To succeed in any aspect of life, you need a passion for what you are doing. In this case, former Night By Night vocalist Daniel Rossall – or Lion Ravarez as he now prefers to be known – certainly displays his prominently on the sleeve of his tassled leather jacket, both in terms of the name of his latest project but also in his commitment to recreating the heady days when hair metal dominated our airwaves and TV shows at every turn and twist.
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Forming an astonishing 42 years ago, apparently Girlschool are now the longest running all-female rock band of all time, and still going strong to say the least. Tonight sees them hit (and run) The Underworld in Camden for the London date of their 2020 tour, ably supported by London-based metal merchants Evyltyde, and despite the wet’n’windy January weather, there’s a bumper crowd waiting to greet both bands.
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Now and again, the concept for an album comes along that is so different from the usual emails that it immediately catches your attention. Take for example, this self-titled offering by Humanist. Guitarist Rob Marshall approached a variety of singers, including the likes of Mark Lanegan, Dave Gahan and John Robb, with the bare bones of an idea – the music and a song title, with the titles themed on mortality, the ways we find meaning and the liberation of the human spirit.
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A local show sees our travelling gigaholic only need a bus ride into the city centre to catch Amigo The Devil on the Liverpool date of his current tour. Amigo The Devil represents something different from the big lad’s usual gigs, in the form of “murder folk”, something usually more attributed to Nick Cave or his ilk, albeit something I still have a strong passion for. He made my way into the venue as theopening act was just starting his set…
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The Dark Queen doesn’t normally do reviews but when this album dropped into ÜRHQ and we popped it into the stereo, it caught her ear straight away. To be honest, she had never heard of Voodoo Sioux and was surprised when she researched then to find out that they originally formed in the early 90’s but called it a day in 1997. They have just released their latest album ‘Professor Balthazar’s Psychedelic Medicine Show’.
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