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Tag Archives: Steve Overland
Album review: LONERIDER – Sundown

Escape Music (Release Date 20.05.22) The concept of a quiet life sees alien to peerless singer Steve Overland who must have one of the prolific recording schedules of any artist. Barely two months after releasing ‘Thirteen’ with his main band … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Bad Company, blues rock, Chris Childs, FM, Lonerider, melodic rock, Simon Kirke, Steve Morris, Steve Overland
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Gig review: FM- Islington Assembly Hall, London, 7 April 2022

They release albums at regular intervals but touring has always been FM’s lifeblood. They dipped their toe back in the live environment with selected shows last year, but this twice postponed London show was part of a tour to promote … Continue reading
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Tagged AOR, FM, gig, Grand Slam, Jem Davis, Jim Kirkpatrick, Laurence Archer, melodic rock, Mike Dyer, Steve Overland
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Album review: FM – Thirteen

Frontiers Records (Release date 18.03.22) Over a decade since reforming, FM’s run of quality product since seems to be coming at an ever faster rate, their suitably titled 13th studio album coming less than two years after its predecessor ‘Synchronised’. … Continue reading
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Tagged album, AOR, FM, Jem Davis, Jim Kirkpatrick, melodic rock, Pete Jupp, Steve Overland
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Album review: GROUNDBREAKER – Soul to Soul

Frontiers Records (Release date 12.11.21) Groundbreaker’s debut album was a Frontiers Records project to reunite Steve Overland with the pure AOR sound of early FM. That was a collaboration with Work of Art’s Robert Sall, but the latter is not … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Alessandro Del Vecchio, AOR, FM, Groundbreaker, melodic rock, Steve Overland, Sven Larsson
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Album review: ROBBIE LaBLANC – Double Trouble

Escape Music (Release date 16.04.21) Robbie LaBlanc is not only one of the melodic rock world’s most admired singers, but increasingly its most prolific. It’s only a few months since I reviewed the East Temple Avenue album he lent his … Continue reading
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Tagged album, AOR, melodic rock, Robbie LaBlanc, Steve Overland, Tommy Denander
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Album review: FM – Tough It Out Live

Frontiers Records (Release date 09.04.21) It already seems a long time ago but one of the gig highlights of the winter before the pandemic struck was the Big-Three-O tour in which FM, together with Dan Reed Network and Gun, celebrated … Continue reading
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Tagged album, AOR, FM, live album, melodic rock, Steve Overland, Tough It Out
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Album review: WILDLIFE – Burning (reissue/remaster)

Rock Candy Records [Release date 12.02.21] FM and Steve Overland have bona fide legendary status in the annals of UK Rock’n’Roll. It began with Wildlife in the late seventies. Overland and the Jupp brothers, Chris and Pete, were the core … Continue reading
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Tagged AOR, Burning, ELO, Eric Troyer, FM, Rock Candy Records, Rupert Hine, Steve Overland, Wildlife
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Album review: OVERLAND – Scandalous

Escape Music [Release date 18.09.20] FM vocalist Steve Overland returns with a new album, aided by Tommy Denander, along with Brian Anthony (bass, piano, Hammond) and drummer Brian Tichy (Foreigner, Whitesnake, Dead Daisies et al). The album’s contrasting styles can … Continue reading
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Tagged album, AOR, FM, melodic rock, review, rock, Solo, soul, Steve Overland, Tommy Denander
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Album review: FM – Synchronized

Frontiers Records [Release Date 22.05.20] It’s now a whole decade since FM returned to stay with their comeback album ‘Metropolis’. Though from time to time they look back, rerecording ‘Indiscreet’ and most recently celebrating ‘Tough It Out’s anniversary on the … Continue reading
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Tagged album, AOR, FM, Jem Davis, Jim Kirkpatrick, melodic rock, Steve Overland
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Gig review: DAN REED NETWORK/GUN/FM – Waterfront, Norwich,14 December 2019

Three of the common sights of the 21st century concert scene are bands playing a classic album in its entirety; package tours bringing together acts with a complementary fanbase; and bands that we thought would never get back together again … Continue reading
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Tagged 14 December 2019, 1989, Aerosmith, Bon Jovi, Dan Reed Network, Dante Gizzi, FM, funk, gig, Gun, Headstart Promotions, Jim Kirkpatrick, Jools Gizzi, live, Martin Jarvis, Norwich, rock, Slam, Steve Overland, Taking On The World, Tough It Out, Waterfront
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Album review: FM – The Italian Job (CD/DVD)

Frontiers [Release Date 22.02.19] FM have delivered consistently excellent live performances since the second phase of the band effectively kicked off a decade ago with guitarist Jim Kirkpatrick’s arrival. However this era of their history has gone undocumented so far, … Continue reading
Album review: LONERIDER – Attitude

