On Friday 14th March 2025 in BBC’s Maida Vale Studio 3 a group of 100 or so press and media people were treated the rarest of rare events when half a dozen BBC Radiophonic Workshop ‘originals’, some of whom were there around the turn of the 1960s/70s and had created […]
The countdown is on for Mayhem Rock Festival 2025, a three-day rock spectacle bringing some of the finest names in sleaze and hard rock to the UK! Taking place from May 16th to 18th, the festival will hit London (229), Nottingham (Saltbox), and Wakefield (Warehouse23) for an electrifying weekend of high-energy performances. Headlining the […]
Words: Kahmel Farahani Photos: Louise Phillips If there is one thing you can never accuse Zakk Wylde of, it’s being work shy. Barely over a week since finishing Pantera’s UK and European tour, Wylde is out on the road again, this time with his own heavy metal passion project, Zakk […]
WinterStorm – Scotland’s annual festival of Rock at the end of November – has revealed its mainstage line up for the 2025 edition. In it’s ninth year, the massively popular Classic Rock Festival held annually over three days in Troon on the west coast of Scotland has announced the first […]
New Ghost single ‘SATANIZED’ from the upcoming fifth album! New Ghost single ‘Satanized’, boombastic, heavy, and melodic, sets the bar high for their highly anticipated new album. Revealed today, Ash Wednesday, ‘Skeletá’, will released in only eight weeks time, on 25 April 2025 via Looma Vista Recordings. So more on […]
Friends of the band, record label, management and music press joined Skunk Anansie at the Dolby Atmos theatre in Soho Square to listen to the new album ‘The Perfect Truth’. Beforehand in introductory remarks the points were made that this was a world exclusive playback of ten brand new tracks […]
Taken from new album The Earth Will Swallow The Sun, ‘Tomorrow Lied the Devil’ is released on Exile on Mainstream on 21st March. Noisepicker, the crazy duo of Harry Armstrong, who’s band history includes Hangnail, Firebird, Orange Goblin and Blind River on vocals and guitar and Kieran Murphy on drums […]
Never Mind The Bollocks, Here’s The Meffs! As the sounds of The Prodigy track ‘Spitfire’ rang out across the auditorium and The Meffs took to the stage, the cheers from the crowd hit ear splitting proportions as the entire venue erupted into a frenzy of excitement because tonight the new […]
Download Festival, the greatest rock and metal festival of all time, added a further wave of 22 artists to an already stellar line up for its 22nd edition in 2025. The new additions include Rise Against, Opeth, Myles Kennedy, Shinedown, AWOLNATION, Power Trip, Hatebreed, Palaye Royale, Municipal Waste and more. […]
Yesterday Sir Brian May, members of his family and friends including his wife Anita, luminaries such as Jason Momoa and Neil Murray of Whitesnake and members of the UK Rock Press attended the launch of Sir Brian’s new Gibson SJ-200 12 string acoustic limited edition guitar at Gibson Garage. Sir […]
Queensrÿche Captivate the Crowd with a Spine-tingling Musical Masterpiece at Electric Brixton! Queensrÿche are a band who have built a massive following of devoted fans over their illustrious 43 year career and tonight’s breathtaking performance at the packed Electric Brixton showed that many years may have passed but they are […]
Those into the old glam scene, particularly in the Midlands, will remember Gunfire Dance, their immensely cool image, the tragic loss of their first singer and the exquisite way they mixed the energy of Punk with Seventies Rock. So when I heard that Oz on drums and Birchy on bass […]
