FROM PIRATES TO THE FELL A CONVERSATION WITH ANTHONY DE LA TORRE Dead Men May Tell No Tales according to the latest film in the Pirates of the Caribbean movie franchise but the opposite actually proved to be the case when I sat down for a chat [...]
NIGHT PEOPLE A CONVERSATION WITH DAN FLINT OF YOU ME AT SIX You Me At Six are an English rock band from Surrey. Formed in 2004, the group achieved success in 2008 with the release of their debut album Take Of Your Colours. Their second album [...]
PREPÁRATE PARA CINCO AN INTERVIEW WITH BLUES GUITAR LEGEND BILLY GIBBONS OF ZZ TOP In the annals of rock and roll history even the longest established bands such as the Who and The Rolling Stones have changed personnel during their musical [...]
ZZ Top @ O2 Apollo, Manchester July 25, 2017 Despite being around since the late sixties and just being slightly older than myself, I have never previously crossed paths with the band in a live setting. True like most people my attention was [...]
Cheap Trick w/ Stone Broken @ Manchester Academy, Manchester June 28, 2017 Cheap Trick dates in the UK have been few and far between over the years. So despite not being a long-standing fan I decided to avail of the opportunity -essentially to [...]
Kiefer Sutherland w/ Sound Of The Sirens @ Gorilla, Manchester June 26, 2017 I have noticed a trend over the last few years for many A-List actors who have hit a peak in their career to try to diversify and try to establish a secondary [...]
THE ART OF EVERCLEAR A CONVERSATION WITH ART ALEXAKIS On the current Everclear tour, lead singer Art Alexakis had this to say: “It’s hard to believe we made this record 20 years ago. Even though I’m in a different place now [...]
DEFCON ZERO A CONVERSATION WITH TOMAS ANDERSSON OF CORRODED Defcon Zero isn’t just Corroded’s first new album in five years – it’s also their first release for Despotz Records, which has opened brand new possibilities for Corroded and given them [...]
SUBSTANCE AN INTERVIEW WITH BASS-PLAYING LEGEND AND EX-JOY DIVISION/NEW ORDER MEMBER PETER HOOK Does Peter Hook really require an introduction I wondered when starting to write this piece, probably not I concluded. To play with not one but two [...]
SPARKS-RE-IGNITED AN INTERVIEW WITH RUSSELL MAEL – VOCALIST WITH SPARKS Sparks have been plying their eccentric style of music and brand since the seventies. The band has survived the changing tides and trends for many years just doing [...]
RUSH: ALBUM-BY-ALBUM AN INTERVIEW WITH AUTHOR “MR. METAL” MARTIN POPOFF Martin Popoff is a Canada born journalist,critic and author. He is mainly known for writing about the genre of heavy metal music. He recently added yet another [...]
IF IT AIN’T BROKE….. AN INTERVIEW WITH JIMI BELL – GUITARIST FROM HOUSE OF LORDS/MAXX EXPLOSION Saint of the Lost Souls is House Of Lords’ tenth studio album, following up the highly successful Indestructible. The band [...]
SONGS OF DARKNESS AND DESPAIR AN AMUSING DISCUSSION WITH BILL MOSELEY AND PHIL ANSELMO OF BILL & PHIL Musical styles and collaborations are nothing new, but sometimes one does actually cause you to sit up and ask wow,” I wonder what that [...]
FROM A ROUGH CUTT TO A NIGHTLIFE IN NEON-TRAVERSING THE MUSICAL GENRES AN INTERVIEW WITH AMIR DERAKH OF JULIEN-K Amir Derakh has had a varied and colourful musical career. From eighties hair metal, through nu metal Orgy, and then ultimately to [...]
THE ORIGINAL RUDE BOY AN INTERVIEW WITH NEVILLE STAPLE (THE SPECIALS/FUN BOY THREE) On February 17, legendary Specials and Fun Boy Three founding member Neville Staple released his new studio album Return of Judge Roughneck via Cleopatra [...]
SMASH AN INTERVIEW WITH STEPHEN PEARCY – SINGER OF 80s ROCK LEGEND RATT The 80s were a great era for rock music, which was much assisted by the MTV music channel. Big hair and big choruses became the order of the day, as bands were able to [...]
Madness w/ The Lightning Seeds @ Manchester Arena, Manchester December 16, 2016 “Cant Touch Us Now” is what the tour has been termed, and it seems that there is just no stopping the British Ska legends. Continuing to tour regularly and unlike [...]
SEX, DRUMS, ROCK ‘N’ ROLL! THE HARDEST HITTING MAN IN SHOW BUSINESS AN INTERVIEW WITH DRUMMER KENNY ARONOFF “I’ll never be as great as I want to be, but I’m willing to spend the rest of my life trying to be as great as I can [...]
CONJURERS AN INTERVIEW WITH MARK CHADWICK: SINGER/GUITARIST OF THE LEVELLERS Musicians Mark Chadwick and Jeremy Cunningham met in The Eagle, a pub in Brighton, in 1988. Discovering that they had a fair bit in common, including a left-wing view [...]
RESONATING SOLO AN INTERVIEW WITH GLENN HUGHES Frontiers Music Srl is pleased to announce the highly anticipated 12th original Glenn Hughes album Resonate — released on Friday November 4, 2016. The album dovetails Glenn’s U.K. and European [...]
BAUHAUS UNDEAD: THE VISUAL HISTORY AND LEGACY OF BAUHAUS AN INTERVIEW WITH BAUHAUS DRUMMER & AUTHOR KEVIN HASKINS Bauhaus were an English Post-Punk band, formed in Northampton, England in 1978. The group consisted of Peter Murphy (vocals, [...]
LONDON TOWN AN INTERVIEW WITH DIRECTOR DERRICK BORTE On The Clash as an influence: “within the first few minutes I just had a realization that was the music that I was supposed to listen to” Artists include The Clash, The Stranglers, [...]
HARD-CORE: LIFE OF MY OWN AN INTERVIEW WITH HARLEY FLANAGAN Hardcore Punk and Metal crossover artist and controversial NYC mainstay Harley Flanagan (founder of one of the most influential, cult-followed bands in hard music — Cro Mags) has [...]
BACK TO MOMO A Q&A INTERVIEW WITH TONY WEST OF BLACKLIST UNION Spill Magazine: What initially inspired you to write songs? (childhood trauma, happiness, money?) Tony West: Life and feeling compelled to express myself. Spill Magazine: Can you [...]
