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Album review: ALVIN LEE & TEN YEARS LATER – Live At Rockpalast
Repertoire [Release date 10.06.13] Alvin Lee & Ten Years Later actually came 5 years after the dissolution of Ten Years After. It was essentially a virtuoso power trio who relentlessly toured The...
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Album review: TEN YEARS AFTER – The Friday Rock Show Sessions Live At Reading...
Talking Elephant [Release date 21.07.14] 6 March 2013 was a sad day for British rock, when it was announced that Alvin Lee had died suddenly. He was 68 but had seemed to be invincible. However, with...
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Album review: TEN YEARS AFTER, THE BLUE AEROPLANES (Access All Areas)
Edsel [Release date 29.06.15] CD/DVD Right up until his untimely passing in March 2013, Alvin Lee always bemoaned that he’d been typecast after Woodstock. And this 1990 TV concert demonstrates that he...
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Album review: MIKE BROOKFIELD – Love Breaks The Fall
Self release [Release date 13.03.15] Irish based, Liverpudlian guitarist Mike Brookfield has enjoyed a rich musical career from playing in the west end orchestra pits to being music coordinator,...
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Gig review: MIKE BROOKFIELD BAND – Boom Boom Club, Sutton, 9 October 2015
Every now and then a buzz imperceptibly builds up around a new band on the circuit and by the time Mike Brookfield Band hits the Boom Boom Club they waste no time in clinically dispatching any weight...
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Album review: JULIAN SAS – Coming Home
Corazong [Release date 18.03.16] ‘Coming Home’ is an aptly titled, solid rock-blues album with southern rock edges and spiritual references. It incorporates Holland’s leading rock-blues guitarist...
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Album review: RICK WAKEMAN & TONY ASHTON – Gas Tank
Gonzo Multimedia [Release date 03.03.17] Where can you hear Rick Wakeman accompanying Rick Parfitt, Alvin Lee and Phil Lynott and – no – it’s not at the Pearly Gates. Back in the early 1980s there...
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Album review: KRISSY MATTHEWS – Live At Freak Valley
Proper [Release date 14.04.17] Krissy Mathews lives or dies by the first take and his road tested band do him proud on an album full of tight interplay, scorching solos, raw aggression and a...
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Album review: MIKE BROOKFIELD – Brookfield
Golden Rule [Release date 22.09.17] Mike Brookfield is back. For those in the know it’s a welcome return to the recording scene by the Irish based Liverpool blues/rocker who cut the impressive ‘Love...
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News: TEN YEARS AFTER – 50th Anniversary Box Set in November 2017
Chrysalis Records release a 50th Anniversary box set in November to coincide with the release of Ten Year’s After’s debut album in 1967. For the first time including albums from both the Deram and...
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Album review: JOE BONAMASSA – British Blues Explosion Live
Provogue [Release date 18.05.18] ‘British Blues Explosion Live’ is the latest conceptual vehicle for the prodigiously talented Joe Bonamassa and his constant search for a meaningful context with which...
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Album review: ROB ORLEMANS & HALF PAST MIDNIGHT – Shake Them Down
Metal Horse Records & Media [Release date 21.04.23] It’s just over 20 years since Rob Orlemans struck out on his own with his Half Past Midnight band after being mentored by the late Curtis Knight...
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