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Gig review: BRAVE RIVAL – The Stables, Milton Keynes, 14 March 2026
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Gig review: A VERY SPECIAL EVENING OF MOTT THE HOOPLE – Riverside Studios, London, 27 February 2026
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Gig review: EMERALD MOON – Le Marquee, Peyrignac, Dordogne, SW France, 7 March 2026
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News: WINTER ROCKS FESTIVAL – Corporation, Sheffield, 5 December 2015
After the huge success of Winter Rocks Festival 2014, the rock all day event returns on Saturday 5 December with an even bigger line up of international and rising artists. Keeping to its Sheffield roots, the event will take place … Continue reading
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Tagged 5 December 2015, Buffalo Summer, Corporation, Crobot, event, Falling Red, festival, Fozzy, gig, Nonpoint, Scorpion Child, Sheffield, Skarlett Riot, Tax The Heat, The Dirty Youth, The Temperance Movement, Winter Rocks Festival
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Album review: NOAH WOTHERSPOON BAND – Mystic Mud
Noah Wotherspoon Band [Release date 16.07.15] The Noah Wotherspoon Band impress with the depth of their songs, their inspirational playing and cool use of dynamics. ‘Mystic Mud’ is a contemporary sounding crossover blues/roots set, but it’s the understated way in which … Continue reading
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Tagged Americana, Blind Willie McTell, blues, Booogie, Brian Aylor, Creedence Clearwater Revival, gig, Hound Dog Taylor, International Blues Challenge, Jessi Bair, John Fogerty, John Lennon, Noah Wotherspoon, Noah Wotherspoon Band, review, Rob Thaxton, Robin Trower, rock, slide guitar, Walter Trout
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Gig review: CROBOT/Scorpion Child – Live Rooms, Chester, 11 November 2015
Crobot and Scorpion Child are currently on a Europe-wide tour plying their groove laden rock and roll to many a welcoming fan and tonight The Live Rooms in Chester went back a few decades to when sideboards were on the … Continue reading
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Tagged 11 November 2015, Buffalo Summer, Chester, Crobot, gig, review, rock, Scorpion Child, The Live Rooms
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Gig review: TRACER/The Vitals – Slade Rooms, Wolverhampton, 8 November 2015
The Aussie rockers have hit the UK for their headline tour straight off the back of a European support slot with Apocalyptica and are ready to promote and play tracks from their new album ‘Water For Thirsty Dogs’. Despite the … Continue reading
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Tagged 8 November 2015, gig, heavy rock, review, Slade Rooms, The Vitals, Tracer, Wolverhampton
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Gig review: VIRGINMARYS – Sugarmill, Stoke, 6 November 2015
Somehow I totally missed out on the Virginmarys, I’d heard of them and indeed was told many times to go and see them live but our paths never crossed until tonight where at the Sugarmill Stoke they play the first … Continue reading
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Tagged 6 November 2015, gig, review, Stoke, Sugarmill, Virginmarys
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Gig review: SIMO – St.Moritz Club, London, 23 November 2015
Sometimes you just have to dip into the past to make sense of the present and such is the case with alt. Nahville’s psychedelic tinged improvisational jam trio Simo. Their intense improvisational spirit draws from a wide variety of classic … Continue reading
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Tagged Adam Abrashoff, blues, Cream, Elad Shapiro, Fleetwood Mac, gig, J.D.Simo, JOE COCKER, Leo Lyons, Let Love Show The Way, Mike Bloomfield, Mountain, Nashville, Peter Green, Phish, Pink Floyd, psychedelia, review, rock, Simo, soul, Ten Years After, The Allman Brothers. Grateful Dead, Umphrey McGhee, Vanilla Fudge, Widespread Panic
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Gig review: SNAKECHARMER – Islington Academy, 13 November 2015
None of us knew it at the time, but Snakecharmer’s winter tour, including this London date, proved to be Micky Moody’s farewell to the band, leaving them in a state of flux. On the night however it was a night … Continue reading
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Tagged Bad Touch, blues rock, Chris Ousey, gig, hard rock, Harry James, Islington Academy, Laurie Wisefield, Micky Moody, Neil Murray, review, Snakecharmer, Thunder, Whitesnake
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Gig review: WALTER TROUT/Simo – 02 Forum, London, 21 November 2015
Perhaps only Walter Trout can transform the recollection of his own abject desperation and ill health into resonant blues-rock. Aside from completing his lengthy journey back to his rightful place in front of his adoring European fans – in this … Continue reading
