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PHIL X & THE DRILLS have announced UK tour dates in March, with Collateral confirmed as support. 3rd March Rescue Rooms, Nottingham 4th March The Fleece, Bristol 6th March The Underworld, Camden, London 7th March Rebellion, Manchester 9th March King Tuts, Glasgow 10th March The Caves, Edinburgh 11th March O2 …

After thousands of sold out shows, it’s clear – Bon Jovi = One Wild Night. One of the planet’s biggest rock bands, Bon Jovi announce their return to the UK, continuing a triumphant world tour that has visited the USA, Canada, Brazil, Argentina and Chile and will hit Japan and Australia later in …

Night By Night’s cosmically explosive intro to their debut album NxN hooks you in. Time to Escape does exactly what it needs to. It encapsulates the whole band perfectly in one song. I was once told that A&R folk give a song/album 30 seconds to capture their attention and make …

I’ve never seen anything quite like the scene at the O2 ABC in Glasgow last night.  I thought I was early arriving at 6pm, but soon discovered I was wrong as the crowd of somewhat rabid fans informed me they’d been there since 4am!  As much as I was looking …

Formed by guitarist Doug Aldrich and vocalist Keith St John back in 1998, Burning Rain recorded two well-received albums – their self-titled debut and ‘Pleasure To Burn’ – before the six-string slinger left to team up (albeit briefly) with the late, great Ronnie James Dio, while the vocalist pitched his …

Tonight was Richie Sambora’s only UK show on his short European tour.  When I arrived at the venue, there were huge queues outside for this sold out gig – the longest queues I’ve seen for any gig at this venue (and I’ve been to a lot of gigs here).  Everybody seemed …

  The 80s rock and new wave of British Heavy Metal explosion created a lot of successful bands on both sides of the pond be it Iron Maiden, Angelwitch, Def Leppard, Diamond Head etc in the UK or Bon Jovi, Great White, WASP, Skid Row etc in the US.  It …