DVD: Janis: Little Girl Blue (2015) Janis – Little Girl Blue is a new documentary about the life and death of much loved hippie icon Janis Joplin. Janis was the original ‘rock chick’ that blazed a trail across the cultural landscape of 1960’s America. This documentary, narrated by musician Cat Power, is told through a series of letters […]
After the 2013 release of the 5 track EP ‘Knives’ (which I absolutely loved) Tigertailz were already planning a follow-up EP entitled ‘Daggerz’, but as has often been the case with ‘Tailz throughout their career, the bands future has not gone as planned due to various unforeseen events. A change of personal (something which ‘Tailz are […]
Dawn of the Dead (1978) is my all time favourite movie and one which I have literally seen over 100 times (a friend and I once went 24 hours watching it non-stop on VHS back in our youth). The European version of the movie (for there are many) is scored by Goblin, a band that performed […]
DVD: Glen Campbell: I’ll Be Me (2014) As a child my parents’ choice of music was nothing short of eclectic. While Mam would whoop it up to Rod Stewart (yes she did think he was sexy), my dad would be humming along to his favourite LP of Cossack Choirs singing songs from the homeland. So […]
Once again I headed back to my longest serving and favourite music venue; The Tivoli in Buckley. This time I was accompanied by Tina who hadn’t been there in 25 years! We’ve often discussed about the amount of times we were both at the same gig there in the 1980’s but didn’t cross paths, so […]
Chris joins me for the 3rd and final part of our Hard Rock Hell United 2016 shows as we chat with 9 bands on the Saturday. As with the previous 2 shows, we play 2 songs from each band to give you a flavour of what they are like. Yes this is a LONG episode, […]
Part 2 of our Hard Rock Hell United 2016 shows completes the Friday interviews and has 8 bands and 16 songs. Part 3 will cover all of our Saturday interviews when Chris makes his first ever visit to Hard Rock Hell and will be online next weekend. The bands you will hear in this episode are: […]
Running from March 10th – 13th 2016, Hard Rock Hell United showcased a broad range of rock music across the genres of Thrash, Doom, AOR, Sleaze, Stoner and much more. Once again we were on site to record interviews and watch the bands, only this time we had the pleasure of stopping there for the […]
After myself and Ramrod had the pleasure of chatting to Sam and Tom from Bigfoot in our Hard Rock Hell special episode, it is great to begin 2016 with a new EP from them. ‘Stone Soldiers’ consists of 5 tracks; each one driven by a blues infused, guitar driven, drum pounding beat and all enveloped by […]
Having been a fan of Judas Priest since 1979 and seen them live on stage many times over the following years, I will admit to being slightly hesitant before going to this gig. The reason for that is the last couple of times I’ve seen the band they paled in comparison to my memories of their […]