Author: Guy Shankland

Album Review: Fallen Mafia – Awaken
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...
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Interview: Happy Mondays’ Bez
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...
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Riskee and The Ridicule release new single ‘Cut Your Teeth’
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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August 19, 2019 No Responses

Live Review: Rebellion 2019

Beautiful blue skies welcome ten thousand-ish alternative festival-goers who give Rebellion as much credence as Christmas, birthdays and anniversaries on their yearly calendars. The first thing I notice after collecting my wristband is the queue for next years...
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Live Review: Dee Snider at Bloodstock Festival
August 15, 2019 No Responses

Live Review: Dee Snider at Bloodstock Festival

The British Metal music festival scene continues to go from strength to strength with Bloodstock heading towards its 20th anniversary and now the new kids on the block duo of Call Of The Wild and Stonedeaf are also chipping away...
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Interview: Bar Stool Preachers at Rebellion 2019
August 15, 2019 No Responses

Interview: Bar Stool Preachers at Rebellion 2019

There are moments when you follow a bands career that you suddenly think, yep this is where I always thought they could and should be. The Bar Stool Preachers hit that bullseye on the main Empress stage at Rebellion 2019....
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Live Review: Dead Kennedys at the Electric Ballroom, London
August 15, 2019 No Responses

Live Review: Dead Kennedys at the Electric Ballroom, London

Tonight’s, almost, sold-out show is an early one with the Dead Kennedys hitting the Ballroom boards at the bizarre time of 815 pm. This doesn’t deter the DK logo wearing masses from showing the band they haven’t forgotten the songs...
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Live Review: Legends Live 2019 – Suzi Quatro, David Essex, Les McKewans Bay City Rollers & Smokie at Bournemouth’s BIC
August 15, 2019 No Responses

Live Review: Legends Live 2019 – Suzi Quatro, David Essex, Les McKewans Bay City Rollers & Smokie at Bournemouth’s BIC

SMOKIE kick off the final night of the Legends Live tour 2019 with a short but impressive set which unsurprisingly ends with the sing-a-long favourite ‘Living Next Door To Alice’, and yes the crowd and band partake in “Alice, Alice...
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Interview: Puddle of Mudd’s Wes Scantlin
August 14, 2019 No Responses

Interview: Puddle of Mudd’s Wes Scantlin

On THE hottest day of the year, Wes Scantlin takes to the London stage with Puddle Of Mudd and battles through the heat to deliver a superlative set of new, covers and POM classics. The obvious highlights of ‘Blurry’, ‘Control’...
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EP Review: Kid Klumsy – Singing Our Souls
July 28, 2019 No Responses

EP Review: Kid Klumsy – Singing Our Souls

Former Dirt Box Disco frontman Weab’s Kid Klumsy latest E.P ‘Singing Our Souls’ is, takes a deep breath, slightly maturer sounding. Not sure who opener ‘Mr Right Man’ is aimed at but the “Well I still think you’re a cunt”...
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