Author: Dawn Osborne
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John Corabi is doing a UK Tour and appropriately to accompany the release of his book ‘Horseshoes and Hand Grenades’ his gigs are covering material from all his previous bands and feature stories between songs as a taster of what can be read in detail in the book. Kicking off […]
John Corabi has a new book ‘Horseshoes and Hand Grenades’ (named after a saying of his father’s) and while he’s over for his UK tour he took time to do a Q and A at the West Hampstead Arts Club followed by a couple of acoustic tracks live and a […]
Rob Halford loves being in a band so much he wants to proselytise. This zealousness has led him to use metaphors about the life of being in a band “the best life” with a religious theme in order to use an amusing framework to give us the benefit of his […]
It’s the anniversary of Holloway Hell at the Lexington on Pentonville Road, but before the house band and guests start the cover song fun, the featured band playing originals is Trophies of Man fronted by Flash Sawyer formerly of King Lizard and featuring Dave Winkler of Star Circus on guitar. […]
The Electrics kick things off with their post punk guitar based rock with great saxophone playing that adds an immediate injection of hi-energy pizzazz. I loved the punky version of ‘Because The Night’ they inserted into a song called ‘Broken Hearted Lover’. ‘Dead Boy’ is like something that might have […]
GLAM! When Superstars ROCKed the World, 1970-1974 by Mark Paytress published by Omnibus Press. As someone who remembers the UK glam era, although a small child, it was a fantastic era when the music took off in an all persuasive way. My memories are mostly of watching all the glam […]
