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Interview with JOANNE SHAW TAYLOR – 27 September 2013
‘One night, one shot, no safety net’, such was the background to Joanne Shaw Taylor’s eagerly anticipated live album and DVD. Surprisingly perhaps, it’s her first live album in a career built on the back of incendiary live shows that … Continue reading
Interview with JOHN LEES (Barclay James Harvest) – 17 September 2013
John Lees’ Barclay James Harvest is back with a brand new album called ‘North’. The new CD features 9 new tracks that update the melodic prog rock band’s musical heritage, which is also neatly encapsulated on the accompanying live CD … Continue reading
Gig review: THE GRAVELTONES – Bloomsbury Bowling Lanes,London,17 September 2013
Blink and you’ll miss them. The explosive Graveltones came, saw and conquered with a frenzied, hi-octane, riff driven wall of sound and the kind of visceral intensity not seen since the raw doorstep blues of Hound Dog Taylor. The band … Continue reading
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Tagged AC/DC, Charlie Francis, Don't Wait Down, garage rock, Hound Dog Taylor, Jesse Fuller, Jimmy O, John Otway, Led Zeppelin, Mike Sorbello, review, The Graveltones
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Album review: STEVE HARLEY & COCKNEY REBEL – Birmingham Live With Orchestra & Choir
Comeuppance [Release Date: 14.10.13] The commercial potential of pop or rock music is largely determined by a time, a place and a context. This was never more so than with the ego posturing of Steve Harley (and Cockney Rebel), … Continue reading
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Tagged Andrew Powell, Barry Wickens, Brian Ferry, Cockney Rebel, David Bowie, Ian Anderson, Ian Hunter, James Lascelles, Mark Knopfler, Orchestra Of The Swan and Chamber Choir, Steve Harley, Steve Norman, The Human Menagerie, The Psychomodo
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Album review: GRACE SOLERO – Hundred Years Apart
Wohone Records [Release Date: 30.09.13] Startling Italian vocalist Grace Solero lends her name to an international band whose second album ‘Hundred Years Apart’ is full of full of passionate vocals, poetic lyrics, crashing chords and steely riffs. It’s a thinly … Continue reading
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Tagged Bjork, Bjorn Zetterlund, Dan Beaularier, Grace Solero, grunge, Maurizio Liberato, review, rock, The Edge
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Album review: THE GRAVELTONES – Don’t Wait Down
Lagoon Dog Records [Release Date: 21.10.13] There’s a lot to be said for being in the right place at the right time and The Graveltones are knocking on the door at a time when their balls to wall bombast will … Continue reading
Album review: MOJO MAKERS – Wait Till The Morning
Hypertension Music [Release Date: 16.09.13] Danish blues-rock outfit the Mojo Makers attempt to recycle 70’s blues-rock and give it contemporary twist. Their rough hewn and visceral approach to recording leaves plenty of room for moments of real spark and … Continue reading
Album review: ERIC STECKEL – Dismantle The Sun
Eric Steckel Music [Release Date: 31.10.12] Eric Steckel’s ‘Dismantle The Sun’ was originally released in the States towards the end of last year, but is being belated promoted in the UK on the back of his first proper UK … Continue reading
Album review: JOANNE SHAW TAYLOR – Songs From The Road
Ruf [Release date 04.11.13] There’s nothing like a live album to deliver the bacon. I don’t mean a doctored product with overdubs and the like, but simply a live recording with an expectant audience, a hot band and the recording … Continue reading
Album review: IVAN MIHALJEVIC & SIDE EFFECTS – Counterclockwise
Zeta Factory [Release date 01.04.13] ‘Counterclockwise’ is a concept album of sorts. It’s not an album with a single overbearing theme as such, but more of a cerebral examination of the state of our collective consciousness. Front man Ivan Mihaljevic … Continue reading
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Tagged Alen Frijak, Counterclockwise, Croatia, guitar, Ivan Mihaljevic, Marko Karacic Karo, metal, prog, review, rock, Side Effects
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Album review: PETE BROWN & PHIL RYAN WITH PSOULCHEDELIA – Perils Of Wisdom
Repertoire [Release date 24.06.13] Pete Brown and Phil’s Ryan’s Psoulchedelia is a misleading name for a band whose music only occasionally broaches soul and is not remotely psychedelic. The punned title ‘Perils of Wisdom’ turns out to be an oblique … Continue reading
