Interviews
INTERVIEW: Ryan Peake – Nickelback
Love them or ‘hate’ them, ( down under we tend to love them) Nickelback is back with a new album in ‘No Fixed Adress’ and in support they are back downunder to play to […]
Articles by Mark Diggins
Reviews - Music Releases
ALBUM REVIEW: Babylon A.D. – Live @ 25
When you think ‘Live’ albums you immediately think of Rock, and when you think about the great Live Rock albums of the past few decades some immediately jump out – Thin Lizzy’s ‘Live and Dangerous’; […]
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ALBUM REVIEW: The Temperance Movement – The White Bear
One of the very best Rock debut albums in a long, long time came in 2013 from The Temperance Movement and so it’s no surprise that January’s release of ‘The White Bear’ is one of […]
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INTERVIEW: Solo Artist & Daddy Cool / Mondo Rock
Australia Rock music has had plenty of stars that burned bright briefly, but Ross Wilson is a little different – an artist that achieved it all not once, or twice but three times – […]
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INTERVIEW: Dizzy Reed – The Dead Daisies / Guns N’ Roses
The Dead Daisies brand of Classic Rock and Roll has been going down a storm on the recent Kiss and Bad Co. tours over in the US; and prior to that supporting greats like […]
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INTERVIEW: Lizzie Grey – Spiders and Snakes
Lizzie grey has had a career in which he’s pretty much seen it all happening all around him if not too him. As founder of legendary sunset strip band ‘london’ he saw some of […]
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INTERVIEW: Dave Wyndorf – Monster Magnet
Monster Magnet’s Dave Wyndorf is on a creative roll – it seems like only five minutes ago the behemoth that was ‘Last Patrol’ hit the shelves and now here comes a re-imagining of that […]
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INTERVIEW: Gary Hughes – Ten
Ten has always been one of those bands that elicited a huge response from fans, with their massive Melodic Rock sound and epic storytelling there was always something mystical about them, and coupled with […]
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INTERVIEW: Brandon Yeagley – Crobot
Quite simply – Crobot’s ‘Something Supernatural’ is one of the albums of the year, we talk to vocalist Brandon Yeagley to find out what inspired this ‘classic to be’… Mark: Hi, it’s Mark […]
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INTERVIEW: Chip Z’Nuff – Enuff Z’Nuff
To me there were few bands that could ever touch Enuff Z’Nuff, and over the years they proved it again and again with album after album of gems. Earlier in the year I had […]
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INTERVIEW: Louise Post – Veruca Salt
Veruca Salt is back downuder and this time it’s with the four original members! Need we say more? We caught up with Guitarist/Vocalist Louise Post to get the lowdown! The great news for […]
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INTERVIEW: Wolf Hoffmann – Accept
Accept back in the day was always a band I enjoyed but since reforming in 2009 they are a band not to be missed – if you want the very best of Metal then […]
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INTERVIEW: Shannon Larkin – Godsmack
Godsmack has been one of the biggest Rock Bands in the US for almost 20 years charting number on album after number one album, and this week latest release ‘1000HP’ debuted at number three […]
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INTERVIEW: Robin Tidebrink – Saturn
If you love your rock forged in the same fires as some of the greats of the Hard Rock and Metal genres then Saturn is a band you need to listen to/ Putting a […]
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INTERVIEW: Mark Schenker – Kix
To me in the late eighties for the run of a few classic albums – namely ‘Midnight Dynamite’; ‘Blow My Fuse’ and 1991’s ‘Hot Wire’ Kix was up there with the very best Hard […]
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INTERVIEW: Graham Crabb – Pop Will Eat Itself
No one was ever quite like PWEI and probably no band ever will be again, frequent visitors to our shores back in the day its been a long time between drinks but finally they […]
Reviews - Music Releases
American Mafia – Rock N Roll Hit Machine
With a new album on the way this year here’s a great album we somehow never got around to reviewing at the time… Wow! Groove-laden, classic blues-infused hard rock with some killer guitars and killer […]
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INTERVIEW: Ace Frehley
Some musicians seem like they have been there for you your whole life and for me growing up Ace Frehley embodied all that it was to be a Rock Star: larger than life, the […]
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INTERVIEW: Scott Kay – Voyager
Voyager has long been a band not to be missed for Perth’s Hard Rock and Metal community and over the years they have delivered a slew of quality albums, but this year’s ‘V’ may […]
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INTERVIEW: Dave ‘Snake’ Sabo
Of all the Hard Rock bands to emerge out of the late eighties in my mind there are only a handful that had everything – the songs, the live show and the attitude. Skid […]
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INTERVIEW: David Defeis – Virgin Steele
Virgin Steele is a band like no other. Singular in vision, stunning in execution and epic in concept. They have come such a long way since I queued up to buy their ‘Guardians of […]
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INTERVIEW: John Humphrey – Seether
Seether’s blend of post-grunge and alternative Metal has been captivating audiences for years and creatively with ‘Holding onto strings better left to fray’ from 2011 some would say they had produced their best album […]
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INTERVIEW: Biff Byford – Saxon
When I was a kid we used to travel to see a lot of shows – but it was always the same group of us, always the same venues – places like Nottingham Rock […]
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INTERVIEW: Ian Anderson – Solo Artist & Jethro Tull
I rarely get nervous when interviewing, but sometimes just the name of the interviewee is enough to have you shifting wondering how you could possibly ask them something they haven’t heard a thousand times […]
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INTERVIEW: Steve Blaze – Lillian Axe
Lillian Axe has long been one of my favourite rock bands, blending wonderful melodies with a sense of the epic, and combining uplifting lyrics with sometimes dark visions. There has always been something unique […]