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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: PAUL COX – Man Out Of Time
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Album review: JACK RUSSELL’S GREAT WHITE – He Saw It Comin’
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Album review: MANY THINGS – Burn Together
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Album review: BLACKBERRY SMOKE – Find A Light
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Gig review: DANNY VAUGHN – The Grace, London, 4 December 2022
Danny Vaughn was one of those troubadours who made lockdown life more bearable for rock fans with his ‘Vaughnsday’ on line acoustic performances from his living room. The pandemic had interrupted his usual busy schedule, whether solo, with Tyketto or … Continue reading
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Tagged 4 December 2022, acoustic, Danny Vaughn, gig, London, melodic rock, The Grace, Tyketto
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Album review: JESS HAYES BAND- On My Own
Independent (Release Date 2021) Jess Hayes has a distinguished musical pedigree as the daughter of Val Cowell and Richard Hayes of long-running blues rockers Bad Influence, and has been making a name with her own band on the South and … Continue reading
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Tagged Bad Influence, Jess Hayes, Jess Hayes Band, pop rock, Richard Hayes, soul, Val Cowell
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Album review: PERFECT PLAN- Brace for Impact
Frontiers Records (release date 14.10.22) Of the multitude of Scandinavian melodic rock bands to emerge in recent years, Perfect Plan have been one of the best. Indeed their second album ‘Time for a Miracle’ was my album of 2020. The … Continue reading
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Tagged album, AOR, Kent Hilli, melodic rock, Perfect Plan
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Gig review: SQUEEZE- Hammersmith Apollo, London, 19 November 2022
Squeeze’s hit making days may be long behind them but the band have a remarkable longevity: as Chris Difford mentioned from the stage, he and Glenn Tilbrook have now been writing together for 50 years. However rather than being reduced … Continue reading
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Tagged 19 November 2022-, Chris Difford, gig, Glenn Tilbrook, Hammersmith Apollo, London, Melvin Duffy, New Wave, pop rock, Squeeze, Stephen Large
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Gig review: PETER FRAMPTON – Royal Albert Hall, London, 8 November 2022
In 2019 Peter Frampton broke the sad news that he had a progressive muscle weakening disorder and embarked on a farewell tour, which I was lucky enough to catch that summer at Red Rocks Amphitheatre in Colorado. Dates for his … Continue reading
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Tagged Adam Lester, Cardinal Black, Chris Buck, classic rock, gig, guitarist, Peter Frampton, Rob Arthur, Tom Hollister
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Gig review: KINGDOM OF MADNESS- 100 Club, London, 28 October 2022
When Mark Stanway abruptly quit Magnum midway through a tour late in 2016, a significant trinity was broken up, as he had been the longest serving band member after Bob Catley and Tony Clarkin, his keys playing a big part … Continue reading
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Tagged 100 Club, 28 October 2022, classic rock, gig, Kingdom Of Madness, London, Magnum, Mark Pascall, Mark Stanway, melodic rock, Mickey Barker, Mo Birch, review
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Gig review: DARE – Islington Academy, London, 27 October 2022
2022 has been Dare’s most active year in some while. Spring saw the release of their first album in six years, and their most convincing in a long time, in ‘Road To Eden’ and now came an extensive autumn tour, … Continue reading
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Tagged AOR, Dare, Darren Wharton, gig, Marc Roberts, melodic rock, Nigel Clutterbuck, Troy Redfern, Vinny Burns
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Gig review: CATS IN SPACE – Sub 89, Reading, 26 October 2022
2022 has seen the release of what for me is Cats in Space’s finest hour yet in their fifth studio release ‘Kickstart the Sun’. The double album fully justified their decision last year to curtail some tour dates to concentrate … Continue reading
Gig review: WISHBONE ASH – Islington Academy, London, 21 October 2022
Classic rock’s golden age is now giving us half century celebrations of bands and landmark albums. One such – indeed my all time favourite album – is Wishbone Ash’s ‘Argus’, which was voted album of the year by Melody Maker … Continue reading
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Tagged 21 October 2022, Andy Powell, Argus, Bob Skeat, classic rock, gig, Islington Academy, London, Mark Abrahams, Mike Truscott, twin guitars, Wishbone Ash
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Gig review: DEEP PURPLE – O2 Arena, London, 20 October 2022
Deep Purple’s distinguished career is being extended by a late period, dare I say, Purple patch. Albums seem to be coming at a swifter rate and 2020’s ‘Whoosh’ received the band’s best reviews and chart placings in years, being followed … Continue reading
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Tagged 20 October 2022, Blue Oyster Cult, classic rock, Deep Purple, Don Airey, gig, Ian Gillan, O2 Arena, review, Roger Glover, Simon McBride
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Gig review: H.E.A.T. – Electric, Brixton, London, 18 October 2022
Since H.E.A.T’s London show was first announced in early 2020 a lot has happened. The show was postponed twice, the venue switched and Vega dropped off the bill after refusing to play second fiddle to the fast rising Mason Hill. … Continue reading
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Tagged Collateral, Crash, Dave Dalone, gig, H.E.A.T., Jimmy Jay, Jona Tee, Kenny Leckremo, Mason Hill, melodic rock
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Album review: RICHARD MARX – Songwriter
Shelter Records (Release date 30.09.22) Only a year after releasing his last album. ‘Limitless’, Richard Marx is back with perhaps his most ambitious work yet. The very title suggests that despite a solo career which made him one of the … Continue reading
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Tagged album, melodic rock, review, Richard Marx, singer songwriter, songwriter
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Gig review: MONSTER TRUCK- Islington Assembly Hall, London, 11 October 2022
