Author: Dawn Osborne
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Seven Days and Doesn’t Die is a new band to me with a vocalist Kit Swing that reminds me of Toto Coelo to look at, but sings far heavier stuff than 90 percent of other females. Toto Coelo apparently means ‘by the full extent of the heavens’ or translated into English, utterly, and that also […]
BLACK STONE CHERRY, KRIS BARRAS BAND, Royal Albert Hall London, 29 September 2021 It always feels special to be in the Royal Albert Hall and there’s a transgressive frisson attached to having a rock concert there, so I always kind of pinch myself to be there, but there we are and so is the […]
The Derellas and The Healthy Junkies, Rockaway Beach at The Hope and Anchor 27 August 2021 The Healthy Junkies are a mixture of edgy fast paced Punk and Hard Rock and innocence, a potent combination of fragility, sweetness, madness and unpredictability, like the film ‘Carrie’ where the pretty girl meets modern life and loses […]
DO: I’m delighted to be talking to Steve Howe of Yes And Asia fame. Steve, let everyone know how you are! SH:Doing very well. Thank you, Dawn! Not so bad. You know, had the obstacles everybody else’s had. But you know, keeping my pecker up as they say. DO: How have you been […]
CHEAP TRICK, IN ANOTHER WORLD, (BMG) Cheap Trick’s twentieth album, as they approach their fiftieth anniversary in a few years, does not disappoint. Written before the Pandemic, release has been delayed, but keen to play the new material, they are already starting to tour the record in Australia. ‘Here Comes the Summer’ was released as […]
Unsurprisingly, as this is about the American music industry and is not focussed exclusively on the hard rock/metal scene, this may be a book that U.K. rock and metal fans might want to dip in and out of (chapters are conveniently labelled if that is what you want to do). Personally I love the US and Danny’s […]