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Album review: SPOCK’S BEARD – The Archaeoptimist
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Album review: ROSS HARDING – The Blood and the Blues
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Album review: PETE KOSANOVICH – Beauty Within You
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Album review : ROB MORATTI – Sovereign
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Album review : BRAZEN ABBOT – Live And Learn and Guilty As Sin (CD reissues)
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Album review : GRAHAM BONNET – Lost In Hollywood Again (Live)
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Latest Gig Reviews
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Gig review: STEVE OVERLAND AND JIM KIRKPATRICK- The Weir, Brentford, Middlesex, 9 December 2025
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Gig review: JOHN OTWAY – Face Bar, Reading, Thursday 11 December 2025
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Gig review: CURVED AIR – The Sub Rooms, Stroud, 20 November 2025
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Gig review: MARTIN BARRE & FRIENDS – Theatre Severn, Shrewsbury, 18 November 2025
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Book review: ERUPTION – CONVERSATIONS WITH EDDIE VAN HALEN by Brad Tolinski and Chris Gill
Hachette Publishing [Publication date 28.10.21] When Eddie Van Halen lost his prolonged struggles with cancer last autumn the rock world mourned – the number of Facebook friends who put his ‘Frankenstein’ guitar patterned design as their cover photo in memoriam … Continue reading
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Tagged book, Brad Tolinski, Chris Gill, Eddie Van Halen, review, Van Halen
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Album review: ECLIPSE – Wired
Frontiers Records [Release date 08.10.21] Eclipse have been on one the hottest streaks in melodic rock of recent years- even last year’s stop-gap live album ‘Viva la Victouria’ being a reminder of quite how many anthems they have written. And … Continue reading
Album review: THE FOREIGN FILMS – Starlight Serenade
Pete Feenstra chatted to Bill Majoros for Get Ready to ROCK! Radio. First broadcast 21 November 2021. Curve Music [Release date 30.07.21] What’s the significance of a band’s name? In the case of The Foreign Films (aka Canadian singer songwriter … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Bill Majoros, Phil Spector, pop, psychedelia, Ray Davies, review, rock, Roy Wood, Starlight Serenade, The Beach Boys, The Beatles, The Byrds, The Foreign Films, The Hollies, The Zombies, Todd Rundgren, Wizzard
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Album review: LOVERBOY – Loverboy and Get Lucky (Remasters)
Rock Candy Records [release date 24.09.21] Selling 6 million between them, Loverboy’s self titled debut (1980) and follow up, Get Lucky (1981), have now had the treatment from Rock Candy Records. Forty years of remastering evolution has brought us to … Continue reading
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Tagged album, AOR, Bob Rock, Bruce Fairbairn, Canada, Get Lucky, Loverboy, melodic rock, remasters, review, Rock Candy Records
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Album review: BURNING POINT – Arsonist Of The Soul
AFM Records [Release date: 22.10.21] Finnish band, Burning Point have never found their way into the vanguard of European Power Metal. To their credit, despite being handicapped by lacklustre albums and personnel changes, they’ve kept moving forward. Now, five years … Continue reading
Rising Stars: FURBABY & THE TIGHT SPACES
Featuring past and current members of bands including The Last Vegas, The Steepwater Band, Urge Overkill, The Cynics, Warrior Soul, Abbarama and Tyla & Dogs D’Amour, Furbaby & the Tight Spaces were dreamed up during 2020 quarantine, their debut album … Continue reading
Gig review: KING KING – Bexhill De La Warr Pavilion – 19 October 2021
After numerous attempts at rescheduling during the Covid crisis, King King’s tour in support of their 2020 album finally gets under way. Venue availability, as a myriad of bands all attempt to simultaneously reschedule gigs that have been postponed over the last eighteen … Continue reading
