Author: Andy Thorley

REVIEW: SONS OF LIBERTY- THE DETAIL IS IN THE DEVIL (2024)

When I saw Sons Of Liberty last Autumn, I wrote this: “It’s not that the Bristol mob are doing anything earth-shattering new; in fact,...

REVIEW: WALTER TROUT – BROKEN (2024)

I'm often asked why I never write reviews about records I don't like. The answer is in these words: "Play your harmonica son", which Walter...

JOANNE SHAW TAYLOR, CONOR SELBY @ WULFRUN HALL, WOLVERHAMPTON 23/02/24

Connor Selby, loves Blues. That much is evident even before he plays the song “Love Letter To The Blues”. And even here, playing acoustically...

COLLATERAL, ZAC AND THE NEW MEN @ KK’S STEEL MILL, WOLVERHAMPTON 22/02/2024

I had already been primed. “I believe you’re seeing Zac And The New Men next week”, a mate of mine had said at a...

REVIEW: NOAH AND THE LONERS – A DESOLATE WARNING (2024)

Young punk bands should have anger. They should – in the words of Skid Row back in 1989 - be the youth gone wild. Noah...

REVIEW: AMIGO THE DEVIL- YOURS UNTIL THE WAR IS OVER (2024)

“His hands were both tied, he smiled at his daughter.” Let’s go. That’s the first line on “Hanging By The Roots” the first track on...

REVIEW: SMALLTOWN TIGERS – CRUSH ON YOU (2024)

I don’t like labels being given to music particularly, I mean I had a record sent to me the other day claiming to be...

DEAD BOYS, DESPERATE MEASURES, THEE ACID TONGUE @ ASYLUM, BIRMINGHAM 18/02/2024

“The Spaghetti Incident”. I was always going to mention it, so we might as well get it over with at the start. The album,...

REVIEW: CRANEIUM – POINT OF NO RETURN (2024)

It’s been eight years since Craneium released their debut record. Back then, the Finns were releasing records on the Ripple Music label, and you...

BAD TOUCH, THE KARMA EFFECT, ELECTRIC BLACK @ KK’S STEEL MILL, WOLVERHAMPTON 16/02/2024

On their Facebook biography, it simply says: “Electric Black are a High-Voltage, Riff Driven, Hard Rock Band from Hitchin, England”. And that suits their...

REVIEW: PET NEEDS – INTERMITTENT FAST LIVING (2024)

Anxiety, let it be said, is a bastard. I’ll give you an example. I work with just about the nicest people in the world....

REVIEW: THE SWAGGERLIES – UNDOING (2024)

Back in 2021 I reviewed the debut album from The Swaggerlies. It was glorious. They’d forged on after the tragedy of the death of...

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