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Tagged Andrew Elt, B.B. King, Battle Scars, blues, Danny Bryant, Don Nix, gig, JD Simo, John Lee Hooker, Johnny Griparic, Jon Trout, Luther Allison, Michael Leasure, Nicky Horn, review, rock, Sammy Avila, Simo, Walter Trout
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Gig review: DORO – The Tivoli, Buckley, North Wales, 21 November 2015
On a cold, damp night in November it takes a damn good reason to entice ageing rockers out of their warm cocoon and weekly fix of ‘Strictly Come Dancing’. But how could you miss the legendary Doro Pesch, still celebrating … Continue reading
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Tagged 21 November 2015, Buckley, Doro, Doro Pesch, gig, heavy metal, North Wales, review, Tivoli, Warlock
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Gig review: THEA GILMORE – Liverpool Philharmonic, 17 November 2015
I have been following Thea Gilmore from the early days of her career when I heard her being championed by Bob Harris on his Radio 2 Saturday show back in the late nineties. I’ve seen her develop from a bile-spitting … Continue reading
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Tagged 17 November 2015, gig, indie pop, Kelly Oliver, Liverpool Philharmonic, Nigel Stonier, pop, review, singer, songwriter, Thea Gilmore, Tracey Browne. folk
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Gig review: JOE JAMMER’S ALL-STAR CHICAGO BLUES REVUE – London Jazz Festival, Bulls Head, London,16 November 2015
Joe Jammer’s All-Star Chicago Blues Revue appears in Barnes as part of the London Jazz Festival. And whatever the debate about whether jazz or blues came first, Joe Jammer makes sure that his blues show is both essential and fun! … Continue reading
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Tagged Aerosmith, Annie Wright, Bob Dylan, Bobby Womack, Chicago Blues, Doyle Bramhall, gig, guitar, Jimi Hendrix, Jimmy Page, Joe Jammer, Joe Jammer's All-Star Chicago Blues Revue, Joe Perry, John Scott, Ken Morland, Lamb Lamont, Led Zeppelin, London Jazz Festival, Olympic Runners, review, Robrert Cray, rock, Roger Daltry, Russell Gills, Stevie Ray Vaughan, The Rolling Stones, THE WHO, Tom Brundage
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Gig review: FM/Vega – Guildhall, Gloucester, 7 November 2015
A Saturday night gig with two of the best melodic rock bands in the country, a two hour drive away but totally worth it. A four date trot around the country playing in some venues that you don’t often hear … Continue reading
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Tagged 7 November 2015, AOR, FM, gig, Gloucester, Guildhall, melodic rock, review, Steve Overland, Vega
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Gig review: KING KING – Islington Academy, London, 11 November 2015
It takes time to be an overnight sensation but King King, and singer guitarist Alan Nimmo in particular, have enjoyed a spectacular rise to fame recently. Having paid his dues for a long time with the Nimmo Brothers and now … Continue reading
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Tagged 11 November 2015, Alan Nimmo, Ben Poole, blues, blues rock, gig, Islington Academy, King King, London, review
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Gig review: JUDIE TZUKE – The Met, Bury, 12 November 2015
Six months on since we last caught up with her – at The Lowry in Salford – Judie Tzuke’s Songs And Stories tour continues to wend it’s way happily around the UK. It’s her most extensive tour for decades, crisscrossing … Continue reading
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Tagged 12 November 2015, Bury, gig, Judie Tzuke, review, singer, songwriter, The Met
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Gig review: MARTIN TURNER – Boom Boom Club, Sutton, 30 October 2015
Ten years ago, it was in this very Football Club clubhouse in suburban South London that Wishbone Ash founder bassist and vocalist Martin Turner came in from the cold and launched a new line-up playing Wishbone’s catalogue. His return here … Continue reading
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Tagged Boom Boom Club, Danny Willson, gig, Martin Turner, Misha Nikolic, review, Tim Brown, Wishbone Ash, Written in the Stars
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Gig review: MEGADETH – Braehead Arena, Glasgow, 11 November 2015
Value for money is something we look for in all walks of life and gig going is no exception. So when this four band bill rolled into town it looked like a bargain, Sylosis, Children Of Bodom, Lamb Of God … Continue reading
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Tagged 11 November 2015, Braehead Arena, Children Of Bodom, Dave Mustaine, Dystopia, gig, Glasgow, Lamb Of God, live, Megadeth, Peace Sells, Randy Blyth, review, Sweating Bullets, Sylosis, thrash metal
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Gig review: DAN PATLANSKY with JOE SATRIANI – Hammersmith Eventim Apollo, London, 10 November 2015
As an exercise in strategic marketing, the pairing of tonight’s special guest Dan Patlansky with the innovative stunt guitarist Joe Satriani has much to recommend it. Where Satriani glides over the front ranks of the seated Hammersmith venue and then … Continue reading
