I began my career in journalism at the now defunct, pre-digital Smash Hits magazine, which was situated in London's Carnaby Street. After learning the ropes, I washed up at Vox Magazine, essentially the NME'S monthly magazine, as the Internet arrived into our lives. Thereon, I eventually graduated onto Q Magazine when people still treasured the magazine that they bought.
My journalistic career since has been on newspapers at The Times, The Independent/i newspaper, Daily & Sunday Express and, ofcourse, National Rock Review.
New Dawn is the first all-new Osibisa studio album since their 2009 Osee Yee album of original studio tunes, not forgetting Abele recently released on the well-received The Boyhood Sessions album
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If Charles Darwin had been a blues obsessive, then he would probably have proclaimed that the evolution of the white man exposing the blues, and its legendary and unsung creators, to the worldwide audience of t...
Known as the “Athens of the South”, Nashville is a musical magnet attracting songwriters and musicians to head on down to this “Music City” to philosophise in song and verse.
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Armed with a voice that would make a square-bashing Sergeant Major wince and run for cover, Bonnet’s three-minute warning siren of a larynx is probably racking up building insurance claims somewhere on this r...
KK return with an album titled Maverick which is anything but that. Well, not exactly anything, more of a tune-up and refit of their trademark classic rock sound saturated in a deep shade of blues.
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What’s that sound rumbling in the distance and getting ever closer? There it goes repeating. And again! Echo... Echo...Like a sonic boomerang, it must be that delicate sound of thunder coming round once more....
Half a century not out has seen this bedevilled British rock band survive the trials and tribulations that drink, drugs and death wreak in its wake to continue marching forward to the singular sound of their ow...
Whilst revelling in a highly successful artistic and commercial purple patch, the pathway to creative success must have seemed crystal clear to an in-demand Walter Egan.
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Bass players, like drummers, are often the overlooked participants who create the weighty ballast and deep groove whilst the front of stage guitar players and singers swipe the attention and plaudits from fans ...