LET'S face it, there is one band that were the true founding fathers of heavy metal - Black Sabbath. From the first diminished fifth chord of the self-titled album and the self-titled song itself music would never be the same.
And now - with new album, '13', scheduled for release in June Sabbath have announced a European tour
And now - with new album, '13', scheduled for release in June Sabbath have announced a European tour
Jeff Scott Soto kicked off the “Damage Control” European tour in Belfast on Thursday 4th April. Jeff is a prolific recording artist and over the past 30 years has been lead singer for many bands including Talisman, Journey and W.E.T. “Damage Control” is Jeff’s fifth solo studio album and was released by Frontiers Records in 2012. The second W.E.T. album “Rise Up” has just been released in February 2013. Jeff took about 15 minutes to talk to me just before heading on stage at the Limelight.
FIRST some facts - when the Sex Pistols were scandalising the British press an overweight American and his composer partner were sitting atop the album charts with an overwrought platter filled with psalms to smalltown Americana.
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SMALL towns - much the staple of American fiction; so much so that the introverted, eccentric nature of small towns was immortalised in the surrealistic drama Twin Peaks. And it is from a small town in Norway that a band named after a Twin Peaks character are preparing to descend on the UK and Ireland - including a stop in Belfast.
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