Jan James – Time Bomb
American artist Jan James has, over the past several years, gradually built up a name and a rep in bluesy soul music. She learnt...
Vended brings the hottest show on Earth to Manchester
Vended is composed of Griffin Taylor and Simon Crahan, the sons of Slipknot members Corey Taylor and Shawn Crahan respectively. Vended made their Manchester...
Motorhead release live at Montreux Jazz Festival
What, another Motorhead ‘live’ album? Well, yeah, why not? You’re never going to see the real thing on stage again so ‘live’ albums help...
RUSH – Portraits Edition (Rufus Publications)
By the end of the period covered by this book, the early eighties, Rush (the ‘Holy Trinity’ to their global fanbase) were probably the...
Luke Morley crafts Songs From The Blue Room
I have one ‘complaint’ about all of Luke Morley’s work… his guitar solos are always way too short. However having followed him through his...
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...
