“Gigs Guaranteed To Be A Good One”: On a cold night in Edinburgh, a pretty well-packed Voodoo Room welcomed from the very south of England the blues, folk, Americana rootsy rock band Wille And The Bandits. The gig was one put on by The Edinburgh Blues Club who often manage to attract bluesy bands to […]
Thundering Rock UK rockers the Black Spiders returned to Edinburgh as part of their spring UK tour and stopped off to lay waste to Bannerman’s Bar. The band who are back from an extended break have a new album coming out in May (12 on Spinefarm) called Can’t Die, Won’t Die from which their new single “Hot Wheels” comes. […]
Stoned Stoned Jesus are a new name to this writer. The 3 piece outfit come from Ukraine and are described as “prog-doom-grunge“. Which is actually a pretty good description. This is the band’s 5th album and took longer to record due to their country being invaded. They had to stop in March but due to liberation […]
A Quick Apology… Sorry for the delay in publishing the interview. This was due to health issues involving the interviewer in last couple of weeks. A Chance To Chat I was very lucky to have the chance on behalf of CGCM to have an interview or wee (little) chat with singer Alexander “Aor“ Osipov in the dressing rooms at […]
Definitely Happy To Be Here After 3 and a half years and several changed dates, Russian symphonic metal outfit Imperial Age made it to the UK and started it all in Glasgow Scotland. The first two things to be said are firstly how much the band were absolutely thrilled to be here (I think they are […]
Full Of Mystery, How Many Albums? Sometimes as a reviewer, a new name appears in your inbox to review. You click on it, like what you hear, and decide to find out more. Then you get a surprise when you find out the band has a bunch of albums out already (7 in this case). […]
You can find the Collective List as well as all our Best of 2022 content including contributors’ individual lists, podcasts and radio DJ shows here: CGCM’s Best of 2022 (Year in Review) BEST OF 2022 – Tom Cornell (Writer) 🏴 It is that time of year again where all of us CGCM folks look through the year coming to an […]
A Little Background Bluesy soulful Southern rockers Robert Jon & The Wreck return to the UK early 2023 for a series of 12 shows (9 in England, 2 in Scotland and 1 in Wales) in February. The band led by Robert Jon (the clue is in the name!) formed back in 2011 in Orange County California. They released their […]
As Good As Their Word: US Rockers The L.A. Maybe left their home country to kick UK arses in some of the coldest and snowiest conditions imaginable. The last time the band were here in the UK they played Call Of The Wild festival and I think one other show (Blackpool I believe). They were due to […]
Introducing The Band A couple of weeks ago I received a recommendation for a band called EBB who were described as “art/prog rock”. I checked out a couple of tracks, was very impressed and a few days later I went to see them play in a pub/club in Edinburgh which is not a pay-in venue. Folks go […]
