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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: NASHER – 432-1 Open The Vein
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Album review: ALEJANDRO ESCOVEDO – Burn Something Beautiful
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Book review: On track…CAMEL (Every album, every song) by Hamish Kuzminski
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Album review: BLUES IMAGE feat. MIKE PINERA – Timeless
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Album review: TEENAGE GLAMPAGE – 80 Glambusters From The Seventies (4CD boxset)
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Tag Archives: review
Album review: CASEY MAUNDER – Get Out and Push
Facebook [Release date 13.05.24] Casey Maunder is back with the follow-up to his enjoyable debut album ‘Until Your Heart Stops Beating’. That album was jammed packed with riff led hard rockers and pleasingly ‘Get Out and Push’ follows on nicely. Opener … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Casey Maunder, Get Out and Push, guitarist, hard rock, melodic rock, review, rock
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Album review: REMEDY – Pleasure Beats Pain
Escape Music [Release date 24.05.24] Remedy released their debut album at the tail end of 2022 and it earned rave reviews (including from this reviewer!), although being independently released it didn’t get the full coverage it deserved. Enter Escape Music … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Erik Martensson, Escape Music, hard rock, melodic rock, Pleasure Beats Pain, Remedy, review
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Album review: THE MIGHTY BOSSCATS – Are You The Person You’ve Always Wanted To Be / Photoshoot
Self release [Release date 29.09.23] Richard Townend is an indefatigable singer-songwriter, guitarist and band leader of The Mighty Bosscats, who never let rust sleep. His consistent output has the feel of a diarist who needs to get the minutiae of … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Americana, Are You The Person You've Always Wanted To Be, Billy Preston, funk, JJ Cale, Johnny Cash, Latino, Mark Hall, Mark Knopfler, Matt Gillam, Paul Simon, Photoshoot, Pink Floyd, review, Richard Townend, Roy Orbison, singer, songworter, The Beatles, The Mighty Bosscats, Tony Sales, Webb Wilder
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Album review : LINDISFARNE – Brand New Day The Mercury Years 1978-79 (3 CDs)
Cherry Red [Release date : 24.05.24] This is one of Cherry Red’s finer moments. A concise snapshot of Lindisfarne when they were at their best. CD1: Magic In The Air (1978) CD2: Back And Fourth (1978) CD3: The News (1979) … Continue reading
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Tagged Alan Hull, Back And Forth, Fog On The Tyne, Lindisfarne, Magic In The Air, Newcastle, review, The News
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Gig review: FM – Arlington Arts Centre, Newbury, 18 May 2024
To quote Led Zeppelin, “It’s been a long time since I rock and rolled”, and as much as I love music my live mojo has been in retirement, bar supporting local folk gigs. However, when a band as classy as … Continue reading
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Tagged AOR, Arlington Arts Centre, classic rock, Collateral, FM, gig, melodic rock, Newbury, review, rock, Saturday 18 May 2024, Steve Overland
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Single review: SPREADING THE DISEASE – Addicted
Website [Release date 17.05.24] Kent based metal muthas Spreading the Disease have been on hiatus since late 2019, whilst undergoing a major line up, change, then Covid, Brexit and other reasons the band had to deal with. Now Spreading the Disease are … Continue reading
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Tagged Addicted, metal, nu-metal, review, screamo, single, Spreading The Disease
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Album review: ROCKY ATHAS – Livin My Best Life
Pete Feenstra chatted to Rocky Athas for his show on Get Ready to ROCK! Radio, playing tracks from the album ‘Living My Best Life’. First broadcast 12 May 2024. Cherryburst Records [Release date 10.03.24] ‘Living My Best Life’ is Rocky … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Bob Dylan, Buddy Miles, Don Nix, Double Trouble, Freddie King, Free, Gary Moore, Glenn Hughes, guitar, Jared Watson, Jeff Beck, John Mayall, Larry Samford, Leon Russell, Leslie West, Lightning, Livin My Best Life, Mick Jagger, Paul Kossoff, Peter Green, review, Robin Trower, Rocky Athas, Roky Athas11, Walter Watson
