat’ from last year’s ‘Limitless’ album was accompanied by a soft focus video of Richard at home with wife Daisy and dog, enjoying a lazy morning in bed or strolling the ocean beach, leaving us all feeling rather inadequate at the state of our own lifestyles, while not begrudging such an obviously good guy the fruits of his success.

Son Lucas joined him to harmonise in ‘This I Promise You’, a hit for N’sync, further proof how he successfully reinvented himself as a contemporary songwriter when fashions changed and his own run of solo hits dried up.

RICHARD MARX- Union Chapel, London, 3 October 2022

After some more snatches of requests, including to my own personal delight Vixen’s ‘Edge of A Broken Heart’, admittedly written for a female voice rather than his own, he joked he would rather people not sing along and ruin his ballads ‘Now And Forever’ and ‘Hold On To The Nights’. However he then tested the superb acoustics in the venue to the full, going without mike as he went to the edge of the crowd to sing ‘Angelia’ before we were finally allowed to sing along to ‘Should Have Known Better’.

There was of course one obvious encore yet to be played, but we got three of them- a virtual duet with Vertical Horizon’s Matt Scannell on ‘This One’, then debut single ‘Don’t Mean Nothing’, preceded by an anecdote about being flown to Ronnie Scott’s for his debut UK show, being upset he wasn’t getting the reception he was getting elsewhere and finding it was a press-only event for jaded hacks.

RICHARD MARX- Union Chapel, London, 3 October 2022

Finally, as he reverted to piano he closed with ‘Right Here Waiting’, even more beautiful in this most still of environments with the clarity of the sound bringing out the emotional catch in his pure voice.

One man with just a guitar, his voice and a few stories had managed to hold people enraptured for a generous 2 hours and 20 minutes. Witty, well-preserved, a family man, and surviving the music industry with sanity intact, there is much to admire about Richard Marx. But these special surroundings brought out the most important of all, his ear for writing memorable songs.

Review and Photos by Andy Nathan

Album review (Songwriter, 2022)


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David Randall presents a weekly show on Get Ready to ROCK! Radio, Sundays at 22:00 GMT, repeated on Mondays and Fridays), when he invites listeners to ‘Assume The Position’. The show signposts forthcoming gigs and tours and latest additions at getreadytorock.com. First broadcast 26 April 2026.


UK Blues Broadcaster of the Year (2020 and 2021 Finalist) Pete Feenstra presents his weekly Rock & Blues Show on Tuesday at 19:00 GMT as part of a five hour blues rock marathon “Tuesday is Bluesday at GRTR!”. The show is repeated on Wednesdays at 22:00, Fridays at 20:00). First broadcast on 21 April 2026

How to Listen Live?

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Power Plays w/c 11 May 2026

BREITLER Sentinel (El Puerto Records)
FIRE IN HER EYES Too Late To Change (indie)
KING FALCON Wait (indie)
BEAUTIFUL SKELETONS Come What May (indie)
KARIN PARK Shadow (Size Records)
HARSH Don’t Mess With Me (indie)

Featured Albums w/c 11 May 2026

09:00-12:00 The Best of 2003 – 2025 (Melodic Rock)
12:00-13:00 The Best of 2003 – 2025 (Melodic Hard Rock)
14:00-16:00 The Best of 2003 – 2025 (Singer Songwriter)


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Album review: WILDNESS – Resurrection

Frontiers [Release date: 14.10.22]

Maybe the title indicates that a move to Frontiers for their third album, Resurrection, is seen by Swedish AOR/Melodic Rock band Wildness as a post pandemic rebirth.

Certainly, the band have made significant strides in terms of recognition and awareness in the last 4 years. They’ve shared stages with Dokken, HEAT, Pretty Maids and many others in that time.

New vocalist Erik Forsberg is something of an upgrade for the band. He has the urgency of tone that can make all the difference in the AOR genre. Drummer/producer/songwriter, Erik Moden is still at the helm.

The first brick in the musician’s wall is compositional skill. We should pick out the highlights.

The catchy ‘Nightmare’ is a pretty decent opener, if maybe a minute too long. Its shiny pop immediacy prepares the ground, providing a sense of anticipation. In other words it sets up the album.

‘Release The Beast’ is a nod to Dokken, musically and lyrically. But it exposes a lack of production oomph, Forsberg’s pumped up vocal deserves a matching production that it doesn’t get.

‘Tragedy’ is an ace AOR song, Its skilful use of melody and harmony freeze frames the music in a colorful snapshot of the eighties.

Elsewhere the album is a mixed bag of delights and disappointments

The Talisman like ‘Love Resurrection’ and ‘Final Fantasy’ seem set to be twisted into something harder and heavier …. there’s a definite Jef Scott Soto sound to both, but they pull back and settle for softer rocking harmonies.

Like the big ballad ‘Lonely Girl’, ‘Best Of Me’s fluttering keys and pacey guitar chime may have worked pre 1989, but fall foul of formula here and drift off out of sight.

It’s a frustrating album, promising so much, but just not delivering enough. ***

Review by Brian McGowan


Featured Artist: JOSH TAERK

Since early 2020 Josh has been entertaining us with exclusive monthly live sessions,

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David Randall presents a weekly show on Get Ready to ROCK! Radio, Sundays at 22:00 GMT, repeated on Mondays and Fridays), when he invites listeners to ‘Assume The Position’. The show signposts forthcoming gigs and tours and latest additions at getreadytorock.com. First broadcast 26 April 2026.


UK Blues Broadcaster of the Year (2020 and 2021 Finalist) Pete Feenstra presents his weekly Rock & Blues Show on Tuesday at 19:00 GMT as part of a five hour blues rock marathon “Tuesday is Bluesday at GRTR!”. The show is repeated on Wednesdays at 22:00, Fridays at 20:00). First broadcast on 21 April 2026

How to Listen Live?

Click the programming image at the top of the page (top right of page if using desktop)

Get Ready to ROCK! Radio is also in iTunes under Internet Radio/Classic Rock
Listen in via the Tunein app and search for “Get Ready to ROCK!” and save as favourite.

More information and links at our radio website where you can listen live or listen again to shows via the presenter pages: getreadytorockradio.com


Power Plays w/c 11 May 2026

BREITLER Sentinel (El Puerto Records)
FIRE IN HER EYES Too Late To Change (indie)
KING FALCON Wait (indie)
BEAUTIFUL SKELETONS Come What May (indie)
KARIN PARK Shadow (Size Records)
HARSH Don’t Mess With Me (indie)

Featured Albums w/c 11 May 2026

09:00-12:00 The Best of 2003 – 2025 (Melodic Rock)
12:00-13:00 The Best of 2003 – 2025 (Melodic Hard Rock)
14:00-16:00 The Best of 2003 – 2025 (Singer Songwriter)


Our occasional Newsletter signposts latest additions to the website(s). We also include a selection of recent top albums, based on GRTR! reviewer ratings.  The newsletter is sent out a few times a year.

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Album review: TODD RUNDGREN – Space Force

TODD RUNDGREN - Space Force

Cleopatra Records [Release date 14.10.22]

For the next twelve months or so we will be celebrating 20 years of GRTR! During the past two decades Todd Rundgren is one of those artists who has raised his profile in the UK.  This started in 2004 with the release of ‘Liars’ and a corresponding tour which brought him back in front of his loyal fans in Blighty.

Rundgren followed this with ‘Arena’ and further UK tours, demonstrating that he was still relevant in the millennium and arguably at the top of his game always combining high production, musicianship and songwriting values whilst remaining eclectic and individual.   And, in 2021, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

Like ‘White Knight’ before it, this latest offering brings together a number of fellow musos in what, stylistically, is all over the place.  It is the diversity that may confuse the casual listener but to Todd fans it will come as little surprise.  They’ve loved him for at least forty years, maybe more.  They get it.

By way of example, opener ‘Puzzle’ combines Rundgren and Adrian Belew’s vocals against an attractive synth-propelled rhythm then we’re straight into the reggae/ska-based ‘Down With The Ship’ with Rivers Cuomo (Weezer).  Neil Finn (Crowded House/Split Enz) appears for the more conventional pop song ‘Artist In Residence’.

One of the highlights ‘Godiva Girl’ is more typical Todd with a Marvin Gaye-patented backbeat and soulful groove plus typically quirky lyrics.  Assistance comes from The Roots, a hip hop band.

