Author Archives: andynathan

Gig review: DARE – Islington Academy, London, 27 October 2022

Posted on November 9, 2022 by andynathan

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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Gig review: CATS IN SPACE – Sub 89, Reading, 26 October 2022

Posted on November 7, 2022 by andynathan

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 →

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Gig review: WISHBONE ASH – Islington Academy, London, 21 October 2022

Posted on October 31, 2022 by andynathan

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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Gig review: DEEP PURPLE – O2 Arena, London, 20 October 2022

Posted on October 30, 2022 by andynathan

DEEP PURPLE- O2 Arena, London, 20 0ctober 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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Gig review: H.E.A.T. – Electric, Brixton, London, 18 October 2022

Posted on October 25, 2022 by andynathan

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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Album review: RICHARD MARX – Songwriter

Posted on October 23, 2022 by andynathan

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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Gig review: MONSTER TRUCK- Islington Assembly Hall, London, 11 October 2022

Posted on October 23, 2022 by andynathan

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 →

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Gig review: THE SHEEPDOGS – Electric Ballroom, London, 9 October 2022

Posted on October 19, 2022 by andynathan

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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Gig review: URIAH HEEP – London Palladium, 5 October 2022

Posted on October 13, 2022 by andynathan

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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Gig review: RICHARD MARX – Union Chapel, London, 3 October 2022

Posted on October 11, 2022 by andynathan

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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Gig review: SARI SCHORR- Boom Boom Club, Sutton, 30 September 2022

Posted on October 10, 2022 by andynathan

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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Gig review: THE BLACK CROWES- Brixton Academy, London, 26 September 2022

Posted on October 5, 2022 by andynathan

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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Gig review: INGLORIOUS – Camden Underworld, London, 28 September 2022

Posted on October 4, 2022 by andynathan

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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Gig review: CARDINAL BLACK- The Garage, London, 22 September 2022

Posted on September 28, 2022 by andynathan

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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Gig review: RECKLESS LOVE- Electric Ballroom, London, 6 September 2022

Posted on September 20, 2022 by andynathan

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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Gig review: ELECTRIC BOYS- Camden Underworld, 24 August 2022

Posted on September 14, 2022 by andynathan

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 →

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Gig review: A NEW DAY FESTIVAL- Mount Ephraim Gardens, Faversham, Kent, 19-21 August 2022

Posted on September 13, 2022 by andynathan

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 →

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Gig review: FIRESTORM MCR – Whitebottom Farm, Stockport, 12-14 August 2022

Posted on September 5, 2022 by andynathan

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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Album review: H.E.A.T. – Force Majeure

Posted on August 4, 2022 by andynathan

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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Album review: PALACE- One 4 The Road

Posted on August 1, 2022 by andynathan

Frontiers Records (Release date 15.07.22) Swedish man of many talents Michael Palace is back with his latest recreation of vintage AOR. Like its predecessor ‘Rock and Roll Radio’ 18 months ago he sings and plays all instruments himself, writes and … Continue reading →

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Album review: OUSEY MANN – Is Anybody Listening

Posted on July 25, 2022 by andynathan

Escape Music (Release date 24.06.22) Both Chris Ousey and Steve Mann have been on the UK rock scene as long as I can remember –the former singing with Virginia Wolf, Heartland and Snakecharmer among others, the latter the loyal sideman … Continue reading →

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Book Review: DECADES – Free and Bad Company in the 1970s by John Van der Kiste

Posted on July 19, 2022 by andynathan

Sonicbond Publishing (Publication Date 29.04.22) The latest in the Decades series, that delves in detail into the most productive phase of a band’s career, is one with a difference. It spans the activity of two separate bands, Free and Bad … Continue reading →

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Gig review: THE ROLLING STONES – British Summer Time, Hyde Park, 3 July 2022

Posted on July 11, 2022 by andynathan

The Rolling Stones have become the first of the rock n roll generation to celebrate sixty years as a band, a remarkable achievement for music that many would originally have dismissed as a passing fad. Their legacy is secure, not … Continue reading →

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Gig review: EAGLES – British Summer Time, Hyde Park, 26 June 2022

Posted on July 4, 2022 by andynathan

In a week that saw performances from the most legendary names in British rock history- Paul McCartney at Glastonbury, Queen’s residency at the O2 and Elton John and the Stones on the preceding two nights in Hyde Park – it … Continue reading →

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Gig review: QUEEN + ADAM LAMBERT – 02 Arena, London, 20 June 2022

Posted on June 28, 2022 by andynathan

Nearly 50 years since they first emerged, there seems to be an endless appetite for the music of Queen- just look at your Freeview channel schedules packed with documentaries or archive concerts. Indeed public interest in them reached arguably its … Continue reading →