We don’t post album “reviews” but we do play a lot of new releases on the Friday NI Rocks Show each week. These are some of the albums released this month that we’ve featured tracks from over the past few months; or are likely to feature over the next few weeks. This month we focus on releases from Shakra, Ricky Warwick, Stormbringer, Airbourne, Tygers of Pan Tang, Paul Laine, Storm Force, Stryper and Europe.
We don’t post album “reviews” but we do play a lot of new releases on the Friday NI Rocks Show each week. These are some of the albums released this month that we’ve featured tracks from over the past few months; or are likely to feature over the next few weeks. This month we focus on releases from the Kris Barras Band, Steelover, Kickin’ Valentina and Kamelot.
There are two NI Rocks Shows uploaded each week on Rock Radio NI. These are the playlists for those Shows for the month of August 2026 – all of which are still available from the On Demand Player. There are tracks by around 100 different artists on the Shows this month.
Playlists for July 2026 were published previously and those Shows are also still available via the On Demand Player - https://www.rockradioni.co.uk/news/rrni-updates/3963-ni-rocks-playlists-for-july-2026
There are also monthly Spotify playlists for the Friday NI Rocks Show which feature most of the tracks from each Show that month.
This month there were three new interviews - Taime from Faster Pussycat, Tony West from Blacklist Union and Sean Manning from The Exiles. There were also special promo features with Kris Barras, Ricky Warwick and Everlast.
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/ .
The featured album releases this month were from the Kris Barras Band, Steelover, Kickin’ Valentina and Kamelot.
Status Quo guitarist Richie Malone is our guest on the Friday NI Rocks Show on 11th September. Richie joined the band in 2016 and became a permanent member after the death of Rick Parfitt that year. His own band, The Richie Malone Band, plays the Empire Music Hall in Belfast on 25th September.
We chatted via Zoom about his time with Status Quo, the Richie Malone Band, the upcoming show, future plans and more.
That interview can be heard on the Friday NI Rocks Show on 11th September. The Show is available from the On Demand Player -
https://www.rockradioni.co.uk/hosts/ni-rocks-friday-rock-show
and MixCloud – https://www.mixcloud.com/NIRocks/richie-malone-interview-on-the-friday-ni-rocks-show-11th-sept-2026/
Read more: NII ROCKS Interview with RICHIE MALONE (Status Quo / Richie Malone Band)