Rick Wakeman – In The Seventies
For those of us with memories going right back to the seventies, there are certain images which help define what was, in many instances,...
Sergeant Steel shows the Missis…Mister Sippi
What do a grey-bearded man, a machine gun firing on full automatic, a rocking chair, a stack of Marshall amps, a pair of clogs,...
From Metallica to Slipknot: Highlights from Download Festival 2023
For its 20th anniversary, Download Festival needed to up the ante and extend the event by an additional day for a four-day extravaganza. The...
An Extraordinary Life – John Wetton
Those coming to this hefty 252-page book devoted to the memory of John Wetton, looking exacting details on his life, and more so minutiae...
Steve Lukathe contuines to build Bridges
Steve Lukather is a guitar man with the US rock band Toto (If you don’t know where the name comes from then go to...
Hurricane #1 are Backstage Waiting to Go On
After a dalliance with the big league in the late 90s (and a few top 40 hits) Hurricane #1 are back with a vengeance...
Trip The Wire and a skydiving mummy
A potentially misleading headline, but that is the image the cover art brings to my admittedly, strange mind as I listen to the debut...
Scar Symmetry unleashes a Xenotaph
Swedish Melo-Death hidden gems Scar Symmetry have finally released the long-awaited album; The Singularity Phase II: Xenotaph. This is a record that has been...
Envy of None, That Was Then, This Is Now
With the spirit of Rush still prominent in the background, it was probably the best thing for Alex Lifeson to do something completely different...
King Howl have much to crow about on Homecoming
A band from Sardinia called King Howl, first came to my attention when my early blues radar picked up on an EP released in...
