It being Halloween, and also absolutely throwing it down, makes for very good mood-setting for seeing a band that were just barely on the precipice of the pop-punk and emo sound when it was big, as well as giving you the feeling they certainly won’t let you down: Finnish multi-platinum …
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Clutch have been a favourite band of mine for many years now so when the opportunity arose for me to interview lead guitarist Tim Sult I naturally jumped at that chance, and then couldn’t think of a thing to ask him. What was meant to be a zoom call ended …
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Aerosmith’s Joe Perry famously said that listening to Deep Purple’s ‘Highway Star’ was like that first shot of coffee in the morning. Pure adrenaline. A mantra former Biters frontman Tuk Smith seems to have adopted with the debut album from his new vehicle Tuk Smith & The Restless Hearts. Opening …
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The day after Rocktober in Bristol, I found myself passing by that way again on the Motorway, en route to Swansea for my first sight of the restored venue, The Patti Pavilion, and three superb bands on a stellar line-up. Opening the evening were the slick-sounding Collateral. I have seen …
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The last four or five years have been anything but easy on Tuk Smith; record label issues forced the dissolution of his former band Biters; a few years later he formed Tuk Smith & The Restless Hearts, and the opening slot on the Def Leppard/Mötley Crüe US stadium tour beckoned. …
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Canadian musical genius Devin Townsend shows no sign of slowing down with this, the 26th studio release of his career. Following 2019’s ‘Empath’ record, work on his highly anticipated album ‘Lightwork’ was delayed. In that gap Townsend ever the workaholic released two stop-gap albums ‘Snuggles’ and ‘The Puzzle’ with the …
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The Damn Truth – Canada’s finest export since Dudley Do-Right – made good on their promise to come back real soon after knocking UK audiences for six during their support slot earlier this year with Scottish blues-rockers King King. A whistle-stop 11-date October tour around the regions that included a …
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“Intimate” is definitely a word appropriate to The Junction in Plymouth. A tiny rock pub in the student area of Plymouth with good beer, great sound and light, and an ambitious and successful promoter that definitely punches above his weight in attracting big names to the far SW. Tonight, on …
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After the stop-start-stop-again-start-with-restrictions of the last few years, Billy Idol was finally able to recently launch his long-awaited World Tour, and with South America, and Europe crossed off the list, it was, at last, time for a whistle-stop tour of Blighty for the man formerly known as William Michael Albert …
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Symphonic metal masters Visions Of Atlantis have just completed a mammoth co-headlining European tour with Xandria under the banner of ‘Symphonic Metal Nights’, and we managed to grab a quick chat with co-vocalist Michele Guaitoli before an incredible show in Manchester. Check-in with Meek, below… Due to the pandemic, the …
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