You would expect Sparks to inject a little more quirkiness and essentially ‘Your Fandango’ revolves around a simple chant and frankly is a bit banal.  But, hey, it’s Todd!  Similarly ‘STFU’ revolves around a punk inflected expletive and is somewhat throwaway (with help from Cheap Trick’s Rick Nielsen).

It’s when Rundgren is given free rein on vocals that things shine such as his collaboration with Davey Lane on ‘Someday’.  He’s always been a master of the killer vocal melody and the unexpected mid-flight twist that elevates the song into something stellar.

Thomas Dolby provides an electronic rock groove on ‘I’m Not Your Dog’ whilst ‘Espionage’ enlists rapper Narcy.  Steve Vai arrives for the more straight-ahead album closure ‘Eco Warrior Goddess’.  Personally I could listen to a whole album of ‘Head In the Ocean’ stylings (with singer Alfie Templemen) but there you go.

Selfishly, also, there will be some listeners who just want a Rundgren solo album without the collaboration and any attendant confusion.  He is perfectly able to look after himself.  But then this is where he is at – over fifty years on – and he still sounds relevant.  ***1/2

Review by David Randall

Album review (White Knight, 2017)


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Power Plays w/c 11 May 2026

BREITLER Sentinel (El Puerto Records)
FIRE IN HER EYES Too Late To Change (indie)
KING FALCON Wait (indie)
BEAUTIFUL SKELETONS Come What May (indie)
KARIN PARK Shadow (Size Records)
HARSH Don’t Mess With Me (indie)

Featured Albums w/c 11 May 2026

09:00-12:00 The Best of 2003 – 2025 (Melodic Rock)
12:00-13:00 The Best of 2003 – 2025 (Melodic Hard Rock)
14:00-16:00 The Best of 2003 – 2025 (Singer Songwriter)


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Gig review: SARI SCHORR- Boom Boom Club, Sutton, 30 September 2022

SARI SCHORR- Boom Boom Club, Sutton, 30 September 2022

Sari Schorr began her second tour of the UK this year at the Boom Boom Club, run by GRTR’s own Pete Feenstra, a suitable venue as in his stage introduction he mentioned that other noted bluesmen who had played the club had recommended this New York City based singer, helping to set her on the path to being an established favourite in the UK.

She was preceded by support from Eddy Smith, who should have been accompanied by his band the 507, named after their rehearsal room at Kingston University, just a 213 bus ride away. Unfortunately the band had not made it so the eponymous bearded, baseball capped youngster had to carry the set himself armed only with a keyboard and, for a couple of songs, guitar.

SARI SCHORR- Boom Boom Club, Sutton, 30 September 2022

Starting with ‘Lost On You’ and a forthcoming single ‘Love Sick’, his pure and soulful voice called to mind more contemporary acts like Sam Smith, even if  Pete had introduced him as sounding like Joe Cocker. ‘The Ballad of Bobby Grey’ was stark and haunting and some of the songs such as ‘Ticket Out of Here’ also had a tinge of old-school country.

By the time he has finished with ‘The Good Times’ I was very impressed and curious how these songs would sound with a full band. Even more impressively his set was received in respectful silence by this discerning audience with no crowd chatter to interrupt the acoustic delivery.

SARI SCHORR- Boom Boom Club, Sutton, 30 September 2022

When Sari Schorr came on it was with an unfamiliar new song in ‘Where Have You Been My Old Friend’, passionately delivered but rather dark and downbeat. Moving onto more familiar fare,  ‘Demolition Man’ was the closest to pure blues in the set while ‘Back To LA’ always reminds me of Melissa Etheridge, both in Sari’s throaty delivery and the heartland rock nature of the arrangement, and old favourite ‘Aunt Hazel’ was a special request.

Preceded by some very personal reflections, the ballad ‘Beautiful’ allowed Ash Wilson to stretch out with some tasteful work. The guitarist is versatile with a lovely feel to his playing and a perfect foil for his singer- the two also pulling some flirtatious poses whenever he moved in from the wings.  In the latest of a line up that seems to vary between shows his brother Phil was forming an effective rhythm section with bassist Matt Beable, while the keyboard stool more usually filled by Bob Fridezema was this time occupied in admirable fashion by Adrian Gautrey, who I remember playing with Atomic Rooster, sporting a spectacular mane of curly hair like a Stuart courtier.

SARI SCHORR- Boom Boom Club, Sutton, 30 September 2022

A wide range of songs were all compulsive listening- whether slower numbers like the jazzy ‘Ain’t Got No Money’ or her cover of ‘Ready for Love’, or muscular rockers that break out of the blues pigeonhole like ‘The New Revolution’ and the snarling ‘Thank You’.

The commercial appeal of ‘Turn Your Radio On’ was only enhanced by Adrian playing piano rather than the more usual organ, while on ‘Damn The Reason’ the chorus was rendered even bigger by Ash and Matt’s backing vocals. Another personal ballad in ‘Ordinary Life’ saw Sari take the microphone and perch on the edge of the stage, singing directly at the crowd like an old school singer on a variety TV show.

SARI SCHORR- Boom Boom Club, Sutton, 30 September 2022

She is always a compelling, engaging live performer who puts everything into her delivery but seemed inspired by being back in such familiar surroundings and increasingly the way she sang and moved was almost as if she was possessed, ironically reaching a peak with the Robert Johnson tribute ‘King of Rock N Roll’.

The set ended with a medley of old Leadbelly songs ‘Where Do You Sleep’ aka ‘In the Pines’ and ‘Black Betty’, sparse and stripped down, before the latter changed gear and Ash was let off the leash on a spectacular climax. For the encore the good time vibe of ‘Valentina’ had a straight ahead and looser feel, and she unexpectedly even sneaked in an unscheduled cover of the Martha Reeves and the Vandellas r’ n’ b classic ‘Heatwave’.

SARI SCHORR- Boom Boom Club, Sutton, 30 September 2022

I’ve seen Sari Schorr and band several times either side of the pandemic but this was easily my favourite, the surroundings seemingly inspiring them to raise their game even further, making for a special performance.

Review and Photos by Andy Nathan


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UK Blues Broadcaster of the Year (2020 and 2021 Finalist) Pete Feenstra presents his weekly Rock & Blues Show on Tuesday at 19:00 GMT as part of a five hour blues rock marathon “Tuesday is Bluesday at GRTR!”. The show is repeated on Wednesdays at 22:00, Fridays at 20:00). First broadcast on 21 April 2026

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Power Plays w/c 11 May 2026

BREITLER Sentinel (El Puerto Records)
FIRE IN HER EYES Too Late To Change (indie)
KING FALCON Wait (indie)
BEAUTIFUL SKELETONS Come What May (indie)
KARIN PARK Shadow (Size Records)
HARSH Don’t Mess With Me (indie)

Featured Albums w/c 11 May 2026

09:00-12:00 The Best of 2003 – 2025 (Melodic Rock)
12:00-13:00 The Best of 2003 – 2025 (Melodic Hard Rock)
14:00-16:00 The Best of 2003 – 2025 (Singer Songwriter)


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Album review: THE DARKER MY HORIZON – When Two Worlds Collide

THE DARKER MY HORIZON - When 2 Worlds Collide

Website [Release date 09.09.22]

This latest album from the Darker My Horizon (TDmH) delivers 12 tracks and 3 bonus recordings, including two charity singles.

The album literally has been a work of blood, sweat and tears with a reflection on relationships, this is what happens when two people’s worlds collide, be it good or bad, here’s some songs that will resonate.

Paul Stead, lead singer/writer, talks about why ‘Gaslight’ was chosen as the opening track of the album, he confirms it was difficult to choose and that there were 3 or 4 songs that vied for that position. However, ‘Gaslight’ won out, with Paul saying “it’s like putting a cassette tape into a car stereo and not knowing what’s going to happen, it hits you straight in the face”. There’s everything in this song from the opening guitar solo and melodic riffs to the meaning in the lyrics, many of us will relate to those scenarios.

Next up is ‘Heartbeat’ is all about unplanned pregnancy, how scary that can feel and stepping up to fatherhood and forming a family unit. “You know I’ll be there for you …. To catch you if you fall”

‘Timing ( Is Everything)’ makes me smile as soon as I hear the first chord, an upbeat track with a message for all those whose love and life is perhaps not quite as they thought it might turn out, “happy mother, unhappy wife”.

‘Same Damn Moon’ sees Paul on his own tackling a bluesy/country track.

Absolute standout track of the album for me is, ‘Waste of Oxygen’ which from the opening, sounds just like Metallica, it’s not but it certainly pays homage to them and heavy rock. What a track, seriously.

