To say that reviewing Blaze Bayley albums kept me busy is an understatement as the hardest working artist I know of has just released his Live In France double album via Blaze Bayley Recordings which makes it 4 in 2 years in between a relentless touring schedule. The gigs I’ve …
Read More »Wolfsbane – Tivoli, Buckley.
Tonight at the Tivoli was a night of two twenty five year anniversaries the first of which was seeing Wolfsbane here again for the first time since that time gap. Their fans, known as HMS or Howling Mad Shitheads turned up last night in full voice and mine is shot …
Read More »Blaze Bayley – Endure And Survive (Infinite Entanglement, Pt. II)
If it were ever to happen, Blaze Bayley O.B.E has a great ring to it I think. Since singing with Wolfsbane from 1988-94, Iron Maiden from 1994-99 and a solo career from then until the present day, he has doggedly flew the flag for British heavy metal. The title of …
Read More »Bloodstock Open Air 2013 Review – Sunday 11th August
Today I decided to check out Sacred Mother Tongue whose name seems to be haunting me. To be honest I was quite underwhelmed by them and felt that they would pack more of a punch with a more aggressive approach especially in their vocals. I personally thought that the performance …
Read More »Wolfsbane at Bloodstock 2013 – photos
Photos of Wolfsbane performing on the Sophie Lancaster stage at Bloodstock 2013… [flickrapi user=”planet mosh” get=”photoset” id=”72157650391231098″ size=”z” count=”100″]
Read More »Ten More Reasons to Rock Out at Bloodstock 2013
BLOODSTOCK 2013 is shaping up to be the metal event of the summer, with another ten head-bangin’ bands confirmed to join headliners SLAYER, KING DIAMOND, and LAMB OF GOD. Canadian prog thrash pioneers, VOIVOD are set to play their only UK show of 2013 at Bloodstock Festival!! The band’s latest album, …
Read More »Wolfsbane Interview – 25.10.12 – The Garage – London
Shortly before departing the fair shores of the UK for the lights of Hollywood (yes I moved to the other side of the world) I was very fortunate to be able to speak to Wolfsbane, on this occasion all of the questions came from their fans :) Enjoy! [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwQ_5igi0bg?rel=0&w=480&h=360]
Read More »Blaze Bayley, Ivory Blacks, Glasgow 8/5/12
I was looking forward to tonight’s gig at Ivory Blacks as I’ve not seen Mair play in ages and I was definitely looking forward to hearing some of the new tracks played live from Blaze’s latest album ‘The King Of Metal’ that was released in March this year. When I …
Read More »Blaze Bayley interview at Ivory Blacks, Glasgow 12/12/11
I caught up with Blaze before the gig at Ivory Blacks in Glasgow. To find out what he’s been up to over the last year or so. He talks about Wolfsbane and his own band, what motivates him, his new Blaze Bayley album ‘The King of Metal’ that will be …
Read More »Hard Rock Hell V – Village of the Damned – Friday (Festival)
Recovering from Thursday nights party we catch a bit of the hugely popular acoustic sets which were very well received by the hoards of recovering rockers and metalheads before meeting up to interview the guys from Airrace, Bonafide, The Treatment and the Gentlemen of Distorted Sounds. Opening up main stage …
Read More »Saxon – ABC Glasgow – 14/04/2011 (Gig)
Just to be a bit different, reviews of Fury UK & Wolfsbane sets were done at the Manchester gig. They will be posted soon. I got to review the Scottish Saxon set. After a great set from Fury UK and a wickedly wild one from Wolfsbane. Wolfsbane had whipped the …
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