Callum Reid, Author at OriginalRock.net

September 5, 2022 No Responses

Live Review: Machine Head – Electric Happy Hour (Live) at the Lemon Tree, Aberdeen (September 4, 2022)

When is an Electric Happy Hour not an Electric Happy Hour? When it’s two hours, and when it’s not just “happy” but ecstatic, epic and enthralling (if not, ultimately, a tad enervating). Electric? I’ll give you that – OK, I’ll...

August 17, 2022 No Responses

Album Review: Andrew Combs – Sundays

Stripping things back to get to the heart of the matter works wonders on Andrew Combs’ meditative, melodic and melancholy Sundays, a collection of songs that invites you to sink into yourself while keeping an eye on the world, adding...

August 10, 2022 No Responses

Album Review: Regent – Just A Revolution

Summertime, and the livin’ is … uneasy. Regent seem to catch the mood and catch the moment. Indie Rock ’n’ Roll to make you think, more than capable of smacking you round the chops, is what’s on offer from the...

June 15, 2022 No Responses

Album Review: Sole Syndicate – Into The Flames

Some things change, some things stay the same … and Swede dreams are made of much nostalgia, going by the evidence of Sole Syndicate’s heavy but melodic and hugely entertaining Into The Flames. For me, this was a grower. Play...

June 9, 2022 No Responses

Album Review: The Q-Tip Bandits – Melancholy Flowers

If you can’t recognise the pure, bona fide sound of summer when you hear it, you need to clean out your ears. As days grow long and the world blooms anew, fill your boots, be ready to zoot and get...

June 1, 2022 No Responses

Album Review: The Cruel Intentions – Venomous Anonymous

Much Sleazy fun and frolics are to be had via the second album from these rollicking rockers with a sense of humour and a seemingly constant availability when it comes to party time. Singer/guitarist Lizzy DeVine, formerly of Sweden’s Vains...

May 25, 2022 No Responses

Album Review – Evil: Book Of Evil

If your musical tastes have barely changed since 1982, or if you are only now “discovering” the “New” Wave Of British Heavy Metal, then it would be a sin for you to miss out on Evil and their Book Of...

May 18, 2022 No Responses

Album Review: Sylvia Rose Novak – A Miss/ A Masterpiece

Sylvia Rose Novak’s The Window – song four of this excellent and emotionally engaging Indie Rock album – opens vistas, makes thing clear. It says a lot about Novak, where she has been, where she is right now. The Window...

April 30, 2022 No Responses

Album Review: Blue Violet – Late Night Calls

Blue Violet? Scarlet vermillion? Yellow amber? Verdant green? All the spectrum of emotions and myriad hues of life as we know it, or may not know it, are present and correct on elemental, engrossing and simply superior album Late Night...

April 20, 2022 No Responses

Album Review: Dorothy – Gifts From The Holy Ghost

Who’s your favourite Dorothy? The ruby-slippered youth in Oz … “Sarong Girl” Lamour … or the girl you love talking to at your favourite dive bar whose parents named her after lounge singer Vallens? Either way, you can’t go wrong...

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