Author: Andy Thorley

One of the many reasons my mates take the piss out of me is for saying "please" to the Google lady when she changes a song on my Android CarPlay. The reasoning is simple: if the...
Special guest tonight is Tom McRae, which I thought was a strange choice until the singer-songwriter shared that he`d met both David Bowie and John Cale backstage many years ago at a show in the United...

JUILET’S NOT DEAD – THE WORLD IS OURS (2025)

With a background like Stevie Stoker has (he was in an incarnation of Inglorious and then the band Twister - who changed name and...

REVIEW: BUSTER SHUFFLE – TOGETHER (2025

The beauty of Buster Shuffle is their simplicity. Every song is basically a knees-up. You can sing along to every one by the second...

REVIEW: JIZZY PEARL – PUNK ROCK FIESTA (2025)

Love/Hate being the first band I ever saw live, and their debut album being one of my all-time favourites, means Jizzy Pearl doesn’t struggle...

REVIEW: DEACON BLUE – THE GREAT WESTERN ROAD (2025)

The piano opening alone gives the title cut a sense of grandiosity even before the first line draws you in. "Bus driver, won't you...

REVIEW: WHO ON EARTH – SMOKE AND MIRRORS (2025)

Machine-gun drumming kicks off "Lobotomy," an adrenaline-fueled hard rock assault reminiscent of Adrenaline Mob (fittingly, that band’s guitarist, Mike Orlando, produces here). But this...

REVIEW: O.R.k – FIREHOSE OF FALSEHOODS (2025)

Album number five from the band—featuring Colin Edwin (Porcupine Tree) and Pat Mastelotto (King Crimson)—is another supremely classy effort that blurs any boundaries that...

REVIEW: THE DEVILS- DEVILS GOT IT (2025)

On their tour last year, The Black Crowes ended the show I saw with "God’s Got It," and The Devils are clearly looking for...

THE DARKNESS, ASH @ THE CIVIC AT THE HALLS, WOLVERHAMPTON 15/03/2025

Tim Wheeler reckons that 31 years ago, Ash played their "first big show" here, supporting PWEI.Quite how we've reached the point in rock 'n'...

REVIEW: STEVEN WILSON – THE OVERVIEW (2025)

"Is there anything you'd like to hear?" It’s a simple question, asked by countless musicians over the years. But when Steven Wilson posed it...

THE WILDHEARTS, JIM JONES ALL-STARS, DIRT BOX DISCO @ KK’S STEEL MILL, WOLVERHAMPTON 14/03/2025

"We're slightly pissed," reckons Spunk Volcano, singer with Dirt Box Disco (and Spunk Volcano and the Eruptions)."We've got half an hour to make you...

REVIEW: COHEED AND CAMBRIA – FATHER OF MAKE BELIEVE (2025)

The plinking soundscape of "Yesterday's Lost" is enough to show you the epic nature of this album. Coheed and Cambria have long been masters...

REVIEW: RICKY WARWICK AND THE FIGHTING HEARTS – BLOOD TIES (2025)

If there's a harder-working man in rock 'n' roll than Ricky Warwick, no one's sure who it is.Alongside his work with The Almighty, Black...

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