British rockers Voodoo Six have been announced as support band for Iron Maiden’s European tour this year and are about to embark on their own headlining tour around the UK and Ireland to promote their new album “Songs To Invade Countries To” which is released in April. The tour includes the Diamond Rock Club in Ahoghill on 23rd March. The band consists of Luke Purdie on vocals, Tony Newton on bass, Matt Pearce and Chris Jones on guitars and Joe Lazarus on drums.
Singer Luke very kindly agreed to answer a few questions for Rock Radio NI.
Their debut album 'Imrama' will be officially released on vinyl for the first time ever on
French band Shannon have been around since 1998 and their new album “Circus of Lost Souls” is released by Mad Association Records on 1st March 2013. Shannon deliver melodic rock with a harder edge that appeals to my love of “classic” rock. Favourite tracks on the album would be “Ride to Live”, “Forever Now” and “Let’s Make Rock”. The final track is a surprisingly successful rocked up cover version of Bronski Beat’s “Smalltown Boy” – I recognised the song but had to google the title to figure out what it was!!
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We received this album through from New Ocean Media recently along with a few others including the Adler album. As always I did a quick skim through the tracks to get a feel for the album. Generally I’ll know after sampling a few tracks if I’m going to like an album enough to download it and add it to my iPod. This one passed the test....obviously or I wouldn’t be writing this and you wouldn’t be reading it!!
Turns out the album was originally released back in 2011 but it’s getting a UK launch on 1st April.
“Hell In My Heart” is a hard hitting rock album full of tracks with powerful lyrics and raging guitars. My personal favourite is probably “Bury Me With My Guns On” which was released as a single. Others of note include the cover of “Sound of Silence”, “Empty Man” and “Low Life”.
Read more: NI ROCKS recommends "Hell In My Heart" by BOBAFLEX