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Album review: MANDOKI SOULMATES – A Memory Of Our Future
Red Rock Music/Inside Out Music [Release date 10.05.24] I think it fair to say that Leslie Mandoki doesn’t do things half-arsed. Several years ago a couple of reissues were accompanied by an expansive press kit, a real thick tome that … Continue reading
Album review: T BEAR – The Way Of The World
Pete Feenstra chatted to T Bear for his feature show on Get Ready to ROCK! Radio and featuring tracks from the new album ‘The Way Of The World’. First broadcast 19 May 2024. Quarto Valley Records [Release date 22.03.24] ‘Way … Continue reading
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Tagged album, blues, Bo Diddley, Bob Dylan, Dr John, funk, interview, Laurence Juber, Leon Russell, Paul Rogers, radio, Randy Newman, review, Richard T Bear, rock, singer, songwriter, Steely Dan, T. Bear, The Beatles, Tony Braunagel, Walter Trout, Way of the World
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Album review: THESE WICKED RIVERS – Force Of Nature
Fat Earth Records [Released date 01.03.24] This is a perfectly formed second album from Derby’s finest. Formed in 2014, the band combine elements of southern, classic and heavy rock. The title track is a great calling card and guaranteed to … Continue reading
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Tagged album, classic rock, Force Of Nature, heavy rock, review, southern rock, These Wicked Rivers
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Album review: THE TREATMENT – Wake Up The Neighbourhood (plus album launch, 11 May 2024)
Frontiers [Release date 10.05.24] The Treatment have released their much-anticipated 6th studio album, “Wake Up The Neighbourhood”, after teasing us with singles that could only hint at the epic masterpiece that was to follow. For the uninitiated, The Treatment are … Continue reading
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Tagged album, album launch show, Cambridge, classic rock, Frontiers, gig, hard rock, Laurie Mansworth, Mansworth, MASH, NWOCR, review, rock, Saturday 11 May 2024, The Treatment, Tom Rampton, Wake Up The Neighbourhood
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Album review: MARISA AND THE MOTHS – What Doesn’t Kill You
Tonesick Records [Release date 03.05.24] I first became aware of Marisa And The Moths during Lockdown and they ultimately produced some excellent stripped back versions of their songs, not least a truly wonderful version of ‘Choke’. At that time they … Continue reading
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Tagged album, hard rock, heavy rock, Marisa And The Moths, review, What Doesn't Kill You
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Album review: ATTIC THEORY – What We Fear The Most
ThunderGun Records [Release date 26.04.24] It shows an album’s strength when four tracks are pre-released as “singles”. There could have been more. The debut album from this Liverpool band is a great example of burgeoning home grown talent in 2024. … Continue reading
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Album review: TYLER BRYANT & THE SHAKEDOWN – Electrified
Rattle Shake Records [Release date 10.05.24] Album number six from Tyler Bryant & the Shakedown who still don’t look old enough to have made so many albums. Seemingly down to a trio of Tyler Bryant (vocals, guitar) Caleb Crosby (drums), … Continue reading
Album review: BLACK SABBATH – Anno Domini 1989-1995
BMG [Release date 31.05.24] Another solid box from BMG, and four long out-of-print albums get a release. This set features Headless Cross (1989), Tyr (1990), Cross Purposes (1994) and Forbidden (1995). And before anyone goes “The Tony Martin Years”, this … Continue reading
Album review: DEMON – Invincible
Frontiers [Release date 17.05.24] You’d be forgiven for thinking you’d stepped back in time to the late 70s/early 80s, as the first half of 2024 has seen new albums from the likes of Magnum, Saxon, Judas Priest, Praying Mantis, Tygers … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Dave Hill, DEMON, hard rock, Invincible, melodic hard rock, metal, Neil Ogden, NWOBHM, review
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Book review: On track…THE DIVINE COMEDY by Alan Draper
Sonicbond Publishing [Publication date 29.02.24] At end of the 1980s Neil Hannon formed his first line-up of The Divine Comedy. In 1989, he signed a deal with independent label, Setanta Records, which led to The Divine Comedy becoming the label’s … Continue reading
