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Album review: ROBERT REED – Sanctuary IV
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Gig review: BLACK STONE CHERRY – Royal Albert Hall, London, 29 September 2021
Black Stone Cherry have a unique relationship with the UK. The Kentucky rockers broke big over here while still young and their home country to this day has struggled to catch up. Their popularity has continued through hard work and … Continue reading
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Tagged Ben Wells, Black Stone Cherry, Chris Robertson, gig, hard rock, John Fred Young, Kris Barras, Kris Barras Band, southern rock
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Gig review: MASON HILL- Camden Underworld, London, 24 September 2021
Mason Hill have been making up for lost time in more ways than one. The young Scots full-length album seemed to have been ages in the making not least with record company politics, and then just as they were building … Continue reading
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Tagged Empyre, gig, Hollowstar, Jack Bonson, James Bird, Joe Bonson, Mason Hill, New Wave of Classic Rock, NWOCR, Phil Haines, Scott Taylor
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Gig review: THE CINELLI BROTHERS- Cabbage Patch, Twickenham, 16 September 2021
One of the advantages of being an active gig goer is picking up recommendations from like minded ‘gig buddies’ of new acts to discover. One such that were being raved about prior to the pandemic were blues band The Cinelli … Continue reading
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Tagged Alessandro Cinelli, blues, blues rock, Cabbage Patch, Cinelli Brothers, Eel Pie Club, gig, Marco Cinelli, Tom Julian-Jones
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Gig review: LEAFHOUND- Cabbage Patch, Twickenham, 9 September 2021
The long and intriguing history of Leafhound is now entering a new chapter. Their sole 1971 album, released after the band had already split, has subsequently become a cult classic especially among the stoner rock community, with original vinyl copies … Continue reading
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Tagged classic rock, Dominic French, gig, Leafhound, Peter French, Peter Herbert, Tom Smith
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Album review: INGLORIOUS- Heroine
Frontiers Records (Release Date 10.09.21) In the seventies it was not uncommon for bands to release two albums a year but it is virtually unheard of these days. So I was surprised when I learned that a little over six … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Covers, Inglorious, melodic rock, Nathan James
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Album review: NEWMAN – Into The Monsters’ Playground
AOR Heaven (Release date 10.09.21) For a remarkable near quarter of a century Steve Newman has turned out a series of finely crafted albums. He never remotely hinted at the big time, but as compensation his name enjoys almost universal … Continue reading
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Tagged album, AOR, melodic rock, NEWMAN, Steve Newman
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Gig review: CONNOR SELBY BAND- Cabbage Patch, Twickenham, 26 August 2021
Essex-based Connor Selby is a name to watch in the blues world: he was awarded young artist of the year two years running in the UK blues awards, and even came to the attention of the Who’s management and opened … Continue reading
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Tagged blues, blues rock, Connor Selby, gig, guitarist, Joe Anderton, Steve Watts
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Album review: BLOOD RED SAINTS- Undisputed
Frontiers Records (Release Date 06.08.21) Blood Red Saints’ fourth album sees them come full circle, not only with a return to Frontiers Records, but to the style of their impressive debut album before exploring a more guitar dominated and modern … Continue reading
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Tagged album, AOR, Blood Red Saints, Lee Revill, melodic rock, Pete Godfrey
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Album review: NIGHT RANGER- ATBPO
Frontiers Records (Release Date 06.08.21) Night Ranger’s first album in four years, the title ‘And the Band Played On’ is a nod to the challenges of making music during the pandemic, though to reduce the album title to its less … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Brad Gillis, Erik Levy, Jack Blades, Kelly Keagy, Kerri Kelli, melodic rock, Night Ranger
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Book review: On Track…TOM PETTY (Every album, every song) by Richard James
SonicBond Publishing (Release Date 30.07.21) The posthumous Tom Petty box set was titled ‘An American Treasure’, a fitting description of a legend of rock who did things on his own terms and has perhaps only been fully appreciated since his … Continue reading
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Tagged book, On Track, Richard James, Tom Petty, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
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Gig review: COLLATERAL – The Cavern, Raynes Park, London, 19 August 2021
Back at the start of 2020, I began what I hoped would be a big gigging year with Collateral at a packed Cavern. It was also promising to be a breakthrough year for the Kent rockers whose first full-length album … Continue reading
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Tagged Angelo Tristan, Collateral, gig, melodic rock, Rob Fenning, Todd Winger
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Gig review: NOZFEST – The 1865, Southampton, 14 August 2021
Oh, how we have missed rock festivals during the pandemic. 2020 proved to be a write-off as Coronavirus proved more stubborn than originally imagined, and with depressing predictability, as spring turned into summer most organisers gave up the unequal struggle … Continue reading
