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Album review: SELWYN BIRCHWOOD – Electric Swamp Funkin’ Blues
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Album review: MIKE ZITO – Outside Or The Eastside
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Album review: HANNAH JAMES & TOBY KUHN – Where All Our Names Belong
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Album review: MARIACHI EL BRONX – Mariachi El Bronx IV
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Album review : JON ANDERSON – Survival And Other Stories / Earth Mother Earth (2 CDs / remasters)
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Album review: MYRATH – Wilderness Of Mirrors
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Latest Gig Reviews
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Gig review: BRAVE RIVAL – The Stables, Milton Keynes, 14 March 2026
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Gig review: A VERY SPECIAL EVENING OF MOTT THE HOOPLE – Riverside Studios, London, 27 February 2026
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Gig review: EMERALD MOON – Le Marquee, Peyrignac, Dordogne, SW France, 7 March 2026
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Gig review: MILKFEST, Indigo2, London, 1 March 2026
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Tag Archives: review
Album review : THE QUIREBOYS – Hey You! The Parlophone Years 1989-93 (4 CD Boxset)
Cherry Red [Release date : 28.03.25] From Choirboys to Queerboys to Quire Boys. This 4 CD set is a compact quartet of Quireboy’s music, comprising their first two charting albums, with bonus tracks, plus an album of demos and an … Continue reading
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Tagged Guy Bailey, Kevin Savigar, Parlophone Years, Quireboys, review, Sharon Osborne, Spike
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EP review: LITTLE LORE – River Stories
Bandcamp [Release date 04.04.25] Little Lore is back with another EP and one with an interesting back story. Over to Little Lore for more on the EP’s creation – “In November 2023, I was invited to become songwriter in residency … Continue reading
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Tagged Brentford, EP, folk, Little Lore, melodic, review, River Stories, singer songwriter
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Album review : W.E.T. – Apex
Frontiers Music [Release date : 28.03.25] Fourth album from WET, whose ranks have swollen from three members to six. What was once Robert Sall (Work Of Art), Erik Martensson (Eclipse) and Jeff Scott Soto (Talisman), is now those three plus … Continue reading
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Tagged Apex, Eclipse, Frontiers Music, melodic rock, review, Talisman, W.E.T., Work Of Art
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Gig review: GRAHAM GOULDMAN – Cadogan Hall, London, 20 March 2025
Graham Gouldman’s ‘Heart Full Of Songs’ is an inspirational evening built round his own remarkable song history and related stories. The show is fleshed out by glistening harmonies, salient hooks and a set list which interweaves the substance of his … Continue reading
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Tagged 10CC, 20 March 2025, acoustic, Cadogan Hall, gig, Graham Gouldman, London, pop rock, review, singer, songwriter
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Album review : GINEVRA – Beyond Tomorrow
Frontiers Music [Release date : 28.03.25] The name of Swedish “supergroup”, Ginevra has its origins in the Celtic, Norman and Italian languages. Sources seem to settle on “White Phantom” as its meaning. This is the band’s second album. The band: … Continue reading
Album review : JINGLE JANGLE MORNING – The 1960′s US Folk Rock Explosion,
Cherry Red [Release date : 28.03.25] From the beginning to the end, this is five star stuff. Heavily influenced by The Beatles “invasion” of the USA in the sixties, electrified Folk Rock became the currency of US rock’n’roll. This 3 … Continue reading
Album review : CRIMSON GLORY – The Roadrunner Years (3 CD)
Cherry Red [Release date 21/03/25] The Cherry Red label is currently on a run of highly compelling Heavy Metal reissues. We’ve had Wrath, Tigertailz, Barren Cross in only the last month, and very recently, the superb Vision Of Disorder. This … Continue reading
Album review : CLIMIE FISHER – Everything (Deluxe 5 CD boxset)
Cherry Red [Release date : 21.03.25] Cherry Red released a hugely expanded version of Climie Fisher’s second album, Coming In For The Kill, last year. They’ve now totally outdone themselves with this 5 CD boxset of the duo’s preceding (and … Continue reading
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Tagged boxset, Cherry Red, Climie Fisher, Everything, review, Simon Climie, Stephen Hague, Steve Lillywhite
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Album review: DON AIREY – Pushed To The Edge
earMUSIC [Release date 28.03.25] Current Deep Purple ivory tinkler Don Airey, he of over 300 album recordings since the mid 70s, releases his new album while Deep Purple are still working hard. This man never stops. And this is Don’s … Continue reading
Album review: LIV KRISTINE – Amor Vincit Omnia
Metalville [Release date 25.04.25] Following Liv Kristine’s acrimonious departure from Leaves Eyes there have been a series of solo album reissues, a new solo album in 2023, although combining now with her other interests in wellness and voice coaching. Liv’s … Continue reading
Book review: On track… DAVID BOWIE, GERRY RAFFERTY, TALKING HEADS, THE BEATLES, DEEP PURPLE
Sonicbond Publishing [Publication dates Feb.-Mar. 2025] The On track… series continues and the first of 2025 includes David Bowie 1983-2016, the perfect complement to the earlier tome covering 1964-1982. This time Don Klees reflects the genre-changing nature of Bowie, especially … Continue reading
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Tagged book, classic rock, David Bowie, Deep Purple, Gerry Rafferty, On Track, Porcupine Tree, review, Talking Heads, The Beatles
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Album review: SIGN OF THE WOLF
