Round about 2006, my friend Dave started raving about a power pop band he’d heard called The Click Five. He recommended checking out their debut disc ‘Greetings From Imrie House’, since they reminded him of a largely ignored power pop band from the mid-90s called The Loveless. By a strange coincidence, The Click Five were [...]
Often seen to be a figure who ushered in punk feminism, Poly Styrene (aka Marianne Joan Elliott-Said) has lost her battle with cancer. She revealed she had been diagnosed and had been receiving treatment for her illness in February 2011. Styrene will be best remembered for her work with X-Ray Spex, a band whose debut [...]
Formed in 2009, the Dublin quintet The Fallen Drakes may not break any new musical ground with ‘Death Of An Actress’, but thanks to an easily accessibly sound combined with top notch production from U2 and Kasabian producer Ger McDonnell, their EP is still a strong debut. Musically, it finds a space at the soft [...]
There’s a special giveaway at REAL GONE to celebrate this Easter weekend. To say thank you to all our regular supporters over the past year or so, we’re offering a few unreleased power pop gems. FREE legal mps from Mark Bacino, Mick Terry and Edward O’Connell, never before available anywhere!!! First up is a demo [...]
For those unfamiliar, Shadowman presents the union of four musicians already very well known on the UK rock circuit. The band combines the talents of FM vocalist Steve Overland and Heartland guitarist Steve Morris with the Thunder rhythm section – Chris Childs and Gary ‘Harry’ James on bass and drums respectively. Their fourth album, ‘Watching [...]
For some people, Carmine Appice will be most famous through his work with Vanilla Fudge, followed by a shortlived Blind Faith-eque collaboration with Jeff Beck (a collaboration which, aside from not being especially good, also featured Vanilla Fudge’s bassist Tim Bogert). For others – and mostly those whose musical tastes favour a more metallic approach [...]
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart’s self-titled debut was an album I discovered by accident and one which took me by surprise. The more time I spent with it, the better it got with its summery alt-rock sounds casting me back to the mid 90s. It’s understandable, therefore, that I would approach their sophomore [...]
Why is it that every time a female artist with alternative leanings begins a career, they’re never accepted as just being themselves? It seems the knee-jerk reaction is to liken the artist in question to either PJ Harvey or Kate Bush. Foe (aka Hannah Clark) has been likened to both – but in reality, has [...]
Demon’s Eye, as their name suggests, are a bunch of chaps who are more than a bit fond of the classic era of Deep Purple. In fact, for over a decade, they plied their trade as a Deep Purple tribute act in Germany – eventually being given the chance to work alongside actual Deep Purple [...]
The second album by Coldspell ticks all the right boxes for a great sounding melodic rock release almost instantly. The Swedish five-piece don’t offer anything that could be described as cutting-edge, but certainly have a firm grasp of hard rock in the Heaven’s Edge/early Dokken vein. Opening with a chunky riff, ‘Run For Your Life’ [...]
