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Gig review: RAMBLIN’ MAN FAIR – Day 3 – Mote Park, Maidstone, 30 July 2017
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Gig review: RAMBLIN’ MAN FAIR – Day 2 – Mote Park, Maidstone, 29 July 2017
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Gig review: RAMBLIN’ MAN FAIR – Day 1 – Mote Park, Maidstone, 28 July 2017
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Gig review: HUE AND CRY Album Launch – PRS Building, King’s Cross, London, 3 August 2017
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Gig review: STEELHOUSE FESTIVAL, Ebbw Vale, 30 July 2017 (Part Two)
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Tag Archives: melodic rock
Quick plays: MARTIN SIMPSON, RIVERDOGS, HIRSH GARDNER
MARTIN SIMPSON Trails & Tribulations Topic Records [Release date 01.09.17] Trails & Tribulations’ is Martin Simpson’s twentieth album in a career spanning over 40 years. As he says the album “is a collection of songs about nature, about travels and … Continue reading
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Tagged albums, AOR, California, Def Leppard, Dio, Escape Music, folk, Frontiers, Hirsh Gardner, Martin Simpson, melodic rock, New England, Quick Play, reviews, Riverdogs, rock, songwriter, Vivian Campbell
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Album review: D2UR – Tic Toc
[Release date 01.07.17] D2UR (pronounced Detour, really?) are a no-nonsense Canadian band built around the partnership of Mike and Diane Isbister. He plays guitars, she sings. Starting out as a covers band, their debut release Rev U Up (2013) was … Continue reading
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Tagged album, D2UR, Diane Isbister, hard rock, melodic rock, Mike Isbister, review, Tic Toc
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Gig review: STEELHOUSE FESTIVAL, Ebbw Vale, 28-29 July 2017 (Part One)
The annual pilgrimage climbing the mountain in the valleys of South Wales seems to have come around far quicker this year than any other, and the reliable Welsh weather played a major part in some issues regarding camping and parking. … Continue reading
Posted in GIG REVIEWS, Special Events
Tagged 28 July 2017, 29 July 2017, Bernie Marsden, Ebbw Vale, gig, hard rock, Inglorious, Last In Line, melodic rock, Monster Truck, review, rock, Skindred, South Wales, Steelhouse Festival, Trucker Diablo
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Gig review: SUMMERFEST – Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA, 28 June-9 July 2017
In a world of constant change in popular music, for a festival to celebrate its 50th year, as Milwaukee’s Summerfest did this year, represents a lifetime. I’d been to the festival certified by Guinness World Records as the world’s biggest … Continue reading
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Tagged AOR, Bad Boy, Blackberry Smoke, Bob Dylan, Brandi Carlile, Chris Stapleton, Dennis De Young, festival, Foghat, gig, Greta Van Fleet, Huey Lewis and the News, Jason Isbell, John Waite, July 2017, June 2017, melodic rock, Milwaukee, Paul Simon, Peter Frampton, progressive, REO Speedwagon, review, rock, Sheryl Crow, Shinedown, Soul Asylum, Summerfest, Tesla, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Toto, Wisconsin
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Gig review: LEE AARON – Camden Underworld, London, 16 July 2017
In the testosterone-heavy rock climate of the 1980’s, women performers who held sex appeal for metal-loving youngsters were few on the ground. It was therefore unsurprising that the petite Canadian rocker Lee Aaron’s picture in Kerrang’s ‘Ladykillers’ feature must have … Continue reading
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Tagged blues rock, gig, Lee Aaron, melodic rock, Neuronspoiler, review, Sean Kelly
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Album review: FICTION SYXX – Tall Dark Secret
MeldodicRock Records [Release date 21.08.17] Fiction Syxx is the brain child of songwriter/vocalist/guitarist Mark Allen Lanoue who has had these musical ideas for some time now. To help him realise his musical vision he is joined by guitarist JK Northrup (King … Continue reading
Interview: CORNERSTONE
We caught up with Alina Peter (Vocals/Guitars) and Michael Wachelhofer (Bass/Keyboards/Vocals) of Cornerstone to see what they have planned for this year and beyond, plus how their latest album ‘Reflection’ has been doing… Have you been pleased with the response … Continue reading
Album review: JOHNNY LIMA – Johnny Lima/Made In California
MelodicRock Records [Release date 01.03.17] These two albums by Johnny Lima – his self-titled debut from 1996 and 2003′s ‘Made In California’ – have been made available again by MelodicRock Records and not before time I say! Johnny Lima’s debut … Continue reading
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Tagged albums, Bon Jovi, Johnny Lima, melodic rock, MelodicRock Records, Motley Crue, reissues, review, rock
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Album review: TREAT – The Road More or Less Traveled
Release Date 21.04.17 On paper the release of Treat’s live set at the 2016 Frontiers Rock Festival in Italy is was a release I was looking forward to. Not only were Treat- alongside bands like Fate and Skagarack- one of … Continue reading
