Photographer: Peter Coates – www.facebook.com/InsideEdgePhotography
Old Dominion – olddominionband.com
CMC Rocks – QLD 2018 in Willowbank, Ipswich, Queensland, Australia
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Continue reading Photo Gallery : Old Dominion at CMC Rocks – Ipswich, Queensland – 17 March 2018
Photographer: Peter Coates – www.facebook.com/InsideEdgePhotography
Davisson Brothers Band – davissonbrothersband.com/
CMC Rocks – QLD 2018 in Willowbank, Ipswich, Queensland, Australia
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Davisson Brothers Band – davissonbrothersband.com/
CMC Rocks – QLD 2018 in Willowbank, Ipswich, Queensland, Australia
www.cmcrocks.com/
www.facebook.com/cmcrocks
Photographer: Peter Coates – www.facebook.com/InsideEdgePhotography
LUKE BRYAN at Qudos Bank Arena, Sydney on 16 March 2018
Continue reading Photo Gallery : LUKE BRYAN at Qudos Bank Arena, Sydney on 16 March 2018
Photographer: Peter Coates – www.facebook.com/InsideEdgePhotography/
Photographer: Peter Coates
Continue reading Photo Gallery : Thomas Wynn & The Believers at Cambridge Junction, UK – 21 February 2018
Photographer : Peter Coates
Photographer: Peter Coates
Continue reading Photo Gallery : FUEL at The Studio, Auckland with Merrin + Coridian – 13 December 2017
Review by Peter Coates
There seem to be more and more bands out there defying genres and refusing to be pigeon-holed as any one class of rock…..classic, indie, progressive or hardcore….there is a bit of something for all in the latest release from Finnish trio Von Hertzen Brothers, with their 6th album War Is Over released on the Mascot Label Group at the start of November.
Continue reading Album Review : Von Hertzen Brothers – War Is Over
Review by Peter Coates
This is the second album release for the blues rock collective that is Supersonic Blues Machine – three great and well-respected musicians at the core of the band in Fabrizio Grossi (Bass), Kenny Aronoff (Drums) and Lance Lopez (Vocals / Guitar), and a bunch of “friends” guesting on the album and at the live shows the band gets to play.
Continue reading Album Review : Supersonic Blues Machine – Californisoul
Photographer: Peter Coates
Photographer: Peter Coates
Continue reading Photo Gallery : Dream Theater “Images, Words & Beyond Tour” at Palais Theatre, Melbourne – 20 September 2017
Review by Pete Coates
Fresh on the heels of Black Stone Cherry’s recent trips to Australia, first as support to Steel Panther, and then on their first headlining tour of some smaller club venues, the band took some time out to spend two days recording a set of their favourite blues tracks, from the artists who influenced them as they grew up, and whose tracks they jammed to in the various garages they used to rehearse in. Now these are the songs they listen to on the tour bus sharing a bourbon or two!
Continue reading EP Review : BLACK STONE CHERRY – Black to Blues
Review by Peter Coates
One of the old guard of the US Blues battalion, equally respected by the likes of John Lee Hooker, Canned Heat and John Mayall with whom he earned his stripes in the 1970s and 1980s, and the young upstarts of the industry, such as Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Joe Bonamassa and Eric Gales, Walter Trout has basically gathered together a who’s who of the modern blues family to perform with him and his band in a joyous project that really delivers a fantastic collection of original tracks written by Trout specifically for the guitarist joining him for the track (with a little help from his wife in channelling the different blues styles to the right guest!).
Continue reading Album Review : Walter Trout – We’re All In This Together
Review by Peter Coates
Another Nashville trio who spends more time on the road than in the studio, performing live, writing on the bus and in dressing rooms, with 215 shows in 2016 supporting their debut album, Let Love Show The Way, SIMO are way more than just a vehicle for the ridiculously talented singer / guitarist JD Simo, whose serious blues chops were showcased in the loud and raucous songs on the first album.
Continue reading Album Review : Simo – ‘Rise & Shine’
Review by Peter Coates
Brisbane band The Dustflowers belong somewhere south of the Mason-Dixon line in the southern USA, with their first release ‘Get There’ a collection of 5 songs that are gritty hip-swinging blues-rockers with a country twist, or country-rock with some added soul! You can take your pick – whatever style you like, the songs are all class! Recorded on the Gold Coast at Blind Boy Studios, and produced by Brad Hosking, a well-known session player and producer, this EP is a great intro to an Aussie band with stacks of international appeal.
Continue reading Album Review : THE DUSTFLOWERS – GET THERE
Photographer: Peter Coates
Photographer: Peter Coates
Continue reading Photo Gallery : Steve Hackett at The Tivoli, Brisbane – 02 August 2017
Review and photo by Peter Coates
The original band’s front man Patrick Monahan is Train now, offering up a greatest hits set, with a terrific sound and production, supported by a band of very competent session musicians and two female backing vocalists bulking up the harmonies.
Continue reading Live Review + Photos : TRAIN at The Tivoli, Brisbane – 31 July 2017 (support J.R. Reyne)
Another high quality and interesting release from Provogue / Mascot Label Group which is becoming something of a powerhouse for both established and up and coming blues artists of all persuasions. Clyde Vernon “Sonny” Landreth is a renowned slide guitarist, and “the King of Slydeco”, hailing from the deep south of the USA in Mississippi who has been based in Lafayette for many years . His background includes being part of both John Hiatt’s band and John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers, as well as featuring on both live and studio recordings with the likes of Marshall Crenshaw, Eric Clapton, Jimmy Buffett, Little Feat and Mark Knopfler.
Continue reading Album Review : Sonny Landreth – Recorded Live In Lafayette
