I only recently heard of Mia Klose when she followed the NI Rocks Twitter account. Her Bio referred to her as “the Swedish bombshell of 80s rock”….which was enough to get me curious! Turned out that what she was hoping to recreate musically was the sound of 80s rock and that she was due to play the Hard Rock Hell AOR Festival that weekend. Her image would certainly remind you of some of the female artists of that era – though updated for the new generation. She sent me her album “London” which was released back in August 2012 to check out.

Australian guitar sensation Laura Wilde first caught my attention over a year ago and we had a couple of tracks from the album “Sold My Soul” sent to the station. Since then she’s toured the USA with Ted Nugent and has recently been added to the Dean Guitars artists roster. And of course she is a bit of a favourite of the music magazines and was named in the "Top 25 Hottest Chicks in Hard Rock" by “Revolver Magazine”. Check out the videos of the tracks “Sold My Soul” and “For You” or of her guitar playing on YouTube. A young lady I reckon we’ll be hearing a lot more from!