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Tagged 19 October 2021, Aaron Bond, Alan Nimmo, Bexhill, blues, De La Warr Pavilion, gig, Grace Bond, King King, live, Maverick, Noble PR, rock, Steve Nimmo, Troy Redfern, When Rivers Meet
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Album review: SYLVAN – One To Zero
Gentle Art Of Music [Release date: 28.05.21] Sylvan are one of Europe’s finest progressive rock bands whose stock has been rising for some time, but particularly since they signed up to the Gentle Art Of Music label run by fellow … Continue reading
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Tagged Kalle Walter, One To Zero, Progressive Rock, review, RPWL, Sylvan, Yogi Lang
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Album review: AVAWAVES – Chrysalis (Anna Phoebe/Aisling Brouwer)
One Little Independent Records [Release date 08.10.21] The return of Anna Phoebe!! She contributed a track to our Rising Stars sampler in 2007. She has performed with Trans-Siberian Orchestra. She was special guest of Jethro Tull (2009) and gave Ian … Continue reading
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Tagged Aisling Brouwer, album, ambient, Anna Phoebe, Avawaves, chill-out, Chrysalis, instrumental, piano, review, violin
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Album review: IAN McNABB – Ascending
Website In 1981 the Icicle Works released a cassette of their earliest demos., which went to John Peel and the like and was sold at gigs. As the band developed, songs would get left behind and replaced with newer ones. … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Ascending, Ian McNabb, Icicle Works, indie, indie pop, review, synth pop
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Album review: RACHEL FLOWERS – Bigger On The Inside
www.rachelflowersmusic.com [Release date 01.10.21] For an artist influenced by Coltrane and Zappa you may think that Rachel Flowers’ music will be a bit abstract, quirky and at times inaccessible. But, Rachel was mentored by Herbie Hancock and infuenced by the … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Bigger On The Inside, instrumental, jazz fusion, Jazz rock, Rachel Flowers, review
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Album review: SANTANA – Blessings and Miracles
BMG [Release date 15.10.21] To gain insight into how Santana is well respected in the music industry, one need only take a quick glance at the varied list of collaborators he’s assembled on his new album. From his early 70s … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Blessings and Miracles, classic rock, guitarist, Kirk Hammett, Latino rock, pop, review, Rob Thomas, Santana, soul, Steve Winwood
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Gig review: ROBERT HART AND DAVE ‘BUCKET’ COLWELL – The Cavern, Raynes Park, London, 14 October 2021
There have been some enjoyable ‘evening with’ nights of songs and stories at the Cavern this year – including Spike, who opened his show in July bantering with Dave ‘Bucket’ Colwell who was seated near him. In a neat piece … Continue reading
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Tagged Bad Company, Dave 'Bucket' Colwell, gig, Humble Pie, Robert Hart, the Jones Gang
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Album review: LEVERAGE – Above The Beyond
Frontiers [Release date 15.10.21] AOR, Melodic Rock, Power Metal, Progmetal … Leverage are none of these yet they are all of these. On their 5th album now and the music gets harder to define and easier to admire. It’s perhaps … Continue reading
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Tagged album, AOR, Brother Firetribe, heavy metal, Kansas, Kimmo Blom, melodic rock, progrock, review, Robbie Steinhardt, Tyketto
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Album review: ASKING ALEXANDRIA – See What’s On The Inside
Better Noise Music [Release date 01.10.21] Formed in 2006, in York, North Yorkshire, by Ben Bruce, Asking Alexandria are now back to their original line-up as a 5 piece band. There’s no doubting that Asking Alexandria have achieved success over … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Asking Alexandria, metal. alt metal, review
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Gig review: VEGA – Camden Underworld, London, 9 October 2021
Vega are one of those bands with a lot of lost time to make up as live music resumes. Since the beginning of the pandemic one of the UK’s premier melodic rockers have recorded not one but two albums, with … Continue reading
