TOUR NEWS: Lightning strikes again as Diamond Head announce 2021 dates
NWoBHM stalwarts Diamond Head have announced details of their first UK headline shows since 2018, with a run of dates scheduled for next April and May.
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Death Valley Girls – ‘Under The Spell Of Joy’ (Suicide Squeeze)
Reading the press info on this latest album from dystopian glam punks DVG, John B had a feeling that he would like this album, but even with that expectation he was not prepared for how good this album actually is. It is so unique while still having a very solid grounding. Sometimes when an artist tries something that is a little out there, things get lost for the listener. JB doesn’t find any issue like that here. In fact what he hears is an album that is extremely well grounded in a few existing styles combined in unique ways that make ‘Under The Spell Of Joy’ one of his favourite albums he has heard this year. Fair warning, our man nothing but praise to say about this album so there will be gushing…
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Blue Öyster Cult – ‘The Symbol Remains’ (Frontiers)
Blue Öyster Cult fans have been spoiled with numerous releases over the past year since the band hooked up with Frontiers Music. Three live albums – ‘Hard Rock Live Cleveland 2014’, ‘40th Anniversary – Agents Of Fortune – 2016’ and ‘45th Anniversary Live In London’ all came out this year, as well as welcome reissues of the ‘Heaven Forbid’ and ‘Curse Of The Hidden Mirror’ albums from the late ‘90s/early ‘00s, which were getting pretty hard to get hold of. Now comes another big one – a brand new studio album ‘The Symbol Remains’, the first from BÖC since the ‘Hidden Mirror’ album in 2001.
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MUSIC VENUE TRUST PRESSES ON DELAYS IN FUNDING ALLOCATIONS
The Music Venue Trust, the independent charity that represents the interests of almost 1,000 independent music venues across the Über Kingdom, has this evening (Sunday 4 October) issued a statement in response to the announcement that the Arts Council of England is to delay decisions on the distribution of its Cultural Recovery Fund.
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The Über Rock Singles Club – Autumn Awesomeness (Part One)
It’s hard to believe it’s been a fortnight since the Singles Club opened its virtual doors and we fired up the death decks with a selection of the finest single-track releases to have come our way in recent weeks. Yet, here we are again with another bumper pick of the crop – actually, for the second successive iteration it’s one of our biggest clubs in a long time, with just shy of two dozen tracks for your aural and visual delectation, whittled down from the almost 450 submissions which have come our way over the past 14 days or so, and once again hopefully containing something to tickle almost everyone’s musical taste buds as we traverse multiple sub genres of the glorious art form we like to refer to as rock ‘n’f’n’ roll…
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