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Album review: PARADOX – Heresy II, End Of A Legend
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Album review: SAVATAGE – Sirens and Dungeons Are Calling (remasters)
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Album review: INGLORIOUS- Heroine
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Album review: LEAVES EYES – The Last Viking, Midsummer Version
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Album review: BONNIE TYLER – The East West Years 1995-98 (3 CDs)
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Album review: IRON MAIDEN – Senjutsu
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Latest Gig Reviews
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Gig review: THE CINELLI BROTHERS- Cabbage Patch, Twickenham, 16 September 2021
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Gig review: LEAFHOUND- Cabbage Patch, Twickenham, 9 September 2021
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Gig review: STONEDEAD FESTIVAL – Showground, Newark – 28th August 2021
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Gig review: CONNOR SELBY BAND- Cabbage Patch, Twickenham, 26 August 2021
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Gig review: THE DARKER MY HORIZON & FRIENDS FESTIVAL, The Vic, Coalville, 20-22 August 2021
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Featured Album Reviews
Single & EP Reviews
DVD Reviews
Book Reviews
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Book review: WHO IS BLUES Vol.2 – The Interviews. Blues Encounters 2000 – 2020 by Vincent Abbate
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Book review: BOBBY RUSH with Herb Powell – I Ain’t Studdin Ya: My American Blues Story
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Book review: ERJA LYYTINEN – The Blues Queen by Mape Ollila
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Book review: On Track…TOM PETTY (Every album, every song) by Richard James
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Features
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Feature: Albums that time forgot…THE STORM (Gregg Rolie, Ross Valory, Steve Smith)
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Feature: Collectible Collections – FAMILY – Old Songs New Songs (The Definitive Box Set)
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Feature: Collectible Collections – CAMEL – Rainbow’s End An Anthology 1973-1985
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Feature: Collectible Collections – MANFRED MANN’S EARTH BAND – 40th Anniversary Box Set
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Feature: Albums that time forgot … NATIVE CAIN – The Primitive Soul
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Feature: Albums that time forgot…EUROPE – Secret Society
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Tag Archives: live
Album review: GAMMA RAY – 30 Years Live Anniversary
Ear Music/Edel [Release date 10.09.21] In 2020, it looked like this could become the new normal. A live gig without an audience. Kai Hansen’s Gamma Ray know what it is to play live…they’ve been doing it for 30 years. It becomes … Continue reading
Album review: VANDENBERG – The Complete Atco Recordings 1982-2004 (4 CD Boxset w/bonus tracks)
Cherry Red [release date 27.08.21] Vandenberg (1982) Heading For A Storm (1983) Alibi (1985) Demos and Live (2004) Emerging unbloodied and unbowed from the golden age of AOR, Vandenberg’s 3 albums (now remastered) embody all that was good and all … Continue reading
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Tagged albums, Alibi, bonus tracks, boxset, Coverdale, demos, Heading For A Storm, Japp Eggermont, Kolodner, live, melodic hard rock, review, Vandenberg, Whitesnake
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Album review: BRITISH BLUES INVASION TO RUSSIA FESTIVAL – On-line Invasion Anthology
Pete Feenstra chatted to Boris Litvintsev in July 2021 for Get Ready to ROCK! Radio featuring several tracks from the new compilation. Hot Draft Productions [Release date 26.05.21] “It’s 9 o’clock in Moscow, 7pm in London….” Boris Litvintsev’s time check … Continue reading
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Tagged Ash Wilson, Bex Marshall, blues, Boris Litvintsev, boxset, Brent Hutchinson, British Blues Invasion To London, Classic Rock Legends, Dave Ellis, Dobie Gray, Dom Martin, Freddie King, Hot Draft Productions, interview, Jack J. Hutchinson, Jimi Hendrix, Jimmy C, Jimmy Coletsis, John Martyn, Jon Amor, Julian Burdock, Krissy Matthews, live, Mark Knopfler, Matt Long, Mike Ross, Owen Houlston, radio, review, Richard Townend, Ron Sayer, Rory Gallagher, Steve Earle, Troy Redfern, Zoom
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Album review: JOE JACKSON & TODD RUNDGREN feat. ETHEL – State Theater, New Jersey 2005 (CD/DVD)
Purple Pyramind [Release date 18.06.21] Back in 2005 the pairing of Joe Jackson and Todd Rundgren may have seemed rather incongruous. I remember thinking at the time that Rundgren had just released an excellent solo album ‘Liars’ and it would … Continue reading