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Tagged Billy Taylor, Dan Byrne, gig, Hazel Jade Rogers, James Martin, Joanovarc, melodic rock, Nick Workman, Pete Newdeck, Revival Black, Shelley Walker, Tom Martin, Vega
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Album review: THE GRANDMASTER – Skywards
Frontiers [Release date 15.10.21] Grandmaster is vocalist Nando Fernandez of Brazilian metal band, Sinistra, paired with incomparable metal guitarist Jens (Edguy) Ludwig. It’s a match made in Frontiers’ HQ. The songs have been written by, and the album produced by … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Alssandro DelVecchio, Edguy, Frontiers, Jens Ludwig, Nando Hernandez, power metal, review, Sinistra
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Gig review: Quarantune Rocks Party, The Old Dairy Farm, Cropredy, 9 October 2021
6 Bands, 1 stage, 1 day: The Darker My Horizon Ryders Creed Shades Of Seattle King Awesome Skinny Knowledge More Human Than Human Quarantune Rocks was set up in March 2020 to support rock music fans, bands and venues in … Continue reading
Album review: THE HONEYRUNNERS – Everything Is On Fire
Gypsy Soul Records [Release date 22.10.21] This is the debut albums from The Honeyrunners, a four-piece Toronto group (expanding to eleven members for larger shows) consisting of singer/songwriter Dan Dwoskin (keys, lead vocals), audio-engineer/producer, Guillermo Subauste (bass, vocals), Conor Gains … Continue reading
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Tagged album, alt pop, alt rock, Everything Is On Fire, Honeyrunners, indie pop, melodic, review, rock
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Book review: Please Please Tell Me Now – The Duran Duran Story by Stephen Davis
Hachette Books [Publication date 15.07.21] Renowned American music biographer Stephen Davis is probably best known for the excellent “Hammer of The Gods” Led Zeppelin biography, but he has also written outstanding books on the likes of Aerosmith, Guns n Roses … Continue reading
Quick plays: LA LUZ, SAM CARTER, MASS
LA LUZ S/T Hardly Art/Sub Pop [Release date 22.10.21] La Luz are, according to their bio, a “surf-rock / psych / 60’s pop trio”, fronted by guitarist and songwriter Shana Cleveland, who is joined by bassist Lena Simon, and keyboardist … Continue reading
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Tagged album, alt rock, folk, Home Waters, indie, La Luz, Mass, pop, review, rock, Sam Carter, singer songwriter
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Album review: JOE BONAMASSA – Time Clocks
Provogue [Release date 29.10.21] Joe Bonamassa’s ‘Time Clocks’ is infused with reflective songs – a function of a self proclaimed midlife crisis – but counterweighted by the kind of steely, restless determination that has projected him from being a child … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Alyssa Bonagura, Bernie Marsden, David Gilmour, Hugh Syme, James House, Jethro Tull, Jim Steinman, Joe Bonamassa, Juanita Tippins, Kevin Shirley, Lachy Doley, Led Zeppelin, Martin Barre, Meat Loaf, Pink Floyd, Prinnie Stevenson, review, Time Clocks, Tom Hambridge, Whitesnake
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Album review: WAYWARD SONS – Even Up The Score
Frontiers [Release date 08.10.21] Toby Jepson is a man who never lets the grass grow under his feet. Since bursting onto the scene with Little Angels in 1984 he’s been a constantly creative whirlwind, going from the Scarsborough hard rock … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Even Up The Score, hard rock, Little Angels, melodic, review, rock, Toby Jepson, Wayward Sons
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Gig review: MUSIC FOR THE MIND- Hammersmith Club, London, 8 October 2021
As the old BT advert once said, it’s good to talk. Of mental health in particular. Despite growing awareness of its importance, not least with the struggles nearly all of us have faced in some way or other during the … Continue reading
Album review: LORDS OF BLACK – Alchemy Of Souls II
Frontiers [Release date 15.10.21] Fifth album from metallers, Lords Of Black, the Ronnie Romero/ Tony Hernando band. They brand themselves as a “Progressive” Power Metal band. You can see strong hints of how this plays out when first viewing the … Continue reading
