KEVIN ‘SKIDS’ RIDDLES (TYTAN/ANGEL WITCH) Interview

Kevin 'Skids' Riddles (Tytan/Angel Witch) and Mick Burgess

Kevin 'Skids' Riddles (Tytan/Angel Witch) — Photo: Mick Burgess

As bassist in Angel Witch, Kevin ‘Skids’ Riddles played on their legendary debut album, one of the most influential releases of the NWOBHM era, before leaving and forming Tytan with vocal powerhouse Kal Swan. Although splitting up before the release of their first album interest in Tytan grew over the years and a belated release to their Rough Justice album showed a band with huge potential.

Riddles decided to bring Tytan back with an all new lineup following a campaign from fans in 2012. Mick Burgess caught up with Riddles before Tytan headlined the BroFest Festival in Newcastle and chatted about his days in Angel Witch, the rise and fall of Tytan and subsequent resurrection with a new album and a tour lined up

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Mick Burgess

Mick is a reviewer and photographer here at Metal Express Radio, based in the North-East of England. He first fell in love with music after hearing Jeff Wayne's spectacular The War of the Worlds in the cold winter of 1978. Then in the summer of '79 he discovered a copy of Kiss Alive II amongst his sister’s record collection, which literally blew him away! He then quickly found Van Halen I and Rainbow's Down To Earth, and he was well on the way to being rescued from Top 40 radio hell! Over the ensuing years, he's enjoyed the Classic Rock music of Rush, Blue Oyster Cult, and Deep Purple; the AOR of Journey and Foreigner; the Pomp of Styx and Kansas; the Progressive Metal of Dream Theater, Queensrÿche, and Symphony X; the Goth Metal of Nightwish, Within Temptation, and Epica, and a whole host of other great bands that are too numerous to mention. When he's not listening to music, he watches Sunderland lose more football (soccer) matches than they win, and occasionally, if he has to, he goes to work as a property lawyer.
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