‘Imperfection’ is a reflection on the reality of relationships beyond that initial dating ‘perfection’ phase. A very relatable track, with an 80’s rock vibe, showing how love evolves and those imperfections are just part of life. The guitar solo by Mark Stephenson is immense.

The next track ‘Stay’ was written for a couple of TDmH family who were getting married, it’s a beautiful song, and knowing them as well as the band, it’s a testament to all, that this track is on the album, it certainly deserves to be heard more widely.

‘Down’ has a heavy bass line throughout showcasing the Neon Warrior, Paul Hamilton’s skills, and Russ Barnett on drums, it’s a melodic track even with the rather ominous lyrics, TDmH bringing their darker side to the fore.

You can’t have a TDmH album without some ballads and ‘Can’t Breathe’ and ‘In the Dark’ (released on the first album, now remixed with the whole band involved) fulfil this need.

‘Propaganda pt 1’ the charity single released to support the Ukraine is sandwiched between the ballads, but it’s no filler, this track was probably the early indicator that this album would be heavier and with a message within to society.

Closing out the album with ‘NYC’, this is classic, from the catchy hooks, to Paul’s soaring vocals, and the rhythm – if you like heavy, melodic rock this album is for you.

This relatively new line up is working together well and this album, 3 years on from ‘Seize the Day’ showcases how far the band have progressed and it is packed full of rock – enjoy! ****

Review by Karen Clayton


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UK Blues Broadcaster of the Year (2020 and 2021 Finalist) Pete Feenstra presents his weekly Rock & Blues Show on Tuesday at 19:00 GMT as part of a five hour blues rock marathon “Tuesday is Bluesday at GRTR!”. The show is repeated on Wednesdays at 22:00, Fridays at 20:00). First broadcast on 21 April 2026

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Power Plays w/c 11 May 2026

BREITLER Sentinel (El Puerto Records)
FIRE IN HER EYES Too Late To Change (indie)
KING FALCON Wait (indie)
BEAUTIFUL SKELETONS Come What May (indie)
KARIN PARK Shadow (Size Records)
HARSH Don’t Mess With Me (indie)

Featured Albums w/c 11 May 2026

09:00-12:00 The Best of 2003 – 2025 (Melodic Rock)
12:00-13:00 The Best of 2003 – 2025 (Melodic Hard Rock)
14:00-16:00 The Best of 2003 – 2025 (Singer Songwriter)


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Recent (last 30 days)


Album review : KILLER KINGS – Burn For Love

Frontiers Records [Release date: 14.10.22]

Killer Kings are guitarist, Tristan Avakian and vocalist, Gregory Lynn Hall. Two names you will immediate recognise from their well documented (in Melodic Rock circles) involvement with near legendary bands Red Dawn, TSO, Heaven & Earth and 101 South.

The Frontiers label is well known for crossing musical distances and bringing artists together. This is clearly one that shows an astute sense of judgment.

Balancing style and substance can be challenging for a Melodic Rock band in today’s post rock world. Avakian and Hall meet the challenge head on, with a handful of key tracks showing a a razor edged sharpness in the writing and a clear eyed focus on arrangement and delivery.

Throughout, Avakian’s sturdily melodic axework and Hall’s flinty edged vocals spark off each other in an almost unbroken series of timeless melodic hard rock songs.

The good love gone bad story in the title track, ‘Burn For Love’ that opens the album spins out every cliché in the melodic rock book, without resorting to plagiarism or descending into parody. And in its expert appropriation of those moments we remember, it somehow becomes something new that rises above its origins.

The achingly sentimental ‘In A Different World’ and ‘Phoenix’ are instantly recognisable genre pieces, and in great melodic rock songs like ‘I Will Be Stronger’ and ‘Higher’ you will hear loud echoes of Whitesnake, Journey, John Waite, Foreigner and others too, no doubt. All gloriously reminiscent of Melodic Rock’s most hypnotic moments that he passage of time has done nothing to diminish.

The magnificently apposite closer, ‘Ain’t No End In Sight’ is only a derivative musical reference or two away from tipping over into pastiche, but thanks to Avakian and Hall’s skill, it has the strength and grace to stand tall as it sails off into the AOR tinged sunset. ****

Review by Brian McGowan


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UK Blues Broadcaster of the Year (2020 and 2021 Finalist) Pete Feenstra presents his weekly Rock & Blues Show on Tuesday at 19:00 GMT as part of a five hour blues rock marathon “Tuesday is Bluesday at GRTR!”. The show is repeated on Wednesdays at 22:00, Fridays at 20:00). First broadcast on 21 April 2026

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Power Plays w/c 11 May 2026

BREITLER Sentinel (El Puerto Records)
FIRE IN HER EYES Too Late To Change (indie)
KING FALCON Wait (indie)
BEAUTIFUL SKELETONS Come What May (indie)
KARIN PARK Shadow (Size Records)
HARSH Don’t Mess With Me (indie)

Featured Albums w/c 11 May 2026

09:00-12:00 The Best of 2003 – 2025 (Melodic Rock)
12:00-13:00 The Best of 2003 – 2025 (Melodic Hard Rock)
14:00-16:00 The Best of 2003 – 2025 (Singer Songwriter)


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Recent (last 30 days)


Album review: THE MAGPIES – Undertow

The MAGPIES - Undertow

Bandcamp [Release date 14.10.22]

Second album from  the Yorkshire-based trio the Magpies who consist of Bella Gaffney, Holly Brandon and Kate Griffin. They have only been performing since 2018, and bearing in mind the covid pandemic halt on live music for over a year in 2020, have appeared at the Cambridge Folk Festival, Glastonbury, Wickham festival and their own Magpies Festival, which is held each year in York.

Despite their soothing vocals a song like the title track pulls no punches highlighting drug addiction and the exploitation of women. ‘Fall On My Knees’ sees the band traverse the Atlantic for their take on a traditional Appalachian song. Back in England they do a lovely take on the traditional tune ‘Hares On The Mountains’. Interesting lyric which looks at how men would react if young ‘maidens’ were transformed into creatures like ducks, blackbirds or hares.

On this one and the instant-on-the-ears ‘Pass Me By’, they remind me of the much missed, fellow Yorkshire based Waking The Witch.

‘Colin’s Set’ allows each member of the Magpies to show their musical talent as fiddle, guitar and banjo weave a musical treat for the listener.

Ending the album is a cover of the classic Eurythmics song ‘Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This)’.  It really works a treat, with the vocal arrangements simply stunning. The added backing of hand percussion adds even more magic, along with the fiddle and banjo.

Folk and roots music has been producing some excellent music these past few years and the Magpies continues this trend with this album of musical beauty. Remember the name as the Magpies are on an ever upwards trajectory to be one of folk music’s most successful and revered acts. ****

Review by Jason Ritchie



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UK Blues Broadcaster of the Year (2020 and 2021 Finalist) Pete Feenstra presents his weekly Rock & Blues Show on Tuesday at 19:00 GMT as part of a five hour blues rock marathon “Tuesday is Bluesday at GRTR!”. The show is repeated on Wednesdays at 22:00, Fridays at 20:00). First broadcast on 21 April 2026

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Power Plays w/c 11 May 2026

BREITLER Sentinel (El Puerto Records)
FIRE IN HER EYES Too Late To Change (indie)
KING FALCON Wait (indie)
BEAUTIFUL SKELETONS Come What May (indie)
KARIN PARK Shadow (Size Records)
HARSH Don’t Mess With Me (indie)

Featured Albums w/c 11 May 2026

09:00-12:00 The Best of 2003 – 2025 (Melodic Rock)
12:00-13:00 The Best of 2003 – 2025 (Melodic Hard Rock)
14:00-16:00 The Best of 2003 – 2025 (Singer Songwriter)


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Recent (last 30 days)


Album review: DRAGONLAND – The Power Of The Nightstar

AFM Records [Release date: 14.10.22]

First album in ten years from Swedish Power/Melodic Metal band, Dragonland.

A lot can change in ten years. A lot can stay the same. This is Dragonland expanded, more ambitious, with a finely developed movie music mentality.

Never to be ones without an imaginative concept, the band have developed a new sci-fi storyline for the Power Of The Nightstar.

Okay, the concept is not especially new, but Dragonland coat it with a polished sheen of freshness, with the introductory music referencing Holst in the space of two short minutes. We’re escaping a dying planet, boldly going etc etc. Titles like ‘Oblivion’ ‘Journey’s End’ and ‘Final Hour’ are something of a giveaway.

