Author Archives: David Farrell

About David Farrell

General Manager and 'THE' competition guy at planetmosh.comGeneral Dogsbody at Hammerfest.co.uk

On Saturday 18th May, Journey and Whitesnake, with special guests Thunder, will appear onstage together for the first time ever taking in 8 dates across the UK throughout May. Tickets are available from www.livenation.co.uk and www.ticketmaster.co.uk. JOURNEY, one America’s most popular rock bands, have gained multiple accolades including 19 Top 40 singles, 25 Gold and [...]

Tune in for an exclusive Whitesnake interview, plus Whitesnake classics on the hour every hour from 6am until 6pm, and win tickets to see Whitesnake, Journey and Thunder on tour in the UK this month, plus loads of surprises. Photo of Planet Rock’s Darren Redick and David Coverdale taken by Chick Magnet. Planetrock will be [...]

In Conversation: A New Podcast Series With Red Hot Chili Pepper’s – Chad Smith Series One – Alex Lifeson Of Rush,A Three Part Conversation Starting Monday 13th May.The First In A Series Of Intimate Conversations With Some Of The Most Inspirational Musicians Of All Time. MusicRadar.com, the world’s leading website for musicians, presents In Conversation, [...]

A familiar name with an original sound, Simon Townshend is straight from the lineage of one of British music’s most famous families. The son of England’s top big-band reed man and baby brother of Who legend Pete Townshend, Simon has been recording and performing since the age of nine, when he was recruited to add [...]

Following this week’s UK release of their critically acclaimed new studio album If the River Was Whiskey, the legendary Spin Doctors return to London on Wednesday 25th September to perform a rare concert at The Garage in Islington. Special guest is Dodgy. A 24 hour ticket presale will start at 9am on Thursday 9th May [...]

Planetmosh in association with Rocksector Records are offering one reader the chance to win a trio of female fronted metal band cd’s. One lucky reader will win, 4Bitten-Delirium, Incassum-Rite Of Passage and Triaxis-Rage and Retribution. To win this fantastic bundle, just answer this question.   Name the festival that all three of these bands will [...]

Planetmosh in association with Rocksector Records are offering one lucky reader a copy of Hanging Doll’s cd “The Sacred & Profane”, plus a size large tour T-shirt. To win this fantastic bundle, just answer this question. Name Hanging Doll’s singer, click on this link and send you answer to david.farrell@planetmosh.com The closing date is the [...]

Planetmosh in association with Rocksector records are giving away one copy of the Citizen Charlie cd, “Up Yours”, we also have 5 copy’s of the three track E.P to give away as well. THE MAIN PRIZE HAS GONE TO ANTHONY, HOWEVER I STILL HAVE 4 COPYS OF THE E.P TO GIVE AWAY.THE FIRST FOUR WHO [...]

Win Fury uk stuff

Planetmosh in association with Rocksector records are giving one lucky reader the chance to win a Furyuk live DVD, a copy of their 3 track E.P, a copy of the VR CD, and a size small women’s T-shirt. To win, just answer this simple question, and email me at THIS COMP HAS NOW FINISHED, and [...]

Mike Tramp UK Tour dates

Former White Lion front man, MIKE TRAMP, returns to the UK in May with his one man acoustic show. Mike will perform acoustic versions of songs from White Lion, Freak Of Nature, and his new solo recording, Cobblestone Street. But this is more than just an acoustic gig; Mike tells the stories behind the songs, [...]

To celebrate the release of the new Counting Crows live cd, entitles “Echoes of the Outlaw Roadshow” on the 8th April, We have one cd to give away to one lucky reader. So to win, just answer this simple question. In what part of the world do the Counting Crows hail from ?   COMP [...]

Benji from Skindred is a featured artist on the latest Run Riot album and appears in the new video `Kill Them’, giving his unique brand of heavy reggae vocals that we all know and love over this Heavy Bass song. Since releasing his ‘Lose Yourself’ EP in 2012 and receiving support from Radio1, Kiss and [...]

Provogue Records is pleased to announce “Luther’s Blues” – a brand new tribute album to the great blues artist Luther Allison, recorded by America’s veteran blues rock guitarist, Walter Trout. The album will be released in the UK on Monday 10th June on CD, Digital Download and Double Vinyl. The album dovetail’s Trout’s UK tour [...]

US rockers Counting Crows release their live albumEchoes of the Outlaw Roadshow on 8th April through Cooking Vinyl.The album was recorded on the US tour last year. Counting Crows 6 date UK tour (which is nearly sold out) begins on 19th April in Birmingham – the band are known for never playing the same set [...]

Eric Johnson, the critically acclaimed American electric guitarist, hailed by Joe Bonamassa as “one of the greatest guitar players of all time,” starts is 6-date UK tour at London’s o2 Shepherds Bush Empire on Wednesday 3rd April. Tickets are available from www.thegigcartel.com, 0844 478 0898. The UK tour will showcase material from his new album [...]

The Quireboys are set to storm 2013 with a series of UK dates planned and the band are currently working on a brand new studio album which will be released early June. The Quireboys were formed in 1984 in London, England. After two successful independent singles (including the Top 40 “7 O’Clock”) and supports to [...]

THE OCEAN: New Studio Footage Posted

In anticipation of their upcoming new full-length, Pelagial, today THE OCEAN posts the second in a series of studio video diaries. Possibly their deepest and most profoundly sophisticated composition to date, Pelagial is a progressive musical journey written, recorded and to-be-performed-live as one, single, 53-minute piece of music. Mixed and mastered by Jens Bogren (Opeth, [...]