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The Quireboys – Twisted Love

2 September 2016 Mark Diggins

As an original fan who saw the band many a time prior to that first album way back when (and still has those independent singles) and also as a latter day fan mightily impressed with […]

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Crobot – Welcome to Fat City

1 September 2016 Mark Diggins

Crobot’s debut ‘Something Supernatural’ featured highly in  our lists of the year back in 2014 and after a wait of almost 2 and a half years the follow up was always going to be interesting. […]

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ALBUM REVIEW: Hey! Hello! – Too!

24 August 2016 Mark Diggins

I’ve always been a big fan of Ginger Wildheart – the man is a song-writer of the sort of quality that doesn’t come around too often and seems to be as prolific as anyone out there […]

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Delain – Moonbathers

9 August 2016 Mark Diggins

I don’t know why Delain don’t get mentioned in the same breath as their chosen genre’s symphonic masters more often, after all they tick all the boxes – big songs, fantastic female vocalist, sweeping melodies […]

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Shotgun Sawyer – Thunderchief

9 August 2016 Mark Diggins

The band formerly known as ‘Thunderchief’ now release the album ‘Thunderchief’ under the new name ‘Shotgun Sawyer’… Coming out of nowhere this album surprised us by how good it is, chock full of heavy blues […]

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Jackyl – ROWYCO

9 August 2016 Mark Diggins

We’ve seen Jackyl a bunch of times live and ‘redneck and proud’ as they are, to the extent where sometimes it can overshadow their music, they are actually also a pretty damned good band who […]

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Sodom – Decision Day

9 August 2016 Mark Diggins

German thrashers Sodom have been pretty consistent as far as new material is concerned in their long career, the last 10 years alone has been steady with a new album every 3 years. 2016 sees […]

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The Dead Daisies – Make Some Noise

9 August 2016 Mark Diggins

After two very fine albums in as many years, two singers and several other lineup changes The Dead Daisies are back with their third long-player – ‘Make Some Noise’ and a new guitarist in ex-Burning […]

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INTERVIEW: Kris – In The Now

7 August 2016 Mark Diggins

  For a place so remote and relatively small in size, Perth in Western Australia manages to put out some fine Hard Rock, the latest band to catch The Rockpit’s attention is ‘In the Now’. […]

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Cruzh – Cruzh

5 August 2016 Mark Diggins

  You can’t really go far past the Bon Jovi comparisons on this release from Sweden’s Cruzh. This album indeed has a lot of the hallmarks shared long ago by those New Jersey natives – especially […]

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The Ann Wilson Thing! – #2 EP (Focus)

4 August 2016 Mark Diggins

  The best female voice in rock is back with the second instalment from her appropriately-titled ‘Ann Wilson Thing’ and whilst some may question the need, the relevance or even the intent of such a […]

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Thunderbird – Heavyweight

9 July 2016 Mark Diggins

If you like your Classic Hard Rock the way it was delivered in the late seventies and the early eighties then Vancouver’s Thunderbird is a band that should be on your radar; and with ‘Heavyweight’ […]

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Dare – Sacred Ground

9 July 2016 Mark Diggins

I met Darren Wharton a few years ago when he toured Australia with Thin Lizzy and you couldn’t meet a nicer bloke, we chatted about music, about Lizzy and about the old days but I […]

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Helix – Rock It Science

9 July 2016 Mark Diggins

  Band’s re-record and re-release material all the time for any number of reasons, normally of course these days for Rock bands it’s original labels or subsequent rights owners unwilling to re-issue often long out […]

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Triggerman – Atomic Rock Number 79 (EP)

9 July 2016 Mark Diggins

If you’ve not checked out Triggerman before and love swampy Stoner hard rock then you’ll kick yourself if you miss this from Derry’s finest. We love this EP… Opening track ‘The Drift’ builds up a […]

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Budderside – Budderside

9 July 2016 Mark Diggins

I can see these guys polarising opinion but after a few spins I’m very much in the ‘yes’ camp especially when you get to the simpler fare like ‘X-Girlfriend’ which melds acoustic and sleazy aggression […]

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