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They just love the UK, don’t they Airbourne? Two UK festivals in Download and Hard Rock Hell this year and now a full blown tour as well to round things off. They’re also a band that draw in a wide range of ages; from the older rockers in their leather jackets …

It’s that time of year when every website / magazine / pundit-of-various-degrees-of-credibility produces their dreaded “end of year list”:  you know the sort of thing – the ten best albums / gigs / blow jobs /whatever.  And, yes, we at PM are just as guilty as everyone else… Of course, …

Jesse Damon is a musician from lovely southern California, USA. He first began recording with his band, Silent Rage. Drawing influence from heavyweights such as Led Zeppelin, Foreigner, and Y & T, he has honed his songwriting craft with band-based as well as solo album material. He recently released an …

‘Twas a the week before Christmas and all through the house not a creature was stirring… but ’round the corner in the Limelight all manner of mayhem was taking place, as the holiday season turned into a right ol’ Thrashmess… With the ambient, grungy pop of Goodbye Nola entertaining but …

“It is almost  a tradition, that we finish our European tour in Glasgow” – said Eugene Hütz at the end of the vivid Gogol Bordello show at O2 Academy in Glasgow. The band has been touring all over Mainland Europe with their new album “Pura Vida Conspiracy”  and the tour …

A  cold wet Saturday finds me standing outside the O2 Academy in Glasgow for the highly anticipated Fields of the Nephilim / Mission gig. I heard about this gig last year in Birmingham when Wayne Hussey announced it on stage, could it be true my two favourite Goth bands on …

Friday, a dark December evening at The Cathouse in Glasgow and I’m surrounded by wandering metalheads, who came here to returning legends of the UK thrash scene, Xentrix. I must admit, I haven’t seen them or even the supporting act before live, so it was both fun and educational evening …

Slightly more than a year ago, the curtain came down on the long and storied career of the mighty Thin Lizzy, when the band played their penultimate gig on Irish soil as they bade farewell to touring and prepared to launch a new identity through which to progress the Lizzy …

Judging by the amount of people crammed into The Box on this Saturday night, it should be renamed The Sweat Box! It just goes to show the popularity of veteran UK  AOR band FM. Maybe they do not get 4 page spreads in certain magazines anymore  but this is the …

I recently had a chat with former Little Angels frontman Toby Jepson, prior to him performing in Glasgow during his solo acoustic UK tour. Toby discusses the tour, his latest mini-album “Raising My Own Hell”, producing and all things music! http://planetmosh.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/TobyJepsonGlasgow.mp3 Please visit Toby Jepson at: www.tobyjepson.com/site/ www.facebook.com/tobyjepsonofficial twitter.com/TobyJepson

Bournemouth rock revivalists Western Sand have just finished a lengthy UK tour opening for Black Star Riders – a bill which also featured the all-star ensemble known as The Dead Daisies. As the tour concluded in Belfast, PlanetMosh grabbed a chat with vocalist Tyler Hains and drummer Nathan J Kay …

PlanetMosh recently caught up with  Wayne Hussey, Simon Hinkler, Craig Adams and Mike Kelly  of The Mission in Glasgow at the start of their UK leg of their The Brightest Light tour. We talked about the current tour, X Factor type shows, remastered albums and much more. So click on …

After interviewing bassist Marco Mendoza for Planetmosh, I made my way round to the venue full of entrepidation of Thursday nights event to come! Joining the gathering and growing crowd we watched the two supporting bands ( Western Sand and The Dead Daisies ) doing an amazing job of warming …

Massive Wagons opened up Hard Rock Hell this year, playing the first set on stage 2 on Thursday evening, which was followed the next day by an acoustic set.  As this was the second year in a row that had played this festival, I was interested to hear how they …

For any promoter to stage the amount of quality gigs which James Loveday puts on – this was his 45th straight ‘RocKD’ event of the year, not counting the number of visiting acts he has brought our way over the past 13 years – is no mean feat.  It’s not …

Meeting Marco Mendoza for the first time, myself and photographer Sean Larkin were invited to talk with him ( pre Rock City gig ) aboard the Black Star Riders tour bus.  

Screaming Eagles formed just over a year ago and it’s been quite some year; from being this year’s winners at Highway To Hell in Glasgow to opening up Stage One on Friday 29th at Hard Rock Hell.  If you saw their set on the Friday you would not for one minute …

Having only arrived at Hard Rock Hell about an hour previously, Sister were thrown into music question time in the press room, and I took the opportunity to have chat with Rikki (bass) and Tim (guitar) about how 2013 has been for them. Fresh of their tour with Wednesday 13, …

Forty-five years.  Forty-five fucking years.  Not only is that the length of time since Black Sabbath first unleashed their pioneering brand of heavy metal on a deeply unsuspecting world, and changed its musical landscape forever, but it also how long it has taken the genre’s founding fathers to appear on …

Beginning Hard Rock Hell’s final day for 2013 on the Jagermeister Stage are The Jokers (8), who like Wildside Riot take the bull by both horns and give it a right good kicking, songs Radio and the title track from latest album Rock and Roll is Alive impressing the punters who are once again emerging …