Escape Music [Release date 26.04.19] Lonerider is a new band featuring some experienced names that sees FM vocalist Steve Overland team-up again with guitarist Steve Morris (they both recorded together under the Heartland name) and Bad Company drummer Simon Kirke … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Attitude, blues rock, classic rock, Escape Music, FM. Bad Company, melodic rock, review, Simon Kirke, Steve Overland
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Gig review: FM/DARE – Sub 89, Reading, 1 March 2019

FM and Dare were back in the UK for a couple more co-headliner shows following an eventful trip to Spain where FM had their equipment and merchandise stolen and in the FM set vocalist Steve Overland made it clear how … Continue reading
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Tagged AOR, classic rock, Dare, Darren Wharton, FM, gig, Indiscreet, melodic, melodic rock, Pete Jupp, reading, review, Steve Overland, Sub 89
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Quick plays: THE WILLOWS, ME AND MY FRIENDS, JEROME MAZZA

THE WILLOWS Through the Wild [Release date 30.11.18] ‘Through the Wild’ is the third album from the Cambridge folk band the Willows, who have picked up praise from the likes of Bob Harris and Mike Harding. Listening to this album … Continue reading
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Tagged album, ANGELICA, Fairport Convention, folk, folk rock, Jemrome Mazza, Look Up, Me and My Friends, melodic rock, Mike Slamer, Outlaw Son, reggae, review, rock, soul, Steve Overland, Steve Walsh, the Willows, Through the Wild, Tommy Denander
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Album review: GROUNDBREAKER

Frontiers [Release Date 14.09.18] While FM have come back better and more consistently diverse than ever, notably with this year’s ‘Atomic Generation’, many of the AOR purists among their fanbase still hanker for a repeat of their 1986 debut ‘Indiscreet’. … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Alessandro Delvecchio, AOR, FM, Groundbreaker, melodic rock, review, Robert Sall, Steve Overland, Work Of Art
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Album review: FM – Atomic Generation

Get Ready to ROCK! Radio’s David Randall chatted to Steve Overland about FM and the new album for his weekly show, first broadcast 4 March 2018. This hour special includes tracks from ‘Atomic Generation’. There is a non-broadcast interview edit … Continue reading
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Tagged album, AOR, Atomic Generation, FM, melodic rock, review, Steve Overland
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News: FM – new album and Steve Overland interview (March 2018)

On Sunday 4 March in the first hour of his weekly show on Get Ready to ROCK! Radio, David Randall chatted to FM’s Steve Overland and played tracks from ‘Atomic Generation’. In this exclusive edit, Steve chats about career highlights … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Atomic Generation, FM, interview, melodic rock, radio, Steve Overland, Sunday 4 March 2018
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Album review: LEE ABRAHAM – Colours

F2 Music [Release date 27.11.17] Lee Abraham was the bassist in prog rockers Galahad between 2005 and 2009, who he has now since re-joined but as their guitarist. He has been busy on the solo front releasing a series of … Continue reading
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Tagged album, AOR, Colours, Credo, FM, Frost*, Galahad, Lee Abraham, melodic, porgressive, review, rock, Steve Overland
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Album review: STEVE WALSH – Black Butterfly

Escape Music [Release date 10.11.17] After Steve Walsh retired from Kansas back in 2014 many thought that would be it and we’d hear no more from Walsh, luckily this was proven wrong and here we have a new solo album … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Black Butterfly, Kansas, melodic, Mike Slamer, progressive, review, rock, Steve Overland, Steve Walsh, Streets, Tommy Denander
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Gig review: JUST SAY YES/ARFM MELODIC ROCK FUNDRAISER – The Spot, Derby, 28 January 2017

From initially modest ambitions, the ‘Just Say Yes’ fundraiser is rapidly establishing itself as a must on the festival calendar for melodic rock fans, sandwiched between Autumn’s Firefest and latterly Rockingham, and Spring’s HRH. I hugely enjoyed my first festival … Continue reading
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Tagged AOR, Blood Red Saints, COP UK, Dante Fox, Dirty White Boyz, festival, FM, gig, JSY, Just Say Yes, melodic rock, review, Romeo's Daughter, Steve Overland, Vega
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Gig review: FM – Islington Assembly Hall, London, 19 November 2016

Since reforming a few years ago, Britain’s premier homegrown melodic rockers FM have steered a delicate balance between moving forward and looking backwards. The new line up with Jim Kirkpatrick on guitar has perhaps been the best in their history, … Continue reading
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Tagged AOR, Bernie Marsden, FM, gig, Indiscreet, Jem Davis, Jim Kirkpatrick, melodic rock, review, Steve Overland
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