Guy Shankland, Author at OriginalRock.net

June 26, 2018 No Responses

EP Review: Devilin Me – Self Titled

Jesus Hooligan side project Devilin Me crackling with a dirty honesty that requires scrubbing with a wire brush to get the real-life stink off the skin. Opener ‘Devilin Me’ is a punch to the lungs from Bill Sikes while bullseye...

June 26, 2018 No Responses

Live Review: Billy Idol and The Professionals at Brixton Academy

Sold out signs, touts aplenty and roller coaster queues greet those heading to Brixton and back to the mid-eighties. Opening tonight are re-formed and reinvigorated Professionals whose short set is the perfect mix of new ‘n’ old. ‘Payola’, ‘Go...

June 25, 2018 No Responses

EP Review: The Rareflowers – Self Titled

New Jersey three-piece The Rareflowers self-titled E.P laconically strokes Pop’s underbelly with a flower while laying in the long grass and staring at the blue sky, through shades. Opener ‘Trip Into The Sun’ shimmies and kinks with a sixties Brit...

June 25, 2018 No Responses

EP Review: Liquid State – Save Yourself

Bristolian Rock outfit Liquid State’s debut E.P ‘Save Yourself’ kicks off with the anthemic ‘After Hours’. The song has an enterprisingly confrontational chorus and a Hard Rock meets Grunge musical spine. The methodical ‘Bones To Glass’ pounds wi...

June 25, 2018 one Response

Album Review: The Agony Scene – Tormentor

After a ten year recoding embargo The Agony Scene return with the brutalistic ‘Tormentor’. The aurul battery begins with ‘Hand Of The Divine’ it’s a bone rattling attack of imperious style that criss crosses the Speed and Thrash gears. The...

June 20, 2018 No Responses

Album Review: The Spitfires – Year Zero

After some high profile support slots in 2018 which included The Skids and Dave Wakeling’s Beat Watford four-pieceThe Spitfires release their latest album ‘Year Zero’. Opening cut ‘Remains The Same’ resonates with early Jam spirit and an upbeat and q...

June 19, 2018 No Responses

Album Review: Evil Blizzard – The Worst Show on Earth

Evil Blizzard pushes the boundaries once more on their third full-length release, the motorway pile-up of sound ‘The Worst Show On Earth’. Opener ‘Hello’ sits uncomfortably between genres, prodding Lydon’s PIL between the ribs with a Sleaford Mods st...

June 18, 2018 No Responses

Live Review: Stone Free Festival (Scorpions, Megadeth, Buckcherry)

Buckcherry end their energetic set with the feminist anthem ‘Crazy Bitch’ which they also manage to squeeze a few bars of ‘Jungle Bogey’ into. Thrash Metal titans Megadeth draw a huge crowd of Rattleheads and the bands Vic logo is...

June 18, 2018 No Responses

Album Review: State Champs – Living Proof

New York Pop-Punksters State Champs unleash their third offering the Emo-bouncing ‘Living Proof’. Opener ‘Criminal’ touches down on all the Punk-Pop planets with light vocals, tight snare drums and pregnant musical pauses aplenty. The stair climbing, c...

June 15, 2018 No Responses

Album Review: Culture Abuse – Bay Dream

Californian Punksters Culture Abuse return with their sophomore album, the tunefully laidback ‘Bay Dream’. Opener and title track ‘Bay Dream’ laconically springs into bleary-eyed life with a morose Sunday morning, I need a coffee feel. ‘Rats In The W...

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