Chris Appleton is best known as the lead vocalist and guitarist with Absolva. However on 2nd February he releases his first solo album entitled “Restless” through Rocksector Records. I spoke to Chris on the Friday NI Rocks Show on 24th January and he told us why he was releasing an acoustic album at this stage. http://www.rockradioni.co.uk/interviews/1776-ni-rocks-interview-with-chris-appleton-absolva.html . The album contains nine tracks including an Absolva track, one from his previous band Fury UK and a cover of Ozzy Osbourne’s “Mama I’m Coming Home”. It is well worth checking out.
There are two NI Rocks Shows each week on Rock Radio NI. These are the playlists for the shows for the month of January. These shows are still available from the On Demand Player. There are over 120 different artists featured on the two shows this month as well as one interview. Playlists for the previous month are also still available - http://www.rockradioni.co.uk/news/rrni-updates/1759-ni-rocks-playlists-for-december-2014.html
There were also 5 album recommendations posted in January - http://www.rockradioni.co.uk/back-stage/music-reviews.html - and two interviews.
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I have to admit that I don’t know much about The Cyon Project and hadn’t heard of them until the album “Tales of Pain” was offered to us by our friends at Stampede Press. I wasn’t sure what to expect, having seen the words “death/thrash” appear in the press release. It turns out that the key phrase was probably the one stating that the band had “evolved its style once again”. When I first skimmed through the album online I thought there were a few tracks with potential and downloaded it. Having listened to it several times now in full I’d have to say there are several tracks I really like and that the remainder are all fairly decent too. The first single to be taken from the album was “Mr Creosote” and this has already featured on the Friday NI Rocks Show. The album “Tales of Pain” was released on 27th January through Pavement Entertainment.
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