Every Record Tells A Story
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The Week in Music: Olympic Closing Ceremony and New Guns n Roses Shows…
The Olympic closing ceremony displayed the very best of British music, fashion, and police crowd control techniques. Whilst Elbow performed “Open Arms” and “A Day Like This”, the Metropolitan Police Kettling Display Team (or PoKeDiT, as they are better known) showed how to effectively shackle and detain over five thousand of the World’s fittest youths…
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The Vaccines – Jack Daniels Birthday Competition and Free Download
Exciting news from The Vaccines on two fronts today. I have been a big fan of The Vaccines since they were the first ever band to appear on Later With Jools Holland before releasing a single. Having then bought their debut single and album I was lucky enough to be bobbing down the front of the…
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Goldray: Exclusive Q&A
After Every Record Tells A Story wrote about Reef’s Place Your Hands being played at a wedding and featured a clip of Reef guitarist Kenwyn House’s new band Goldray, we received an email offering a Q&A with the band. As well as finding out a bit more about Goldray (the band consists of Kenwyn House,…
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A Free Rock n Roll Walking Tour of London
A Rock ‘n Roll Tour of London: Take a free walking tour of London’s best Rock n Roll Landmarks What with the Olympics of 2012, London is continuing to attract its fair share of visitors. But they haven’t all come to watch the elephant wrestling and beach judo or whatever it is that passes for…
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Hendrix Exhibition Hits London:
Seventy years since the birth of Rock’s greatest guitarist Jimi Hendrix, and hot on the heels of The Rolling Stones: 50 photography exhibition at Somerset House, comes another rock n roll show in the capital. It is good to see London giving tourists something to do in between queuing at the beer tent at the…
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Led Zeppelin: What’s The Most Famous Song You’ve Never Heard?
The trouble with writing about Led Zeppelin is that maybe it has all been said. Mud sharks and groupies? Read Hammer of the Gods. Alastair Crowley? Read When Giants Walked The Earth by Mick Wall. The insidious influence of their music on your children? Read Raising PG Kids in an X Rated Society by Tipper…
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Hell’s Bells – It’s The London 2012 Olympics!
(An Olympic Playlist and a look at the music of the London Olympics 2012…) Apparently, the London 2012 Olympics start today. Funny. There’s been nothing in the papers or on the news about it…* Not that it will all go seamlessly. The weather has been so bad recently that until this week we were in…
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Bret Michaels: Every Rose Has It’s….
Former Poison frontman, 2010 Celebrity Apprentice winner and standard bearer for international women’s rights Bret Michaels has announced he is releasing a star-studded new album in September. Having apparently tired of being reality TV‘s most compelling spokesperson for feminism in his show Bret Michael’s Lick My Love Pump Rock of Love it’s good to see him…
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Magnum Overlooked by Glee Again..
Magnum are one of Britain’s finest AOR rock bands. I saw them many times in the eighties. And the Magnum name popped up recently when I least expected it. “My uncle is in a band”. Usually when friends or work colleagues say that sort of thing they go on to describe a trumpet player in…
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The Most Innovative Rock Band in the Digital Age Is… Marillion?
Marillion became huge in 1985 in the UK when lead single from third album Misplaced Childhood, the lovely (and heart-on-sleeve raw) Kayleigh hit the charts. A newspaper discovered that the Kayleigh in the song actually existed – she was an ex-girlfriend of the lead singer called Kay (middle name Lee). There was no such thing…
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Rolling Stones 50: Photo Exhibition at Somerset House
A Rolling Stones Photo Exhibition is a wonderful thing. There’s rock history seeping from every image. Once the place where every proud father in London would go to register the birth of his new-born child, this most British of institutions, Somerset House, just off The Strand, has begun to get a bit more rock n…
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R.I.P Jon Lord
When we were young, my friends and I would talk for hours about who would be in The Greatest Ever Band. The Best Drummer discussion would often be between And The position of Best Guitarist was always hotly contested… But when it came to Keyboards, there was never any argument. Because Jon Lord…
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Cold Chisel and Jimmy Barnes at Hard Rock Calling
It was great to see Jimmy Barnes again – fronting Cold Chisel at Hyde Park. If you were wondering around Earls Court at 6pm on Friday night and saw tumbleweed drift across a veritable ghost town, I think I have the explanation. Cold Chisel, fronted by Jimmy Barnes, were playing at the Hard Rock Calling…
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Iggy and The Stooges at Hard Rock Calling, Hyde Park
It was fantastic to see Iggy Pop and The Stooges play live again at Hyde Park at the Hard Rock Calling Festival. Iggy is such a force of Nature. When Paul McCartney sang When I’m Sixty Four he sang of holidays in the Isle of Wight (if it’s not too dear). He made little mention…
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Hard Rock Calling: Soundgarden, Iggy and Rain…
Soundgarden – live at Hyde Park’s Hard Rock Calling Festival Without a doubt, the best thing to have come out of the dreadful weather that the UK has nearly drowned in during this ridiculous excuse for a summer (or as it will become known, the Great Hosepipe Ban of 2012) is the cancellation of Wednesday’s…
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