Opinion

I had the pleasure of chatting with Niklas Stålvind, lead vocalist and guitarist from Wolf  before they played at the Cathouse in Glasgow. We discuss the band, the tour, Wolf merchadise, future plans and more!  

Ivory Blacks in Glasgow could be a great wee venue. It’s a decent size, it’s smack bang in the city centre, there’s no reason why it shouldn’t be buzzing on a Saturday night. Unfortunately because of some strange planning Tigertailz played last night to a crowd of only about fifty. …

Solstafir is melancholic, yet powerful and dark sound band from the country far North – Iceland. This band seems to be very busy lately, as well as productive: new album, new video, festivals and overwhelming intimate countless gigs during their tour. Those, who has been at least in one of …

Friday was a big night for Eden’s Curse, as they recorded their new album live at the Classic Grand in Glasgow. Not many bands have the honour of being introduced onto stage by Scottish rock radio legend Tom Russell, but there he was, with some words of wisdom for the …

I interviewed Animal at 100 Club, London earlier this year here. Since then Anti-Nowhere League have played Sonisphere and done a tour of the USA. I had a chat with birthday boy Shady after their gig at Manchester Academy 3, in a dressing room with a few topless band members, …

Some musicians who achieved fame with the help of their band mates have not been so successful when flying solo. That’s not the case for the Grammy Award-winning guitarist known worldwide as Slash. Fans of the veteran rocker can now see why Slash has enjoyed such staying power with the …

Kicking off the final day of Hard Rock Hell VIII is More (6), who make a solid stand on the second stage and close with ‘Atomic Rock’ to a positive reception.  Black State Highway (8) take the bull by the horns and give it a good kicking, breathing life into the …

I spoke to Jeremy Cunningham from The Levellers shortly before they played the Academy in Birmingham as part of their greatest hits tour.  The band are so hands on that Jeremy took a break from painting UV paint onto their backdrop to talk to me.  We talked about their Greatest …

It’s sunny in Wales this morning.  Yeah, you read that right, sunny.  Not that it particularly matches the disposition of your PM team, as they battle against non-existent mobile signals in vain attempts to track down the extremely long list of artists we’re supposed to interview… But, whilst there are …

I spoke to Guy Griffin, guitarist for The Quireboys, at Sheffield Corporation earlier this year, after he kindly agreed to an impromptu interview (here). I caught up with him before their gig at Manchester Academy, last weekend. Find out what The Quireboys have been up to this year, why he changes …

Malevolence are currently on tour with Dying Fetus, Goatwhore and Fallujah. I managed to squeeze in an aul chin wag with Malevolence’s lovely front man, Alex Taylor, after their Dublin Show.Here’s what we talked about:       There are couple more UK dates and plenty more European ones so …

Tonight’s support act was former Whitesnake guitarist, Bernie Marsden.  He plays a mainly acoustic set alongside one other musician, Jim Kirkpatrick (also on guitar).  He kicks off with “Linin’ track” and”Wedding day”, both from his new album, Shine, but it’s not long before he’s onto some Whitesnake material, which understandably …

Tonight’s gig saw two great bands on one bill, even if it was an odd pairing.  Supporting Volbeat on this tour are Hatebreed – a great band, but far heavier than Volbeat. Hatebreed got things off to a very heavy start, and it quickly became apparent that while they charged …

It was later than the advertised door time as I pulled up alongside Rock City on this November Monday night. I know The Pretty Reckless have a good size following but I was still surprised just how long the line waiting for doors stretched back, snaking round the corner and …

It was a very unique era of debaucherous legend, the embodiment of sex, drugs and rock’n’roll, so who wouldn’t want to emulate that. Sleaze/glam rock is one of those love it or hate it genres in the rock world and one that is making a resurgence thanks to countries like …

I had a chat with Blues Pills at Hard Rock Hell this year. We discuss their UK tour, going off on tangents during songs and their continuing rise to prominence.

I was lucky enough to speak to all five of Black State Highway at Hard Rock Hell this year after their set, discussing large audiences, touring with other bands that have B and S as their initials and what you wouldn’t expect on their iPods…

The first act tonight was She Makes War, aka Laura Kidd.  She’s a solo artist that performs playing guitar and ukulele and singing.  She uses a technique where she sings a short section which is recorded using a foot pedal, and the recording is then played back on a loop, …

I talked to Jared from Massive at Hard Rock Hell this year about late night gigs, the best Australian lager (it’s not Fosters) and everything else in between.

I had a chat with Ann-Sofie from Spiders at Hard Rock Hell this year about a number of different things and then let my geographical knowledge slip quite brilliantly…