_{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 2023 – all of which are still available from the On Demand Player. There are tracks by around 150 different artists on the Shows this month. There are also monthly Spotify playlists for the Friday NI Rocks Show which feature most of the tracks from each Show that month.}

_{Playlists for September were published previously and those Shows are also still available via the On Demand Player – https://www.rockradioni.co.uk/news/rrni-updates/3885-ni-rocks-playlists-for-september-2023}

_{This month there were a new interview with Keith Atack on the Friday NI Rocks Show. The new album from Atack is released in November.} 

_{All 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 “NI Rocks Recommends” feature on the Rock Radio NI website covered new releases from Screaming Eagles, Iron Savior, Edge of Forever, King’s Crown, Kardang, Zhiva, Doro and Overland.}

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_{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 Screaming Eagles, Iron Savior, Edge of Forever, King’s Crown, Kardang, Zhiva, Doro and Overland.}

_{Guitarist Keith Atack rose in fame in the 70’s with the band Child alongside his twin brother Tim. Both later fronted two more bands together in the early 80’s. Since then Keith has mainly focused on being a touring artist, performing with artists such as Bonnie Tyler and David Cassidy, as well as playing in tribute acts such as Illegal Eagles and The Carpenter’s Story and working on music for TV and movies. Now, however he has returned to his rock n roll roots with a new band called Atack and a new album called “Nine Lives” that is released through Escape Music on 24^th November.}

_{I had the opportunity to chat to Keith, via telephone, for about thirty minutes on 24^th October. We talked about the new band, the new album and his career to date. You can hear that conversation on the Friday NI Rocks Show on 27^th October. Now available to play on our MixCloud page -}

 https://www.mixcloud.com/NIRocks/keith-atack-interview-on-the-friday-ni-rocks-show-27th-oct-2023/