While the Spice Girls were Zig-a-Zig-Ahhhing across the region at Sunderland’s Stadium of Light something far more historic was taking place over in Newcastle with the Godfathers of Power Pop, the Flamin’ Groovies, making their …READ MORE
If he’d stopped playing after recording the iconic intro to Tarot Woman and the influential solo to A Light In The Black on the uber classic, Rainbow Rising, then Tony Carey’s stature in music would …READ MORE
How much more Metal could this be? The answer of course, is none, none more Metal. Twin guitars, scything riffs, screaming solos, canon fire drums and the ubiquitous air raid siren vocals all wrapped up …READ MORE
A couple of year’s ago Katatonia announced that they were going on an indefinite hiatus and since then apart from a short tour of the Baltic states, little has been heard from the Swedish doomsters. …READ MORE
Hearing a certain song is often enough to transport you back to a different time and a different place, effortlessly time travelling through the power of music. When the opening guitar refrain of Spiritwalker chimed …READ MORE
Glen Matlock may be intrinsically linked with the Sex Pistols as the original bassist and co-writer of some of Punk’s most iconic songs but that would be doing a disservice to his subsequent 40 plus …READ MORE
It’s been 25 years since Warren Haynes and Woody Allen stepped outside of The Allman Brothers Band to take part in a one off side project called Gov’t Mule. Mick Burgess called up guitarist/vocalist Warren …READ MORE
He may have made his name as the original bassist in the Sex Pistols and co-writer of classics such as Pretty Vacant and Anarchy In The UK but Glen Matlock has done much more in …READ MORE
Having worked together in Dokken, Jeff Pilson, George Lynch and Mick Brown recruited Warrant’s Robert Mason to create something altogether darker and more varied than Dokken. Mick Burgess called up Jeff Pilson to talk about …READ MORE
David Bowie famously talked Mott The Hoople out of splitting up by gifting them All The Young Dudes, a song that went on to become their highest charting single and a bona fide Rock classic, …READ MORE