The current line up – Elias Holmlid (Keyboards), Anders Hammer (Bass), Jonas Heidgert (Vocals), Olof Mörck (Guitars), Jesse Lindskog (Guitars), Johan Nunez (Drums) – have delivered a cracking album that’s a long way from the old school power metal of their 2005 biggie, Starfall.

Smooth Symphonic Metal is the band’s newest currency, cruising through space on a huge swell of keyboards, fuelled by melodically measured neoclassical guitars, and led by Heidgert’s quivering vocals.

‘A Light In The Dark’, ‘Through Galaxies Endless’ and ‘Aphelion’ channel the spirits of the celluloid composers, like Zimmer and Williams, who’ve dominated the era.

It’s the kind of impassioned stuff that demands a big canvas, the band reaching for the epic on the blustery ‘Celestial Squadron’, with ‘Flight From Destruction’ and ‘The Scattering Of Darkness’ capturing the urgent, declamatory nature of the genre.

And Jacob Hansen once again burnishes his CV with another tightly mixed and mastered production. ****

Review by Brian McGowan


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UK Blues Broadcaster of the Year (2020 and 2021 Finalist) Pete Feenstra presents his weekly Rock & Blues Show on Tuesday at 19:00 GMT as part of a five hour blues rock marathon “Tuesday is Bluesday at GRTR!”. The show is repeated on Wednesdays at 22:00, Fridays at 20:00). First broadcast on 21 April 2026

How to Listen Live?

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Power Plays w/c 11 May 2026

BREITLER Sentinel (El Puerto Records)
FIRE IN HER EYES Too Late To Change (indie)
KING FALCON Wait (indie)
BEAUTIFUL SKELETONS Come What May (indie)
KARIN PARK Shadow (Size Records)
HARSH Don’t Mess With Me (indie)

Featured Albums w/c 11 May 2026

09:00-12:00 The Best of 2003 – 2025 (Melodic Rock)
12:00-13:00 The Best of 2003 – 2025 (Melodic Hard Rock)
14:00-16:00 The Best of 2003 – 2025 (Singer Songwriter)


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Recent (last 30 days)


Book review: SUZI QUATRO IN THE 1970s by Darren Johnson

SUZI QUATRO IN THE 1970s by Darren Johnson

SonicBond Publising [Publication date 29.07.22]

‘If you talk about the ‘70s, I was a hardworking artist. I did nothing but tour – recording, touring, TV, you know. I had constant jetlag. Constant black shadows under my eyes but, oh, what a ride! What a wonderful ride. And I’m still doing it now.’ Suzi Quatro

Darren Johnson is back with his second book and this time he looks into the 1970s part of Suzi Quatro’s career, one of the true trailblazers and legends in rock. During the 1970s she had eight UK top twenty hits and two number ones, along with three number one singles in Australia.

Darren Johnson certainly knows his facts and figures with detailed research, plus the book’s big selling point is an interview with Suzi Quatro.

Taking each year in turn we cover the hit singles she had throughout the 1970s including her biggest US hit 1978′s ‘Stumblin’ In’ with Smokie’s Chris Norman. Her appearance as a leather clad rocker in the TV show ‘Happy Days’ is covered, along with plenty of reflective insight not only from Suzi herself but also long-time guitarist Len Tuckey (also her husband from 1976 until 1992) and guitarist Jamie Crompton, who joined her band in 1979.

Her activities since 1979 are covered briefly including her recent albums ‘No Control’ (2019) and ‘The Devil In Me’ (2021), both of which saw her working with her son Richard Tuckey with great results.

Fascinataing read for Suzi Q fans, aging glam rockers and anybody who enjoys a good, informative rock biography.  ****

Review by Jason Ritchie

 


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Power Plays w/c 11 May 2026

BREITLER Sentinel (El Puerto Records)
FIRE IN HER EYES Too Late To Change (indie)
KING FALCON Wait (indie)
BEAUTIFUL SKELETONS Come What May (indie)
KARIN PARK Shadow (Size Records)
HARSH Don’t Mess With Me (indie)

Featured Albums w/c 11 May 2026

09:00-12:00 The Best of 2003 – 2025 (Melodic Rock)
12:00-13:00 The Best of 2003 – 2025 (Melodic Hard Rock)
14:00-16:00 The Best of 2003 – 2025 (Singer Songwriter)


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Album review: BOREALIS – Illusions

AFM Records [Release date: 07.10.22]

Four years after The Offering, underrated and often overlooked Canadian metal soundscape supremos, Borealis, step up a gear with new album, Illusion.

This is a metal band impossible to categorise. Anyone who thought they were getting close will be totally blown off course by the breadth and width of the band’s ambition on Illusion.

By merging the band’s heavy metal sound with the spine tingling orchestrations created by American guest composer, Vikram Shankar, the band have, in reality, forged a de facto new style of heavy metal.

Students of the Metal genre and all its wrinkles will know that Shankar teamed up with Evergrey’s Tom Englund earlier this year to create the well received Silent Skies album, Nectar. That recording’s far reaching, yet compact musical ambition, made many sit up and take notice.

Like Silent Skies, Borealis … Matt Marinelli, vocals; Ken Fobert, guitar; Aiden Watkinson, bass and Sean Dowell, drums … seem liberated here, having apparently broken through the limiting structures of the sound previously known as Progmetal. (or even Power/Progmetal).

It allows for several outstanding musical moments.

Shankar’s charismatic synthesiser provides otherworldly soundscaping on several tracks, particularly ‘Pray For Water’ and ‘Believer’, vividly recalling King Crimson’s layered approach to studio recording, where the texture and substance of heavyweight musical assault ultimately led to an orchestral knock out punch.

Opener ‘Ashes Turn To Rain’s epic, slow moving intro is soon fired up by Fobert’s razoring axework, clearing the decks for soaring voices and spine tingling orchestration to join together in powerful harmony. It’s the album’s calling card, no question.

The music is almost classical/cinematic in places and yet the rumbling, tumbling, earthmoving metal of ‘My Fortress’ and ‘Light Of The Sun’ sounds right at home here too. And that’s down to vocalist, Marinello’s way with a lyric and indeed the lyrics themselves.

Like so many metal albums, this one has an overarching theme. A thread that binds the songs together. A Concept. But where many a Concept Album is likely to make even the diehard fan want to curl up in the foetal position in a corner for its duration, this one keeps it simple. Less is more. ***1/2

Review by Brian McGowan


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UK Blues Broadcaster of the Year (2020 and 2021 Finalist) Pete Feenstra presents his weekly Rock & Blues Show on Tuesday at 19:00 GMT as part of a five hour blues rock marathon “Tuesday is Bluesday at GRTR!”. The show is repeated on Wednesdays at 22:00, Fridays at 20:00). First broadcast on 21 April 2026

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Power Plays w/c 11 May 2026

BREITLER Sentinel (El Puerto Records)
FIRE IN HER EYES Too Late To Change (indie)
KING FALCON Wait (indie)
BEAUTIFUL SKELETONS Come What May (indie)
KARIN PARK Shadow (Size Records)
HARSH Don’t Mess With Me (indie)

Featured Albums w/c 11 May 2026

09:00-12:00 The Best of 2003 – 2025 (Melodic Rock)
12:00-13:00 The Best of 2003 – 2025 (Melodic Hard Rock)
14:00-16:00 The Best of 2003 – 2025 (Singer Songwriter)


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Album review: GENERATION RADIO

Generation Radio

Frontiers [Release date 05.08.22]

Generation Radio may have a name that suggests AOR and melodic rock, however, another key ingrediant in their sound is country rock provided by Jay DeMarcus, formerly of Rascal Flatts. Rascal Flatts had numerous number one albums in their native US, as well as massive touring success.

The AOR/melodic rock side of Generation Radio comes from former Chicago vocalist Jason Scheff, along with current Journey drummer Deen Castronovo. This trio are joined by guitarists Chris Rodriguez and Tom Yankton, both of whom are highly regarded session players, to complete the band’s line-up.

Opening with the AOR beast that is ‘Why Are You Calling Me Now?’, a song that is awash with keys, vocal harmonies and a nice, tight guitar solo. Good music never really goes out of fashion as this song ably demonstrates.

The album maybe ballad heavy for some but when you have a song like ‘Angels’ (not the Robbie Williams one!), how can you not like a superb ballad that this is?

