Thunder are probably one of the best live bands you’re ever gonna have the pleasure to see perform. Anyone who caught then stealing the show (or at least sharing the limelight with Mr Coverdale and co) when they toured with Whitesnake and Journey recently will bear witness to that. When they’re not touring with Thunder, quite often you’ll find lead singer Danny Bowes and guitarist Ben Matthews performing as Danny & Ben entertaining audiences with a mix of great tunes and stories.

Rock Radio NI are delighted to bring “An Evening With Danny & Ben from Thunder” to Belfast for the first time on 31^st August with a show in the Black Box.

 

HEAVY metal, by its very nature, is a counter-culture. Whether it be genre-defining Black Sabbath, arena-busting Iron Maiden, thrash defining Metallica, or Speed metal kings Slayer, the occassional step into the mainstream consciousness never betrays the outsider status.

THE late, great author Iain M Banks wrote in his sci-fi novel, The Algebraist, the following lines:

"Beginnings and endings are contingent things...devices. Where does any story really begin? There is always context, always an encompassing greater epic, always something before the described events..."

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