Bob Spencer is best known for his guitar playing with bands such as The Angels, Finch and Rose Tattoo. But recently the musician has ventured forth into new realms, with his debut CD release, Saints and Murderers. The album features a body of work that showcases not only Bob’s musicianship and song writing talents but, for the first time in …

It doesn’t really feel like thirty years since singer/songwriter/guitarist Mark Lizotte (aka Diesel) first burst on to the Australian music scene but his latest album, released last month, is testimony to that fact. The album, ‘Diesel – 30: The Greatest Hits’, features thirty songs and with the exception of the opening track, his new single ‘Give Me Saturday Night’, it …

One of our favourite bands, Dragon, is on the road again. Did I say ‘again’? Well, they never really stopped! And they never stop coming up with new ways to keep the music alive for audiences around the country. In 2016 and 2017, the guys brought us their Countdown show where they not only performed their own songs but the …

It’s hard to believe that next month it will be twenty years since the day we lost one of our greatest and most enigmatic singers, Marc Hunter. Marc was truly a shining star on the Australian music scene; whether as lead singer of Dragon or as a solo artist, he could hold an audience in the palm of his hand. …

Photo Credit: DEAN CHALKLEY Walk Between Worlds is the new album from Scottish band Simple Minds. It is the band’s eighteenth studio album and their first since the release of Big Music in 2014. With their previous album being well received by critics and fans alike, far from wanting to kick back and put their feet up, vocalist Jim Kerr …

  Chocolate Starfish is a band on a roll right now. They’ve had a hell of a Red Hot Summer playing gigs with some of their fellow rockers touring around the country,on July 14th, they will be performing the songs of the INXS album ‘Kick‘ at The Palms at Crown after a very successful couple of shows over the last …

Back in the 70s, there was a time when hordes of young, mostly female, pop music fans were under the spell of a craze dubbed Rollermania. The Bay City Rollers were riding high on the charts and being besieged by devoted, tartan clad female fans everywhere they went, and Australia was certainly no exception with their popularity here hitting fever …

Photo: Courtesy Rick Lum     Glam rock was a big part of the music scene in the early ‘70s; the outrageous outfits, lots of satin, make-up and glitter, awkward platform shoes that were almost impossible to walk in, let alone dance in and music that was fun. And leading the glam rock assault in Australia, was a band called …

Blood Brothers was the last studio album from hard rockers Rose Tattoo. Released in 2007, the album was recorded with founding member Mick Cocks on guitar. Sadly, Mick passed away in December 2009, yet another member of the band to die from cancer. “All the founding members have died of cancer which is tragic,” front man Angry Anderson recounts in …

  Ever wonder how musicians keep themselves occupied during those long days of travelling from town to town on the tour bus? I suspect many would use the time to catch up on sleep between gigs but bass player Mark Ferrie has found a much more constructive way to pass the time. When RocKwiz embarked on another tour earlier this …