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23 THINGS WE’RE LOOKING FORWARD TO IN 2023
Whether it’s gig, tours, festivals, spanking new albums, box-set reissues, DVDs, books or more issues of Classic Rock, there’s plenty of rockin’ good stuff coming along over the next 12 months.
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Wilko Johnson
Guitarist. Singer. Songwriter. Punk rock pioneer. Actor. Classic Rock looks back at the life and work of the much-loved British musician.
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Faster Pussycat
Back with a new single, frontman Taime Downe talks the other ’Cat, not being industrial, and crazy 80s days.
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Spell
The Canadian brothers reckon metal is losing its magic, and are looking to bring it back.
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FOREVER AMBER
The Love Cycle, Advance Records, UK, 1969. £4,500,
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Jared James Nichols
The second-tallest man in rock on broken bones and being an “ugly, long-haired shithead” (his words).
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Magna Carta Cartel
With this band, the former Ghost Ghoul is now embracing the “optimism” of 80s pop-rock.
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Ugly Kid Joe
Written in protest at MTV’s sickly ballads, and accompanied by a video featuring a flyaway sex doll, there was much to love about the Californians’ misanthrope smash hit of 1992.
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Ville Valo
The former HIM frontman on life after that band, fear of covid, going MOR and choosing music over alcohol.
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Christine McVie
A ground-breaking artist and the calm eye of the decades-spanning storm that was Fleetwood Mac, she brought elegance and soul to the band’s sound through her voice, keyboard playing and some of rock’s most enduring hits.
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DANGROUS TIMES
With the release of the 45th Anniversary Deluxe Edition of Thin Lizzy’s Live And Dangerous, Brian Robertson and Scott Gorham look back at the troublesome birth of a classic live album.
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TAKK ONE : Action!
Moving Pictures was the album that was never supposed to be. Rush’s Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson recall angry mobs, out-of-control aeroplanes and Superman in the story behind the hugely successful record that defined the sound of rock music in the early 80s.
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LOST IN MUSIC
With a star-studded new album just out and a UK show set for July, Iggy Pop talks about still giving his all, no more stage diving, addictions, his fondness for the word ‘fuck’, his cockatoo, and finally taking a phone call from the Hall Of Fame.
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"I had a total idea about what Dr. Feelgood was and what it should be, I was absolutely obsessed"
Sadly, we lost the iconic Wilko Johnson in November. When Dr. Feelgood’s debut album Down By The Jetty turned 40 in 2015, the then surviving feelgoods -Wilko, Sparko, The Big Figure and manager Chris ‘Whitey’ Fenwick – looked back at the making of their classic record.
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DOUBLE TROUBLE
In the lead-up to the double-bill tour of The Darkness and Black Stone Cherry, frontmen Justin Hawkins and Chris Robertson compare notes on vocal prowess, backstage riders and the perils of doing David Lee Roth-style splits.
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THE HOT LIST
THE ESSENTIAL NEW ROCK TRACK YOU NEED TO HEAR THIS MONTH AND THE BANDS TO HAVE ON YOUR RADAR
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The Band
Few artists, if any, have captured rustic, earthy Americana as well as this – strangely, mostly non-American – group.
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Francis Dunnery’s It Bites
It Bites’ original guitarist/singer plays dates with his own version of the band in January.
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Rebecca Downes
The Bonamassa-approved singer comes to a venue near you.
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Trivium
The Floridian metalheads gear up for shows in Britain and Ireland, beginning in mid-January.
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The Soundtrack Of My Life
Eurovision star Sam Ryder, on the records, artists and gigs that are of lasting significance to him.
