Review: Mario Lanza – The Best Of Everything
DVD: Mario Lanza – The Best Of Everything (2017) This release from Screenbound is a 90 minute documentary about the singer Mario Lanza, and includes ‘insights’ and commentary from UK Opera singers Leslie Garrett and Russell Watson, along with Joseh Valleja, Steve Hackett and Lanza’s daughter Ellisa. And what a sad story it is. Born […]
Review: Michael Schenker Fest: Live
Blu-ray, DVD, CD, Vinyl & Digital Download: Michael Schenker Fest: Live When you’re knocking out killer riffs on your 1st album appearance at only 15 years old, you can be pretty damn sure that a guitar fuelled career lays waiting in front of you, and while Michael Schenker never truly sustained the career highs that his […]
Steve’s Top Ten Albums of 2016
In no particular order my top 10 albums 2016: David Bowie – Blackstar For some fans even listening to this album almost after a year since its release is still too painful an experience. Enough plaudits have been written regarding Bowie’s change in direction and collaboration with saxophonist Donny McCaslin to produce a sad, romantic […]
Review: Janis: Little Girl Blue
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 […]
Review: Tigertailz – Blast
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 […]
Live Event: Goblin – Gorilla, May 11th, 2016
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 […]
Review: Glen Campbell: I’ll Be Me
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 […]
Live Event: U.D.O – The Tivoli, April 16th, 2016.
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 […]
Live Event: Hard Rock Hell United (Podcast Pt3)
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, […]
Live Event: Hard Rock Hell United (Podcast Pt2)
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: […]
