New York’s John Spencer and Melbourne’s The Gnomes rock Aussie Goldfields. It was a golden night when the Young Turks of garage rock – still in their teens or barely out of them – opened for a legendary garage rock master-blaster, in the heart of Australia’s goldfields. Both bands unleashed electrifying sets in mainland Australia’s…

Wilde’s smooth new jazz emerges from punk and rock. If ever there was an unsung hero in this fickle music business of ours, it’s surely the rock guitarist, songwriting and production prodigy who is Carlos Wilde.                         I’ve been promoting Carlos’s music for some…

Sabbath’s Legendary Lost Tapes to be released on Big Bear Records on July 25, 2025. R.I.P. Ozzy. Two weeks after his final performance with the original Black Sabbath at Villa Park, Birmingham, just 13 days after this post, Sabbath’s legendary frontman, John Michael ‘Ozzy’ Osbourne, sadly passed away, aged 76, on Tuesday morning, July 22,…

How Jim Simpson rocked Birmingham (and the world). For some reason, songs about Birmingham, Alabama, resonate more than those from the original Birmingham, England’s second city. Brum UK has just one song I can think of: ‘Birmingham Blues’, a rocking track by the city’s Electric Light Orchestra (ELO). Yet, Birmingham, England, has the richer musical…

 Birmingham v London Here are the facts, without prejudice. In 1966, a love of black American blues prompted the groundbreaking white British band, Cream, to change the course of rock music. Made up of two London musicians, guitarist Eric Clapton and drummer Ginger Baker, with Scotland’s Jack Bruce on bass, Cream were the hard-rock trio…