Vocals nicely placed in the mix, this recalls the glory days of the likes of Journey, Chicago and REO Speedwagon. Speaking of Journey their drummer Deen Castronovo takes the mic on ‘Lights Go Out In Paradise’. This is how you do modern day AOR/melodic rock, not like the Poundland versions we sadly get from most melodic rock bands nowadays.

Generation Radio show their country side, albeit of the radio/pop friendly variety, on ‘All Night To Get There’. ‘Time To Let Go’ and ‘Smoking’ kick the tempo up a few notches, with ‘Smoking’ a hark back to the 80′s songs beloved of the likes of Loverboy and .38 Special.

What an album. Not one filler, production is top notch and the album was recorded by a band, not a studio project. AOR with a country edge, easily one of the albums of a year by a country mile. ****1/2

Review by Jason Ritchie

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Power Plays w/c 11 May 2026

BREITLER Sentinel (El Puerto Records)
FIRE IN HER EYES Too Late To Change (indie)
KING FALCON Wait (indie)
BEAUTIFUL SKELETONS Come What May (indie)
KARIN PARK Shadow (Size Records)
HARSH Don’t Mess With Me (indie)

Featured Albums w/c 11 May 2026

09:00-12:00 The Best of 2003 – 2025 (Melodic Rock)
12:00-13:00 The Best of 2003 – 2025 (Melodic Hard Rock)
14:00-16:00 The Best of 2003 – 2025 (Singer Songwriter)


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Gig review: MARILLION – Hammersmith Apollo, 30 September 2022

Gig review: MARILLION – Hammersmith Apollo, 30 September 2022

Late 2021’s Hammersmith gigs gave a taster of what Marillion had in store for 2022 when they played a sneak preview of the ‘Be Hard On Yourself’ suite. Nine months later the band is back at the venue to play the album from which those tracks came in its entirety.

That November evening gave us a fine show. This September one surpassed it.

‘An Hour Before It’s Dark’ was released in March and rocked up to No 2 on the actual charts. Only ‘Misplaced Childhood’, of course, achieved a higher position back in the heady days of 1985. The new album, like its predecessor ‘F.E.A.R.’, is full of longform pieces of immersive, cinematic and lyrically conscious music. However live, its moods and textures are given a jolt of power and energy.

Take the previously mentioned ‘Be Hard On Yourself’. Immediately Pete Trewavas on bass finds fat, pumping lines to drive the rockier sections, alongside Ian Moseley’s intricate rhythm patterns. It already sounds different to the November show.

‘Reprogram The Gene’ is another episodic Marillion track, by turns engrossing and edgy, where each musician brings sparkle and shine. The wraparound sound is augmented by Lewis Jardine on percussion in a backline trio between Moseley and Mark Kelly. Jardine played on the new album and has been drafted in for the tour. A good move.

Steve Hogarth’s voice is dramatic, resilient and assertive. And he’s giving off thespian vibes, offering life to words describing over-consumption, environmental vandalism and pandemic desperation.

There is plenty of chat from Hogarth tonight, but it comes later in the set. Maybe the frontman is as submerged in this full-album rendition as we are. The ebb and flow continues with a strong ‘Murder Machines’ and then one of the highlights of the evening. ‘The Crow and The Nightingale’ might not leap off the deck on the studio cut, but it is transformed on stage.

The song is a tribute by Hogarth to Leonard Cohen, which might not be an obvious point of reference. It is filled with delicate melodies, keyboard swells and rising backing vocals. Steve Rothery, already exemplary throughout, finds a sharp, pure tone not often heard from his Stratocaster for the mid-song solo.

He then works with Kelly’s genius to bring home the most uplifting extended solo that has the audience springing to its feet in a spontaneous moment of bliss. Marillion have a knack of finding live classics from unremarkable sources. I’ll never listen to this track the same way again.

Hogarth wrings out the emotion across the five parts of ‘Sierra Leone’, donning a second guitar for the ‘Freetown’ section. Kelly’s piano is often calling the shots throughout this piece and Rothery consistency adds colour and vibrancy.

Speaking of colour, I notice the light show for the umpteenth time tonight. From the balcony, the choreographed lasers, light patterns, strobes and illumination wizardry are seen in full effect. An important part of the show’s theatrics, albeit something I largely take for granted in these tech-heavy days.

Gig review: MARILLION – Hammersmith Apollo, 30 September 2022

The ’Care’ suite is stunning. The music weaves and flows around Hogarth’s Covid narrative, before the band shows its ability to turn on a sixpence and pluck exaggerated time changes and spikes of musical drama from nowhere.

‘Every Cell’ begins with poignant keyboards around a tender vocal that rises to carry another searing guitar solo. The ‘Angels On Earth’ part picks up those threads to bring a stirring, emotional climax. Almost hopeful in character despite the haunting lyric.

There is a standing ovation on completion of the recital. An odd thing, mid set. And hard to follow. ‘Somewhere Else’ tries hard, though the opening passages feel light-weight in comparison. It is another deep-dive track that amply demonstrates the wealth of Marillion’s material. Apart from nine minutes of ‘Be Hard On Yourself’ in a two-hour show, this is a completely different set to that I had seen at the end of 2021.

‘Wave’ and ‘Mad’, snippets from ‘Goodbye To All That’ on ‘Brave’ are very fine. That album continues to age well and the percussionist adds a new dimension to this duo of cuts. ‘Afraid of Sunlight’ is a firm crowd favourite and hit the spot surely.

Back to ‘Brave’ to close the set for the excellent, slow burning and plaintive ‘The Great Escape’, with the Apollo choir in full voice on the opening verses.

There’s the usual encore pantomime before the band return for the now near-classic ‘The New Kings’ and its bile-laden dismemberment of post-Brexit Britain. I caught the glances and smirks of many around me as Hogarth delivered with a renewed irony the lines “Oceans of money high in the clouds/But if you hang around/More often than not, it’ll trickle down…”

‘Sugar Mice’. What to say? Well the crowd says it all really, verses and chorus, leaving Hogarth to join the dots with the odd phrase or passage. And then Mr Rothery moves for the first time this evening. Shifting centre stage, tracked by a spotlight, to deliver the song’s centre-piece withering solo. A magnificent track on which to end the gig and the tour.

I once mildly criticised an otherwise excellent Marillion gig in a GRTR! review because I felt the pace of the show was marginally affected by some indifferent song choices. I got slaughtered. There are die-hard fans and then there are Marillion die-hard fans! No such minor quibbles this evening. The material on the new album sees to that. It demands to be played end-to-end and the quality shines through in the live arena. After 40-odd years, maybe Marillion are still getting better.

Review by Dave Atkinson

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UK Blues Broadcaster of the Year (2020 and 2021 Finalist) Pete Feenstra presents his weekly Rock & Blues Show on Tuesday at 19:00 GMT as part of a five hour blues rock marathon “Tuesday is Bluesday at GRTR!”. The show is repeated on Wednesdays at 22:00, Fridays at 20:00). First broadcast on 21 April 2026

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Power Plays w/c 11 May 2026

BREITLER Sentinel (El Puerto Records)
FIRE IN HER EYES Too Late To Change (indie)
KING FALCON Wait (indie)
BEAUTIFUL SKELETONS Come What May (indie)
KARIN PARK Shadow (Size Records)
HARSH Don’t Mess With Me (indie)

Featured Albums w/c 11 May 2026

09:00-12:00 The Best of 2003 – 2025 (Melodic Rock)
12:00-13:00 The Best of 2003 – 2025 (Melodic Hard Rock)
14:00-16:00 The Best of 2003 – 2025 (Singer Songwriter)


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Album review: COLLATERAL – Re-Wired

Cargo Records [Release date 21.10.22]

Originally released early in 2020, British band Collateral have taken their self-titled debut and given the album an overhaul, added a lively new single and included some big-name collaborators, the album also has a new title “Re-Wired”. With UK wide tours with the likes of Reckless Love, H.E.A.T and Skid Row, the band are picking up where they should have been had the pain in the arse that is Covid had not got in the way.

So let’s start with the lead single “Sin In The City”, the track is brand new and not reworked from the original album, and it is a huge sounding song with big choruses, melodies and of course guitars – and this will no doubt earn the band some new fans once it hits the radio.

But if we are talking singles, and this album has so much to choose from, then we need to talk about “Get Back To You”, a massive ballad that is reminiscent of Bon Jovi and Richard Marx, had this been released as a single at the end of the ‘80s or early ‘90’s it would have been a massive hit on MTV.

