Author: Andy Thorley

After blistering tours of the U.S., Japan, and Europe in support of their "Best Of" album in 2023, The Dead Daisies have spent the early part of 2024 in both Nashville & Muscle Shoals busy in...
Ahead of their upcoming UK and Ireland headline tour this April, modern metal heavyweights SYLOSIS have released a live video for 'Poison For The Lost', taken from their last full length album, A Sign Of Things To Come. The video...

REVIEW: DANDY WARHOLS – ROCKMAKER

Last weekend Slash went viral thanks to his showstopping display at the OSCARS. But he’s more than just a good judge of a football...

THE LONGEST JOHNS @ 02 INSTITUTE 2, BIRMINGHAM 15/03/2024

Sometimes, whether you like it or not, you have to start in the most obvious place. So, tonight, when The Longest Johns launch into,...

REVIEW: COMEBACK KID – TROUBLE (2024)

In 2022 Canada's Comeback Kid released the sensational "Heavy Steps". A record that when I reviewed it, I said: "Bands who are 20 years...

WILLE AND THE BANDITS, HAUNT THE WOODS @ HARE AND HOUNDS, KINGS HEATH 14/03/2024

There is a moment tonight, when Wille Edwards, front man of Wille And The  Bandits, sings “Make Love”. The hook line in the song,...

REVIEW: CORY WELLS – HARBORING THE HURT I’VE CAUSED (2024)

About halfway through “Harboring The Hurt I’ve Caused comes a track called “Do You Like That You Love Me”. A few things here,...

ENUFF Z’NUFF, ZACH WATERS BAND, STOP STOP @ KK’S STEEL MILL, WOLVERHAMPTON 13/03/2024

When Stop Stop segue into Four Non Blondes' "What's Going On?" during their last song, "Stop Stop" it's a question many were asking. Three...

REVIEW: SCOTT STAPP – HIGHER POWER (2024)

Let's be honest whatever Scott Stapp puts out, is always going to be compared to his work in the band he left 15 years...

STIFF LITTLE FINGERS, GLEN MATLOCK @ O2 ACADEMY, BIRMINGHAM 12/03/2024

To be honest, unless you’d looked online, it is unlikely that you would have said Glen Matlock was going to play a cover of...

REVIEW: DRAGONFORCE – WARP SPEED WARRIORS (2024)

Like any right-minded person, I detest Michael McIntyre. However, the floppy-haired tit was right about one thing: All other shops had taken a look...

REVIEW: KID KAPICHI – THERE GOES THE NEIGHBOURHOOD (2024)

My dad was never one of those dads you see on adverts. But not only is he my best mate these days, he did...

REVIEW: DION – GIRL FRIENDS (2024)

"I know I'm old school but I still got it going on” so sings Dion on “Sugar Daddy”, and he's not wrong. In recent years,...

REVIEW: KULA SHAKER – NATURAL MAGICK (2024)

Back in 2016, Kula Shaker were in Birmingham celebrating the 20th anniversary of their "K" album. That night, I wrote this: "An evening that...

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