Thursday 8 February 2024

Blackberry Smoke new album's life-affirming message

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A LESSER band of brothers might have despaired that the fates were against them. First, Covid, then a major health crisis, have conspired in...
Wednesday 14 December 2022

From Black To Blood - Albums Of The Year 2022

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  1. CARDINAL BLACK : January Came Close       Long anticipated debut album from the Cardiff band whose stop-start journey has seen them sup...
Friday 26 November 2021

Black Sabbath icon Tony Iommi: Pandemic blues, new band, new single, and working with Ozzy again

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  WHEN Tony Iommi famously sliced off the tips of his right hand fingers in a metal press at the age of 17 he feared he would never play gui...
Thursday 25 November 2021

Black Sabbath legend Tony Iommi releases first new music in eight years

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  Picture: Ross Halfin BLACK Sabbath legend Tony Iommi today releases his first new music in eight long years, complete with a new band, a s...
Wednesday 21 April 2021

Treasures from the Attic No 8: When Genesis were just the warm-up act for Lindisfarne

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October 10, 1972 and folk/poppers Lindisfarne were huge, playing sell out theatres and festivals. Here, at Manchester's Free Trade Hall,...
Friday 12 March 2021

Treasures From The Attic No 7 : Pink Floyd's shortest gig

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More than a year before the album came out, Pink Floyd were trialling Dark Side of the Moon with a quadraphonic PA. What they hadn’t factore...
Thursday 14 January 2021

Treasures From The Attic No 6: The night Eric Clapton paid West Bromwich Albion to play

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Another treasure from the keepsakes box. It was September 27, 1978 the night Eric Clapton paid for a West Bromwich Albion football match. I&...