Eric Clapton has performed a few Christmas songs in the past, specifically, I really like the contributions he makes on the Special Olympics charity record: A Very Special Christmas Live From Washington, D.C. This year, rather than just contributing to someone [...]
December 26, 2018
Album Reviews It’s the start of December and I can now openly listen to the Christmas music I’ve secretly been wanting to listen to since Christmas stuff started appearing in the shops, i.e. around August! And talking of August brings me neatly [...]
December 4, 2018
Album Reviews Some of you may recognise the name Tarja as the (former) lead singer of Nightwish. According to the mighty Wikipedia (and who am I to disagree?) Nightwish essentially defined the genre of opera metal. Is From Spirits And Ghosts (Score [...]
November 14, 2017
Album Reviews Bloodshot Records are about to release their first ever Christmas album: Bloodshot Records’ 13 Days of Xmas. To give you a flavour of what to expect, I think it is worth including a quote from their website: Since 1994, Bloodshot [...]
November 3, 2017
Album Reviews Ta-da da da! Ta-da da-da-da! Ta-da da da! Ta-da da da da da da! … If you are not humming, “The Final Countdown”, after seeing that this is a review of an album by Europe, either you have not been [...]
October 29, 2017
Album Reviews I have already reviewed Blackmore’s Night’s Christmas single, “Wish You Were Here“. In that review, I said I was keen to track down the re-issued album it came from. Well, I asked… and I received. Since Winter Carols is very [...]
October 16, 2017
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