Opinion

Judging by the amount of people crammed into The Box on this Saturday night, it should be renamed The Sweat Box! It just goes to show the popularity of veteran UK  AOR band FM. Maybe they do not get 4 page spreads in certain magazines anymore  but this is the …

I recently had a chat with former Little Angels frontman Toby Jepson, prior to him performing in Glasgow during his solo acoustic UK tour. Toby discusses the tour, his latest mini-album “Raising My Own Hell”, producing and all things music! http://planetmosh.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/TobyJepsonGlasgow.mp3 Please visit Toby Jepson at: www.tobyjepson.com/site/ www.facebook.com/tobyjepsonofficial twitter.com/TobyJepson

Bournemouth rock revivalists Western Sand have just finished a lengthy UK tour opening for Black Star Riders – a bill which also featured the all-star ensemble known as The Dead Daisies. As the tour concluded in Belfast, PlanetMosh grabbed a chat with vocalist Tyler Hains and drummer Nathan J Kay …

PlanetMosh recently caught up with  Wayne Hussey, Simon Hinkler, Craig Adams and Mike Kelly  of The Mission in Glasgow at the start of their UK leg of their The Brightest Light tour. We talked about the current tour, X Factor type shows, remastered albums and much more. So click on …

After interviewing bassist Marco Mendoza for Planetmosh, I made my way round to the venue full of entrepidation of Thursday nights event to come! Joining the gathering and growing crowd we watched the two supporting bands ( Western Sand and The Dead Daisies ) doing an amazing job of warming …

Massive Wagons opened up Hard Rock Hell this year, playing the first set on stage 2 on Thursday evening, which was followed the next day by an acoustic set.  As this was the second year in a row that had played this festival, I was interested to hear how they …

For any promoter to stage the amount of quality gigs which James Loveday puts on – this was his 45th straight ‘RocKD’ event of the year, not counting the number of visiting acts he has brought our way over the past 13 years – is no mean feat.  It’s not …

Meeting Marco Mendoza for the first time, myself and photographer Sean Larkin were invited to talk with him ( pre Rock City gig ) aboard the Black Star Riders tour bus.  

Screaming Eagles formed just over a year ago and it’s been quite some year; from being this year’s winners at Highway To Hell in Glasgow to opening up Stage One on Friday 29th at Hard Rock Hell.  If you saw their set on the Friday you would not for one minute …

Having only arrived at Hard Rock Hell about an hour previously, Sister were thrown into music question time in the press room, and I took the opportunity to have chat with Rikki (bass) and Tim (guitar) about how 2013 has been for them. Fresh of their tour with Wednesday 13, …

Forty-five years.  Forty-five fucking years.  Not only is that the length of time since Black Sabbath first unleashed their pioneering brand of heavy metal on a deeply unsuspecting world, and changed its musical landscape forever, but it also how long it has taken the genre’s founding fathers to appear on …

Beginning Hard Rock Hell’s final day for 2013 on the Jagermeister Stage are The Jokers (8), who like Wildside Riot take the bull by both horns and give it a right good kicking, songs Radio and the title track from latest album Rock and Roll is Alive impressing the punters who are once again emerging …

Ow. That’s probably the thoughts of many punters this morning, but this is a festival so one bravely soldiers on and has their hangover on away by whoever’s on first. Luckily for everyone in attendance, that turned out to be Wildside Riot (8), back for a second year running and opening …

So Hard Rock Hell has come and gone again. The seventh year of the festival, now in its second year at Hafan y Mor Haven Holiday Park in Pwllhelli, Wales was this year under the banner of Cirque du Rock, creating a nightmarish circus freak show that saw ringmasters, clowns and …

As last shows of the year go, playing Stage One at Hard Rock Hell is not a bad way to end the year.  Following their set I managed to grab a few minutes with Crucified Barbara to see what the biggest highlight has been for them in 2013, writing their …

Just a couple of hours after their set on Stage Two I caught up with Alunah in the press room to find out what makes them stand out as a band, how they all met, any pre-gig rituals and what other band they would choose to be in.  Alunah are …

Before their evening set on Friday at Hard Rock Hell, I grabbed some time with the lads from States of Panic to find out more about their highlights for 2013, what’s next for them in 2014 and their upcoming album No World Order as well as their first impressions of …

Being a fan of Thin Lizzy I was very happy to be able to sit down with Damon Johnson from Black Star Riders to talk about the new band and how they chose their name as well as their debut album All Hell Breaks Loose. If you haven’t yet bought …

A brief interview with Kevin Starrs (aka Uncle Acid) vocalist and guitar player from Uncle Acid and the Deadbeats ahead of their show at Belfast’s Odyssey Arena supporting Black Sabbath.             Upcoming Tour Dates: 13/12/13 – Dublin, Ireland – Academy 2 14/12/13 – Sheffield, UK …

On arriving at the venue to request my reviewer’s pass i was asked why a webzine like Planetmosh would want to do a write up of The Damned. Maybe it was my long hair  that got the question asked but at the end of the day I love The Damned, …