Badflower at the Tufnell Park Dome, London
Playing a show on a Monday night is always a tough ask especially for bands on the starry stairlift to establishing themselves as a major player on the touring circuit.
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Vive Le Rock Awards at The O2 Academy Islington, London.
Roll up, Roll up and bring the outsiders, the defiant punks, shady goths, kitched-up rockabillies, tattooed dames, mascaraed ne'er do wells, chic pirate attired oldies, skull and crossbones wastrels, demimonde ...
Bishop Gunn at Boston Music Room in London
Of the many aspiring young rock acts emerging on the busy cross-Atlantic music scene, Bishop Gunn is most definitely on the rise and firing from all barrels with their flint edged sparky set of southern hued ha...
Carl Palmer’s ELP Legacy at Under The Bridge in London, UK
As the last man standing (or should that be sitting) and fittingly final letter in Prog Supergroup ELP, Carl Palmer is preserving the legacy of this much-loved band by fronting his own trio's choicest, cherry-p...
Supersonic Blues Machine at O2 Shepherds Bush Empire in London, UK
Blue as a word has a deep contradiction at its heart. As an adjective, it is the epitome of cool or a deep well of sorrow. As a colour, it contains a spectrum of shades which your average rock fan wears with pa...
The Vive Le Rocks Awards 2018 at The Islington O2 Academy in London, UK
The inaugural Vive Le Rocks awards bash unabashedly launched itself tonight with firecracker live performances and celebrity hosts. With Ginger Wildheart as the overall impresario, the ceremony was irreverent, ...
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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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...
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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