Europe returned to Belfast this week to play their first gig there in over 25 years. The current tour with co-headliners Black Star Riders kicked off in Dublin before hitting Belfast the following night on 3rd March. Both bands have just released new albums, with Black Star Riders promoting their second album “The Killer Instinct” whilst Europe opened their performance with two tracks from “War of Kings”.
Read more: NI ROCKS Videos of EUROPE & BLACK STAR RIDERS in The Ulster Hall
Halestorm played their first ever gigs in Dublin and Belfast recently as part of the tour supporting their new album “Into The Wild Life” which is released in the UK on 13th April (EU 10th and N America 14th April). I recorded five tracks when Halestorm played the Limelight in Belfast on 28th February.
Read more: NI ROCKS Videos of HALESTORM in The Limelight, Belfast
Guitarist George Lynch seems to be one of those artists that is always working on something, so I was grateful to get a bit of his time recently to talk to him about some of his recent releases, future plans and the Mr Scary guitars amongst other things. We spoke on 1st March and the interview was broadcast on the Friday NI Rocks Show on 6th March. It is now available to listen to on the NI Rocks MixCloud site -https://www.mixcloud.com/NIRocks/interview-with-george-lynch-on-the-friday-ni-rocks-show-6th-march-2015/
The former Dokken guitarist talks about his collaboration with Michael Sweet (Sweet & Lynch), the Shadowtrain project, KXM, T&N and Lynch Mob as well as his production of custom guitars.
There are two NI Rocks Shows each week on Rock Radio NI. These are the playlists for the shows for the month of February. These shows are still available from the On Demand Player. There are over 100 different artists featured on the two shows this month as well as two interviews.
Playlists for the previous month are also still available -http://www.rockradioni.co.uk/news/rrni-updates/1785-ni-rocks-playlists-for-january-2015.html