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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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Featured Album Reviews
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Album review: CASEY MAUNDER – Get Out and Push
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Album review: BLUES CARAVAN 2019 (Katarina Pejak, Ina Forsman, Ally Venable)
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Album review: DAVE KERZNER – Breakdown – A Compilation 1995 – 2019
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Album review: BIG COUNTRY – Out Beyond The River, The Compulsion Years Anthology
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Album review : FRANCIS ROSSI & HANNAH RICKARD – We Talk Too Much (2024 vinyl version with bonus track)
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Album review: STEVE TILLING – CIRCU5
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Gig review: MARTIN TURNER – Cabbage Patch, Twickenham, 7 March 2024
2023 saw Martin Turner revisit the 50th anniversary of Wishbone Ash’s seminal live album Live Dates. This year though, he and his band are fast forwarding seven years to do a similar retrospective with ‘Live Dates Volume II’. (as, incidentally, … Continue reading
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Tagged Danny Willson, Eel Pie Club, gig, Live Dates Volume Two, Martin Turner, Misha Nikolic, Sonny Flint, Wishbone Ash
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Gig review: GUN – 100 Club, London, 29 February 2024
Gun’s profile is set to be higher in 2024 than at any time since they reformed, with songs being used in a Samuel L Jackson movie, festival dates already announced and most importantly a new album in ‘Hombres’, their first … Continue reading
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Tagged Dante Gizzi, gig, Guliano Gizzi, Gun, Hombres
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Gig review: JOANNE SHAW TAYLOR- Indigo2, London, 22 February 2024
2024 is a big year for Joanne Shaw Taylor with a new album ‘Heavy Soul’ on the way, and already a single release, and a UK tour including this, her biggest London headline show to date, albeit in the Indigo’s … Continue reading
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Tagged blues, blues rock, Connor Selby, gig, Joanne Shaw Taylor
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Gig review: BRAVE RIVAL – Thames Side Brewery, Staines,18 February 2024
One of my biggest discoveries of 2023 was Brave Rival (a belated one, I know, as this website first marked them as a band to watch in 2019). I saw them three times during the year but the one that … Continue reading
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Tagged Billy Dedman, blues rock, Brave Rival, Chloe Josephine, Donna Peters, Ed Clarke, gig, Lindsey Bonnick
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Gig review: SWEET CRISIS- The Cavern, Raynes Park, London, 17 February 2024
Cambridge based Sweet Crisis have been on the scene for quite a few years, peddling a classic rock imbued with large dollops of blues and soul. I’d only seen them before on a couple of impressive and well received support … Continue reading
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Tagged blues rock, gig, Leo Robarts, Piers Mortimer, Rob Bullock, Sweet Crisis, The Cavern
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Album review: VEGA – Battlelines
Frontiers Records [Release Date 08.09.23] First of all an apology – Vega’s seventh album was released in Autumn 2023 but dropped under my reviewing radar at the time! It is the first since the departure of the Martin Brothers who … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Battlelines, Billy Taylor, Marcus Thurston, melodic rock, Nick Workman, Pete Newdeck, Vega
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Gig review: JACK J. HUTCHINSON – 02 Academy 2, Islington, London, 8 February 2024
Going somewhat under the radar, except for those in the know, Jack J Hutchinson has just put out his fourth album in the last few years, ‘Battles’, receiving a rave review from Jason Ritchie in the pages of GRTR! For … Continue reading
Gig review: LUKE MORLEY- Islington Academy, London, 31 January 2024
With Thunder off the road for the foreseeable future, Luke Morley has been able to devote more significant time to his solo work. Last year’s ‘Songs from the Blue Room’, a mellow collection of songs sounding nothing like his main … Continue reading
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Tagged Chris Childs, Dean Howard, gig, Hillbilly Vegas, Jack Taylor, Luke Morley, Sam Tanner, Thunder
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Gig review: LEAFHOUND- Camden Underworld, London, 26 January 2024
Many of us would like to attend a gig by our favourite artists to mark a milestone birthday. Only a select few though have the contacts to actually put on a special concert, but Darius Drewe is one such. He’s … Continue reading
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Tagged Cosmo, Darius Drewe, Dave Winkler, Dominic French, gig, Heavy Metal Kids, Keith Boyce, Leafhound, Luke Rayner, Peter French, Peter Herbert, Simon Gordon, Star Circus
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Gig review: JANUARY BLUES FESTIVAL (Laurence Jones, Ben Poole) – The Forge, Camden, London, 23 and 24 January 2024
For many years now the January Blues Festival has given the traditionally quiet gig calendar a welcome boost in that most depressing of months and showcased a variety of artists old and new. The 100 Club was its traditional habitat … Continue reading
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Tagged Ben Poole, blues rock, festival, gig, Guy Smeets, January Blues Festival, Laurence Jones
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Album review: SAXON – Hell, Fire and Damnation
Silver Lining Music [Release Date 19.1.24] The fact that Saxon were one of the inductees in GRTR!’s ‘Grotto of Greatness’, marking significant acts from our first 20 years, tells you all you need to know about the ability of the … Continue reading
Gig review: HALESTORM – Wembley Arena, London, 9 December 2023
Halestorm have maintained a continuous but steady upward trend in popularity on the UK. Nearly 14 years after I first saw them open up for Theory of a Deadman and Heaven’s Basement at the Electric Ballroom, came a career highlight, … Continue reading
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Tagged Arejay Hale, Black Veil Brides, gig, Halestorm, Joe Hottinger, Josh Smith, Lzzy Hale, Mothica
