NEW HORIZONS SERIES 2023 – VIOLET BLEND
In the coming weeks, we’ll be adding interviews from the whole New Horizons series. Now in its ninth annual season, we start the year having a quick chat with rising bands on their hopes and dreams for the year ahead. Sometimes serious, sometimes silly – we aim to bring some positive cheer each January for […]
April Albums Review
For April, I have found it extremely difficult to choose Album of the Month – and this is often the real challenge with just picking one album a month to review.
Ellis Mano Band – ‘Luck Of the Draw’
Imagine Joe Cocker, Dire Straits, Van Morrison, Toto and Chris Rea all having an impromptu late-night jam – the result might sound a bit like the new studio album from Ellis Mano Band – out on 24th February.
DeadBlondeStars – Metamorphosis
This new album is a powerhouse – the definition of hard rock for a modern age, with a brooding darkness, raw menace and tension that fits the troubled times we live in.
JD SIMO – ‘SONGS FROM THE HOUSE OF GREASE’
Authenticity over invention, truth over hype – we start 2023 with a studio album that takes us right back to the roots of rock n roll and blues; a performance album where the honesty and the skill of great playing reminds us what the heart and soul of guitar music is all about.
THE WINNERS INTERVIEWS: AMONGST LIARS ON ALBUM OF THE YEAR
My interview with Ian after the Amongst Liars debut album won Album of the Year for 2022/3 – plus the moment from the rockshow when the album was called the winner, from a very strong shortlist. A shorter version of this audio interview aired as part of our winners show in November 2022 – but […]
THE WINNERS INTERVIEWS: DEADBLONDESTARS ON BAND OF THE YEAR
As 2022 drew to a close, DeadBlondeStars were unveiled as 2022/3 Band of the Year, following the footsteps of recent winners including Amongst Liars, As Sirens Fall and Scarlet Rebels. This audio has a clip from the radio show when DeadBlondeStars were announced Band of the Year, followed by an interview with Matt from the […]
THE WINNERS INTERVIEWS: MACHINES DREAM ON SINGLE OF THE YEAR
A Zoom interview with Craig in Canada after the band bagged single of the Year 2022/3 with ‘The Standing Field’ – a track that attracted hundreds of unpromoted requests during the year – and was one of defining songs of our series of Rockshow for Freedom shows earlier in the year. An edited version of […]
FEATURE INTERVIEW: THUNDER SPECIAL
Not so much an interview as a collage of artist and fan tributes on one of Britain’s most popular and enduring rock bands – Thunder. Originally aired as a 90 minute special in words and music, collected here are some of the artist tributes on Thunder’s music and some get well messages from listeners across […]
FEATURE INTERVIEW: SPIKE’S QUIREBOYS STORY
From the original two hour interview, 60 minutes here of speech audio as Spike from Quireboys shares his story of 2022. After the split earlier in the spring, much was said on social media and much was said by other people about Spike – but Spike himself stood back from the noise and refrained from […]