Personally, the 80’s edged “In It For Love”, featuring Rudy Sarzo, is my stand out track on the album, and this is closely followed by another heavier feeling reminder of my favourite musical era (it’s the guitars and the backing vocals that do it!!) in “Lullaby”, this time with Whitesnake guitarist Joel Hoekstra as the guest appearance.

As is the current mood, there are a couple of country-tinged tracks on offer here too, “Merry Go Round”, the Danny Vaughn assisted “Midnight Queen” and “About This Boy”, which benefits nicely from the additional female vocals of Sari Schorr.

“Re-Wired” is a consistently strong album and blends the afore mentioned songs with the heavier tracks like “Promiseland” (now, this has a touch of Bon Jovi to it, and coincidentally features their current guitarist Phil X), “Mr Big Shot” featuring Jeff Scott Soto and “Won’t Stop Me Now”, with an appearance from former Europe guitarist Kee Marcello and complete with the vocals of Helen Hurd.

If you haven’t heard of Collateral before then trust me and have a listen, you won’t regret it. I am looking forward to seeing the band support Skid Row later this month.  *****

Review by Nikk Gunns


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UK Blues Broadcaster of the Year (2020 and 2021 Finalist) Pete Feenstra presents his weekly Rock & Blues Show on Tuesday at 19:00 GMT as part of a five hour blues rock marathon “Tuesday is Bluesday at GRTR!”. The show is repeated on Wednesdays at 22:00, Fridays at 20:00). First broadcast on 21 April 2026

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Power Plays w/c 11 May 2026

BREITLER Sentinel (El Puerto Records)
FIRE IN HER EYES Too Late To Change (indie)
KING FALCON Wait (indie)
BEAUTIFUL SKELETONS Come What May (indie)
KARIN PARK Shadow (Size Records)
HARSH Don’t Mess With Me (indie)

Featured Albums w/c 11 May 2026

09:00-12:00 The Best of 2003 – 2025 (Melodic Rock)
12:00-13:00 The Best of 2003 – 2025 (Melodic Hard Rock)
14:00-16:00 The Best of 2003 – 2025 (Singer Songwriter)


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Gig review: THE BLACK CROWES- Brixton Academy, London, 26 September 2022

THE BLACK CROWES- Brixton Academy, London, 26 September 2022

Back in 1990, the Black Crowes ‘Shake Your Moneymaker’ was an out of the box success to rank with other classic debut albums out of America,  from Montrose, Van Halen, Boston and Guns’n’Roses. It was an album out of its time as the hungry young Georgians took inspiration from the analogue sounds of early seventies southern rock and soul and the raunch of the Faces and Stones; and one I loved then and still return to regularly. Over time I have also realised its historic significance as the band seem second only to Led Zeppelin when young acts are interviewed in the classic rock press and asked to cite their musical influences.

However my relationship with the Crowes since has been a more ambivalent one. As they moved in broader and less commercial directions, and dare I say under the influence of various substances, I became disinclined to see live shows featuring lengthy jams and wilfully obscure setlists. Not long after I saw a patchy performance supporting Bruce Springsteen, their chequered history and indeed the Robinson Brothers stormy relationship came to an end in 2015.

THE BLACK CROWES- Brixton Academy, London, 26 September 2022

However, shortly before the pandemic came the exciting news they had reformed again and alongside a deluxe reissue of that debut album were going to play the album in full on an Autumn 2020 tour including two nights at Brixton Academy. That was much more my scene and I rushed to buy a ticket for the first night: luckily after two postponements, two years later the band had kept on the straight and narrow and were still a going concern.

There was another flashback to the nineties with a support slot from Reef. Operating between heavy rock and Britpop I will be honest and say I detested them at the time, the rough hewn vocals and stage moves of Gary Stringer in particular. And yet in a balanced set which covered all phases of their career including their recent reunion, there were certainly highlights. The riff of ‘Naked’ still has a great groove to it and ‘Place Your Hands’ is earworm and as quintessentially nineties as the New Lad and Cool Britannia.

THE BLACK CROWES- Brixton Academy, London, 26 September 2022

They are now expanded to a five piece with two guitarists, and hippyish bassist Jack Bessant the only other survivor. Gary’s vocals are now even raspier than ever and at various stages called to mind Dan McCafferty or Brian Johnson. By the time of a surprisingly good cover of ‘The Chain’ and another of those catchy nineties songs in ‘Yer Old’, I can’t say I was converted but I enjoyed an entertaining set a hell of a lot more than expected.

After a slow start the Academy was packed full and an expectant crowd watched an elaborate stage set done up like an old-school southern bar. The first arrivals on stage were some patrons including a man who put a dime in a vintage jukebox to pick out, naturally, Elmore James’  ‘Shake your Moneymaker’. The patrons left (though the bartender stayed all night) and the Black Crowes came on,  there being something thrilling about hearing Rich Robinson strike the opening chords to ‘Twice As Hard’ before his brother Chris sauntered on, bizarrely singing the first song carrying a band-branded brolly.

THE BLACK CROWES- Brixton Academy, London, 26 September 2022

Loose of limb as ever, but with hair and beard having had a tidy trim, he reminded me in his prominent profile of the young Pete Townshend, and he sang really well throughout. However one brief moment when they shared a mike stand aside, there was little chemistry between he and his brother, the latter looking even more taciturn than usual, to put it kindly.

‘Jealous Again’ had a lovely southern feel with that classic seventies Stones or Faces mix of Rich’s slashing chords, barroom piano and female backing vocals, although the tone was set that second guitarist Isaiah Mitchell- at the far side of the stage, and looking the part in long hair under a cowboy hat- would play the longer and more involved, and typically closing, solos. Both ‘Sister Luck’, with both guitarists lending it a country rock feel, and ‘Seeing Things’ were gorgeous slow songs given scope to breathe, either side of the Stonesy raunch of ‘Could I’ve Been So Blind’.

THE BLACK CROWES- Brixton Academy, London, 26 September 2022

After an introductory dedication to Otis Redding, ‘Hard to Handle’ got the best response of the night yet with outbreaks of grooving around me, then ‘Thick’n’Thin’ was fast and furious before in complete contrast, an elegant ‘She Talks to Angels’ with Rich this time on acoustic guitar. They completed the album segment in exact running order with two of the less heralded songs: ‘Strutting Blues’ was another with that classic seventies Stones feel, and on ‘Stare it Cold’ the way all the musicians hit a seamless groove was something to admire.

The fact the show was now 55 minutes in showed they had judged things about right, keeping things relatively concise and sticking fairly faithfully to the originals but allowing room for just a little improvisation. The latter was give fuller rein as they moved onto the rest of their catalogue, or to be more precise ‘The Southern Harmony and Musical Companion’. ‘No Speak No Slave’ was unexpectedly intense, like a heavier Zeppelin, then those jamming tendencies you either love or hate were let loose on a sprawling ‘Thorn In My Pride’, Chris adding harmonica, as was their love of vintage covers with ‘Papa Was a Rolling Stone’.

THE BLACK CROWES- Brixton Academy, London, 26 September 2022

However the trio of songs that came next were almost as much a highlight as the first album showcase, beginning with the country rock sounds of ‘Wiser Time’ with harmony vocals from the two brothers, then a breathtaking guitar passage worthy of the Allman Brothers when the two guitarists played a superb winding solo each before combining in harmony.

Then as ‘Sting Me’ and of course ‘Remedy’ were greeted with a sense of excitement, the prominent female backing vocals only adding to the loose grooves that got people moving, life could not get any better at that stage, and I was wondering whether to try and repeat the experience the next night. However the night ended with the slight anti-climax of a single perfunctory encore, in a cover of an old gospel song ‘God’s Got It’ delivered in boogie style.

THE BLACK CROWES- Brixton Academy, London, 26 September 2022

The two year plus wait had been more than worth it. This felt like a different Black Crowes- a thoroughly professional show with their more rambling excesses reined in. While I did hear the odd gripe from fans of their more spontaneous, trippier vibes, this return to the music that made them famous was easily my most satisfying Crowes show yet.

