Dave Dawson ‘Pop Idle – 30 Years On The Road As A Professional Singer’ (Good Day Books)

Dave Dawson ‘Pop Idle – 30 Years On The Road As A Professional Singer’ (Good Day Books)

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Long term Über readers may recall reviews we have run in the past of books such as ‘Dear Mr. Kershaw’, ‘Dear Mr. Pop Star’ and ‘Grammar Free In The UK’ by a certain OAP Mr. D. Philpott, compiling hundreds of letters, with replies, sent to various rock, punk and pop musicians, chastising them for lyrical misdemeanours. Those books have proved very popular, but now, with ‘Pop Idle – 30 Years On The Road As A Professional Singer’, the man behind the facade of D. Philpott finally comes out of the closet to reveal his real identity, and his real life, in another highly entertaining read. His name is Dave Dawson, and he has spent 30 years of that life as a professional singer ‘on the bottom rung of the showbiz ladder’.

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Nate Silva ‘The Chase’ (Self-Released)

Nate Silva ‘The Chase’ (Self-Released)

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Formerly lead singer with Canadian proggies The Slyde, Nate Silva has embarked on a solo career with a debut album that sees him pulling together all his divergent yet inherent musical influences into an album that offers a sort of weird dynamically undynamic, consistently inconsistent, hesitatingly unhesitating amalgam of surprising diverse yet unified styles into a dynamic and versatile collection of songs that profiles every aspect of his ability as songwriter and deliverer of great tunage.

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The Über Rock Singles Club Daily Pick – Yungblud

The Über Rock Singles Club Daily Pick – Yungblud

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It takes a lot for a cover version to make it onto the playlist here at ÜRHQ, but this one absolutely knocks it out of the park, as the Doncaster-born emo superstar-in-the-making takes this classic KISS song and gives it a totally unique treatment, which importantly retains elements of the original, especially in its middle section, but surrounds it with a darker, grittier interpretation which really helps to reinvent the song for the modern era:

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FM ‘Old Habits Die Hard’ (Frontiers Music)

FM ‘Old Habits Die Hard’ (Frontiers Music)

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Since their emergence onto the then NWoBHM dominated ÜK rock scene 40 years ago, FM – who took their name from the ÜS radio platforms from which they in turn drew their initial inspiration – have proven to be one of the most enduring and consistent proponents of the genre. Not that, like many of us, they have not endured their share of travails – a lengthy hiatus and most recently the sudden passing of founding guitarist Chris Overland – but they have always come bouncing back, and are determined to prove that this is the case once again with this, their 14th studio album.

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The Loyal Cheaters ‘And All Hell Broke Loose’ (Go Down Records)

The Loyal Cheaters ‘And All Hell Broke Loose’ (Go Down Records)

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A little more than two years after declaring that we’re all dead in the long run with their highly impressive debut album, these German/Italian garage punks now prove that they’re not only very much alive and kicking, and making raucous rock ‘n’ roll music to boot, but also very much in it for the long haul as they break loose all sorts of sonic hell on our unsuspecting withered souls with this declarative sophomore outing.

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Beyond The Beneath ‘Borderlands’ (Self-Released)

Beyond The Beneath ‘Borderlands’ (Self-Released)

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We first came across Beyond The Beneath when bassist Davy Greer was recruited into the ranks of the now temporarily dormant Baleful Creed. BTB continued to play a handful of occasional gigs, but these become fewer and more distantly apart as Greer’s new commitment took prominence. We all knew that there were some recordings lurking in the background, but these never saw the light of day, until recently, when Greer, at a loose end because of BC’s continued hiatus, dug around in his musical basement, dusted down the tapes, added a few finishing touches and decided to see what interest remained in them…

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Pat Todd & The Rankoutsiders ‘Keepin’ Chaos At Bay’ (Hound Gawd! Records)

Pat Todd & The Rankoutsiders ‘Keepin’ Chaos At Bay’ (Hound Gawd! Records)

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Pat Todd has spent decades trawling and trolling the dark corners and dusty shelves of the back alley thrift stores of Americana, picking and choosing from influences such as Woody Guthrie and Bob Dylan, Tom Petty and Neil Young, the Allman Boys to Tom Waits, Hank Williams to the Wilson brothers in an endeavour to distill all of his education and garnered knowledge into a single, career-defining, genre-scoffing dose of ’70s punk rock, country, blues and roots rock… in a bid to keep all the chaos at bay by producing one chaotic rock ‘n’ roll album that sums up everything he knows and has learned about the artform…

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Accept ‘Humanoid’ (Napalm Records)

Accept ‘Humanoid’ (Napalm Records)

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There are bands from whom you know more or less exactly what to expect each and every time they release a new album. Iron Maiden with their epic lyrical thematics and galloping bass riffs. AC/DC with their basic four-four mid-paced rock ‘n’ roll bravura. Anvil with their tongue-in-cheek-to-cheek no-nonsense sense of fun. Rammstein with their OTT camp take on industrialism. And, of course, Accept, with their traditional balls to the wall (sic) fuck you if you don’t like it Teutonic cross between old school and thrash miens. So, why fuck the formula. Well, thankfully the now crossbred German-American titans do not do so with this, their 17th studio album in their almost 50-year long career, as while it addresses some very modern themes it remains the sort of traditional heavy metal opus we have come to expect and love from the band.

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