The main stage Saturday lineup at this year’s Download Festival was enlivened by two fine mid afternoon performances, one after the other, from Those Damn Crows, then Monster Truck. A bout of severe hay fever had stopped me fully enjoying … Continue reading
Gig review: THE SHEEPDOGS – Electric Ballroom, London, 9 October 2022
There seems no end to a newer generation of bands drawing their inspiration from the classic rock sounds of the late sixties and seventies. One such are The Sheepdogs, from Saskatchewan in rural Canada, though they have actually been around … Continue reading
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Tagged blues rock, classic rock, Ewan Currie, gig, Ricky Pacquette, Ryan Gullen, Sam Corbett, Shamus Currie, The Hanging Stars, The Sheepdogs
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Gig review: URIAH HEEP – London Palladium, 5 October 2022
I wonder what the famous critic of their first album who threatened to commit suicide if they made it would think of Uriah Heep celebrating 50 years. Through that time the band, and sole remaining original member Mick Box in … Continue reading
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Tagged 5 October 2022, Bernie Shaw, classic rock, Dave Rimmer, gig, London Palladium, Mick Box, Phil Lanzon, Russell Gilbrook, Uriah Heep
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Gig review: RICHARD MARX – Union Chapel, London, 3 October 2022
Autumn 2022 has seen a number of eagerly awaited shows announced pre-Covid finally come to fruition. One such is Richard Marx, who after his first UK show in ages supporting Barbara Streisand at Hyde Park then announced some solo acoustic … Continue reading
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Tagged acoustic, AOR, gig, melodic rock, Richard Marx, singer songwriter
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Gig review: SARI SCHORR- Boom Boom Club, Sutton, 30 September 2022
Sari Schorr began her second tour of the UK this year at the Boom Boom Club, run by GRTR’s own Pete Feenstra, a suitable venue as in his stage introduction he mentioned that other noted bluesmen who had played the … Continue reading
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Tagged Adrian Gautrey, Ash Wilson, blues rock, Boom Boom Club, Eddy Smith, gig, Mat Beable, Phil Wilson, Sari Schorr
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Gig review: THE BLACK CROWES- Brixton Academy, London, 26 September 2022
Back in 1990, the Black Crowes ‘Shake Your Moneymaker’ was an out of the box success to rank with other classic debut albums out of America, from Montrose, Van Halen, Boston and Guns’n’Roses. It was an album out of its … Continue reading
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Tagged Black Crowes, blues rock, Chris Robinson, gig, Reef, Rich Robinson, Shake Your Moneymaker, southern rock
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Gig review: INGLORIOUS – Camden Underworld, London, 28 September 2022
For an act for whom big things seemed inevitable after a flying start to their career and backing from major industry figures, Inglorious are starting to find themselves at a career crossroads. Over the course of their last three London … Continue reading
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Tagged Dan Stevens, Danny Delacruz, gig, hard rock, Inglorious, melodic rock, Nathan James, Phil Beaver
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Gig review: CARDINAL BLACK- The Garage, London, 22 September 2022
Cardinal Black are a new band with an unexpectedly old heritage. I knew guitarist Chris Buck, from his work as an exceptionally talented guitarist in Buck and Evans, one of the most interesting of the new generation of blues-rock bands, … Continue reading
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Tagged blues rock, Cardinal Black, Chris Buck, gig, Laura Evans, soul, Tom Hollister
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Gig review: RECKLESS LOVE- Electric Ballroom, London, 6 September 2022
For most of the first half of the 2010’s, Reckless Love were regular fixtures in the UK with their colourful and fun pastiche of the eighties heyday of glam and cock rock. However after a poor fourth album in ‘Invader’ … Continue reading
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Tagged Collateral, gig, glam rock, Jalle Verne, melodic rock, Oli Herman, Pepe, Reckless Love, The Treatment
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Gig review: ELECTRIC BOYS- Camden Underworld, 24 August 2022
It’s been a long time since their moment in the sun at the height of the funk-rock heyday of 1989/90 but the Electric Boys have been regular visitors to these shores since reforming in the late 2000’s. However this was … Continue reading
Gig review: A NEW DAY FESTIVAL- Mount Ephraim Gardens, Faversham, Kent, 19-21 August 2022
In the beautiful setting of the grounds of Mount Ephraim House deep in the ‘Garden of England’, A New Day Festival has always intrigued me with some impressive line ups, mainly, though not exclusively, featuring classic bands from the seventies, … Continue reading
Gig review: FIRESTORM MCR – Whitebottom Farm, Stockport, 12-14 August 2022
One of the consequences of the current wretched state of our world in 2022 is that, even though live music has returned from its Covid hiatus, travelling abroad for both fans and bands has become logistically more difficult, and we … Continue reading
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Tagged Attic Theory, A’priori, Bad Touch, Bastette, Black Roze, Buck And Evans, Empyre, festival, Firekind, Firestorm, Firestorm MCR, Florence Black, FM, gig, Gorilla Riot, Inglorious, King Herd, King King, Mason Hill, New Wave of Classic Rock, NWOCR, Phil Campbell and the Bastard Sons, Revival Black, Ryders Creed, Scarlet Rebels, Scruffy Bear, South Of Salem, Stone Broken, The Dust Coda, The Hot Damn, The Quireboys, The Treatment, These Wicked Rivers, Those Damn Crows, Unknown Refuge, Valhalla Awaits, Wayward Sons
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Album review: H.E.A.T. – Force Majeure
earMUSIC [Release date 05.08.22] H.E.A.T’s seventh album has been anticipated with some curiosity. 2020’s misleadingly entitled ‘H.E.A.T II’ was a refreshing return to their trademark anthemic melodic rock sound, after the experimental ‘Into The Great Unknown’ but singer Erik Gronwall, … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Dave Dalone, H.E.A.T., Jona Tee, Kenny Leckremo, melodic rock
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