Glitter And Spit by The Pearl Harts
It's here at last. The eagerly awaited debut album from The Pearl Harts is released – and it was well worth the wait.
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Gizmodrome at Scala in London, UK
A tiggerish, sweatband wearing Stewart Copeland bounced onto the Scala stage arms aloft and fists pumping the air, as though he had just won the fifth and deciding set in a pro-celebrity game of tennis.
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Cormac Neeson at The Islington in London, UK
Cormac Neeson, frontman of The Answer gives London a taster of the songs from his maiden solo album, White Feather.
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Ken Hensley at The Hospital Club in London, UK.
The epithet "legendary" is bandied about and attributed to so many debatable characters these days that, at times, it seems to have lost its true power of meaning. There are very few musicians extant who are tr...
Robin Trower at Islington Assembly Hall in London, UK
Robin Trower is a renaissance man. Formerly an integral member of classic British prog/blues band Procol Harum, Trower then blazed a ferocious fretboard trail across the '70's. His gold standard slew of trippy,...
Big Boy Bloater And The Limits at the 100 Club in London, UK
Big of voice and loud of guitar, the larger than life Big Boy Bloater got the joint rockin’ from the start as he and The Limits played an explosive set of blistering Rhythm and Blues.
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Laurence Jones at The Borderline in London, UK
There has been something of a quiet renaissance going on with an excellent crop of young, established artists in the blues-rock idiom beginning to come to the fore. In a genre that is led by the ubiquitous blue...
Bernie Marsden – Blues Week at The 100 Club in London, UK
When snakes shed their skin thereby allowing for further growth, it's not that dissimilar to founding band members departing from venerable rock bands, to stretch out in different directions.
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King King at the O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire in London, UK
By appointment, I was invited to witness a right royal rockin' racket by King King; a band definitely deserving of MBE’s all round for their commitment to Music Before Everything attitude!
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Black Country Communion at the Eventim Apollo in London, UK
A very rare outing by supergroup Black Country Communion saw their congregation of fans witness a right holy racket tonight at The Hammersmith Apollo - The Mecca of all rock venues.
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