Peter Coates, Author at National Rock Review

Download Festival in Melbourne, Australia

19-Mar-2019

The second annual instalment of the imported DOWNLOAD Festival in Australia has expanded from the single city in 2018 to a Sydney and Melbourne double this year and is a cut-down one-day version of the UK’s maj...

FM & Dare at Sub89 in Reading

Peter Coates

05-Mar-2019

Concert Reviews, Rock, UK

Dare have been enjoying a resurgence in recent times while re-recording the Out of The Silence album as a re-release – and although Darren Wharton had a bit of a sore throat, he tore into set opener Walk O...

Godsmack at the O2 Forum in London

Peter Coates

01-Mar-2019

Concert Reviews, Rock, UK

This was the first night of the rescheduled Godsmack European Tour leg for 2019, featuring the new album When Legends Rise, and there was a capacity crowd on hand at the Forum in Kentish Town to witness the fou...

Paul Laine & The Radio Sun at Northcote Social Club in Melbourne, Australia

Peter Coates

20-Jan-2019

AUS, Concert Reviews, Rock

My first listen through the first Paul Laine record Stick It In Your Ear was in mid-1990 soon after release and signalled a significant discovery in what was becoming a somewhat bland and humdrum time for melod...

Passion, Soul & Fire by David M’ore

Peter Coates

07-Mar-2016

Album Reviews

The immediate thing that hits you about David Mâ€™ore is the voice; husky, gravelled tones which really should be coming from a deep-south grizzled old bluesman. (more…)...

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