Guy Shankland, Author at OriginalRock.net

December 30, 2018 No Responses

Album Review: Bowling For Soup – ‘Older, Fatter, Still the Greatest Ever: Live from Brixton’

Bowling For Soup’s ever stable popularity shows no sign of wavering and anyone who saw them in 2018 will testify to the band’s nostalgic nouse. Recorded at the sold-out Brixton show. in front of a rabid crowd of Ska-Punks and...

December 30, 2018 No Responses

Album Review: Reel Big Fish – ‘Life Sucks…Let’s Dance!’

Ska-Punk originals Reel Big Fish return with the up tempo ‘Life Sucks…Let’s Dance!’. The album kicks off with the running on the spot cartoon-ish title track ‘Life Sucks’. The track itself has a thick 2-Tone spine but it still evokes...

December 10, 2018 No Responses

Live Review: The Damned at The Coventry Empire

The Damned were always more than just another “Punk” band. The Captain’s cartoon media-friendly image hides a perceptive musician whose guitar playing can still, with the simplest of intro’s, cause the sort of early set crowd cheers usually saved the.....

November 26, 2018 No Responses

Live Review: The Dead Daisies at O2 Academy Oxford

Due to the early start of the Dead Daisies headline set (830…) along with the car meets bike mayhem that is Oxford’s Cowley Road I miss the incendiary Massive Wagons and Oliver/Dawson’s Saxon. The Dead Daisies are an odd Rock...

November 20, 2018 No Responses

Live Review: The Quireboys at Sub 89, Reading

Fresh from having a huge chunk of their equipment stolen The Quireboys sail into Reading and undeterred they deliver another bourbon soaked night of hip shaking Rock ‘N’ Roll. Lead singer Spike is an ageless hooch pirate all swaying bandanna’s,...

November 19, 2018 No Responses

EP Review: Crashing Cairo – At Speeds That Destroy

Music and heartbreak often walk hand in hand as real-life birth, death and marriage all intersect ideas, dreams and plans. The desire to push past the past and walk towards the light is none more evident in Crashing Cairo’s ‘At...

November 5, 2018 No Responses

EP Review: 7he 7ouch – SeventySeven

Originally from Greece but now of that there London the unsigned 7HE 7OUCH have dropped a pretty stunning E.P of Arena filling Rock ‘N’ Roll. Opening track ‘Soloution’ hooks you in with a catch of the day chorus and seamless...

October 29, 2018 No Responses

Interview: Ginger Wildheart

Armed with nervous optimism and a head full of questions I dial the mobile number for Ginger Wildheart. Ginger is out walking his beloved dog Maggie and in his own words he’s, “sitting by the side of a tranquil lake...

October 23, 2018 No Responses

Album Review: Billy Idol – Vital Idol: Revitalized

Remixes are curious beasts normally found lurking on Twelve inch B-sides or as filler on deluxe editions of anniversary album re-releases. Billy Idol has reversed the trend gone for the full monty and allowed fifteen tracks to get the dance...

October 23, 2018 No Responses

Album Review: Saxon – The Eagle Has Landed

The name Saxon evokes a fistful of Metal memories, denim, leather, fast engines and headbanging heaven. ‘The Eagle Has Landed’ is a wonderful Rock ‘N’ Roll time capsule from when Heavy Metal bands from across the world dreamed of playing...

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