Empyre is on a roll, announcing a September tour with Mason Hill, two slots at this years’ Ramblin’ Man Fair, Steelhouse Festival. A new single, a new acoustic album and an album party to kick off the return to gigging. Empyre will head out on tour with Mason Hill and Hollowstar …
Read More »MYLES KENNEDY Announces More Headline Dates inc London Palladium
MYLES KENNEDY CONFIRMS ADDITIONAL UK & EUROPEAN SHOWS HOWS COMPRISE SOLO DATES PLUS A SPECIAL PERFORMANCE AT THE LONDON PALLADIUM WITH A FULL BAND UK FESTIVALS INCLUDE RAMBLIN’ MAN FAIR & STEELHOUSE FESTIVAL Critically acclaimed musician MYLES KENNEDY (Alter Bridge, Slash) has just announced his return to the UK, as …
Read More »Tequila Mockingbyrd – Announce UK/European Tour
ANNOUNCE UK/EUROPEAN “GOOD TIME” TOUR IN SUMMER 2017 DEBUT ALBUM: FIGHT AND FLIGHT OUT NOW “Feisty as fuck and hugely entertaining” – Classic Rock Magazine, UK “This is just fantastic” ‐ Darren Redick, Planet Rock Radio After an incredible start of the year, Australian powerhouse trio, Tequila Mockingbyrd, continues to bring their energy …
Read More »Hey! Hello! – Steelhouse Festival – 24 July 2016
PlanetMosh caught up with The Rev and Toshi backstage at this past weekend’s Steelhouse festival to get all the latest buzzness (sic) from the Hey! Hello! camp, including the inside scoop on the re-recording of their ‘Hey! Hello! Too!’ album, following the spectacular walkout of their then lead vocalist on …
Read More »Toseland – Steelhouse Festival – 24 July 2016
PlanetMosh caught up motorcycling champion-turned-rock singer James Toseland following his performance at this past weekend’s Steelhouse Festival to chat about the latest events in his musical career – including his playing a certain PM interviewer’s recent 50th birthday party (which, of course, he strategically tried to gloss over…):
Read More »Steelhouse Festival – Hafod-y-Dafal, Ebbw Vale – 24 July 2016
The second day of Steelhouse dawned with an incessant mizzle in the air. Not the sort of torrential downpour which had turned the mountain top site into a quagmire last year, but a constant enough drizzle to make itself known it was there, and at times annoying in its persistence. …
Read More »Vega (Nick Workman) – Steelhouse Festival – 23 July 2016
PlanetMosh caught up with Vega frontman Nick Workman following the band’s performance at this past weekend’s Steelhouse festival to talk about music and various other assorted things… Ah, just click the ‘Play’ arrow thingy to find out for yourselves…
Read More »Bigfoot – Steelhouse Festival – 23 July 2016
PlanetMosh caught up with Wigan hard rockers Bigfoot following their triumphant show-opening set at this past weekend’s Steelhouse festival, to talk about yetis, hobbits… oh, and of course, their forthcoming debut album:
Read More »Steelhouse Festival – Hafod-y-Dafal, Ebbw Vale – 23 July 2016
The weather can invariably play an important role in the enjoyment of a festival – just look at the experiences of many at this year’s Drownload! The first day of last year’s Steelhouse had been preceded by one of torrential rain, meaning that the mountain top site was already a …
Read More »Buffalo Summer to ‘warm up’ Steelhouse revellers
Buffalo Summer will headline the Steelhouse Festival‘s warm up show, which takes place on Friday 22 July. They will be joined by Those Damn Crows and the winners of a Battle Of The Bands being held at Fuel Rock Club in Cardiff on Sunday 3 July. Admission to the warm …
Read More »The Answer – Belfast, Limelight 1 – 3 June 2016
Time is relative. For some, it passes slowly and as inexorably as the tides lap against a shore. For others, it speeds past like a bullet from a gun, bearing down on its inevitable end. For Northern Ireland’s hardest working hard rockers, The Answer, the past decade has been something …
Read More »The Answer see the ‘Light’ on new album
Northern Ireland’s hardest rockin’ quartet, The Answer, have revealed the title of their forthcoming sixth studio album, due to be released this Autumn. “We’re excited to announce that we’ve got this brand new record which we’ve been working on for the last six months and it’s just about ready to …
Read More »Tax The Heat – ‘Fed To The Lions’
PlanetMosh first crossed paths with Bristol rhythm and rollers Tax The Heat a little under two years ago, when they appeared at the Steelhouse festival at the tail end of July 2014, shortly after they had released their Chris (Masters Of Reality/Kyuss/QOTSA) Goss-produced debut EP. Turn the clock forward 20 …
Read More »There’ll be Thunder over Steelhouse this summer
PlanetMosh has looked at the long term weather forecast for this coming summer – and it shows that there will be Thunder over the south of Wales at the end of July! The veteran British rockers – who have just completed a British stadium tour this past weekend – have …
Read More »The Darkness to headline Steelhouse Festival
The Darkness will headline the Steelhouse Festival on Sunday July 24. They are joined in the first tranche of bands to be confirmed by Von Hertzen Brothers and Hand Of Dimes. Other acts will be announced over the coming weeks. However, fans will have to wait until February 20 for …
Read More »Steelhouse Festival – Ebbw Vale, 25-26 July 2015
Now in it’s fifth year, the Steelhouse Festival is one of the UK’s more remote festivals. Although only four miles from the nearest town, Ebbw Vale, Hafod-Y-Dafal Farm’s mountain top location means it is not the most accessible – especially in a weekend dominated, in both the build up to …
Read More »No Hot Ashes – Eamon Nancarrow
In the mid- to late-Eighties, an melodic rock band tried to break out of the confines of their native Northern Ireland and onto the world stage – but, various circumstances conspired against them and they never quite made it and went their separate ways… One of them did fulfill the …
Read More »Trucker Diablo are Off Yer Rocka with new deal
Renascent Northern Ireland hard rockers Trucker Diablo have signed to Off Yer Rocka Recordings, who will give a wider release to the band’s latest album, ‘Rise Above The Noise‘ – originally recorded and issued via a PledgeMusic campaign – later this year. The album will be preceded by an EP. …
Read More »Steelhouse: Full line up and day splits confirmed
The full line up and day splits have now been confirmed for this year’s Steelhouse Festival, which takes place outside Ebbw Vale on July 25 and 26. Legendary British AORsters FM have been added to the Sunday bill, which is topped by the inimitable Dee Snider. Colour Of Noise, the new …
Read More »Nazareth take the road to Steelhouse
Legendary Scottish blues rockers Nazareth are the latest classic act to be added to the bill for this year’s Steelhouse Festival, which takes place an Hafod-Y-Dafal (outside Ebbw Vale) on July 25 and 26. They are joined by young retro-blasters The Treatment and South Wales’ own ballistic blues duo Henry’s Funeral Shoe …
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