Album review: SNAKECHARMER – Second Skin
Frontiers Records [Release Date 12.05.17] If their 2013 debut album of original compositions was an unexpected twist for a band that started out paying homage to vintage Whitesnake with two former members, Snakecharmer’s follow up is perhaps even more of … Continue reading
Album review: HAREM SCAREM – United
Frontiers [Release date 12.05.17] This is Harem Scarem’s second album since reuniting back in 2013 – three if you count their re-recording of their classic ‘Mood Swings’ album they did to get back their ownership of the songs. Original members … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Harem Scarem, Harry Hess, Jeff Scott Soto, melodic rock, review, rock, United
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Album review: CRAZY LIXX – Ruff Justice
Frontiers Records [Release Date 21.04.17] For over a decade now Swedes Crazy Lixx have been proving a youthful take on the glam and sleaze bands that dominated the airwaves and MTV in the second half of the eighties. I’d always … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Chrisse Olsson, Crazy Lixx, Danny Rexon, Jens Lundgren, melodic rock, Ruff Justice
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Album review: BOBBY KIMBALL – We’re Not In Kansas Anymore
Purple Pyramid/Cleopatra Records [Release date 21.04.17] For many, Bobby Kimball is the definitive voice of Toto and performed with that band during the halcyon years of 1978-1984 (rejoining and touring 1998-2000). Since that time he has forged a semi-cabaret existence … Continue reading
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Tagged album, AOR, Bobby Kimball, Derek Sherinian, melodic rock, review, soft rock, Toto, We're Not In Kansas Anymore
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Gig review: ECLIPSE – The Borderline, London, 22 April 2017
With each album Eclipse’s reputation is finally spreading beyond the confines of the small but loyal melodic rock community. There was a significantly higher crowd to see them at a packed Borderline than on their previous visits, and yet what … Continue reading
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Tagged Andre Linnan, Eclipse, Erik Martensson, Franklin Zoo, gig, Magnus Henriksson, melodic rock, One Desire, review
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Album review: ONE DESIRE- s/t
Frontiers Records [Release Date 24.03.17] The latest in a seemingly endless line of melodic rock talent from Scandinavia, a real buzz is building around One Desire, a new name but boasting former Sturm and Drang singer and guitarist Andre Linman. … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Andre Linman, Erik Martensson, melodic rock, One Desire, review
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Album review: ECLIPSE- Monumentum
Frontiers [Release Date 24.03.17] He may be the most prolific, in demand writer and producer on the melodic rock scene, but no-one could accuse Erik Martensson of neglecting his day job as lead singer and guitarist with Eclipse. Two years … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Eclipse, Erik Martensson, Magnus Henriksson, melodic rock, Monumentum, review
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Album review: HOUSE OF LORDS – Saint Of The Lost Souls
Frontiers [Release date 24.03.17] House Of Lords return with their eleventh studio album and a new bassist, Chris Tristram, who replaces the departing Chris McCarvill, who has been in the band since 2005. The other thing to note is that … Continue reading
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Tagged album, hard rock, House of Lords, James Christian, melodic, melodic rock, review, Robin Beck, rock, Saint Of The Lost Souls
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Gig review: HARD ROCK HELL AOR – Pwllheli, 9-12 March 2017
The HRH franchise is probably the most successful of these three day indoor events and rightly so, they found a spot in the market and have developed a fluid, tightly run operation that always delivers. The AOR weekend was slightly … Continue reading
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Tagged 9-12 March 2017, AOR, Bonafide, FM, gig, Hard Rock Hell AOR, Lita Ford, melodic rock, Michael Monroe, Mike Tramp, Paul Laine, Pwllheli, review, Romeo's Daughter, Slaughter, Vega
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Album review: TOKYO MOTOR FIST – S/T
Release Date 24.02.17 Despite labouring under a rather ridiculous name, Tokyo Motor Fist (let’s just call them TMF) are actually a match made in heaven between two of the East Coast based melodic rock mafia in Trixter guitarist Steve Brown … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Danger Danger, melodic rock, review, Steve Brown, Ted Poley, Tokyo Motor Fist, Trixter
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Album review: ASIA – Symfonia
Frontiers [Release date 24.02.17] Normally you’d think “not another live Asia album” as there have been a fair few to date, however this one is tinged with sadness with the sad passing of John Wetton shortly before the release of … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Asia, Carl Palmer, Geoff Downes, John Wetton, melodic rock, review, rock, Sam Coulson, Symfonia
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