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Upcoming Gigs & Albums
Latest Album Reviews
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Album review : WILDSTREET IV
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Album review : WAYSTED – Won’t Get Out Alive Volume 1 (4 CDs 1983-86)
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Album review: QUINN SULLIVAN – Salvation
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Album review: LEE AARON – Tattoo Me
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Album review: 25 YARD SCREAMER – The Memory Cheats (The Pictures Within 2023)
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Album review: D’ERCOLE – Near Death Experience
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Latest Gig Reviews
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Gig review: BAD TOUCH- Patterns, Brighton, 13 April 2024
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Gig review: JUDAS PRIEST/Saxon/Uriah Heep – Wembley Arena, London, 21 March 2024
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Gig review: SLASH FEATURING MYLES KENNEDY AND THE CONSPIRATORS – Wembley Arena, London, 5 April 2024
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Gig review: JOE BONAMASSA – Royal Albert Hall, London, 4 April 2024
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Gig review: MR. BIG- Shepherds Bush Empire, London, 23 March 2024
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Gig review: NINEBARROW – Harwell Village Hall, 15 March 2024
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Featured Album Reviews
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Album review: JOHN NORUM – Total Control, Face The Truth, Another Destination (reissues)
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Album review: ONE DESIRE – One Night Only- Live in Helsinki (CD/DVD)
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Album review: DAN REED NETWORK – reissues
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Album review: TOTO – XIV
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Album review: LONELY ROBOT – A Model Life
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Album review: T3NORS – Naked Soul
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Features
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Feature: Rock: Rewired – STEVE MARRIOTT Part 2 (Peter Frampton interview)
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Feature: Rock: Rewired – STEVE MARRIOTT (Part 1)
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Feature: DANNY VAUGHN at Fairycroft House, Saffron Walden, May 24 2024
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Feature: The GRTR! Grotto of Greatness – MAGNUM (December 2023)
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Feature: The GRTR! Grotto of Greatness – SAXON (November 2023)
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Single & EP Reviews
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Tag Archives: Canvey Island
Album review: EDDIE and THE HOT RODS – The Singles 1976-85 (2 CDs)
Cherry Red [release date: 14.10.22] So much crammed into these two Eddie and The Hot Rods’ compilation CDs. So much history here. Of the band, of the nascent sound of Punk. Of the talent that flowed through the various line-ups. … Continue reading
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Tagged 2 CDs, album, Canvey Island, Proto-punk, pub rock, punk, Question Mark and The Mysterians, R&B, review, Them, Top Of The Pops, Van Morrison
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Album review: DR FEELGOOD – Greatest Hits
Grand Records [Release date 02.04.21] This compilation marks the 50th anniversary of Dr Feelgood, the Canvey Island rhythm and blues maestros originally led by the incendiary guitarist Wilko Johnson and gravel-voiced frontman/harmonica player Lee Brilleaux. The band was at its … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Canvey Island, Dr Feelgood, Lee Brilleaux, r'n'b, review, Wilko Johnson
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Gig review: EDDIE & THE HOT RODS – Relache Festival, Bordeaux, 18 August 2016
They came, they saw, they waited for the sun to go down and then they finally conquered! Eddie & The Hot Rods didn’t so much tear Bordeaux apart, as gently give it a poke in the ribs to remind a … Continue reading
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Tagged 18 August 2016, Barrie Masters, Canvey Island, Chris Taylor, Dipster Dean, Dr Feelgood, Eddie & The Hot Rods, festival, garage rock, gig, Headline Maniac, J.Geils Band, Nigel Bennett, punk, R&B, Relache Festival, review, rock, Rolling Stones, Simon Bowley, Steppenwolf, The Members, The Vibrators, Van Morrison
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DVD review: THE ECSTASY OF WILKO JOHNSON
Cadiz Music [Release date 21.12.15] This is a work of bizarre genius. What was presumably conceived by film and music director Julien Temple as an epitaph for Wilko Johnson has turned out to be an uplifting story of life-affirmation. Not … Continue reading
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Tagged Canvey Island, Dr Feelgood, DVD, film, Julien Temple, review, The Ecstasy of Wilko Johnson, Wilko Johnson
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