Interview: Eddie Macdonald, The Alarm

GOING (BACK) OUT IN A BLAZE OF GLORY The ALARM were one of the bands from the "Celtic fringe" that surfed the post-punk energy tha...

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Photos: Simple Minds, Cannock Chase, 2011

Simple Minds had something to prove in 2011. They weren't just 80s has-beens who recorded the oh-so-ironic "Don't You Forget ...

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Interview: Frank Leone, Genghis Khan

Italy is not usually cited as the centre of the Heavy Metal Maelstrom, which means you've got to try all the harder to sell the vibe. So...

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Live Review: Gun, Wembley Stadium, July 4th 1990

As yet another embarrassing pass at the Mexican wave ripples around Wembley, GUN kick into action. I've only seen Gun in the confines of...

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Album Review: Marillion, "Holidays in Eden"

Since the departure of original singer FISH and the release of their last LP Season's End in '89, with new voxman Steve Hogarth, MA...

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Interview: Mike Peters, The Alarm

SOMETHING TO DECLARE You only live twice: once when you're born and once when you look death in the face. Basho's Haiku poem may hav...

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Album Review: Gun, "Gallus"

GUN aren't the type of band that do things in half measures. When Taking On The World was released in 1989, they found themselves touri...

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Bono on Desert Island Discs

On 1st July 2022 U2 frontman Bono made his appearance on the BBC's long-running Desert Island Discs show to pick his 8 records to be str...

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TOTAL UFOLOGY: EVERY UFO ALBUM "PROBED"

I saw UFO back in October of 2019 on what was supposed to be their farewell tour. Thanks to this whole Covid thing, the latest and final inc...

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