This was another gig David O had been looking forward to since it was announced. The Zac Schulz gang should have been on the Steelhouse bill in July but they were asked to tour North America with Samantha Fish, a real no brainer of a decision, so this is the ÜK leg of that tour.
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We’re not straying too far from our home turf for our latest selection – just up the road a wee bit in fact to a formerly sleepy little hamlet that now gives its name to a Brexit-defying international power metal collaboration born out of the Covid pandemic and now making great strides forward with the release earlier this year of their ÜR-approved third album. The latest single to be extracted is a perhaps surprising choice, being acoustic-led and the most introspective and melancholic track on the album, but one which at the same time highlights the depth of the band’s emotional attachment to their musical thematic.
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Monk’s latest selection sees me back on home turf and features a trio whose sound is heavily influenced and shaped by the wild, untamed and rugged north coast of Northern Ireland from which they hail and which one of them still calls home.
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Having released new material with his original garage rock band The Prisoners earlier this year, the first in decades, Hammond legend James Taylor returns to his Quartet this month with a new album that again harks back to Taylor’s early days, and may surprise a few JTQ fans along the way.
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Monk’s latest choice cut sees this politically-charged Nashville-based DIY punk trio defiantly taking things into their own hands as they stand up, look us square in the eyes and demand our ‘Attention’ – and they most definitely have it with this declarative lead cut from their upcoming debut album, due to be released in February.
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