PlanetMosh Keeping it Metal

Sticky Boys. Now where do I start? I have never heard of this Parisian threesome before I listened to their latest and second album ‘Make Art‘. The French trio certainly do show their love and affection for all things Rock and Roll here, but it took several listens of the …

Tonight was the second night of Within Temptation’s Hydra Theatre tour which started a few nights earlier in Almere.  As with previous theatre tours, the only dates are in the Netherlands – partly due to the fact the tours require a proper theatre rather than standard music venue. Why? Well …

Planetmosh have a pair of tickets, a cd plus a T-shirt to give away in a very easy to enter competition. The goodies are for the Manchester date, the 19th March. The winner will get two tickets to the gig, the cd and tee will be given to the winner …

Reading & Leeds Festivals are thrilled to announce The Libertines as the final of this year’s Main Stage headliners!  The indie-rockers will bring the good ship Albion to the Festivals this summer, cementing a Reading & Leeds legacy which dates back to 2002. Rising up through the Festivals’ billing, the legendary troubadours Peter Doherty, Carl …

Sky Valley Mistress, have just been confirmed as the only support for The Cadillac Three on their March UK tour,  starting this week. “Sky Valley Mistress mean business as they come swaggering out of Blackburn to set hips shaking and pulses racing with a blend of dirty blues and raw rock and …

FM, one of the best rock bands to come out of the UK in the 1980’s are back with a brand new album and this lucky chap has been listening to it almost continually for the last 2 weeks… I love my job! On rock solid British foundations is built …

The old saying of good things come to those who wait can certainly be applied to Mansfield based Sparta and their fans as it has taken almost 35 years for their debut album Welcome To Hell to see the light of day. Formed in 1979 by guitarist Tony Foster, they …

  Bass guitarist with Status Quo, John ‘Rhino’ Edwards takes time out to chat with Planetmosh about the forthcoming release of his second album “Rhino’s Revenge 2”. It’s taken 15 years for John to get around to making this album, and will be on sale at gigs during the his …

Exactly a year ago, mid-Ulster hard rockers Trucker Diablo shocked fans by announcing that they were putting the brakes on and going on an indefinite hiatus.  Guitarist Simon Haddock had already announced his intention to quit the band, due to family commitments:  a show at a small social club on …

Bad Guys Release Surprise Music Video For ‘Prostitutes (Are Making Love In My Garden)’ London’s hard rockers Bad Guys have unleashed the video for ‘Prostitutes (Are Making Love In My Garden)’ on an unsuspecting public. Bad Guys have teamed up with Rock-A-Rolla to premiere their epic music video for the …

Ian Anderson Celebrates Jethro Tull With a New Show – UK Dates Announced Progressive Rock pioneer Ian Anderson has announced 6 dates of a 2015 UK tour, titled ‘Jethro Tull – The Rock Opera’. The shows will take place in September, with tickets on general sale from 9th March. ‘Jethro …

John Lodge of The Moody Blues to release new solo album entitled ‘10,000 Light Years Ago’ on May 5th John Lodge retunites with Moody Blues Alumni Ray Thomas and Mike Pinder on the recording of ‘Simply Magic’ The single ‘10,000 Light Years Ago” released digitally April 14th “Everything in the …

Steve Hackett Reveals New Bass/12 String Player Roine Stolt Prog visionary Steve Hackett has announced the addition of multi-talented guitarist Roine Stolt to his tour line-up. Stolt, known as leading light of the Flower Kings and for his association with Transatlantic, will play bass and twelve string, occasionally also joining …

Karen Sneddon from Planetmosh interviews Dante from Gun.  Q. It’s been a busy few months for Gun. You did a three night residency at King Tuts in November. It’s not the biggest venue but it’s one of the most iconic. How did it feel to fill it three nights in a row? …

The line up for the twentieth edition of Roadburn Festival is now complete, and four-day tickets for the event – which takes place April 9-12 in Tilburg, The Netherlands – have now sold out. Three-day tickets, and individual day tickets for Thursday, Friday and Saturday remain; to view ticketing options, click here. The legendary …

The 2014 comeback album ‘The Year The Sun Died’ from the legendary Seattle band SANCTUARY took the metal world by storm. The four original band members Warrel Dane (vocals, ex-Nevermore), Lenny Rutledge (guitars), Jim Sheppard (bass, ex-Nevermore) and Dave Budbill (drums) proved to be still on top of the game …

Arriving shortly before the doors open on this cold Friday night, there were already a handful of folks waiting outside in the patio area beside the Nottingham Rescue Rooms main entrance. As the door time came and went, accompanied by the rumblings of a sound-check from deep within the venue, …

Few bands these days can claim to have been around since the birth of a musical genre, let alone say that they were part of a scene that would revolutionise the stale and tired UK blues-rock movement, creating a sound that would dominate the music world in one way or …

The cast list reads like a veritable rock and metal who’s who. Based on the pedigree present, “Rise Of The Animal”, the latest long playing offering from Wolfpakk, promises great things. Happily, I can report, it delivers on those promises… in spades. From the outset they nail their colours firmly …

Red Enemy‘s lead singer and all round nice guy, Kevin Letford recently caught up with PlanetMosh for a quick grilling after what was a massive 2014 for the band. Here’s what he had to say: Can you please give our readers the beginners guide to Red Enemy? We’re a 5 piece …