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Tagged Alan Draper, alt pop, book, indie, indie pop, Neil Hannon, On Track...THE DIVINE COMEDY, pop, review, rock, The Duckworth Lewis Method, Thomas Walsh
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EP review: REVENANT – What A Time To Be Alive
Facebook [Release date 10.05.24] Revenant are a new band, although the band’s members have plenty of musical experience, with Sugarman Sam (vocals, guitars) and Matthew Hudson (guitars) both previously in the Dead Jackals. They are joined bassist Robin Nutley and drummer Carl D. … Continue reading
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Tagged blues rock, EP, hard rock, Revenant, review, rock, southern rock, What a Time to Be Alive
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Book review: On track…OASIS, NEIL YOUNG, AC/DC, PROCOL HARUM (every album, every song)
Sonicbond Publishing www.sonicbondpublishing.com [Publication dates 26.01.24*, 29.02.24**, 05.04.24***, 10.05.24****] The wide spread of the On Track… series is confirmed by Paul Tornbohm’s dissection of Carpenters*. Surveying the pop duo’s output from 1969, Tornbohm approaches his task from the viewpoint of a … Continue reading
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Tagged AC/DC, book, Brit Pop, Carpenters, classic rock, hard rock, INXS, Neil Young, Oasis, On Track, pop, pop rock, Procol Harum, review
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Album review: DEFECTS – Modern Error
Mascot Records [Release date 24.05.24] ‘Modern Error’ is breathtakingly raw with emotion. Conceptually, it is a deeply cathartic album that acts as a vessel for singer Tony Maue to organise his thoughts on the trauma of being taken into care … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Defects, Mascot records, metal, Modern Error, modern metal, review, Tony Maue
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Album review: JACK BADCOCK – Cosmography
www.jackbadcock.com [Release date 03.05.24] Jack Badcock is best known as frontman and founding member of Dallahan. After releasing ‘The Driftwood Project’ EP in 2021 we now arrive in 2024 and Jack Badcock releases his first solo album. Jack plays guitar, … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Cosmography, Dallahan, folk, Jack Badcock, jazz, prog, review, singer songwriter, Siobhan Miller
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Gig review: WALTER TROUT – The Alhambra Theater, Paris, 30 April 2024
Walter Trout in Paris is an opportunity not to be missed and so it proves as Walter and his road tested band bring a capacity seated audience to its feet On a personal note it’s 35 years since I first … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Americana, ballads, beth Hart, blues, boogie, Brett Smith-Daniel, Canned Heat, Dee Snider, Don Nix, Floyd Lee, John Lee Hooker, John Mayall Blues Breakers, Jon Avila, Michael Leasure, review, rock, Roland Bakker, The Alhambra Theater, Walter Trout
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Album review: SHADES OF PLATO – Blackout
Platonic Arrangements [Release date 20.06.24] shadesofplato1.bandcamp.com/ Any album with a song title ‘Bacteria With Shoes’ demands attention. And you’ll find it on the third album from gothic rockers Shades Of Plato. By their own admission this album predicts a post-pandemic apocalypse … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Blackout, hard rock, New Wave, prog, review, Shades Of Plato
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Album review: VARIOUS – Reimagining The Court Of The Crimson King
Purple Pyramid Records [Release date 19.04.24] King Crimson’s 1969 album is one of the most significant and influential prog albums and here gets a fresh coat of paint courtesy of a stellar gathering of prog and fusion A listers. And, … Continue reading
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Tagged Alan Davey, album, Arthur Brown, Brian Auger, James LaBrie, Joe Lynn Turner, King Crimson, Mel Collins, Paul Rudolph, prog, Progressive Rock, Reimagining The Court Of The Crimson King, review, Steve Hillage, Todd Rundgren
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EP review: LITTLE FIREWORKS – Where Did the Light Go
Instagram [Release date 12.04.24] Little Fireworks are Scott Viney & Pierce Kavanagh, two lifelong friends from London who have been writing music together for over 7 years, in different projects, across various roles. Like many bands, the 2020 pandemic played … Continue reading
