Davis/ Eichstadt/ Fortman/ Crane/ Crockett LOVE THY NEIGHBOUR As you're no doubt sick of reading, Ugly Kid Joe have very qu...
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Preview: Franz Ferdinand, Japan, 2006
Franz Ferdinand put Glasgow on rock's world map Franz Ferdinand's arrival on the music scene last year was hard to miss. N...
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Album Review: Heart, "Brigade"
Heart's latest and to these ears most rounded album to date. We'll skip Wild Child as it doesn't stand up next to the Romeo...
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Interview: Angela Gossow, Arch Enemy
Liddell : Your voice is astonishing. Do you remember the first time you sang or spoke in that kind of "death growl"? What ...
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Live Review: Big Country, Hammersmith Odeon, 23rd or 24th May, 1990
AT THE CROSSING It's easy to be cynical about Big Country. Out on the road supporting a best of compilation record and admittedly...
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Photo: Ayumi Hamasaki
Japanese pop diva Ayumi Hamasaki arriving at the 2002 MTV Japan Awards. Photo: C.B. Liddell
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Album Review: Yeasayer, "Odd Blood"
One of the great strengths-slash-weaknesses of American music vis-Ã -vis its British rival is a relative lack of irony. It's hard to ...
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Interview: Patricia Kennealy-Morrison
RIDERS ON THE STORM Riding North on the 134 to Highgate, thinking about the interview I've just done, thinking about Jim Mo...
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Photo: Dave King, Flogging Molly
Dave King of Flogging Molly wearing a Celtic shirt at Liquid Room, Tokyo, 15th April, 2009. Photo: C.B.Liddell
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Art: Portrait of Nicky Wire
A portrait of Nicky Wire of the Manic Street Preachers. It is loosely based on a photo taken by Mitch Ikeda. The painting is by the fam...
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Retrospective: AC/DC
It's a Long Way to the Top if You Wanna Rock n' Roll The AC/DC story begins in Glasgow where both Malcolm and Angus Young we...
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Album Review: Oasis "Heathen Chemistry"
Ideally music reviews should serve two purposes: (1) to introduce new, obscure music, and (2) to save you (and the record companies) a bi...
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Album Review: Circle of Soul, "Hand of Faith"
CIRCLE OF SOUL's debut opus Hand Of Faith is one of the best records I've had my grubby little paws on all year. This LA-based,...
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Interview: Lita Ford
Only the Strong Survive Having spent a hectic year running around the world trying to earn half a living as a so-called freelance jou...
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Album Review: Steve Hackett, "Genesis Revisited II"
What are we to make of Steve Hackett's penchant for occasionally going back to his Genesis roots, cherry picking the best songs fr...
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Revenge Recommends: "Spirit Of 76" by The Alarm
A paean to youthful idealism (or juvenile naivety), Spirit of '76 was the epitome of the Alarm's earnest and heartfelt 1980s C...
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Preview: Sheryl Crow
Sheryl Crow: Getting Personal with Politics If Barack Obama succeeds in becoming the 44th US President following the November 4th e...
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Album Review: Gun, "Break the Silence"
It's possibly the greatest humiliation in rock. Gun, after all the great Glaswegian rock they have produced, are still best known fo...
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Live Review: Gun, The Astoria, 12th February, 1990
TOP SHOTS Gun are on the brink of a big breakthrough that others like The Quireboys and Texas have managed to achieve. And judging...
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Photo: The Manic Street Preachers
James Dean Bradfield and Nicky Wire on stage at Studio Coast, 26th November 2010. Photo: C.B.Liddell
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"John Lennon is a Trademark of Yoko Ono Lennon"
20 years after he was gunned down outside a New York apartment block, John Lennon is still with us. Here in Japan, he's with us e...
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Interview: Richie Sambora, Bon Jovi
Faith Hope and Clarity Just before Richie Sambora, guitarist with Bon Jovi, calls from Toronto, I pick up an old biography of the ban...
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Album Review: Jimmy Barnes, "Heat"
Apparently Mr Barnes, the god from Oz, was trying to rediscover his roots on Heat . What he has done is created a record steeped in fine...
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Album Review: Thunder, "Backstreet Symphony"
Rising from the ashes of Terraplane, guitarist Luke Morley and drummer Harry 'H' Aitken founded a band called Thunder. The album ...
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Profile: Shinki Chen
Shinki Chen is a Japanese rock legend as much for what he hasn't done as for what he has. Since his 1972 eponymous solo album, the ...
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Revenge Recommends: "Hocus Pocus" by Focus
Focus were a Dutch progressive rock band formed in 1969. They were led by Thijs Van Leer, a classically trained musician. On Hocus P...
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Album Reviiew: Neal Schon, "The Calling"
Every once in a while guitar virtuoso Neal Schon takes a major detour from his main day job as Journey's lead guitarist to indulge in...
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Profile: Atsushi Sakurai
Recognized as one of the founders of visual-kei, Buck-Tick is influenced by the likes of David Bowie, Sisters of Mercy and Bauhaus, ...
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Revenge Recommends: "White" by The Cult
It is often the case that a demo version of a song will prove superior to the final polished version. As the song is pushed through produ...
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