Interviews
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 […]
Articles by Mark Diggins
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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 […]
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INTERVIEW: Ron Pope
Ron Pope is in Australia, and for the first time he has a band with him. Not only that he has also just released what must be one of the albums of his career […]
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INTERVIEW: Joe Satriani
Joe Satriani is a name everyone who loves rock music will recognise: the quintessential guitar hero whose shaved head and sunglasses are instantly recognisable. Musically he’s part mythical monster part master musician, a man […]
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INTERVIEW: Pekka Ansio Heino – Brother Firetribe
Brother Firetribe has just released what is sure to be one of the albums of 2014. ‘Diamond in the Firepit’ takes all that we loved from the band’s first two releases and hones it […]
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INTERVIEW: Daniel Winter-Bates – Bury Tomorrow
Bury Tomorrow has been called the best Metalcore band in the UK at the moment, and with their new album ‘Runes’ just released it’s hard to disbute where they sit on the tree. We […]
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INTERVIEW: Gary Numan
Gary Numan has been called the “Godfather of all Electronic Music” and over the years has inspired a huge range of artists from Trent Reznor to Prince to The Prodigy to Afrika Bambaataa to […]
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INTERVIEW: Chris Boyd – One Thousand Years
One Thousand Years is a band that plays the kind of music I want to hear: timeless, blues infused rock that makes a connection with an audience. It’s important music by a little ol’ […]
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INTERVIEW: Chris Green – Rubicon Cross
Anyone who was impressed by Rubicon Cross’ debut EP back in 2011 will probably have been eagerly anticipating the new full-length release – due to hit on May 19th. Collecting the four songs from […]
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INTERVIEW: Simone Simons – Epica
Lavish orchestration, as you might imagine, introduces us to Epica’s latest work ‘The Quantum Enigma’. It’s a huge album especially for a band that prides itself on constantly moving forward, and it may well […]
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INTERVIEW: Christian Hede Madsen – Pet The Preacher
You may not have heard of PET THE PREACHER yet, but you should do soon. If you love a riff you can hang your entire wardrobe off, then their new album “The Cave & […]
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INTERVIEW: Linnea Olson – The Oath
Don’t know who The Oath are? Read on to find out more and why you need to check them out. Welcome to The Oath… Mark: Hi, thanks for taking the time to speak […]