A fair few years back now, Cockney Rejects front man Jeff Turner released a book, ‘Cockney Reject’, to much acclaim. Now it’s the turn of his brother Mick Geggus, guitarist and co-founder of the band. But don’t expect a rehash of Turner’s book: this one is a different beast and largely deals with more recent times, as Jim R explains…
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It’s DJ Astrocreep back behind the wheels of steel for the latest edition of the Über Rock Singles Club, and we have even more submissions for this feature that normal – a whopping 231, to be exact – so it’s time to get listening and whittling down through a lot of rather good tracks to make the shortlist.
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This week’s selection comes all the way from the Lone Star State, in the form of Austin city rock ‘n’ rollas Black Heart Saints, who are telling us that they are ‘Crazy’ with their new single, the second to be lifted from their new EP, ‘Misery’.
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Having had previous plans he couldn’t get out of, our resident gigaholic missed what was a strong opening day of the first instalment of HRH’s latest venture, HRH Punk. However, our very own travelling wilbury once more ventured over the Pennines to Steel City to catch the action on the second day, during which he found some tasty treats counter-balanced by some disappointments…
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AoniaFest is an annual event curated and headlined by Sheffied’s Aonia, who each year bring together a collection of their favourite bands kicking around the scene at the moment. We sent our special Steel City correspondent along to the city’s Corporation to report from the front and centre of this year’s proceedings…
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