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Tagged 10 November 2015, blues, Dan Patlansky, funk, gig, guitar, guitarist, Hammersmith Eventim Apollo, Jimi Hendrix, Joe Satriani, London, review, rock
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Gig review: Y&T – The Tivoli, Buckley, N. Wales – 8 November 2015
The old Ferrero Rocher TV ads used to have the line “Why, Ambassador, you spoil us” – and this could certainly apply to the mighty Y&T playing at our little Tivoli venue in Buckley. The ‘Tiv’ as it’s colloquially known … Continue reading
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Tagged 8 November 2015, Buckley, Dave Meniketti, gig, hard rock, heavy rock, LAWLESS, review, Tivoli, Y&T
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Gig review: ROCKINGHAM FESTIVAL – Rock City, Nottingham, 23-25 October 2015
Ten great years of melodic rock festivals at Nottingham’s Rock City seemed to have come to an emotional end with the final ever Firefest last year. However just 12 months on with the Rock City organisation having taken on the … Continue reading
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Tagged 23-25 October 2015, Ammunition, AOR, Care of Night, Cinderella, Dan Reed Network, Dokken, Eclipse, Electric Boys, festival, gig, Giuffria, Gotthard, Issa, Jim Peterik, Last Autumn’s Dream, melodic rock, No Hot Ashes, Nottingham, review, Robby Valentine, Robert Tepper, Rock City, Rockingham, Romeo's Daughter, Royal Hunt, Santa Cruz, Serpentine, STAN BUSH, Survivor, TOM KEIFER, Vega
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Gig review: MOTLEY CRUE – Metro Arena, Newcastle, 2 November 2015
Almost 30 years ago, give or take a couple of months, I went along to the Edinburgh Playhouse to see Motley Crue who at that point were riding high on the success of their ‘Theatre Of Pain’ album. What a … Continue reading
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Tagged 2nd November 2015, Alice Cooper, Dr Feelgood, Final tour, gig, live, metal, Metro Arena, Mick Mars, Motley Crue, Newcastle, Nikki Sixx, rock, Shout At The Devil, The One Hundred, Tommy Lee, Vince Neil
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Gig review: SARAH CLASS – St James’s Theatre, London, 3 November 2015
First time for me at the studio part of this rather swish theatre and the seating and intimacy of the venue reminded me of a jazz club. The event tonight was the album launch for ‘Unity’ by Sarah Class, which … Continue reading
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Tagged Album Launch, composer, gig, London, melodic, pop, review, Sarah Class, singer songwriter, St James’s Theatre, Unity
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Gig review: JARED JAMES NICHOLS with GLENN HUGHES, Electric Ballroom, Camden, London, 1 November 2015
Tonight the Electric Ballroom plays host to the master and apprentice as Glenn Hughes reinforces his credentials as a rock god, while Jared James Nichols shows plenty of energy and promise, but still has a way to go to reveal his … Continue reading
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Tagged blues, David Randall, Doug Aldrich, gig, Glenn Hughes, guitar, Jared James Nichols, Jimi Hendrix, Leslie West, Mountain, Pontus Engborg, review, Rick Derringer, Robert Johnson, rock, vocals
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Gig review: JOE SATRIANI – Manchester Apollo, 1 November 2015
One thing is certain with a Satriani gig. The energy levels are going to remain at 200% until the last whammy-bar whistle. I’m the same age as Satch but he makes me feel really old. This was the first date … Continue reading
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Tagged 1 November 2015, Dan Patlansky, gig, guitar, guitarist, Joe Satriani, Manchester Apollo, review, rock
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Gig review: JOE BONAMASSA, Brighton Centre, Brighton, 30 October 2015
And so to Joe Bonamassa in Brighton, on the Mascot magical mystery tour bus, with a stick of rock in my hand, blues in my veins, refreshments close to hand and ear plugs at the ready. The mystery is simply wondering … Continue reading
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Tagged Anton Fig, Big Boy Bloater, Brinsley Schwarz, Catfish, gig, guitar, Jimi Hendrix, Joe Bonamassa, Lee Puddefoot, Lee Thornburn, Leslie West, Mark Hughes, Mathhew Long, Michael Rhodes, Paul Long, Peter Noble, Reese Wynans, review, Shantih Lata, Steve Marsh, Walter Trout
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Gig review: GLENN HUGHES, Club Academy, Manchester, 29 October 2015
Get Ready to ROCK!’s Pete Feenstra chatted to Glenn Hughes shortly before the start of his UK tour in October 2015. This hour special includes a selection of tracks from Glenn’s solo and band/project albums. He’s a real trooper is … Continue reading
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Tagged 29 October 2015, Club Academy, Deep Purple, Doug Aldrich, gig, Glenn Hughes, hard rock, interview, Jared James Nichols, Manchester, review, rock, Trapeze, Whitesnake
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