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Tag Archives: Mike Brookfield
Album review: MIKE BROOKFIELD – Hey Kiddo!

Pete Feenstra chatted to Mike Brookfield for Get Ready to ROCK! Radio in June 2021. First broadcast 27 June 2021. Golden Rule Records [Release date 09.07.21] Mike Brookfield’s catchphrase is: “keep it burnin”. And he certainly does that on ‘Hey … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Buddy Holly, Dick Dale, Dire Straits, Duane Eddy, guitar, Hey Kiddo!, instrumental, Jet Harris, Jimmy Page, Link Ray, Lonnie Mack, Los Straitjackets, Mark Knopfler, Mike Brookfield, Peter Eades, review, surf music, Tarantino, The Shadows, The Ventures
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Album review: MIKE BROOKFIELD – Brookfield

Golden Rule [Release date 22.09.17] Mike Brookfield is back. For those in the know it’s a welcome return to the recording scene by the Irish based Liverpool blues/rocker who cut the impressive ‘Love Breaks The Fall’ album last year. Newbies … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Alvin Lee, Arc Angels, blues, Eamon Carr, Eric Clapton, guitar, Horslips, interview, Jimi Hendrix, Love Breaks the Fall, lyrics, Mike Brookfield, review, rock, Son House, Tara Telephone, Ten Years After, Willie Johnson
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Gig review: MIKE BROOKFIELD BAND – Boom Boom Club, Sutton, 9 October 2015

Every now and then a buzz imperceptibly builds up around a new band on the circuit and by the time Mike Brookfield Band hits the Boom Boom Club they waste no time in clinically dispatching any weight of expectation with … Continue reading
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Tagged Alvin Lee, AYNSLEY LISTER, blues, Dublin, funk, Ger Farrell, gig, Gordon Sheridan, guitar, Jimi Hendrix, Mike Brookfield, Mike Brookfield Band, review, rock, soul
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Album review: MIKE BROOKFIELD – Love Breaks The Fall

Self release [Release date 13.03.15] Irish based, Liverpudlian guitarist Mike Brookfield has enjoyed a rich musical career from playing in the west end orchestra pits to being music coordinator, arranger and musical director for RTE, as well as copping a former … Continue reading