With their debut album ‘Starting Gun’, the Bad Flowers continue the tradition of powerful hard rock from the Midlands.
Singer and guitarist Tom Leighton tells us about the LP, spontaneity in the studio, capturing the dynamism of live performance, and misbehaving.
“The pursuit of perfection in art is a completely futile waste of time because there is no yardstick to measure an art,” reasons Dan Patlansky. “What is the perfect art? It’s in the eye of the beholder, I suppose.”
The blues-rock musician is explaining why his new LP’s called ‘Perfection Kills’.
“It’s the perfect way to describe the album,” he continues, “because that was the concept I had: I wanted a more organic, raw feel going through it.”
As Dan Reed Network prepare to join Extreme on their UK tour, the band’s frontman opens up about their next album, his first gig experience, the passing of AC/DC’s Malcolm Young, recording new songs in front of fans, learning to be more collaborative, and why he loves ‘More Than Words’.
Ahead of Bad Touch’s first ever headline tour, singer Stevie Westwood talks to us about lessons learnt on the road, why their fans are so important, their difficult second album, and their Planet Rock-playlisted duet with Mollie Marriott, ‘Baby Get It On’.
Fee Waybill is a storyteller, and not just through his lyrics, on-stage banter, or the multiple characters he inhabits during a show. Even in an interview situation, The Tubes singer is an enthusiastic and engaging conversationalist. With each question typically sparking a free-flowing five-minute reply, over the course of five questions he covers everything from volcanoes, drugs, and headlining Roskilde, to touring the UK with Alice Cooper and writing songs with Richard Marx.
Since releasing his latest album ‘Twin Solitude’ in February, Leif Vollebekk has toured the UK twice, supporting Gregory Alan Isakov and Margaret Glaspy. Next month he returns for a series of headlining shows, including a performance at Moth Club on 21 November.
Ahead of his return, the Canadian multi-instrumentalist tells us about mesmerising audiences, Neil Young’s greatest record, relinquishing control to the songwriting process, Michael Jackson’s ‘Thriller’, teaching people new words, and his “terrible Lancaster accent”.
Johanna Glaza, the Lithuanian born London-based artist who’s put her unique spin on folk music, has just released her debut solo LP, ‘Wild Sculptures’.
She tells us about walking the edge between raw and beautiful, the continued influence of Bach’s organ music, unlocking emotions through symbols, learning to play the piano, and finding her own voice.
Five years ago, Wilko Johnson never imagined he’d reach 70. But now the straight-talking survivor is celebrating the milestone with his first headline show at Royal Albert Hall.
In the run-up to the gig, he tells us about overcoming a diagnosis of terminal cancer, an unlikely collaboration with Roger Daltrey, learning to live in the moment on stage, the effect of seeing The Beatles and Chuck Berry play live, and pretending his guitar is a machine gun.
King King are easily Britain’s hardest working blues-rock band. Ahead of ‘Exile & Grace’, their fourth studio album in six years, and their biggest nationwide tour yet, singer and guitarist Alan Nimmo discusses the band’s next natural move, getting an audience to relax, vocalists he admires, and the best guitar solo ever.
The Blinding Lights might sound like they come from New Jersey, but the rock ‘n roll band hail from London where they’ve been making a name for themselves since 2015.
And the brothers Callum, Jack, and Theo Lury aren’t content with just being your standard trio. Live, they’ve been known to expand their sound with the Royal College of Music based string ensemble, The Delphi Quartet, and their own horn section, The Devastations.
Ahead of a string of hometown gigs, the group tell us about the thrill of playing live, family, having fun on stage, and what they’ve learnt from Bruce Springsteen.
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