Guy Shankland, Author at OriginalRock.net

September 29, 2019 No Responses

Live Review: Cornbury Festival: The Specials, Echo and the Bunnymen and Gaz Combes

First things first, I love this festival! There’s space, decent food, no queue at the bars and the toilets don’t stink or look an explosion at Willy Wonka’s. Blue skies certainly help and as with any outdoor event the weather...

September 18, 2019 No Responses

Single Review: The Skapones – When It’s Gone It’s Gone

North East skank-inducers The Skapones return with their brand new bob ‘n’ weave single the aptly titled, for 2019, ‘When It’s Gone It’s Gone’. The band’s knack of producing dancefloor-filling music with a serious personal or political message co...

September 11, 2019 No Responses

Album Review: The Wildhearts – Diagnosis

You wait ten years for a Wildhearts album and then…yep one and a half come along at once. ‘Diagnosis’ is a six-track release which includes five new studio cuts and the title track ‘Diagnosis’ which featured and stood out the...

September 2, 2019 No Responses

Album Review: Slade – Feel The Noize – The Singlez Box

Hard to compute what our present-day musical outlook would sound like without Birmingham, Coventry and or The Black Country, absolute crap probably. Slade’s influence on not one but four or five genres pours out of this impressive Singles collection. The...

September 2, 2019 No Responses

Interview: The Undertones’ Michael Bradley at Rewind Festival 2019

The very dapper Undertones bassist Michael Bradley strides across the media area where a throng of photographers and music journo’s await Rewind South’s first interviewee. The Derry band are celebrating their fortieth anniversary and having toured with...

September 2, 2019 No Responses

Interview: Hazel O’Connor at Rewind Festival 2019

A smiling Hazel O Connor has a cold, or something bronchial as her usually raspy voice takes on another husky dimension. The female icon has been coming to Rewind (and Henley) for a few years now and she is always...

September 2, 2019 No Responses

Live Review: Stonedeaf Festival 2019

Bright blue skies and cheerful volunteers welcome three thousand punters to the second STONEDEAF FESTIVAL. Motorhead’s Road Crew beer is the official tipple on sale and with battle vests placed over camping chairs let the festival begin. The site is...

September 1, 2019 No Responses

Album Review: Fallen Mafia – Awaken

Hard Rock receives a much-needed kick up the North as Fallen Mafia drop their anthemic debut album, ‘Awaken’. Opener and title track ‘Awaken’ is a marching infantry of melodic rock which stomps across the Metal genres waving its flag and...

August 31, 2019 No Responses

Interview: Happy Mondays’ Bez

From The Hacienda to Barbados to Bargain Hunt, ladies and gentlemen, the enigma that is… Bez. The name Bez will forever be synonymous with maracas, The Happy Mondays and wide-eyed disco biscuit dancing. His on-stage persona continues to keep him...

August 20, 2019 No Responses

Riskee and The Ridicule release new single ‘Cut Your Teeth’

Riskee and The Ridicule release new single ‘Cut Your Teeth’ following storming sets at both Rebellion and Boomtown festivals. New album ‘Body Bag Your Scene’ out now via Bomber Music Musically, the band meld their genre-spanning influences with thei...

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