- Simon Ramsay
Profile
I'm a music fanatic with over 1000 CDs - all bought as I am morally opposed to illegal downloading and rather old fashioned when it comes to owning a physical copy as I like to have the sleeve notes and the artwork. My favourite genres are all forms of Rock Music (Hard Rock, Sleaze, Glam, Prog, AOR, Metal etc), Blues, Pop, Singer Songwriters, Country and Folk.
My favourite albums recently are Joe Bonamassa's Dust Bowl, Whitesnake's Forevermore, Social Distortion's Hard Times and Nursery Rhymes, Eden's Curse's Trinity and Black Stone Cherry's Between the Devil and the deep blue sea.
Reviews:
Meat Loaf - Hell in a Handbasket Album Review- “It's the most personal record I've made, about how the world's gone to hell in a handbasket.” Meat Loaf is angry with modern societies' callous attitudes, unleashing this sonic di...
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Young Guns - Bones Album Review- After shooting out the traps like a greyhound on heat with their debut album 'All Our Kings Are Dead', High Wycombe's Young Guns return firing on all cylinders. How do you follow...
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Jerzey Street Band - Breaking Radio Silence Album Review- Every music fan plays the 'fantasy band' game, choosing artists from various acts to forge the ultimate supergroup. So imagine The E-street Band and The Heartbreakers ditch Tom an...
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Lincoln Durham - The Shovel vs The Howling Bones Album Review- Judging by his intense stare on the cover photo Lincoln Durham's insides are ablaze with the fires of Hades, fuelling this debut album with the tormented cries of a thousand souls ...
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Cam Penner - Gypsy Summer Album Review- Some albums are so charming a lengthy review seems superfluous when writing “BUY IT NOW” should suffice. Folk troubadour Cam Penner's self produced fourth album is such a wonderfu...
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Rams' Pocket Radio - Dogs Run in Packs EP Review- Does the world need another wounded woebegone songwriter trying to be the next Chris Martin or Thom Yorke? Northern Irish artist Peter McCauley thinks so as he releases his second...
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Lacuna Coil - Trip the Darkness Single Review- Uninitiated souls may spin this single and dismiss Italian Goth metal marauders Lacuna Coil as Evanescence clones cashing in on a scene that also includes Within Temptation and Nig...
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Chris Cornell - Songbok Album Review- Soundgarden/ former Audioslave frontman Chris Cornell has achieved more in the last two decades than most mortals manage in a lifetime. Besides fronting kick ass bands he formed T...
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Ash - The Best of Ash Album Review- It's been 15 years since barely post pubescent Northern Irish trio Tim Wheeler, Mark Hamilton and Rick McMurray shot out of school and topped the charts with '1977', a debut album ...
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Steel Panther - Balls Out Album Review- “It is the future – year 6969”. Welcome to the deliciously debauched second album from hair metal parodists Steel Panther. Wearing make up and enough hairspray to obliterate the...
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Daniel Pearson - Wishing Well Single Review- Aspiring singer songwriters are as ubiquitous as oxygen following the genres commercial resurrection throughout the noughties. Some are genuine talents. Some are shallow imitator...
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The Raid - Heads or Tales Single Review- Winners of supreme sycophant Zane Lowe's Fresh Meat competition Hemel Hemstead rock n' roll fivesome The Raid present 'Heads or Tales', the inaugural single from forthcoming debut ...
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Showbizheroes - Sinner Single Review- Boasting a delightfully demented PR blurb Essex's Showbizheroes promise to 'strip away the bulls**t, deliver more hits than Ike Turner and an album with more little beauties than a...
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All Mankind - Simple Desire Album Review- There are few true musical pioneers as every artist is influenced by others and most attempted innovators, like Captain Beefheart, are so bonkers they remain cult figures loved by ...
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Billy Vincent - Once On The Grand Union EP Review- Before dropping next year’s debut album South London five piece Billy Vincent unleash their second EP of 'dirty folk' following previous effort 'King Island Coyote'. Given the sur...
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Max Raptor - The King Is Dead Single Review- Okay, let's address the elephant in the room; after opening for The Stranglers in 2010 followed by numerous festival appearances this summer Max Raptor have just supported The Da...
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Anna Coogan - The Wasted Ocean Album Review- Seattle songstress Anna Coogan channels her passion for all things aquatic on this blissful slice of contemplative folk. Growing up surrounded by the musical traditions of maritim...
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Tellison - Edith Single Review- When songs like this gyrate with joyous energy on a gloomy autumn evening it's difficult not to pine for festival season. Tellison's sophomore album, ‘Wages of Fear’, was made for...
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Transfer - Take Your Medicine Single Review- Backed by an award winning music video combining 2D artistry and 3D animation 'Take Your Medicine' is the second single from San Diego quartet Transfer's debut album 'Future Selves...
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Blitzen Trapper - American Goldwing Album Review- Sixth studio album from the coolest named band on the planet sees them dial down their experimental alt country to record a more rootsy record. Fusing vintage Americana with heart...
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Tori Sparks - Until Morning/Come Out Of The Dark Album Review- Vampish vixen Tori Sparks follows 2008's concept album 'The Scorpion in the Story' with a veritable masterpiece. Based in Barcelona Tori's heart and soul are rooted in the primiti...
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Andy Burrows - If I Had A Heart Single Review- Who do drummers socialise with in their spare time? Musicians. It's the oldest joke in the book, but thanks to Dave Grohl and now Andy Burrow's follow up to 2010's I Am Arrows al...
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Dangerous! - Teenage Rampage Album Review- Described as 'high octane Australian garage rockers', Dangerous! are the musical equivalent of Marmite with critics either praising their ferocious energy or deriding them as embar...
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Jerzey Street Band - Haigy's Girl Single Review- Mancunian seven-piece Jerzey Street Band eschew the sound of their hometown for a timeless American twang on this double A-sided sinlgle. Like an orgasmic collision between Spring...
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