As the New Year kicks in and editors’ inboxes start to get jammed with summer festival announcements, the renascent Tech-Fest has announced a literally MASSIVE line-up for it’s return in July.
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Burke Shelley, founder and frontman of legendary Welsh hard rockers Budgie, has died in hospital in Cardiff at the age of 71.
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After almost five decades in the music business, and a temporary hiatus between 1995 and 2001, Magnum have become much more productive in the latter part of their career, releasing some form of music or other almost every year since 2001. If you ask someone who sang ‘On A Story Tellers Night’ or ‘Vigilante’, they may struggle to name the band but would recognize the titles. However, these are two of David O’Neill’s favourite Magnum tracks. Could this better either of these? To find out more read on.
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It may be pushing it a bit to label Californian rock collective Big Scenic Nowhere a ‘supergroup’, but with Bob Balch (Fu Manchu), Tony Reed (Mos Generator), Gary Arce and Bill Stinson (Yawning Man) at the helm, plus guest performances from Reeves Gabrels (Bowie/The Cure) and Per Wiberg (Spiritual Beggars/Opeth), it’s certainly a collection of musicians with pedigree to pay attention to. Here their second full length album, ‘The Long Morrow’, digs further into the progressive realms the band explored on last year’s ‘Lavender Blues’ EP, drifting away from the desert rock and psych-fuzz soundscapes of their earlier work.
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The Music Venue Trust (MVT) has announced a new campaign to encourage music fans to enjoy live music in safe environments by supporting their local grassroots music venues.
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