Live Reviews
Y&T (Live)
Prior to Covid there was always something rather special about the first Friday night in November as pretty much every year for the previous decade or so, California’s Y&T, paid a visit to the town …READ MORE
Dave Meniketti
Tales from a Metalhead
Tales from a Metalhead: Chapter 36: The Overture
Overture! Many Hard Rock and Metal bands adopted the term from Classical music. However, over the years it’s become more typical for Hard Rock and Metal than any other genre I think. A fancy word, right? …READ MORE
Tales from a Metalhead
Tales from a Metalhead: Chapter 25: Go For the Throat!
Y&T is one of those bands that has been around “Forever”. I knew a lot of their songs in the early early 80s, but for some strange reason I never took a deep dive into their back catalogue; not until the charity all-star album Hear ‘n Aid was released in 1985. …READ MORE
Live Reviews
Y&T (Live)
This time last year there was something of a Y&T shaped hole in the calendar. Since 2007, it has become something of a tradition for Y&T to come up to Newcastle for the first or …READ MORE
Live Reviews
Y&T / PRAYING MANTIS (Live)
Quite how support act Praying Mantis didn’t quite hit the heights that their obvious talents deserved is something of a mystery. Their debut Time Tells No Lies sailed along on the euphoric resurgence of British …READ MORE
Live Reviews
Y&T (Live)
It’s been an expensive week for Rock fans of the North and big bank balances have been needed to take in all of the bands visiting Newcastle over a seven day period that had already …READ MORE
Book Reviews
JILL MENIKETTI – Welcome To Groove House
As manager and wife of Dave Meniketti, founder member, lead guitarist and singer with California’s Y&T, Jill Meniketti has seen it, done it and lived the Rock Star life. With an insider’s knowledge she has …READ MORE
Spotlight
Today It’s 30 Years Since The Recording Of HEAR N’ AID’s “We’re Stars”
Remember this one guys? 30 years ago today “Hear N’ Aid – We’re Stars” was recorded. Hear N’ Aid was a one-time collaboration of various individual Heavy Metal/Hard Rock artists in 1985 to raise money …READ MORE
Audio Interviews
Y&T Audio Interview 2007
Dave Meniketti talking about why they haven’t been in the UK since 1984, the time after the comeback in 2004 and the DVD One Hot Night.
Album Reviews
DAVE MENIKETTI – Meniketti
Former Y&T main man, Dave Meniketti still plays hard, bluesy rock ‘n roll with his distinctive voice in fine form. Sadly the material on this solo-album never rises to the level Y&T used to frequent …READ MORE