Tag Archives: White Lion

Gig review: MIKE TRAMP’S WHITE LION – Camden Underworld, London, 5 November 2025

Posted on November 12, 2025 by andynathan
MIKE TRAMP'S WHITE LION- Camden Underworld, London, 5 November 2025

The White Lion itch is one that singer Mike Tramp feels the need to scratch every so often, despite the quality of his work with Freak of Nature and more recent stripped down and more personal material. On some of … Continue reading →

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Album review : MIKE TRAMP – The Songs Of White Lion Vol III

Posted on September 22, 2025 by brianmc
WHITE 150 LION Songs Vol III

Frontiers Music [Release date : 19.09.25] Few musical artists get the chance to rerecord their old material. Still fewer improve upon the originals. Mike Tramp continues to claim – clearly very sincerely – that he is surprised to have got … Continue reading →

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Album review : YOUNG AND WILD – A Decade of American Glam Metal 1982-92

Posted on May 17, 2025 by brianmc
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Cherry Red [Release date : 23.05.25] The Eighties in the USA: some rock bands rode the Glam Metal wave, propelled by MTV’s insatiable appetite for the genre’s hypnotic theatrics (and, let’s face it, some really great songs). They discarded the … Continue reading →

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Album review : MIKE TRAMP – Songs Of White Lion Vol 2

Posted on August 9, 2024 by brianmc
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Frontiers [Release date 23.08.24] Few musical artists get the chance to rerecord their old material. Still fewer improve upon the originals. White Lion’s material usually had more to say than your average rock song, lyrically it was more illustrative in … Continue reading →

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Album review: WHITE LION – All You Need Is Rock’n'Roll – The Complete Albums 1985-91

Posted on July 23, 2020 by GRTR! HQ
WHITE LION - All You Need Is Rock'n'Roll - The Complete Albums 1985-91

Cherry Red [Release date 28.08.20] 5-CD set The Cherry Red label has established a reputation for moving across genres in resurrecting high quality material, suitable for repackaging and reissuing. With this one, they’ve recognised one of the classiest, if short … Continue reading →

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Gig review: MIKE TRAMP – The Black Heart, Camden, 8 March 2017

Posted on March 13, 2017 by andynathan
MIKE TRAMP- The Black Heart, Camden, 8 March 2017

His accent may blend his Danish roots with the twang of Brooklyn where he had his greatest professional success, but former White Lion and Freak of Nature singer Mike Tramp is very much an Anglophile. This manifests itself in his … Continue reading →

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Gig review: MIKE TRAMP – Black Heart, Camden, 24 September 2015

Posted on September 30, 2015 by andynathan
MIKE TRAMP - Black Heart, Camden, 24 September 2015

Former White Lion and Freak of Nature singer Mike Tramp has been something of a rock n roll troubadour over the last few years, regularly touring the length and breadth of the UK armed only with an acoustic guitar case … Continue reading →

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News: BRUCE DICKINSON, FOO FIGHTERS, EUROPE – 19 February 2015

Posted on February 19, 2015 by jason
Europe - Manchester Apollo, 3 April 2014

Iron Maiden have released the following statement: “Just before Christmas, vocalist Bruce Dickinson visited his doctor for a routine check-up. This led to tests and biopsies which revealed a small cancerous tumour at the back of his tongue. A seven-week … Continue reading →

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Gig review: MIKE TRAMP – The Star Of Kings, London, 22 May 2013

Posted on June 2, 2013 by andynathan

  Mike Tramp seems to be the embodiment of the old adage that you can’t buy happiness. He enjoyed two US top 10 hits and stadium tours as lead singer of White Lion, who I and many others thought were … Continue reading →

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Album review: MIKE TRAMP – Cobblestone Street

Posted on March 4, 2013 by jason
Mike Tramp - Cobblestone Street

Target Records [Release date 08.04.13] First up, if you are expecting something along the lines of White Lion, the harder rocking Freak Of Nature or something lighter in the melodic rock field be warned as this is an album Mike … Continue reading →

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