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Gig review: FM – The Forum, Tunbridge Wells, 1 December 2023
Yet another busy gigging year in FM’s ever hard working calendar ended in the unlikely surroundings of Tunbridge Wells, the genteel Kent town famous for its spa and the mythical disgusted letter-writing retired colonel. Its commutable from both the South … Continue reading
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Tagged AOR, Ben Christo, Diamond Black, FM, gig, Jem Davis, Jim Kirkpatrick, melodic rock, Merv Goldsworthy, Pete Jupp, Steve Overland
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Gig review: ULI JON ROTH- The Garage, London, 28 November 2023
A regular on the gig circuit before the pandemic, this was Uli Jon Roth’s first UK tour since, and a particularly welcome return to the stage as he has recovered from major surgery earlier this year. Coming on relatively late … Continue reading
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Tagged David Klosinski, Electric Sun, gig, Niklas Thurmann, Scorpions, Uli Jon Roth
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Gig review: THE NEW ROSES- Downstairs at the Dome, London, 26 November 2023
Despite rave reviews, German rockers The New Roses have yet to achieve the success they deserve in the UK. We can speculate about the reason for this- one being that though they defy pigeonholing, their sound is totally un-German! Hopefully … Continue reading
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Tagged Dizzy Daniels, Empyre, gig, Henrik Steenholdt, melodic rock, New Wave of Classic Rock, Norman Bites, the New Roses, Timmy Rough, Urban Berz
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Gig review: THE ANSWER – Islington Assembly Hall, London, 16 November 2023
It’s been quite a year for The Answer after breaking their five year hiatus to regroup and record a new album ‘Sundowners’. At a 100 Club gig in the Spring that largely showcased the new album I was initially unimpressed, … Continue reading
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Tagged blues rock, Cara Bruns, Cormac Neeson, gig, James Heatley, Kira Mac, Micky Waters, Paul Mahon, THE ANSWER
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Gig review: SUZI QUATRO – London Palladium, 15 November 2023
Celebrating a remarkable 50 years as a trailblazing woman in rock since ‘Can the Can’ became her first hit single and reached No 1, Suzi Quatro followed up last year’s superb one off Royal Albert Hall gig with a longer … Continue reading
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Tagged Boy George, gig, glam rock, Glen Matlock, Jez Davies, Suzi Quatro, Tim Scott, Tommy Schneller
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Gig review: GRETA VAN FLEET – Wembley Arena, London, 14 November 2023
We’re always being told that rock, or at least classic blues based heavy rock, no longer appeals to young people and that limits the scope for the much needed new generation of bands to progress to mass market popularity. Michigan … Continue reading
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Tagged blues rock, Danny Wagner. Hannah Wicklund, gig, Greta Van Fleet, Jake Kiszka, Josh Kiszka, Led Zeppelin, Mt.Joy, Sam Kiszka
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Gig review: RUSS BALLARD- Nell’s Jazz and Blues, West Kensington, London, 9 November 2023
As someone for whom the PRS cheques roll in every time his famous songs are played, Russ Ballard has no need to go out in tour for the money, so his newly prolific touring in the UK must be for … Continue reading
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Tagged AOR, Argent, gig, John Miller, Marc Rapson, melodic rock, PJ Phillips, Roly Jones, Russ Ballard, singer songwriter
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Gig review: THE DUST CODA- Dingwalls, London, 28 October 2023
Rather more quietly than some of their other contemporaries in the New Wave of Classic Rock movement, The Dust Coda have been building a name for themselves, and 2023 has been a busy year, with a second straight top 40 … Continue reading
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Tagged Adam Mackie, Doomsday Outlaw, gig, John Drake, New Wave of Classic Rock, The Dust Coda
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Gig review: GLENN HUGHES – Electric Ballroom, London, 25 October 2023
In Glenn Hughes’ distinguished and chequered career, his time in Deep Purple is a gift that keeps giving. Songs from his tenure with them have always formed a big part of his solo shows and indeed for many years (until … Continue reading
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Tagged Ash Sheehan, Bob Fridzema, Deep Purple, gig, Glenn Hughes, Soren Andersen, The Damn Truth
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Gig review: DOM MARTIN – Cabbage Patch, Twickenham, 19 October 2023
Any blues rock guitarist emerging from Ireland will face invariable and daunting comparisons with the very best in Rory Gallagher (and that’s before we even get started on Gary Moore). One such, Dom Martin, has been receiving rave reviews and … Continue reading
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Tagged blues rock, Buried in the Hail, Dom Martin, Eel Pie Club, gig
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Gig review: THOSE DAMN CROWS- The Forum, London, 17 October 2023
This show had a lovely sense of symmetry for me. Just over five years ago my first sighting of Those Damn Crows was here at the Forum, opening a four band bill headlined by the Quireboys. I remember being struck … Continue reading
Gig review: KEITH ST.JOHN- Devonshire Arms, Camden, 9 October 2023
The measure of a singer can be found in the offers they get to fill the boots of famous predecessors. Best known as the frontman for Burning Rain- whose guitarist Doug Aldrich should recognise a good singer having worked with … Continue reading
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Tagged acoustic, Burning Rain, gig, Jack Frost, John, Keith St, Kingdom Come, Lynch Mob, Montrose, Myke Gray
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Album review: PAUL RODGERS – Midnight Rose
Sun Records [Release date 22.09.23] I feared Paul Rodgers distinguished career might quietly be over when there was an ominous lack of activity in his camp either side of the pandemic, and indeed it has subsequently emerged that he has … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Bad Company, blues rock, Free, Midnight Rose, Paul Rodgers, review
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