There are two NI Rocks Shows uploaded each week on Rock Radio NI. These are the playlists for those Shows for the month of October 2024 – all of which are still available from the On Demand Player. There were tracks by around 170 different artists on the Shows this month.
The playlists for September were published previously and those Shows are also still available via the On Demand Player - https://www.rockradioni.co.uk/reviews/new-releases-review/3912-ni-rocks-recommends-album-releases-in-sept-2024
There was a new interview with David Ellefson on the Friday NI Rocks Show this month, as well as a special promo feature with Myles Kennedy.
All of our previous interviews can be found here - http://www.rockradioni.co.uk/interviews.html and on the NI Rocks MixCloud page as well - https://www.mixcloud.com/NIRocks/ .
There are also monthly Spotify playlists for the Friday NI Rocks Show which feature most of the tracks from each Show that month.
A regular feature highlighting some of the best album releases each month. I don’t do album “reviews” – this is simply a personal recommendation to check out an album - just a few words about the albums that appeal to me and about the artists releasing them. These will also be albums from which I’ll have been playing tracks on the Friday NI Rocks Shows recently. This month it includes albums from D-A-D, The New Roses, House of Lords, Ad Infinitum, Cleanbreak, Myles Kennedy, Black Oak County, Cassandra’s Crossing, Trucker Diablo and Kings of Mercia.
Belfast, get ready for three days of soaring melodies, iconic voices, and timeless rock anthems as BEL-AOR ROCKS debuts at the legendary Mandela Hall from May 23rd to May 25th, 2025. Tickets on sale from 8am on Friday, 18th October at 8am via this link - www.BelAOR.com
SD Entertainment are bringing together some of the finest names in AOR, this festival promises to deliver an unforgettable weekend for rock fans. Check out the first wave of bands for the festival below. Many more acts still to be announced!
Read more: ‘BEL-AOR ROCKS’ – THE ULTIMATE AOR EXPERIENCE ARRIVES IN BELFAST THIS COMING MAY!
In October 2019, David Ellefson was a guest on the Friday NI Rocks Show and we chatted about his solo projects, Metal Allegiance, Megadeth and much more. Five years later, he has departed from Megadeth and has been involved in numerous other projects. Ahead of the arrival of his band Kings of Thrash for a tour that includes dates in Dublin and Belfast, we arranged to have another chat on 8th October 2024 (coincidentally, five years to the day since our previous chat!)
You can hear that conversation on the Friday NI Rocks Show for 11th October, along with seven tracks that he plays on. We chat about Kings of Thrash, Dieth, The Lucid, Ellefson-Soto, working with KK Downing and more.
https://www.rockradioni.co.uk/hosts/ni-rocks-friday-rock-show