There are two NI Rocks Shows uploaded each week on Rock Radio NI. These are the playlists for those Shows for the month of November 2023 – all of which are still available from the On Demand Player. There are tracks by around 140 different artists on the Shows this month.
Playlists for October were published previously and those Shows are also still available via the On Demand Player – https://www.rockradioni.co.uk/news/rrni-updates/3888-ni-rocks-playlists-for-october-2023
This month there were new interviews with Dino Jelusick and Steve Overland on the Friday NI Rocks Show. There was also a special promo interview feature for the new Kenny Wayne Shepherd 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 Sophie Lloyd, Michael Catton, Dave Rude and Atack.
Read more: NI ROCKS Recommends - Album Releases in NOVEMBER 2023
FM frontman Steve Overland is widely recognised as one of the best vocalists around and he seems to work constantly. I interviewed Steve back in February 2014 and have been wanting to have another chat for quite some time to talk about the numerous projects that he is involved in. At a quick count I reckon there has been 17 albums released since 2014; where Steve is the lead vocalist or one of the lead vocalists – plus numerous other guest appearances! We finally managed to get a chat over the phone on 20th November – to talk about the latest Overland album “S.I.X.”, other recent releases from FM, Lonerider and Kings of Mercia, his plans for the future and much more.
You can hear that interview on the Friday NI Rocks Show for 24th November 2023. That Show is now available from our MixCloud page - https://www.mixcloud.com/NIRocks/steve-overland-interview-on-the-friday-ni-rocks-show-24th-nov-2023/ - or it can be read below.
I’m fairly sure that I only heard the name Dino Jelusick for the first time back in 2018 when the Animal Drive album “Bite” was released. I learnt more about the impressive background of the Croatian singer when putting together some questions for an interview that was posted on the Rock Radio NI website at that time. Since then, he has become a much more widely recognized name; not least of all after his addition to the Whitesnake line-up in 2021. On 29th September a new album by Jelusick called “Follow The Blind Man” was released through Escape Music and it reinforces what an amazing talent Dino is.
When the opportunity arose to have a chat with Dino I jumped at it and we recorded an interview via Zoom on 8th November. We chatted about the new album, future plans for Jelusick, a new band in the works and some of his other recent musical projects as well as his involvement in the Croatian version of ‘The Voice’.
Following earlier appearances by Reb Beach and Joel Hoekstra, Dino actually becomes the third member of what is likely to the final Whitesnake line-up to be a guest on the Friday NI Rocks Show. You can hear the interview as well as tracks from the new album and some of his other work on the Friday NI Rocks Show that was uploaded on 10th November - https://www.rockradioni.co.uk/hosts/ni-rocks-friday-rock-show
The Show is also available from our MixCloud page -
https://www.mixcloud.com/NIRocks/dino-jelusick-interview-on-the-friday-ni-rocks-show-10th-nov-2023/