Escape Music [Release date 25.04.25] Sign of the Wolf’s debut album is an interesting one as it was created by Fireworks magazine’s Bruce Mee, who wanted to bring back that gloriously epic and melodic hard rock sound from the early … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Andrew Freeman, Black Sabbath, Bruce Mee, Classic Albums, classic rock, Dio, hard rock, Rainbow, review, rock, Ronnie James Dio, Tony Carey
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Album review: STEVE KNIGHTLEY – Positively Folk Street: Dylan, Carthy & Me
Hands On Music [Release date 04.03.25] Seems the recent Bob Dylan biopic ‘A Complete Unknown’ is inspiring quite a few artists to revisit the Dylan back catalogue, as Steve Knightley does on here, along with another one of his major … Continue reading
Album review: JON ANDERSON & THE BAND GEEKS – Live, Perpetual Change
Frontiers [Release date : 14.03.25] We reviewed Jon Anderson and The Band Geeks’ debut album, True, last year. For the Geeks, Richie (BOC) Castellano, Andy Ascolese, Christopher Clark and Matt Beck, the self deprecating band name turned out to be … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Blue Oyster Cult, Frontiers, Jon Anderson, live, Perpetual Change, review, Richie Castellano, The Band Geeks, Yes
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Album review: REG MEUROSS – Fire & Dust
Hatsongs Records [Release date 14.03.25] Not an artist this reviewer had come across before, although Reg Meuross does have more than 15 solo albums to his name. This album was commissioned by the Who’s Pete Townshend (who produced the album) … Continue reading
Gig review: THE VAPORS Album Launch – The Water Rats, London, 27 February 2025
The return of Guildford New Wave Power Popper’s The Vapors in 2016 after thirty-four years away from the scene was cause for celebration amongst the sharper observers on the scene. Best known for the iconic hit ‘Turning Japanese’ and their … Continue reading
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Tagged 27 February 2025, Album Launch, Dave Fenton, London, New Wave, pop rock, power pop, review, Steve Smith, The Vapors, The Water Rats, Wasp In A Jar
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Album review : STREETLIGHT – Night Vision
Frontiers Music [Release date : 14.03.25] After an artfully conceived AOR debut in 2024, Streetlight’s trajectory remains on an upward curve. And, to no one’s surprise, pretty well everywhere you scratch the paint on Night Vision, you’ll find the 1980s … Continue reading
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Tagged album, AOR, Brian Wilson, Johnny Hates Jazz, melodic rock, Night Vision, review, Steely Dan, Streetlight, Toto
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Feature: GRTR! Greats – GRAHAM GOULDMAN
Photo: Martin Porter Graham Gouldman is one of our most durable songwriters who has achieved success as a solo artist and with his band 10cc. Influenced by The Beatles, he wrote for several major artists in the 1960s before decamping … Continue reading
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Tagged 10CC, album, feature, gig, Graham Gouldman, interview, retrospective, review, singer, songwriter
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Album review : ENBOUND – Set It Free (w/bonus CD)
Embrace The Fear [Release date : 21.02.25] 2025’s Set it Free is Enbound’s third album, a follow up to Blackened, if an album 9 years later can be described as a “follow up”. Nice (if expensive) piece of marketing here… … Continue reading
Album review: JIZZY PEARL’S LOVE/HATE – Punk Rock Fiesta!
Kenyon Records [Release date 01.03.25] It is hard to believe that it is now 35 years since the release of debut album “Blackout In The Red Room” and frontman Jizzy Pearl is still flying the flag for Love/Hate, latest album … Continue reading
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Tagged album, classic rock, hard rock, Jizzy Pearl, Love/Hate, Punk Rock Fiesta!, review, rock, sleaze rock
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Feature: GRTR! Greats – THEA GILMORE
David Randall chatted to Thea Gilmore in February 2025 for Get Ready to ROCK! Radio. This edited version of the interview first broadcast 23 February includes tracks from the album ‘These Quiet Friends’ plus others from Thea’s back catalogue. Part … Continue reading
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Tagged album, feature, folk, gig, interview, radio, review, rock, singer, songwriter, Thea Gilmore
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Album review: ERIC BASS – If I Had A Name
Independent Release [Release date 28.02.25] Eric Bass is best known as the co-songwriter, producer, and bassist for multiplatinum rock institution Shinedown. As the bassist, co-songwriter, and producer for Shinedown – a band renowned for headlining major festivals and holding the … Continue reading
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Tagged ADHD, album, autism, concept album, Eric Bass, glam rock, hard rock, If I had a Name, modern rock, review, rock, Shinedown, Solo
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Album review : VISION OF DISORDER – Vision of Disorder / Imprint (2 CD Deluxe Digipak)
Cherry Red [Release date : 28.02.25] The early nineties was a strange time for Heavy Metal. US band, Vision Of Disorder emerged from a morass of subgenres and splinter groups, all following different paths, all pursuing different objectives, mostly with … Continue reading
Gig review: BETH HART – Hammersmith Apollo, 20 February 2025
An evening in the company of Beth Hart is always an immersive experience. Across her long career – and arguably never as popular in the UK as right now – this eclectic singer and musician never gives anything less than … Continue reading
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Tagged 20 Feb 2025, beth Hart, blues, concert, gig, Hammersmith Apollo, live, piano, review
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Album review : PERFECT PLAN – Heart Of A Lion
Frontiers Music [Release date : 28.02.25] With his fourth Perfect Plan album, Kent Hilli has truly deciphered the AOR code. Heart Of A Lion is a superb, beautifully crafted melodic rock recording, mixing keys and guitars in varying measures, creating … Continue reading
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Tagged AOR, Brother Firetribe, Frontiers, Kent Hilli, melodic rock, Perfect Plan, review, Survivor
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