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Album review: WISHBONE ASH – At The BBC 1970 – 1988
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Album review: IZZY REIGN
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Album review : CARE OF NIGHT – Live At The Sweden Rock Festival
Album review : THE QUIREBOYS – Hey You! The Parlophone Years 1989-93 (4 CD Boxset)
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Album review : JINGLE JANGLE MORNING – The 1960′s US Folk Rock Explosion,
Latest Gig Reviews
Gig review: GRAHAM GOULDMAN – Cadogan Hall, London, 20 March 2025
Gig review: THE DARKNESS – G Live, Guildford, 11 March 2025
Gig review: FISH – O2 Academy, Glasgow, 9 March 2025
Gig review: WILL WILDE- 100 Club, London, 4 March 2025
Gig review: URIAH HEEP – London Palladium, 26 February 2025
Gig review: THE VAPORS Album Launch – The Water Rats, London, 27 February 2025
Gig review: MILKFEST- Indigo2, London, 23 February 2025
Gig review: MIKE + THE MECHANICS – Royal Concert Hall, Glasgow, 3 March 2025
Gig review: FM- Chelmsford Social Club, Chelmsford, Essex, 21 February 2025
Gig review: BETH HART – Hammersmith Apollo, 20 February 2025
Featured Album Reviews
Album review: FRANK ZAPPA & THE MOTHERS OF INVENTION – Whisky A-Go-Go 1968
Album review: VEGA – Stereo Messiah
Album review : ALBERT HAMMOND – Body Of Work
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Album review: KEELEY – Floating Above Everything Else
Album review: STEVIE NIMMO – Sky Won’t Fall
Album review: BLACKTOP MOJO – Blacktop Mojo
Album review: FRANCIS ROSSI & HANNAH RICKARD – We Talk Too Much
Album review: SOUTH OF SALEM – Death Of The Party
Album review: NORDIC UNION – Animalistic
Features
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Feature: GRTR! Greats – THEA GILMORE
Feature: Baker’s Dozen – Librarians With Hickeys
Feature: Box Sets are for life, not just for Christmas…(December 2024)
Feature: PHIL VINCENT’s Baker’s Dozen
Feature: CASEY MAUNDER’s Bakers Dozen
Feature: Rock: Rewired – STEVE MARRIOTT Part 2 (Peter Frampton interview)
Feature: Rock: Rewired – STEVE MARRIOTT (Part 1)
Feature: DANNY VAUGHN at Fairycroft House, Saffron Walden, May 24 2024
Feature: The GRTR! Grotto of Greatness – MAGNUM (December 2023)
Interviews
Feature: GRTR! Greats – GRAHAM GOULDMAN
Feature: GRTR! Greats – THEA GILMORE
Rising Stars: ANDRY (interview)
Rising Stars: SPLEEN (interview)
Album review: JOHN WETTON – Concentus (10-CD box set)
Gig review: DIESEL PARK WEST – The Sound Lounge, Sutton, Surrey 28 September 2024
Rising Stars: PETCH (interview)
Album review: LAZARUS HEIGHTS – Papillon
Interview: BLOOD FEAST (CJ Scioscia)
Gig review: JOHNNY HATES JAZZ – Waterside, Sale, 7 September 2024
Book Reviews
Book review: HOGGIN’ THE PAGE – Groundhogs The Classic Years by Martyn Hanson
Book review: On track… DAVID BOWIE, GERRY RAFFERTY, TALKING HEADS, THE BEATLES, DEEP PURPLE
Book review: On track…SPARKS, ROXY MUSIC, DAVID BOWIE
Book review: THE DEVELOPMENT OF LARGE ROCK SOUND SYSTEMS, VOLUME 4 by Chris Hewitt
Book review: GET YER ‘AIR CUT by Alan Clayson
Book review: DANCE WITH THE DEVIL – The Cozy Powell Story by Laura Shenton
Book review: Rock Classics – MEAT LOAF – BAT OUT OF HELL by Geoffrey Feakes
Book review: REMEMBERING LIVE AID by Andrew Wild
Book review: ULTRAVOX – Every Album, Every Song by Brian J Robb
Book review: On track…THE DIVINE COMEDY by Alan Draper
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Book review: HOGGIN’ THE PAGE – Groundhogs The Classic Years by Martyn Hanson
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