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News: Mott the Hoople to release Mental Train (The Island Years 1969-71) six CD box set

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See: Greek Metal Thrashers SENSE OF FEAR release New Video “Unbreached Walls”

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News: Bloodstock – New Bands Added

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  Let’s get this straight from the start, firstly – yes it is. Secondly – it is nothing like any version you’ve (probably) ever heard. The folk song, famously a hit for The Animals in 1964, but recorded before that by the likes of Josh White and Leadbelly, is given a complete reworking, moved into …

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London-based blues rockers The Temperance Movement are off on tour. Nothing new there, they played over a hundred gigs last year, and have already built a reputation for their live show here in e UK especially. This time though, the boys are off to peddle their considerable wares around the concert Halls of Europe first, …

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We got all enthusiastic about the rather addictive Southern rock of J Roddy Walston & The Business before, with its low slung riffs and scuffed up basslines, and Roddy himself, hollering (did I spell / say that right? I feel a bit of a fraud sat here in Yorkshire) out with his Southern blues rock …

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Oh, we’re getting a shiver of excitement about Surrey’s new rock heroes Arcane Roots. Not just because they’ve announced a whole host of new tour dates across both the UK and Europe,  but because they’re in serious danger of exploding into being one of the biggest rock bands in the country. Their album, Blood & …

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It’s been a while since we heard anything from Canadian heavy/thrash metal trio Cauldron, nothing in fact since their fourth album, 2012’s Tomorrow’s Lost, but that was enough to convince many of their qualities – good old fashioned Heavy Metal, with plenty of pretension and no little amount of theatrics. So, if any persuasion were …

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In a world where more and more seems to be coming neatly packaged and conforming to an accepted norm, it is nice to find that there are still people out there prepared to steer away from the mainstream flow. Nottingham trio Kagoule have been around a few years now. Early demo’s ‘Monarchy’ & ‘Made of …

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I once read a review of some music that claimed that it was ‘a crass monster, a hideously writhing wounded dragon, which refuses to expire, and though bleeding in the Finale, furiously beats about with its tail erect.’ It illustrates two things, it shows that not everybody understands or likes new music, but also it …

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I used to love the Harlem Globetrotters. I remember growing up they used to occasionally be on World of Sport or Grandstand, one of them anyway. They were cool and funny and had these outrageous skills that (it seemed to me) no other team had, and certainly no-one would attempt in a ‘proper’ game. Along …

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My first gig was seeing Gary Numan (with Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark as support) at a sold out Birmingham Odeon on his first major tour in 1979. He was riding high with his Pleasure Principle album at number one and the accompanying single, Cars in the top ten after having already hit the top …

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Names. It was the thing that caused the most consternation in our house upon the birth of my daughter. I liked the flowery names; Daisy, Poppy – stuff like that. My wife, however, like very traditional names like Elizabeth and Rachael, and needless to say, we hated eachothers choices. In the end, after a browse …

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