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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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Uriah Heep Audio Interview 2005

November 16, 2005 Mick Burgess 0

Interview with Mick Box…

BRUCE TURGON – Outside Looking In

November 7, 2005 Mick Burgess 0

There may be some of you out there unfamiliar with the name Bruce Turgon. Turgon is probably best known for his stint in the short-lived supergroup, Shadow King, which featured Lou Gramm from Foreigner and …READ MORE

BLACKMORE’S NIGHT (Live at Sentrum Scene, Oslo, Norway, October 21, 2005)

Interview With RITCHIE BLACKMORE & CANDICE NIGHT

October 28, 2005 Mick Burgess 0

An In-Depth Interview with Blackmore’s Night. Q: You are part way through your European tour … how have the shows been going so far? Ritchie: Serious, but not hopeless. Candice: I think the bond between …READ MORE

LOCOMOTIVE BREATH – Change Of Track

October 21, 2005 Mick Burgess 0

Do you ever get sick and tired of changing genres and sub-genres and cross-overs of this and that? Do you hark back to the more straightforward days where when you bought a Hard Rock album …READ MORE

JADED HEART – Helluva Time

October 10, 2005 Mick Burgess 0

Jaded Heart have, believe it or not, been dishing out their brand of Teutonic Melodic Metal for nearly 14 years now. The seeds of Jaded Heart were sown in 1990 by former Bonfire man, Michael …READ MORE

ORANGE SKY – Upstairs

September 27, 2005 Mick Burgess 0

Over the years there have been bands who have introduced elements of their cultural backgrounds into their music … such bands as Orphaned Land and Nuclear Valdez surface into memory. Orange Sky have just released …READ MORE

ALIEN – Dark Eyes

September 22, 2005 Mick Burgess 0

AOR is dead … Long live AOR, or so the obituary reads. It has been reported that the heady days of the AOR glory years of the mid-80’s are now a distant memory, with top …READ MORE

NIGHTSCAPE – Symphony Of The Night

September 1, 2005 Mick Burgess 0

When slipping this CD into your player, the unwary may be thinking that they have popped on the new Stratovarius or Helloween album by mistake, but what you have instead is the debut release from …READ MORE

BEAUTIFUL CREATURES – Deuce

August 23, 2005 Mick Burgess 0

During the barren years of the 1990’s and early naughties, when Grunge and then Nu-Metal ruled the roost, riffs, guitar solos, and anthemic choruses were banished from the airwaves. To the media, Rock as all …READ MORE

BAD HABIT – Hear-Say

March 10, 2005 Mick Burgess 0

Things have been awfully quiet in the Bad Habit camp for well over half a decade. Their last full album, Adult Orientation, was released way back in 1998, and since then, not so much as …READ MORE