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Rachel Scott – Aint No Lady

Gig Events Guide Admin — Sat, 25 Aug 2007 12:06:52 +0000

Over all I would say that Ain’t No Lady has a huge mixture of musical content going on not only in the

Instrumentation but also the styles – from hip hop, pop to hints of commercial dance music going on there is truly something for everyone.

It’s also very clean there is no bad language in [...]

His Heaven

Gig Events Guide Admin — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 19:52:05 +0000

By Michelle Duffy

After a sell out tour, the long awaited solo album from David Gilmour, landed on our shelves this year proving to his long standing fan base that this middle aged ‘grumpy old man’ can still make the grade by giving us music to dream, reflect and inspire by. The self composed ‘On An [...]

Metal Gods Of Hope And Glory

Gig Events Guide Admin — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 19:41:43 +0000

By Michelle Duffy

Probably the most unlikely successful heavy metal band ever to come out of an unassuming Birmingham was the unbeatable, unstoppable Judas Priest. Named, surprisingly after an early Bob Dylan track (and it is here where the connect between Judas Priest and folk music starts and stops,) this motley bunch of guys looking like [...]

Out On The Wiley Windy Moor

Gig Events Guide Admin — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 19:38:34 +0000

By Michelle Duffy

Catherine Bush recorded her first demo under the financial guidance of Dave Gilmour from Pink Floyd. Presenting it with shaky hands to giants EMI, they signed her and she quickly issued her first single. The self penned ‘Wuthering Heights’ went straight to number making her the very first British female solo artist to [...]

Mark Knopfler’s “Brothers in Arms” Phenomenon – 20 Years On

Gig Events Guide Admin — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 19:26:47 +0000

By Susan Dagostino

Is it nostalgia, or something more?

This weekend, Radio Veronica in Holland announced that Dire Straits’ Brothers in Arms from 1985 was voted by its listeners as the #2 album of all time, being edged out by another mega-CD from the 80s, U2’s The Joshua Tree.

In February, at the 48th annual Grammy Awards, Mark [...]

Shatter Your Illusions

Gig Events Guide Admin — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 19:21:57 +0000

By Michelle Duffy

Formed somewhere in London around the mid sixties, Mick Fleetwood, Peter Green, Bob Brunning (later axed for Jon McVie) and Jeremy Spencer drove a rough old van around the lesser known delights of The Swan in Fulham and The Toby Jug in Tolworth hoping for something better. It was probably far from their [...]

Oh Go On, Say You’ll Be My Baby

Gig Events Guide Admin — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 19:18:53 +0000

By Michelle Duffy

We perhaps have never given Australia the credit it really deserves when it comes to exporting fairly good music over to our oil slicked shores. We have, it would seem, a tendency to only think of the girlie Neighbours star turned cancer fighting, pop Goddess, Kylie Minogue as the only good thing that [...]

Lest We Forget How Fragile We Are

Gig Events Guide Admin — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 19:12:18 +0000

By Michelle Duffy

From front man of one of the greatest new wave acts to come out of middle class Britain in the Eighties, to world – concerned, Global pioneer, singer songwriter in the Nineties. Sting has managed to launch a thousand careers from one voice in a fairly short space of time. Regarded as one [...]

There’s A Worm In My Head And A Fish In The Bed

Gig Events Guide Admin — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 19:06:26 +0000

By Michelle Duffy

Nestled quietly South West from Birmingham off the infamous M5, sits Stourbridge. Unassuming and fairly shadowed by the great Midlands city, it presented to the British indie pop scene a misshapen motley crew of four young men in 1986 who called themselves The Wonder Stuff. It was the brain child of it’s front [...]

Reflections

Gig Events Guide Admin — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 04:39:12 +0000

By Michelle Duffy

Some could argue that the downfall of John Lennon came when he met Yoko Ono. After the releases of ‘Two Virgins’ and ‘Life With Lions,’ the somewhat controversial and humour enticing albums, (both within a year of each other), the future career of Lennon seemed lacking in all the speciality of The Beatles. [...]