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Gig review: PAUL McCARTNEY- 02 Arena, London, 18 December 2024
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Gig review: BLACK EYED SONS- The Lexington, London, 16 December 2024
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Gig review: BRAVE RIVAL – Thames Side Brewery, Staines, 8 December 2024
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Gig review: STRAY – The Cavern, Raynes Park, London, 7 December 2024
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Gig review: THE SHEEPDOGS, THE COMMONERS – Islington Assembly Hall, London, 5 December 2024
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Gig review: GUN – Barrowlands, Glasgow, 14 December 2024
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Album review : SKILLS – Different Worlds
Frontiers Music [Release date: 13.05.22] Skills … “Supergroups” often deflate our expectations pretty quickly. Good to to be able to say that this bunch of seasoned professionals – Brad (Night Ranger) Gillis, David (Giant) Huff, Billy (Mr Big) Sheehan plus … Continue reading
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Tagged album, AOR, Billy Sheehan, Brad Gillis, David Huff, Electric Mob, Frontiers, Giant, melodic rock, Mr Big, NightRanger, Renan Zonta, review
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Gig review: CRAZY LIXX – Islington Academy, London, 6 May 2022
For some 15 years now, Swedes Crazy Lixx have been flying the flag for the American style glam rock they were too young to remember in its late eighties heyday. This is no knowing irony, and you can sense the … Continue reading
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Tagged Chez Kane, Crazy Lixx, Danny Rexon, gig, glam rock, melodic rock, sleaze rock
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Album review: JEFF SCOTT SOTO – Complicated
Frontiers [Release date 06.05.22] Like his last solo album, 2020′s ‘Wide Awake (In My Dreamland)’, Jeff Scott Soto has teamed up with Frontiers ‘go to’ songwriter/musician Alessandro Del Vecchio. Del Vecchio also adds keys, bass and backing vocals, being joined … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Alessandro Del Vecchio, Complicated, Frontiers, hard rock, Jeff Scott Soto, Journey, melodic rock, review, rock, Sons Of Apollo, Talisman, WET
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Album review: THE BIG DEAL – First Bite
Frontiers Music [Release date: 06.05.22] The Big Deal is a Serbian Melodic Rock band, an offshoot of highly successful Progrockers, Alogia. Husband and wife team, Srdjan and Nevena Brankovic are the band’s centrepoint, handling guitar, production, songwriting and vocals. Nevena … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Alessandro Del Vecchio, Alogia, Ana Nikolic, AOR, FM Radio, melodic rock, pop, progrock, review, Serbia, Srdjan and Nevena Brankovic
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Album review: LOVERBOY – Wildside (Remaster)
Rock Candy Records [release date: 25.03.22] Loverboy’s fifth studio album, again produced by the maestro, Bruce Fairbairn (RIP), has been remastered and reissued recently by Rock Candy Records. When Fairbairn, Bob Rock and Mike Fraser are handling production, engineering and … Continue reading
Album review: TERRA NOVA – Ring That Bell
Lion Music [Release date 27.05.22] Terra Nova have been around since 1992, so it is fitting that thirty years after forming they are back with their first new album since 2018’s ‘Raise Your Voice’. Their 1997 offering ‘Livin’ It Up’ … Continue reading
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Tagged album, AOR, hard rock, Journey, melodic rock, review, Ring That Bell, rock, Terra Nova
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Album review: FORTUNE- Level Ground
Frontiers Records (Release Date 08.04.22) After it took 24 years to follow up their self-titled debut album and cult AOR classic, Fortune’s third album follows after a relatively brief three year interval. However while 2019’s ‘Fortune II’ included a number … Continue reading
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Tagged album, AOR, Fortune, Larry Greene, melodic rock, Richard Fortune, Steve Porcaro
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Album review: MICK WHITE – Something’s Got To Give
Enghardt Media/The Metal Society [29.04.22] Now here’s a blast from the past. I first encountered vocalist Mick White in the late 80s when he was working with Paul Samson, and later when he fronted First Strike (that Just Another Night album … Continue reading
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Tagged album, First Strike, hard rock, melodic rock, metal, Mick White, NWOBHM, review, Samson, Something's Got To Give
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Album review: FORGET-ME-NOT featuring Jane Gould – S/T
AOR Boulevard Records (Release date 15.04.22) Former Iconic Eye singer Jane Gould has assembled some impressive collaborations for her Forget-Me- Not project with the help of some key movers and shakers in the melodic rock world. Songwriters include the likes … Continue reading
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Tagged album, AOR, Jane Gould, melodic rock, Steve Newman
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Single review: THE PETAL FALLS – Somebody to Love Me
Website [Release date 29.04.22] It’s no secret that I am a fan of this band since reviewing the band’s debut album, ‘Workin All Night, Workin All Day’ released during lockdown, and the follow up album last September, “All These Years” … Continue reading
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Tagged Keith Leahy, melodic rock, pop rock, review, rock, single, Somebody to Love Me, the Petal Falls
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Album review: RONNIE ROMERO – Raised On Radio
Frontiers [Release date: 15.04.22] Ronnie Romero’s taken an opportunity that not many singers get. Given the chance to record an album of covers, he’s deep dived into his favourite back catalogues and emerged with some unsung classics in his hands. … Continue reading
