Singer Robert Hart released his latest solo album, “Circus Life”, through Escape Music on 26th January. Robert was the lead singer for Bad Company from 1994 to 1998 and has gone on to front The Jones Gang, Mannfred Mann’s Earth Band and several other bands. I had the opportunity to chat with Robert on 19th February and we talked about the new solo album, Bad Company, The Jones Gang, Mannfred Mann and much more. You can listen to that interview on the Friday NI Rocks Show on 23rd February along with tracks from “Circus Life”, the two Bad Company albums he sang on and The Jones Gang album “Any Day Now” - https://www.rockradioni.co.uk/hosts/ni-rocks-friday-rock-show
The Show is also available on our MixCloud page -
https://www.mixcloud.com/NIRocks/robert-hart-interview-on-the-friday-ni-rocks-show-23rd-feb-2024/
The album “Circus Life” also features Steve Overland, Steve Morris, Robert Säll, Chris Childs, Harry James, Keith Atack and Steve Mann. It can be purchased from Escape Music - https://www.the-music-shop.net/
There are two NI Rocks Shows uploaded each week on Rock Radio NI. These are the playlists for those Shows for the month of January 2024 – all of which are still available from the On Demand Player. There are tracks by around 160 different artists on the Shows this month.
Playlists for December were published previously and those Shows are also still available via the On Demand Player - https://www.rockradioni.co.uk/news/rrni-updates/3894-ni-rocks-playlists-for-december-2023
There were no new interviews this month, but there was a promo feature on the Show on 12th January, with Bob Catley from Magnum chatting about the new album.
All of our 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/ .
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 Exit Eden, Magnum, Saxon, Gotus, Riley’s L.A. Guns, Hearts & Hand Grenades and The Gems.
Read more: NI ROCKS Recommends - Album Releases in JANUARY 2024