Author: Guy Shankland

Album Review: The Skints – Swimming Lessons
May 28, 2019 No Responses

Album Review: The Skints – Swimming Lessons

Reggae outlaws The Skints return with their eclectic new album ‘Swimming Lessons’. Opener and title track ‘Swimming Lessons’ paddles with a Lily Allen armband before it peforms running bombs into the shallow end. The Reggae light sound is penetrated by...
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Preview: Rebellion Festival 2019
May 22, 2019 No Responses

Preview: Rebellion Festival 2019

The Rebellion Festival is a curiously addictive beast. A full on four-day indoor Punk and alternative Festival held in the grandiose surroundings of Blackpool’s Winter Gardens, traditionally in the first weekend of August. It draws punters and bands from all...
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Album Review: Duff McKagan – Tenderness
May 21, 2019 No Responses

Album Review: Duff McKagan – Tenderness

Duff McKagan’s musical CV reads like a ‘The Dirt’  Hollywood comeback script. From his early Punk days in Seattle to decamping to L.A where he subsequently hooked up with Slash and Steven Adler. Guns ‘N’ Roses reformation (of sorts) back...
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Preview: Call of the Wild Festival
May 20, 2019 No Responses

Preview: Call of the Wild Festival

Lincoln showground hosts the inaugural Call Of The Wild Festival over the final May bank holiday. The three-day event is headlined by The Virgin Marys on Friday, Hardcore Superstar on Sunday with the prime time Saturday Headline slot being filled...
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Camden Rocks Extra in Association with Dr. Martens Boot Room
May 15, 2019 No Responses

Camden Rocks Extra in Association with Dr. Martens Boot Room

DR. Martens flagship store based in the beating heart of Camden will host ten exclusive stripped back shows in conjunction with the Rock ‘N’ Roll eclectic Camden Rocks Festival over the weekend of June 1st and 2nd. The intimate in-store...
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Preview: Camden Rocks 2019
May 14, 2019 No Responses

Preview: Camden Rocks 2019

When I interviewed Camden Rocks founder Chris McCormack for Oringalrock.net back in 2016 we discussed the idea of making his brainchild a two-day event. The cold hard truth is that Camden Rocks is a modernistic urban music festival that turns...
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EP Review: Psychobabylon – Is This All There Is?
May 6, 2019 No Responses

EP Review: Psychobabylon – Is This All There Is?

For those still crying over Brit Hard Rockers, The Almighty, Three Colours Red or even Zodiac Mindwarp’s premature demise despair no more, just jump aboard the Psychobabylon train. This  E.P is four cuts of imperious trash covered Rock which has...
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Album Review: Bad Religion – Age of Unreason
May 2, 2019 one Response

Album Review: Bad Religion – Age of Unreason

Legendary L.A Punks Bad Religion return with the politically savage and bullishly on point ‘Age Of Unreason’. The band don’t throw out the obvious and sometimes faux American-punk lyrics that blight their contemporaries, oh woe is us, releases, no they.....
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Live Review: The London International Ska Festival (King Prawn and Buster Shuffle) at O2 Islington
May 2, 2019 No Responses

Live Review: The London International Ska Festival (King Prawn and Buster Shuffle) at O2 Islington

The London International Ska Festival continues to attract both bands and punters from all four corners of the globe with it’s eclectic and ever-diversifying Ska, 2-Tone, Reggae and Bluebeat line-ups. The festival takes place over the Easter weekend in and.....
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Live Review: Black Grape at Sub 89, Reading
April 3, 2019 No Responses

Live Review: Black Grape at Sub 89, Reading

I never really fathomed out why Black Grape never hit the heights of their musically inferior but commercially superior peers. It could have been their unsurpassable drug intake or Ryder’s unequivocal knack for messing up, just for the hell of...
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