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You like new music, yeah? Then here's some new music. Don't forget to leave your vote at the foot of the page. But first, some old music. From last week. And we congratulate Ray Wylie Hubbard, whose Naturally Wild collected the most votes, perhaps due to the involvement of  Lzzy Hale and John 5. And we congratulate The Blue Carpet Band, whose The Slow Death Of Camden rocked its way into second place, followed by Ann Wilson's Greed.Who'll reig...

The War of The Worlds: Jeff Wayne teases 2022 tour It is of course Jeff Wayne’s The War Of The Worlds which returns for its new star-studded tour of UK arenas next month. “It’s bigger than ever,” Jeff, 78, tells me. “In 2006, we used six trucks, now we need twelve – because the volume of special effects,

Tommy Holohan is a living history of Galway city, and more particularly, a living history of one of its most unique areas - The Claddagh - and his passion for both has led him to discover and collect an extraordinary array of photographs, postcards, and documents charting the evolution of the city.

An unreleased album by Bob Stinsons last band will arrive for the April 23 store drop, as will a vinyl version of Golden Smogs debut EP.

The death of Irish guitar hero Gary Moore at the age of 58, on February 6, 2011, was marked by numerous tributes. Moore was remembered by Ozzy Osbourne as “a phenomenal musician”, by Queen’s Roger Taylor as “a virtuoso”, by Scott Gorham, who played alongside Moore in Thin Lizzy, as “a great player and a great guy”. And when Eric Clapton performed at the Royal Albert Hall in April 2011, he played an acoustic version of M...

As conundrums go it was pretty hard to beat: a bunch of Italiano-Glaswegians notching up their biggest hit with a rocked-up remake of a song originally made famous by an American funk group with a codpiece-wearing frontman. You couldn’t have made it up. But don’t go running away with the notion that Gun’s unlikely version of Cameo’s 1986 Top 5 smash hit Word Up was a novelty launch pad for their own career. By the time the band recorded it as ...

Richie Faulkner said he was prepeared to perform Judas Priest shows without a second guitarist before the idea was abandoned in February 2022.

John Sloman divides his career into its Old and New Testament: the former being from the 1970s up to the late 80s, when the Welshman bestrode the world looking, from the outside at least, every bit like a rock god. He appeared on an album apiece by Lone Star and Uriah Heep, before hooking up with Gary Moore. His lifestyle probably seemed glamorous, but really it wasn’t. Indeed, each of the bands with which he became entwined brought him unhappiness and frustration. And follow...

Richie Faulkner said he was prepeared to perform Judas Priest shows without a second guitarist before the idea was abandoned in February 2022.

Richie Faulkner said he was prepeared to perform Judas Priest shows without a second guitarist before the idea was abandoned in February 2022.