Author Peter Coates

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 ...

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...

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 m...

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...

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...

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...

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