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Tagged album, CD, classic rock, concert, DVD, Ethel, interview, Joe Jackson, live, New Jersey 2005, pop, quartet, review, State Theater, strings, Todd Rundgren
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Album review: PAT McMANUS & ERIC McFADDEN – Two Big MC’s Live at Patrimonio
Bad Reputation [Release date: 01.06.21] Guitarists Pat McManus and Eric McFadden are currently label mates at French company Bad Reputation. They initially met in Paris and went on to perform at the ‘Night of the Guitars’ event at Patrimonio in … Continue reading
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Tagged album, blues, Eric McFadden, live, Mama's Boys, Pat McManus, Patrimonio, rock, singer songwriter
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Album review: MOTORHEAD – Louder Than Noise… Live In Berlin
Silver Lining Music [Release date 23.04.21] High on my list of memorable gigs is a night spent with Motorhead at Newcastle City Hall back in November 2012. Motorhead were on top form that night and when you add in a … Continue reading
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Tagged 2012, Ace Of Spades, album, Anthrax, Berlin, Lemmy, live, Louder Than Noise, metal, Mikkey Dee, Motorhead, Newcastle, Overkill, Phil Campbell, rock
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Album review: BLUE OYSTER CULT – Live albums
Frontiers Records [Release date 04.12.20] Even when hearing familiar Blue Oyster Cult material performed live, you are reminded of just how different they are to all in their peer group. These two live recordings are densely packed with reasons that … Continue reading
Album review: THE RODS – Expanded Remasters
In The Raw, The Rods Live, Let Them Eat Metal Rock Candy’s remastered & reissued programme often serves to bring a deserving band (and album) to a new audience. The Rods are the perfect example. Their eighties’ albums were in … Continue reading
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Tagged album, classic metal, David “The Rock” Feinstein, hard rock, live, metal, reissue, review, Rock Candy, the Rods
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Album review: HUMBLE PIE – The Atlanta Years
Store For Music [Release date 11.12.20] Steve Marriott is best remembered in the UK as the front man for the Small Faces . Also rememberd by many as Britain’s best blue eyed soul singer, and not least for his songwriting … Continue reading
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Tagged blues rock, classic rock, concerts, Humble Pie, live, re-issue, review, rock, Small Faces, soul, Steve Marriott, The Atlanta Years
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Album review: IRON MAIDEN – Nights Of The Dead, Legacy Of The Beast: Live In Mexico City
Parlophone [Release date 20.11.20] Jay Jay French of Twisted Sister stated a few years ago that older bands with hit laden back catalogues were idiots to record new songs and play them live. His argument was that the fans just want to hear the … Continue reading
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Tagged 2019, Adrian Smith, album, Bruce Dickinson, CD, Dave Murray, Iron Maiden, Janick Gers, Jay Jay French, Legacy Of The Beast: Live In Mexico City, live, Mexico, Nicko Mc Brain, Nights Of The Dead, Number of the Beast, Parlophone, Steve Harris, Twisted Sister, Where Eagles Dare, William Wallace
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Album review – VOLBEAT – Rewind, Replay, Rebound (Live in Deutschland)
Republic Records [Release date 27.11.20] Live music has been absent in all our lives for far too long throughout 2020 so the chance to relive the German leg of Volbeat’s 2019 tour is an enticing package to anyone starved of gigs. The … Continue reading
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Tagged 2019, album, CD, Denmark, Hamburg, live, Lola Montez, Michael Pulson, Rebound (Live In Deutschland), Replay, review, Rewind, Rob Caggiano, Stuttgart, VOLBEAT
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Album review: RUNRIG – One Legend – Two concerts (Live At Rockpalast 1996 & 2001)
MiG Records [Release date 30.10.20] A year or so ago I went along to the Royal Concert Hall in Glasgow for the world premiere of the Final Dance DVD which was recorded at the band’s final show in Stirling. It … Continue reading
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Tagged Alba, album, Bruce Guthro, CD, Christmas, Cologne, Donny Munro, Dusseldorf, DVD, live, Malcolm Jones, Mara, MiG Records, Pete Wishart, review, Runrig, Skye, Stamping Ground, The Last Dance
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Album review: NINE BELOW ZERO – Live At Rockpalast 1981 &1996
MiG Records [Release date 30.10.20] As a latecomer to the Nine Below Zero party having only caught them live in the last couple of years at the Butlins Rock and Blues Festival, this set is the ideal package to explore … Continue reading
Album review: TODD RUNDGREN – A Wizard A True Star, Live
Cleopatra Records, USA [Release date 25.09.20] Eleven Years ago this month, Todd Rundgren and his band, suitably garbed in white “coat’n’tails” played “A Wizard, A True Star” in its entirety, at the Akron Ohio Civic Theatre, one of the last … Continue reading