Album review: THE BLUES BAND – Live At Rockpalast
Repertoire [Release date 10.06.13] The Blues Band ‘Live at Rockpalast’ is that rare thing, a live DVD that connects as much with the viewer at home as the band did with the audience on the night. Too often a multi … Continue reading
Album review: ALVIN LEE & TEN YEARS LATER – Live At Rockpalast
Repertoire [Release date 10.06.13] Alvin Lee & Ten Years Later actually came 5 years after the dissolution of Ten Years After. It was essentially a virtuoso power trio who relentlessly toured The US and Europe and on this live DVD … Continue reading
Album review: EWAN DOBSON – Acoustic Metal
Candy Rat Records [Release date 06.02.13] ‘Once you see the line between metal virtuosity and classical music the challenge begins.’ So says Canadian guitarist Ewan Dobson whose 2 CD ‘Acoustic Metal’ is a challenging, innovative and hugely enjoyable CD. If … Continue reading
Interview with AYNSLEY LISTER – 29 Aug 2013
Aynsley Lister is back with his first studio album for 4 years. It’s suitably titled ‘Home’, because it’s his debut recording on his own Straight Talkin’ Records label. It also features his current tour band and is overseen by his … Continue reading
Album review: RAINBOW BRIDGE REVISITED
Gonzo [Release date 15.04.13] OK first things first. While the significance of Jimi Hendrix’s Rainbow Bridge concert was that it was his penultimate American show, there’s nothing of interest here for the Hendrix fans, outside of a few vague anecdotes … Continue reading
EP review: MAKUINI – Roll The Dice
Self release [Release date 05.08.13] There’s blues and there’s blues. While the contemporary blues world is dominated by virtuoso guitar slingers and jazzers who fall back on the genre due to a lack of material, there’s also a raft of … Continue reading
Interview with AARON MORELAND (MORELAND & ARBUCKLE) – 27 August 2013
Hailing from the American Heartland of Wichita, Kansas, Moreland & Arbuckle have been described as heavy roots rockers who incorporate delta blues, rhythm & blues, folk, rock and soul into a power trio line-up with a difference Aaron Moreland plays … Continue reading
Album review: SAMANTHA FISH – Black Wind Howlin’
Ruf [Release date 23.09.13] Samantha Fish makes much of her growing maturity on her second solo album ‘Black Wind Howlin’. Given the wide variety of relationship songs and a mix of reflective and self confident narratives, it appears she’s taken … Continue reading
Album review: CYRIL NEVILLE – Magic Honey
Ruf [Release date 10.09.13] And finally it’s Cyril Neville’s turn! ‘Magic Honey’ may have been released in the slipstream of his Royal Southern Brotherhood partners, but if feels more like the final part of an interlinked triumvirate rather than a … Continue reading
Album review: BLUES ‘N’ TROUBLE – Try Anything Twice
Self Release [Release date 17.06.13] Sometime between the mid 80’s and mid 90’s Scotland’s Blues ‘N’ Trouble were real contenders on the European blues scene and even made it over to the States. Essentially a great live band B‘N’T’s unofficial … Continue reading
Album review: MORELAND & ARBUCKLE – 7 Cities
Telarc [Release date 26.08.13] Moreland & Arbuckle are a power trio with a difference. They hail from Wichita Kansas and their blend of riff driven, southern influenced roots rock is shot through with essential blues influences, but not in the … Continue reading
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Tagged blues, boogie, guitar, harp, Kendall Newby, Moreland & Arbuckle, review, rock, roots, Tears For Fears, The Allman Brothers, The Yardbirds
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Album review: SONS OF HIPPIES – Griffons At The Gates Of Heaven
Cleopatra [Release date 16.07.13] Described as psych-space rockers, and more memorably as: ‘The Bangles on acid’, Sons of Hippies explore retro musical influences with colourful imagery and gothic moods. Their imposing wall of sound is interwoven with ominous poetic lyrics … Continue reading
Album review: ROVO AND SYSTEM 7 – Phoenix Rising
G-Wave [Release date 23.09.13] Steve Hillage owes his unique position as the godfather of techno and an all-round psychedelic overseer – he’s a contributing musician, producer and DJ – to his psychedelic rock past and his innovative techno, trance and … Continue reading
Album review: FLY LIKE AN EAGLE – An All-Star Tribute To Steve Miller Band
Cleopatra Records [Release date 30.07.13] Producer, engineer and multi instrumentalist and sometime Yes member Billy Sherwood has carved out his a niche for himself with a number of wide ranging all star tribute albums, and now it’s the turn of … Continue reading
