Mark Diggins, Author at The Rockpit

ALBUM REVIEW: Salty Dog – Lost Treasure

2 April 2018 Mark Diggins

Now if you were to ask me about some of the best debut albums of the 80’s I’d have a pretty long list and a pretty varied one, but vying for position in the upper […]

ALBUM REVIEW: Myles Kennedy – Year of the Tiger

1 April 2018 Mark Diggins

Earlier this year ‘Josh Todd and the Conflict’ debuted with ‘Year of the Tiger’ now here we are a few months later with another famous frontman using the same title for his debut solo album. […]

INTERVIEW: Mark Knight – Mark Knight and the Unsung Heroes

30 March 2018 Mark Diggins

On March 13, 2018, Mark Knight & the Unsung Heroes released what I think is quite probably Mark’s finest album to date “Don’t Kill the Cat”. It’s an album that he’s been building to since […]

INTERVIEW: John Waite

25 March 2018 Mark Diggins

After a false start a couple of years back now John Waite is finally headed down-under for the very first time. He’s one of the artists I’ve always wanted to see but have rarely been […]

INTERVIEW: Erik Martensson – W.E.T.

22 March 2018 Mark Diggins

If you’re a modern day Melodic Rock fan then it doesn’t get much better than W.E.T. the band that combines the talents of Eclipse’s Erik Martensson (Nordic Union, Ammunition), vocalist Jeff Scott Soto (Sons of […]

INTERVIEW: Angry Anderson – Rose Tattoo

18 March 2018 Mark Diggins

Rose Tattoo are for many including myself ‘the’ great Aussie Rock band. Sure AC/DC made it bigger and burned brighter but the Tatts kept it dirtier, grittier and had the real passion and fury […]

ALBUM REVIEW: The Dead Daisies – Burn It Down

18 March 2018 Mark Diggins

Over the last five years the Dead Daisies have produced three damn good studio albums, a rather tasty live album and now their fourth album ‘Burn It Down’ is about to drop. It’s an album […]

INTERVIEW: Glenn Tilbrook – Squeeze

17 March 2018 Mark Diggins

Mark: Hi, Glenn, how are you? I must admit to being a long term fan of Squeeze, takes me back to my youth, and to find you guys coming over for the first time since […]

ALBUM REVIEW: Mark Knight and the Unsung Heroes – Don’t Kill the Cat

15 March 2018 Mark Diggins

There’s a huge magical slow groove to opener ‘Hey Mama’ the duet with Oni Logan (of Lynch Mob fame): it’s a song cut from ancient bluesy cloth but with a vibrancy and refrain that is […]

INTERVIEW: Biff Byford – Saxon

14 March 2018 Mark Diggins

Saxon is a band that gets better with age and this year they just released what even may be the finest of a very fine run of recent releases in ‘Thunderbolt’. We caught up with […]

INTERVIEW: Dino Jelusic of Animal Drive

12 March 2018 Mark Diggins

This past Friday, Croatia’s Animal Drive released their debut “Bite” via Frontiers Music Srl. Animal Drive are part of Frontiers’ New Breed Family. The New Breed family is the label’s stable of young, exciting, up […]

INTERVIEW: Mark Tremalgia of Little Caesar and Disreputable Few

8 March 2018 Mark Diggins

I first heard the name Mark Tremalgia when he joined Bang Tango back in 1993 after the departure of guitarist Kyle Stevens. He stayed with the band till 1999 and recorded the classic and criminally […]

INTERVIEW: Laurence Jones, solo artist

26 February 2018 Mark Diggins

25-year old British blues rock guitarist and singer-songwriter, Laurence Jones, will release his new studio album ‘The Truth’ on Friday 9th March 2018. To dovetail the release of the album, Laurence will start his nationwide […]

ALBUM REVIEW: Black Stone Cherry – Family Tree

22 February 2018 Mark Diggins

Black Stone Cherry have always been a force to reckon with, but their last album ‘Kentucky’, still barely a year old, was the album for me where it all came together perfectly. Going back to […]

INTERVIEW: Ron Young – Little Caesar

21 February 2018 Mark Diggins

Little Caesar for me were one of the very best bands to emerge from the resurgence of rock into the mainstream at the end of the eighties before it was all washed away by the […]

Black Country Communion – ‘The Cove’

15 February 2018 Mark Diggins

Black Country Communion, the Anglo-American rock group comprising vocalist/bassist Glenn Hughes (Deep Purple, Trapeze), drummer Jason Bonham (Led Zeppelin, Foreigner), Derek Sherinian (Dream Theater, Alice Cooper, Billy Idol) and blues-rock guitarist/vocalist Joe Bonamassa, reveal their […]