Gig review: ATOMIC ROOSTER- Cabbage Patch, Twickenham, 5 August 2021
For the past 20 years or so the Eel Pie Club have been keeping alive the spirit of the sixties music scene that was so influential in this part of South-West London. As that decade gave way to the seventies, … Continue reading
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Tagged Adrian Gautrey, Atomic Rooster, Eel Pie Club, gig, Pete French, Steve Bolton
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Album review: TOBY HITCHCOCK- Changes
Frontiers Records (Release Date 09.07.21) Less than a year after the latest Pride of Lions album and only two after his ‘Reckoning’ release, powerhouse singer Toby Hitchcock is back in fairly short order with his third solo album. After using … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Alessandro Del Vecchio, AOR, melodic rock, Pride of Lions, Toby Hitchcock
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Album review: MR BIG- Lean Into It (30th anniversary reissue)
EvoXS (Release Date 23.07.21) While their debut appeared a couple of years earlier, it was their sophomore effort, ‘Lean Into It’ in 1991 that marked melodic rock supergroup Mr Big’s finest hour. It is of course remembered for their worldwide … Continue reading
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Tagged Billy Sheehan, Eric Martin, Lean Into It, Mr Big, Paul Gilbert, reissue
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Book review: Decades – FLEETWOOD MAC in the 1970s by Andrew Wild
SonicBond Publishing [Publication date 14.05.21] No band survived the seventies with a more spectacular transformation than Fleetwood Mac. They began it as a successful British blues band who were about to be left reeling by the departure of their founder … Continue reading
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Tagged Andrew Wild, book, Decades, Fleetwood Mac, review
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Gig review: SPIKE- The Cavern, Raynes Park, London, 15 July 2021
There can hardly be a rock fan who has not seen the Quireboys at some point in the last 35 years and whatever their view of the band, warmed to the bibulous, twinkly, laddish charms of singer Spike. The Quireboys’ … Continue reading
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Tagged acoustic, Cavern, Christian Heilmann, gig, Quireboys, Spike
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Book review: Decades – URIAH HEEP in the 1970s by Steve Pilkington
Sonicbond Publishing (Release Date 28.03.21) Following the series of ‘On Track’ releases, reviewing a band’s back catalogue in comprehensive detail, Sonicbond have been moving onto a new ‘decades’ concept in which a band’s history is examined in more detail over … Continue reading
Album review: DENNIS DE YOUNG – 26 East, Volume 2
Frontiers Records (Release date 11.06.21) This is an album I’ve been looking forward to for 12 months since the release of Volume 1. That represented the former Styx singer’s return to his melodic rock roots in far better fashion than … Continue reading
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Tagged album, AOR, Dennis De Young, Jim Peterik, melodic rock, pomp rock, Styx
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Album review: ONE DESIRE – One Night Only- Live in Helsinki (CD/DVD)
Frontiers Records (Release Date 11.06.21) In normal times, it might seem vainglorious for a band to issue a live CD and DVD just two albums into their career. However, in these strange times it is easy to empathise with One … Continue reading
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Tagged album, AOR, live album, melodic rock, One Desire
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Album review: TOTO – With A Little Help From My Friends
The Players Club/Mascot Label Group (Release Date 25.06.21) Last November Toto broadcast a live stream from California, which in the absence of concerts was the only way to introduce to the wider world their new line up in which Steve … Continue reading
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Tagged album, AOR, Joseph Williams, live album, melodic rock, review, Steve Lukather, Toto
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Gig review: PAPA GEORGE AND VAL COWELL- Cabbage Patch, Twickenham, 28 May 2021
A return to normality for gigging is a long way off, just witness the continuing cancellation or postponements of shows into 2022. However at least lockdown has lifted enough for a few socially distanced shows to resume. Last autumn I … Continue reading
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Tagged Bad Influence, blues, blues rock, gig, Papa George, Val Cowell
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Gig review: JIM KIRKPATRICK- The Cavern, Raynes Park, London, 20 May 2021
If 2020 was a desert for live music, the road out of lockdown in 2021 has been an even longer and gloomier slog. Down in South West London, Cavern owner Noel Nevin has been fighting the good fight to stay … Continue reading
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Tagged blues rock, FM, gig, Jim Kirkpatrick, melodic rock, The Cavern
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Album review: MARK SPIRO- Traveling Cowboys
Frontiers Records (Release Date 07.05.21) Best known as a writer for Cheap Trick, Giant, Bad English and others, Mark Spiro’s career has significantly picked up after a dormant few years. Less than a year after the ’2+2= 5‘ triple anthology … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Julian Lennon, Mark Spiro, melodic rock, singer songwriter
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Album review: LEVARA – s/t
Mascot Records [Release Date 14.05.21] So there was an American, an Englishman and a Frenchman…. no, not a set up to one of the world’s oldest forms of joke, but the line up of hotly tipped new melodic rockers Levara. … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Josh Devine, Jules Galli, Levara, melodic rock, Trev Lukather
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