Rob Palladino

Our own resident drummer Rob Palladino interviews another drummer, Matt Thomas from the Welsh alternative power trio The Joy Formidable. Dummers talking drums, and drums, and more drums. A real joy indeed!
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Bush have always kind of passed me by for some reason. They’ve been on my personal periphery for donkey’s years but have released some decent material in that time. They were around in the nineties when I was plying my trade in the same indie/alt/rock arena as these guys. I knew...
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Bloody hell fire, this takes me back a bit. Let’s not do half measures here. I was a metal kid in the late 70s/early 80s. While virtually living at Hammersmith Odeon and the old Marquee Club, I saw band after band after band. You name ‘em, I probably saw ‘em. Rush, AC/DC,...
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It’s not often that I come across new music in whatever form and scream “WOW!” at the top of my voice. Not that it happened with Welsh power/alternative trio The Joy Formidable either. My reaction was more of a silent jaw-drop than anything else.
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Squackett A Life Within A Day (Cherry Red) The legends that are Steve Hackett, formerly guitar player for Genesis, and Chris Squire, bass player for Yes have put together Squackett (I’ll leave you to work out where they got the awful name from). Hackett had his moments with the Charterhouse gang. Despite most fans...
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Thin Lizzy Classic Album Selection (Universal) After all of the words written about this band in the past, you’d think the last thing needed was yet another review, but this five disc collection is something worth writing about. The history behind Thin Lizzy is storied to say the very least.  From the incredible wealth...
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