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Gig review: FIREVOLT FESTIVAL – Whitebottom Farm, Stockport, 9-11 August 2024

I will freely tell anyone who will listen that Firevolt has, within a very short space of time, become my favourite festival in the UK. The festival is in beautiful surroundings, on a farm at the end of a delightful … Continue reading
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Tagged Crashdiet, Darren Wharton, Dead Man's Whiskey, Doomsday Outlaw, festival, Firevolt, Florence Black, gig, Gun, Jayler, Karma Effect, Kira Mac, Laurence Jones, Loz Campbell, Phil Campbell and the Bastard Sons, Ransom, Renegade, Revenant, South Of Salem, Stone Broken, The Hot One Two, The Last Internationale, The Treatment, Thieves Of Liberty, Trucker Diablo, Unknown Refuge, Vandenberg, Vintage Caravan, We Three Kings, White Tyger, Xander and the Peace Pirates
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Gig review: HEAT FESTIVAL – Ludwigsburg, Germany, 30 November- 1 December 2019

Having grown steadily since its inception in 2008, the HEAT Festival in Ludwigsburg, just outside Stuttgart, can lay claim to being one of the longest continuously running melodic rock festivals in Europe. For most of the last few years their … Continue reading
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Tagged Age of Reflection, AOR, Black Diamonds, Black Tiger, Blood Red Saints, Cats In Space, Crashdiet, Dark Sky, Degreed, Devicious, festival, gig, HEAT festival, Licence, Maverick, melodic rock, Robert Tepper, Stage Dolls, STAN BUSH, Treat, Vega
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Album review: CRASHDIET – Rust

Frontiers [Release date 13.09.19] “Rust” is a welcome return for Sweden’s Crashdiet, their first album since 2013’s “The Savage Playground” and the first to feature new(ish) vocalist Gabriel Keyes. The album is top quality melodic yet sleazy rock, with heavier … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Chris Laney, Crashdiet, Frontiers, Gabriel Keyes, hard rock, melodic, review, rock, Rust, sleaze rock
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CRASHDIET – The Savage Playground

Frontiers (Released 25th January) www.frontiers.it Just days into the new year and the first album I review is already a strong contender for my Top 10 of 2013- too soon to make such an assumption? Maybe, … Continue reading
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Tagged Crashdiet, Frontiers, Motley Crue, Skid Row, The Savage Playground
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Crashdiet’s Peter London & Simon Cruz DJ Decadence this Saturday
CRASHDÏET’s Peter London & Simon Cruz are taking time-out from the recording of their eagerly anticipated new album to spin some of their favourite tracks at infamous sleazy, glam-rock, punk club, Decadence at the … Continue reading