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Tagged album, AOR, Bad Company, cover versions, Covers, Dylan, Elf, Foreigner, Grand Funk, Kansas, Led Zeppelin, melodic rock, Queen, review, Ronnie Romero, Russ Ballard, Survivor
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Album review: FIRST SIGNAL – Closer To The Edge
Frontiers [Release date 08.04.22] First Signal started life as a collaboration between Harry (Harem Scarem) Hess and Denis (Pink Cream 69) Ward. Two big names in the melodic rock genre. This is the third album since without Ward. Daniel Flores … Continue reading
Album review: TREAT – The Endgame
Frontiers [Release date: 08.04.22] Here’s Treat again. The Endgame, produced by the talented Peter Mansson, is the band’s fourth album since their rebirth in 2006. In the world of second and third generation melodic rock, only Harem Scarem, Leverage and … Continue reading
Gig review: FM- Islington Assembly Hall, London, 7 April 2022
They release albums at regular intervals but touring has always been FM’s lifeblood. They dipped their toe back in the live environment with selected shows last year, but this twice postponed London show was part of a tour to promote … Continue reading
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Tagged AOR, FM, gig, Grand Slam, Jem Davis, Jim Kirkpatrick, Laurence Archer, melodic rock, Mike Dyer, Steve Overland
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Album review: TNT – Tell No Tales and Intuition (Remasters)
Rock Candy Records [Release date: 25.03.22] In 1984 TNT were a tight, solid rock band, populated by gifted musicians, all looking for a sound that would define them. They had just broken through with second album, Knights Of The New … Continue reading
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Tagged album, AOR, Bjorn Nessjo, melodic rock, remaster, review, Ronni Le Tekro, Stage Dolls, Stryper, TNT, Tony Harnell
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Album review: JOHN ELEFANTE – The Amazing Grace
Escape Music [Release date 22.04.22] John Elefante is probably best known amongst rock fans for his time in Kansas in the early 80’s when he replaced Steve Walsh. After leaving Kansas he worked as a producer for Christian artists including … Continue reading
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Tagged album, AOR, Christian rock, John Elefante, Kansas, melodic rock, review, the Amazing Grace
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Album review: RADIOACTIVE – X.X.X
Frontiers Records (Release date 11.03.22) Few people in the melodic rock world have as lengthy or prolific track record as Tommy Denander. While best known for playing on or producing records for a dizzying roster of artists and, for UK … Continue reading
Album review: FM – Thirteen
Frontiers Records (Release date 18.03.22) Over a decade since reforming, FM’s run of quality product since seems to be coming at an ever faster rate, their suitably titled 13th studio album coming less than two years after its predecessor ‘Synchronised’. … Continue reading
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Tagged album, AOR, FM, Jem Davis, Jim Kirkpatrick, melodic rock, Pete Jupp, Steve Overland
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Feature: Magnum Month @GRTR! – What Magnum Means To Me
Introduction The Studio Albums The Live Albums Singles Reissues Collections Memorabilia What Magnum Means To Me… As part of our month long promotion “Magnum Month @GRTR!” in March 2022 we invited fan recollections and stories. Some have followed the band … Continue reading
Album review: DARE – Road To Eden
Darren Wharton chatted to Get Ready to ROCK! Radio about his career and Dare. The interview includes tracks from each of Dare’s studio albums including the latest. First broadcast 10 April 2022. Legend Records [Release date 01.04.22] Back in the … Continue reading
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Tagged album, AOR, Dare, Darren Wharton, interview, melodic rock, radio, Vinny Burns
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Album review: RONNIE ATKINS – Make It Count
Frontiers [release date: 18.03.22] When Denmark’s Paul Christensen founded the Pretty Maids with Ken Hammer, he changed his name to Ronnie Atkins. And this despite assurances that his birth name sounded pretty cool. None of this matters now, he lives … Continue reading
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Tagged album, AOR, Chris Laney, Covid, eighties, Ken Hammer, melodic rock, pop, Pretty Maids, review, Ronnie Atkins
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Feature: MAGNUM Month @GRTR! – Singles
Introduction The Studio Albums The Live Albums Singles Reissues Collections Memorabilia What Magnum Means To Me… Magnum in the Millennium Since the late 1990s the number of physical singles released by Magnum – and indeed many artists – has diminished, … Continue reading
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Tagged Magnum, melodic rock, singles
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News: Albums of the Month (January 2022 – March 2022)
LIFESIGNS Altitude (Lifesigns Music) Fans of the likes of Marillion, Genesis and Camel will find much to enjoy here – fans of the more challenging end of the prog spectrum should probably look elsewhere. ***** Review by Alan Jones SAXON … Continue reading
Album review: CIRCLE OF FRIENDS – The Garden
Escape Records [Release date 25.03.22] ‘The Garden’ is the album put together by Bruce Mee (of Fireworks magazine) as a tribute to his mother, who died of cancer in 2020. The studio project is called Circle of Friends because the … Continue reading
Album review: LIONVILLE – So Close to Heaven
Frontiers Records (Release date 11.02.22) The brainchild of Italian multi-instrumentalist Stefano Lionetti, Lionville have produced a series of quality AOR albums at regular intervals over the past decade. So Close to Heaven is their fifth and there are few changes … Continue reading
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Tagged album, AOR, Lars Safsund, Lionville, melodic rock, Robbie La Blanc, Stefano Lionetti
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