David Farrell

General Manager and 'THE' competition guy at planetmosh.com. Manager of The Goddanm Electric www.thegde.co.uk, Tour manager for Serpentine, and ex-general Dogsbody at Hammerfest.co.uk. Media partner to numerous bands. Also takes photos, writes reviews and likes classic rock, with a touch of thrash to get the blood flowing.

Raging Speedhorn Enter Studio With Russ Russell

Corby Bruisers Begin Recording First Album In Nine Years Following on from a hectic two years of touring and festival appearances, Sludge overlords Raging Speedhorn are set to enter the studio with acclaimed producer Russ Russell (Napalm Death, Dimmu Borgir, The Wildhearts) on January 18th in Kettering to begin work …

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Demons Of Old Metal Premiere New Single

British metallers Demons Of Old Metal recently streamed their latest single “The Quiet Ones” via Puregrainaudio! Taken from their upcoming new album “Dominion”, which is due for release on December 7th, fans of the band can check out their latest offering ahead of time!   Check out “The Quiet Ones” …

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Swiss Metallers Herod Debut New Video On Noisey!

Swiss noise mongers Herod have premiered their latest video, Northern Lights, through Noisey on October 13th ahead of their upcoming slot as part of the stunning Deathcrusher tour; opening for legendary death metallers Carcass, grindcore overlords Napalm Death, Floridian extremists Obituary and Canadian thrash gods Voivod!   The video can …

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Reading & Leeds Festival 2016 – Headliner News

Reading & Leeds Festivals are delighted to announce Foals and Disclosure as co- headliners for this year’s festival taking place across Bank Holiday Weekend 26-28 August 2016. In a Reading & Leeds first, two bastions of modern British music will be making the step up to the largest festival stages of their careers, bringing together two defining acts …

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FM, Clitheroe Grand Theatre 26 January 2016

Former Whitesnake guitarist Bernie Marsden had tonight’s support slot, he will also be opening up for FM in York, Stockton-on-Tees and Oxford. Other bands on the tour so far have included Romeo’s Daughter and The King Lot, with No Hot Ashes chosen for Sheffield. This was a simple acoustic set …

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Magnum ‘Sacred Blood, Divine Lies’ cd

Magnum to me are the quintessential British rock band, never a band to court controversy nor chase fame by wild antic’s on or off stage, they remain the gentlemen of rock. In fact they were one of the very first bands I ever saw ( at Wigan’s Pier Nightclub back …

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RECKLESS LOVE announce the release of new album INVADER

Finland’s ‘merry metallers’ Reckless Love will be releasing their fourth studio album, ‘InVader’, on March 4th 2016 via Spinefarm Records – the follow-up to the colourful quartet’s previous album, ‘Spirit’ (2013). Produced by Ilkka Wirtanen, ‘InVader’ features all new, original material, and sees the musicians exploring fresh sounds as well …

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Zoax announce special one off London show

UK’s finest ZOAX are putting the final touches to their debut album. Deadpress.com featured them in the “50 Bands To Look Out For In 2016” list and wrote: “Equipped with a charismatic and well-dressed frontman in Adam Carroll, combined with music that can be both a strong contender on the mainstream …

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The Skull plan extensive European tour and limited edition release

Chicago’s doom metal finest, THE SKULL, are set to embark on an extensive European tour next month. The band features former TROUBLE members vocalist Eric Wagner and bassist Ron Holzner, alongside SACRED DAWN guitarist Lothar Keller, former PENTAGRAM drummer Sean Saley, and the recently recruited WITCH MOUNTAIN’s guitarist Rob Wrong. After kicking off their touring responsibilities later this month by playing with …

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The Dollyrots Announce StageIt Release Show

This coming Friday (29th of January 2016) California’s pop punk firecrackers The Dollyrots will be celebrating the release of their brand new EP, Mama’s Gonna Knock You Out. The Dollyrots – aka Kelly and Luis, have decided to celebrate the EP’s release with an online live streamed concert with the …

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Cheap Trick announce new album ‘Bang Zoom Crazy… Hello’

BRAND NEW ALBUM BANG ZOOM CRAZY… HELLO RELEASED APRIL 1st‘NO DIRECTION HOME’ NEW SINGLE OUT NOW2016 ROCK ‘N’ ROLL HALL OF FAME ‘ROCK HALL THREE FOR ALL’ U.S. TOUR HEART/JOAN JETT/CHEAP TRICK Legendary power-pop collective Cheap Trick have released ‘No Direction Home’, the first single to be taken from the band’s upcoming album …

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