GuyB’s Wildfire Story: 25 July 2021
An hour from the Spirit of Wildfire 3 radio fest, I took an hour out to reflect on some of the standout moments and standout bands from my trips to Wildfire Festival since June 2016. Music includes: Massive Wagons, Jokers, Screaming Eagles, Inglorious, Broken Witt Rebels, Fireroad, Samarkind, Skam, Tarot Rats, Thundermother, Toby Jepson and […]
TROY REDFERN – ‘THE FIRE COSMIC’
AUGUST ALBUM OF THE MONTH Nightfall. Imagine Marshal Jed Cooper and Captn Jack Sparrow racing to Rockfield late at night in the Batmobile – and you have the essence of ‘Scorpio,’ the opening track of this benchmark new album from Troy Redfern. The swagger and grit of a spaghetti western, menacing rhythms reminiscent of the […]
Friday Rock Show: 16 July 2021
The first hour of the Friday rockshow, news and music from a new generation of unsigned and rising bands: Music includes: Skam, The Autumn Killers, Thundermother, Inglorious, The Ellis Mano Band, Badflower, Scarlet Rebels, Amongst Liars, plus a quick interview with Safron from Irish rockers Safire and North Atlas.
SHORT INTERVIEW: SCARLET REBELS LIVE STREAM
A backstage interview from the Scarlet Rebels stream concert which signalled the start of their new album pre-order campaign. A full feature interview hour with the band was aired, but here is a segment from Wayne’s interview. The full feature will go up on listen again after it’s had a second outing on radio.
FEATURE INTERVIEW: TROY REDFERN
Interview content from my last two interviews with Troy from recent months, joined up as a 2-in-1 listen again audio file. First up my June interview with Tory on the album pre-order campaign and new single. After this I have added our hour special from April when Troy talked in more detail about the genesis […]
FEATURE INTERVIEW: CARDINAL BLACK
A feature interview with Tom from the band which aired in two parts over two successive Fridays – and then aired again a few weeks ago as a two-in-one feature hour. Another fine rising band from Wales, music that immediately arrested rock show listeners. Great song writing with a modern rock flavour.
THE ELLIS MANO BAND – ‘AMBEDO’
JULY ALBUM OF THE MONTH OK folks, it’s time to take the black T shirts off and get those chinos on for summer. Here’s an album that reminds us that guitar rock music today extends far beyond heavy rock riffs, mosh pits, devil horns and those sometimes tired-looking black T shirts (usually with a skull […]
FEATURE INTERVIEW: THE DAMN TRUTH
The interview segments from last week’s hour special with Lee-La Baum from the band. We discuss the new album, life after lockdown and the band’s preparations for this week’s livestream concert from a church in Montreal, Canada on Wednesday June 9th at 8:00pm Eastern Standard time (1am in the morning in the UK on Thursday […]
SPIKE – ‘LATE NIGHT SONG BOOK’
JUNE ALBUM OF THE MONTH As the dark era of Covid and repeated waves of home lockdown finally draw to an end, here we have an album that, in substance and spirit, speaks for the difficult times we have lived through. Once upon a time, album reviews were all about great production, big walls of […]
FEATURE INTERVIEW: SPIKE’S LATE NIGHT SONG BOOK
Ahead of the release of his lockdown solo album and run of UK dates in May 2021 – the first rock artist back in venues after lockdown eases – a telephone chat with The Quireboys’ frontman Spike. Despite the grim Covid context, fun and smiles with one of the UK’s true rock n roll entertainers […]