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Tagged A Wizard A True Star, CD, Cleopatra Records, DVD, live, melodic, review, rock, soul, Todd Rundgren
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Book review: MARK BADGEMAN & ANDREW WOLFMAN – Memories of The Market Tavern Kidderminster 1990-96
Self-published [Publication date 16.11.20] Even if you didn’t attend a gig at Kidderminster’s Market Tavern, if you’re a live music fan then there’s plenty here to enjoy. This long defunct but fondly remembered and unique venue is celebrated in this … Continue reading
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Tagged Andrew Wolfman, book, Carter USM, gigs, Glen Matlock, live, Mark Badgeman, Memories of The Market Tavern Kidderminster 1990-96, pop, punk, review, rock
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Gig review: THE DARKER MY HORIZON – The Victoria, Swindon, Thursday 27 August 2020
So it’s Thursday 27 August and the wind down to a long weekend, what better way to get in the mood than to see live music – yes real, live, raw, rock in an amazing venue, the Victoria in Old … Continue reading
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Tagged Bryan Adams, Fall From Ruin, gig, hard rock, live, melodic, modern rock, review, rock, Swindon, the Darker My Horizon
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Quick plays: RURA, JOSHUA BURNELL, GYPSY PISTOLEROS
RURA Live at the Old Fruitmarket [Release date 11.09.20] Rura releases this live album to celebrate the band’s tenth anniversary, recorded in February this year at the Celtic Connections festival, just before live shows stopped due to the pandemic. Their … Continue reading
Album review: DEE SNIDER – For The Love Of Metal Live!
Napalm Records [Release date 31.07.20] To front a rock band takes a few special ingredients. The candidate should be larger than life, outspoken, overblown, like the sound of their own voice, have massive self-confidence and not give a flying f**k for … Continue reading
Album review: GLENN HUGHES – Official Bootleg Box Set Volume 3, 1995-2010
Cherry Red Records [Release date 31.07.20] 6-CD set A trove of previously unreleased Glenn Hughes’ live material – 19 CDs’ worth – has been released by Cherry Red Records over the last two years. Calling them “Official Bootlegs” has an … Continue reading
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Tagged 1995-2010, album, box set, Deep Purple, funk, gigs, Glenn Hughes, hard rock, heavy rock, live, Official Bootleg Box Set Volume 3, review, Trapeze
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Album review: SKERRYVORE – Live Across Scotland
Tyree Records [Release date 11.07.20] 2020 should have been a huge year for Skerryvore. The band had big plans to celebrate their 15th anniversary culminating in one hell of a party with several thousand friends in the grounds of Inveraray … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Alec Dalglish, CD, Covid 19, Craig Espie, Edinburgh, folk, Glasgow, live, Live Across Scotland, lockdown, Martin Gillespie, review, rock, Scott Wood, Skerryvore, Stirling, Take My Hand
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Album review: BLUE OYSTER CULT – Iheart Radio Theater NYC 2012
Frontiers [Release date 08.05.20] An invited audience of 200 lucky fans saw Blue Oyster Cult live on stage at the IHeart Radio Theater in New York in 2012. The event noisily celebrated the band’s 40th year together, expertly recorded by … Continue reading
Album review: PRETTY MAIDS – Maid In Japan
Frontiers [Release date 22.05.20] Pretty Maids have been around since the early 80’s, with original members vocalist Ronnie Artkins and guitarist Ken Hammer joined by bassist Rene Shades, Chris Laney on keyboards, guitar and drummer Allan Sørensen (who left the … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Chris Laney, classic rock, DVD, live, Maid In Japan, melodic hard rock, melodic metal, Pretty Maids, review, rock, Ronnie Atkins
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Album review: RUSH – Permanent Waves 40th Anniversary Edition
UCM [Release date 29.05.20] Back in January 1980 Rush released their seventh studio album which met with great critical acclaim and saw the band reach their highest chart positions worldwide. That album was Permanent Waves and it was the first … Continue reading
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Tagged 1980, 40th anniversary, album, Alex Lifeson, CD, Geddy Lee, Hammersmith Odeon, live, Natural Science, Neal Peart, Permanent Waves, prog, review, rock, Rush, Spirit Of Radio
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Album review: KANSAS – All Just Dust In The Wind The Legendary Broadcast
Coda Records Ltd (blue vinyl) This beautiful release (I’ll call it that because it’s great to look at and even better to listen to) features US rock band Kansas at their peak. Coda Records have been doing a fine job … Continue reading
Album review: JEFFERSON AIRPLANE – Long John Silver/Thirty Seconds Over Winterland
Esoteric [Release date: 27.03.20] Bed fellows of the early ’70s, the Airplane’s last studio release for 17 years and a subsequent live album ensemble woozily in a heyday fade. Where the ’60s releases were taped under the clock in Hollywood … Continue reading