Review and Photos by Andy Nathan


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UK Blues Broadcaster of the Year (2020 and 2021 Finalist) Pete Feenstra presents his weekly Rock & Blues Show on Tuesday at 19:00 GMT as part of a five hour blues rock marathon “Tuesday is Bluesday at GRTR!”. The show is repeated on Wednesdays at 22:00, Fridays at 20:00). First broadcast on 21 April 2026

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Power Plays w/c 11 May 2026

BREITLER Sentinel (El Puerto Records)
FIRE IN HER EYES Too Late To Change (indie)
KING FALCON Wait (indie)
BEAUTIFUL SKELETONS Come What May (indie)
KARIN PARK Shadow (Size Records)
HARSH Don’t Mess With Me (indie)

Featured Albums w/c 11 May 2026

09:00-12:00 The Best of 2003 – 2025 (Melodic Rock)
12:00-13:00 The Best of 2003 – 2025 (Melodic Hard Rock)
14:00-16:00 The Best of 2003 – 2025 (Singer Songwriter)


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Gig review: DOUBLE CREAM (Dawn Brothers and DeWolff) – EKKO, Utrech, September 29 2022

Suburban Records

Here’s a quick algebra test – if X is 3 and Y is 4 how does X+Y+7 kilos of brass equal cream to the power of two?

Well, I don’t know much about geography or trigonometry but I do know that if 3 = the raw, psych-rock power of Dutch Uber-rockers DeWolff and if 4 = the “beyond-their-years” sensitivity of Americana tune-meisters, The Dawn Brothers, then adding sax, trombone and trumpet whips up a serving of soul cream fresh from Memphis via New Orleans……Double Cream, in fact (oh yeah, and the boys on brass do backing vocals – naturally).

Now, if someone told you that Al Green, Otis Redding and James Brown were raising kids with Gladys, Aretha and The Supremes and that those kids had grown up in the Dutch Delta listening to CSN, the Byrds, Deep Purple and the Black Crowes, you’d have to wonder how those kids turned out. But fear not – the kids are alright. Cream rises to the top.

The question is how DeWolff – traditional purveyors of huge-riff, blues-based monster-rock became the soulful “DeWolff of Beale Street” and how the hyper-talented, southern swamp-dwelling Dawn Brothers became drivers of a steamin’ soul train?

Well, call it the kinship of one soul, dual heart-beats, going Dutch, even double Dutch but they call it Double Cream and for two nights in Rotterdam and Utrecht, they drove that train right back to the ‘50s and ‘60s. With passion a-plenty, dance-your-ass-off tunes, and the innocence-of-the-times lyrics, Double Cream played the entirety of their self-titled collaboration album to wildly enthusiastic crowds.

If you closed your eyes, you’d swear you were back in a Stax Records all-star review show when it was one-time, two-time, three-time…..SOUL time !! Bas Van Holt of the Dawn Brothers has a voice which will bring sweet tears of joy to your eyes one minute and then cream-whip you up to testify, celestify, identify and verify the next. DeWolff’s Pablo van de Poel, soul brother-in-crime on vocals and guitar, subtlety-personified as he sneaks in the occasional but delicious blues lick.

But really the show is everything two-fold – both band’s drummers (one of whom also plays guitar…..I mean – come on…..talent from a fire hose!), both band’s keyboards players, new Dawn Brothers bassist – Tammo Deuling – looking for all the world like a sharp-dressed, funky soul-Viking. And those three horny brass-blowers providing all that is essential to the essence of soul – the low end, the high end, the warmth, the drama…..did I mention they do also backing vocals?

How ridiculously good can ten young men sound playing 70-year old soul music? Well, they were flamingly, proclaimingly, entertainingly great. Every song a self-penned tribute to that golden era of soul but refreshingly fresh……like fresh cream.

Old soul men obviously don’t die, they simply get re-born, re-booted, re-suited and rejuvenated into Double Cream….retro soul at its very best.

Their dreamy, double-creamy album is out now and will transport you back to a time when love was an innocent hang by the lake, “Southern California” beckoned the good life, the local “Loverman” strutted his stuff looking for his “Thunderchild”.

So, “Man Up !” and “Let Me Tell You About My Baby” from “Alabama Small Town”………

So good, so right – I got Double Cream.

Review by Mark “Mad Dog” Shaw


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UK Blues Broadcaster of the Year (2020 and 2021 Finalist) Pete Feenstra presents his weekly Rock & Blues Show on Tuesday at 19:00 GMT as part of a five hour blues rock marathon “Tuesday is Bluesday at GRTR!”. The show is repeated on Wednesdays at 22:00, Fridays at 20:00). First broadcast on 21 April 2026

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Power Plays w/c 11 May 2026

BREITLER Sentinel (El Puerto Records)
FIRE IN HER EYES Too Late To Change (indie)
KING FALCON Wait (indie)
BEAUTIFUL SKELETONS Come What May (indie)
KARIN PARK Shadow (Size Records)
HARSH Don’t Mess With Me (indie)

Featured Albums w/c 11 May 2026

09:00-12:00 The Best of 2003 – 2025 (Melodic Rock)
12:00-13:00 The Best of 2003 – 2025 (Melodic Hard Rock)
14:00-16:00 The Best of 2003 – 2025 (Singer Songwriter)


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Gig review: INGLORIOUS – Camden Underworld, London, 28 September 2022

INGLORIOUS- Camden Underworld, London, 28 September 2022

For an act for whom big things seemed inevitable after a flying start to their career and backing from major industry figures, Inglorious are starting to find themselves at a career crossroads. Over the course of their last three London headline dates the venues have decreased in size from Shepherds Bush Empire, to Islington Assembly Hall, to this show at the Underworld, which was probably not what was envisaged back in 2016.

This apparent decline is particularly hard to fathom as controversial powerhouse singer Nathan James has at last been backed by a stable line-up, and both last year’s albums- ‘We Will Ride’ and the all-female covers album ‘Heroine’ (unrepresented on this night) were, I felt, a strong return to form.

INGLORIOUS- Camden Underworld, London, 28 September 2022

On the upside a good, if not capacity, crowd at the Underworld, made for a more intimate and rock’n’roll atmosphere, and to the band’s credit, for the second autumn running they have been on an extensive tour covering some towns not on the usual gig circuit.

The band took the stage to an intro of ‘Crazy Horses’, Nathan making a dramatic entrance last to a huge cheer,  and ‘She Won’t Let You Go’ was a fine opener with a classic riff and excellent solo from Danny De La Cruz, who has toned down his glammy image. ‘Taking the Blame’ flew along at a faster pace, and ‘Where Are You Now’ featured the usual audience participation with the crowd being encouraged to sing ‘we’re in f—ing London’ in an exaggerated Cockney accent.

INGLORIOUS- Camden Underworld, London, 28 September 2022

However parts of the first half of the set were less impressive – with too many ordinary tunes from Inglorious II, the weakest of their albums – cases in point being ‘Do You Like It That Way’ and ‘I Got A Feeling’,  though ‘Read All About It’ was more convincing. The first album was as unrepresented as I can remember in an Inglorious live set, ‘High Flying Gypsy’ being the exception.

INGLORIOUS- Camden Underworld, London, 28 September 2022

Things got more interesting for me during a short acoustic segment with just Nathan, and Phil Beaver on acoustic guitar, showing a completely different side to his ferocious drumming.  On ‘Glory Days’ Nathan’s anguished falsetto was reminiscent of Glenn Hughes at his most soulful then, paying tribute to those we had lost, in the week of the LA Taylor Hawkins tribute concert we had a mini Foo Fighters medley, Phil showing on ‘My Hero’ that he has an excellent voice in his own right which also blended effectively as Nathan took over the baton with ‘Best of You’.

Things also looked up with Danny playing some interesting baroque guitar sounds on ‘We Will Meet Again’ while ‘He Will Provide’ was a vehicle for he and Dan Stevens to play one Blackmore and Malmsteen influenced neo classical riff after another in impressively heavy fashion. ‘Eye of the Storm’ was also excellent as it switched between slow verses and a faster chorus with Nathan’s singing a mix of prime time Coverdale and Hughes.

INGLORIOUS- Camden Underworld, London, 28 September 2022

In what seemed like no time we were at the traditional closer of ‘Holy Water’, the slow, brooding blues with solos from both guitarists but for the first time in living memory Nathan was not venturing into the crowd. I wonder if the constraints of a cramped venue were a factor, and likewise in the decision to drop the pretence of going off and returning for an encore. Instead they went into the mid tempo anthemic chorus of ‘I Don’t Need Your Loving’  and closed with the big heavy riffery of ‘Until I Die’.

Surprisingly this headline set was only a little over an hour and ten minutes.  It wasn’t a vintage Inglorious  performance, indeed the choice of songs in the set I’d seen at Firestorm festival only the previous month was superior. However  it was still an enjoyable show with a good atmosphere and the high points, especially in the second half of the set, were enough to suggest there is still a route back to the top for them.

