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Gig review: ROMEO’S DAUGHTER- The Garage, London, 28 March 2025
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Gig review: SOUTH OF SALEM – Thekla, Bristol, 27 March 2025
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Gig review: JIZZY PEARL’S LOVE/HATE – The Underworld, Camden, March 13 2025
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Gig review: GRAHAM GOULDMAN – Cadogan Hall, London, 20 March 2025
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Gig review: THE DARKNESS – G Live, Guildford, 11 March 2025
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Gig review: FISH – O2 Academy, Glasgow, 9 March 2025
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Tag Archives: Simon McBride
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
Gig review: DEEP PURPLE – O2 Arena, London, 20 October 2022
Deep Purple’s distinguished career is being extended by a late period, dare I say, Purple patch. Albums seem to be coming at a swifter rate and 2020’s ‘Whoosh’ received the band’s best reviews and chart placings in years, being followed … Continue reading
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Tagged 20 October 2022, Blue Oyster Cult, classic rock, Deep Purple, Don Airey, gig, Ian Gillan, O2 Arena, review, Roger Glover, Simon McBride
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Album review: SIMON McBRIDE – The Fighter
Simon McBride chatted to Pete Feenstra for Get Ready to ROCK! Radio. First broadcast 19 June 2022. earMUSIC [Release date 27.05.22] McBride was voted “Young Guitarist Of The Year” by Guitarist magazine in 1996 an accolade that can be both … Continue reading
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Tagged album, blues rock, guitar, guitarist, hard rock, interview, radio, review, Simon McBride, The Fighter
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Album review: IAN GILLAN with The DON AIREY BAND and ORCHESTRA – Contractual Obligation #3 Live In St Petersburg
Edel/Ear Music [Release date 26.07.19] Singer Ian Gillan, best known for fronting rock legends Deep Purple, took this solo project on the road during a break in the Purple schedule, and recorded some live sets in November 2016. Featuring a … Continue reading
Album review: DON AIREY – One Of A Kind
earMUSIC [Release date 25.05.18] Don Airey can be considered rock royalty and in a quiet sort of way, and in down time from his Purple “day job”, finds the time to release consistently excellent solo albums. This is the successor … Continue reading
Album review: SNAKECHARMER – Second Skin
Frontiers Records [Release Date 12.05.17] If their 2013 debut album of original compositions was an unexpected twist for a band that started out paying homage to vintage Whitesnake with two former members, Snakecharmer’s follow up is perhaps even more of … Continue reading
Gig review: SNAKECHARMER – Islington Academy, London,14 May 2017
Progressively Snakecharmer are leaving behind their origins, celebrating old-school Whitesnake, in the same way Black Star Riders are laying aside the ghost of Thin Lizzy. Four years after the release of their excellent self-titled and self-penned album, this was my … Continue reading
Gig review: HARD ROCK HELL BLUES – Pwllheli, 21-22 March 2014
Friday 21 March Kicking off the blues stage properly for the festival was Crowsaw, a hard hitting 3 piece blues outfit from South Wales whose riff driven blues rock sparks a glimmer of life in the bleary eyed yet enthusiastic … Continue reading
