Peter Coates, Author at National Rock Review

Alice Cooper at the Trusts Arena in Auckland, New Zealand

11-Mar-2020

A first time for me to the Trusts Arena, a sports hall out in West Auckland that had seen the capacity reduced to accommodate the 2,500 or so fans in a slightly more intimate setting than the normal arena show ...

Road Report: Avantasia Down Under

Peter Coates

22-May-2019

AUS, Concert Reviews, Rock

In 1999 Tobias Sammet started his side project AVANTASIA. What was originally planned as a one-off studio affair, was revived in 2007. The album "The Scarecrow" was released in 2008 and was officially amongst t...

Download Festival in Melbourne, Australia

Peter Coates

19-Mar-2019

AUS, Concert Reviews, Rock

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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