INGLORIOUS- Camden Underworld, London, 28 September 2022

Review and Photos by Andy Nathan


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UK Blues Broadcaster of the Year (2020 and 2021 Finalist) Pete Feenstra presents his weekly Rock & Blues Show on Tuesday at 19:00 GMT as part of a five hour blues rock marathon “Tuesday is Bluesday at GRTR!”. The show is repeated on Wednesdays at 22:00, Fridays at 20:00). First broadcast on 21 April 2026

How to Listen Live?

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Power Plays w/c 11 May 2026

BREITLER Sentinel (El Puerto Records)
FIRE IN HER EYES Too Late To Change (indie)
KING FALCON Wait (indie)
BEAUTIFUL SKELETONS Come What May (indie)
KARIN PARK Shadow (Size Records)
HARSH Don’t Mess With Me (indie)

Featured Albums w/c 11 May 2026

09:00-12:00 The Best of 2003 – 2025 (Melodic Rock)
12:00-13:00 The Best of 2003 – 2025 (Melodic Hard Rock)
14:00-16:00 The Best of 2003 – 2025 (Singer Songwriter)


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Album review: TARJA – Frisson Noir

THE DOWLING POOLE Refuse

earMUSIC [Release date 12.06.26] Tarja Turunen releases her tenth studio album and one she calls the “heaviest record of her career”. There are a few notable guest appearances including fellow ex-Nightwish member Marko Hietala, Dani Filth (Cradle of Filth), Apocalyptica, and Chad Smith (Red … Continue reading

Album review: THE DOWLING POOLE – Refuse

THE DOWLING POOLE Refuse

Bandcamp [Release date 14.10.22] ‘Refuse’, the new album from The Dowling Poole features all of the ‘digital only’ tracks the group occasionally released for short periods of time and are now collated on this physical release.  Each track has been … Continue reading

Upcoming: New releases (CD/DVD) 2023

Steel Bars - A Tribute to Michael Bolton

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Blackberry Smoke, O2 Islington Academy, London, 28 February 2014

Compiled by Jason Ritchie Please check with venue and/or relevant website(s) to confirm availability. Updated 22/12/2023 UK & Ireland Tour Dates and Gig Listing (2023) To search quickly within this page (“Find In Page”): Press Ctrl+F (on Windows PC, Chromebook, … Continue reading

Album review: HUMBLE PIE – I Need A Star In My Life

HUMBLE PIE - I Need A Start In My Life

Cleopatra Records [Release date 02.09.22] Humble Pie’s light shone for a few years in the early 1970s  when – with Peter Frampton in the line-up – they released the classic live album ‘Performance Rockin The Fillmore’. By 1974 the band’s … Continue reading

Gig review: URIAH HEEP – London Palladium, 5 October 2022

URIAH HEEP- London Palladium, 5 October 2022

I wonder what the famous critic of their first album who threatened to commit suicide if they made it would think of Uriah Heep celebrating 50 years. Through that time the band, and sole remaining original member Mick Box in … Continue reading

Upcoming: New releases (CD/DVD) July 2022 – December 2022

CATS IN SPACE - Kickstart The Sun

Compiled by Jason Ritchie Upcoming: New releases (CD/DVD)  2023 To search quickly within this page (“Find In Page”): Press Ctrl+F (on Windows PC, Chromebook, or Linux system), or Command+F (on a Mac) on the keyboard. The “F” stands for “Find,” … Continue reading

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G3 2018 - JOE SATRIANI - Manchester Apollo, 27 April 2018

Compiled by Jason Ritchie Please check artist and venue websites for latest information. Your tour not listed? Contact us! UK & Ireland Tour Dates and Gig Listing (2023) UK Festivals 2022 2022 Tour Dates (Europe, USA, ROW) To search quickly … Continue reading

Album review: GUN – The Calton Songs

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Cherry Red [Release date 14.10.22] Gun trade in emotions – nostalgia, melancholy and ultimately, optimism. Always have, and they have become expert. The title of their new album, The Calton Songs, confirms this. Born and brought up in “The Calton”, … Continue reading

Album review: GRAND – Grand

grand album

Frontiers [Release date 14.10.22] Swedish songwriter/singer Mattias Olofsson teamed up with Wigelius guitarist, Jakob Svensson and drummer Anton Martinez to form Grand in 2020. The band subsequently signed with Frontiers. This is the debut. Grand are as good an AOR/Melodic … Continue reading

Gig review: RICHARD MARX – Union Chapel, London, 3 October 2022

RICHARD MARX- Union Chapel, London, 3 October 2022

Autumn 2022 has seen a number of eagerly awaited shows announced pre-Covid finally come to fruition. One such is Richard Marx, who after his first UK show in ages supporting Barbara Streisand at Hyde Park then announced some solo acoustic … Continue reading

Album review: WILDNESS – Resurrection

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Frontiers [Release date: 14.10.22] Maybe the title indicates that a move to Frontiers for their third album, Resurrection, is seen by Swedish AOR/Melodic Rock band Wildness as a post pandemic rebirth. Certainly, the band have made significant strides in terms … Continue reading

Album review: TODD RUNDGREN – Space Force

TODD RUNDGREN - Space Force

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Gig review: SARI SCHORR- Boom Boom Club, Sutton, 30 September 2022

SARI SCHORR- Boom Boom Club, Sutton, 30 September 2022

Sari Schorr began her second tour of the UK this year at the Boom Boom Club, run by GRTR’s own Pete Feenstra, a suitable venue as in his stage introduction he mentioned that other noted bluesmen who had played the … Continue reading

Album review: THE DARKER MY HORIZON – When Two Worlds Collide

THE DARKER MY HORIZON - When 2 Worlds Collide

Website [Release date 09.09.22] This latest album from the Darker My Horizon (TDmH) delivers 12 tracks and 3 bonus recordings, including two charity singles. The album literally has been a work of blood, sweat and tears with a reflection on … Continue reading

Album review : KILLER KINGS – Burn For Love

KILLER KINGS Burn

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Album review: THE MAGPIES – Undertow

The MAGPIES - Undertow

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AFM Records [Release date: 14.10.22] First album in ten years from Swedish Power/Melodic Metal band, Dragonland. A lot can change in ten years. A lot can stay the same. This is Dragonland expanded, more ambitious, with a finely developed movie … Continue reading

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AFM Records [Release date: 07.10.22] Four years after The Offering, underrated and often overlooked Canadian metal soundscape supremos, Borealis, step up a gear with new album, Illusion. This is a metal band impossible to categorise. Anyone who thought they were … Continue reading

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Generation Radio

Frontiers [Release date 05.08.22] Generation Radio may have a name that suggests AOR and melodic rock, however, another key ingrediant in their sound is country rock provided by Jay DeMarcus, formerly of Rascal Flatts. Rascal Flatts had numerous number one … Continue reading

Gig review: MARILLION – Hammersmith Apollo, 30 September 2022

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Late 2021’s Hammersmith gigs gave a taster of what Marillion had in store for 2022 when they played a sneak preview of the ‘Be Hard On Yourself’ suite. Nine months later the band is back at the venue to play … Continue reading

Album review: COLLATERAL – Re-Wired

COLLATERAL - Re-Wired

Cargo Records [Release date 21.10.22] Originally released early in 2020, British band Collateral have taken their self-titled debut and given the album an overhaul, added a lively new single and included some big-name collaborators, the album also has a new … Continue reading

Gig review: THE BLACK CROWES- Brixton Academy, London, 26 September 2022

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Back in 1990, the Black Crowes ‘Shake Your Moneymaker’ was an out of the box success to rank with other classic debut albums out of America,  from Montrose, Van Halen, Boston and Guns’n’Roses. It was an album out of its … Continue reading

Gig review: DOUBLE CREAM (Dawn Brothers and DeWolff) – EKKO, Utrech, September 29 2022

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Suburban Records Here’s a quick algebra test – if X is 3 and Y is 4 how does X+Y+7 kilos of brass equal cream to the power of two? Well, I don’t know much about geography or trigonometry but I … Continue reading

Gig review: INGLORIOUS – Camden Underworld, London, 28 September 2022

INGLORIOUS- Camden Underworld, London, 28 September 2022

For an act for whom big things seemed inevitable after a flying start to their career and backing from major industry figures, Inglorious are starting to find themselves at a career crossroads. Over the course of their last three London … Continue reading