Review: Maid Of Stone Festival 2024 – Friday Mote Park, Maidstone, Kent (July 19th, 2024) Reviewer: Phil Honley / Photographers: Phil Honley & Dan Mann The inaugural Maid Of Stone Festival rose like a phoenix from the ashes of Ramblin’ Man last year and was an overall success despite the inclement weather. Judging from the recent comments […]
Superstar US rock band Mr Big will return to the UK after their BIG Finnish UK Tour to headline Maid of Stone on Sunday 21st July 2024. In what will be one of their final ever UK shows, the band will play the classics from their illustrious career, specifically the ‘Lean Into It’ album. They will be […]
GUN will be hitting the road in 2023 for a series of special acoustic shows this Spring. Following a benchmark year that saw them release the critically acclaimed new album ‘The Calton Songs’, pick-up multiple awards, headline festivals, and arrive to an electrifying homecoming crowd at the legendary Barrowland Ballroom in December; the Glasgow rock icons are now gearing up to raise the bar again in 2023. Kick-starting the year with the announcement of their ‘Acoustic ‘23 Tour’, Dante and Jools Gizzi will be embarking on a run of 13 dates in some of the country’s more […]
Rock icons GUN have picked up TWO massive music industry awards in one week. The band were honoured with the Rock Legend award at Hard Rock Hell in Great Yarmouth. And then at the weekend they were awarded the Hard Rock Café Legends award at the Scottish Music Awards, the flagship event for the Nordoff-Robbins Music Therapy charity. With their latest album ‘The Calton Songs‘ notching up a string of high chart appearances across various genres and their traditional Christmas show at the Barrowlands on December 10 selling well, things are very much on the up for the legendary rockers. Giuliano Gizzi said: “It honestly means the world to us to be honoured in this way. “We have had incredible support from our fans […]
Glaswegian rockers GUN are back with the latest single to be taken from their forthcoming album, ‘The Calton Songs’ which will be released on Cherry Red Records on 14 October 2022. The ‘Inside Out Calton Mix‘will be released today [28 September], this is retooled version of the track that was one of the first songs ever written by the band and that appeared on their breakthrough 1989 debut ‘Taking On The World‘. A staple of the […]
This autumn will see the welcome return of Monsterfest to Inverness, Scotland – where the River Ness meets the Moray Firth in the cultural capital of the Scottish Highlands. The star studded festival takes place at a new venue for 2022, Eden Court with international headliner Marco Mendoza and Friends with a special themed set […]
Glaswegian rockers GUN are back with their latest release from the forthcoming album, ‘The Calton Songs’ and finally it’s the turn of ‘Word Up’ today, 28 July. So tell all the boys and girls, Tell your brother, your sister, And mama too… This massive track was originally covered by GUN in 1994, winning an MTV Europe Music Award for Best Cover and featuring on the Top 5 album ‘Swagger’. The song itself is of course a retooled version of the evergreen Cameo hit from 1986, but now in 2022 […]
Review: Stonedead Festival 2021, August 27th – 28th Newark Showground, August 27th – 28th 2021 Review & photos: Dan Mann Let me start by saying if ever there was an example of Blitz or Dunkirk spirit, then Chris Sumby and the rest of the Stonedead crew have it in spades! After the ‘little’ matter of […]
After we all experienced the disappointment of 2020 being cancelled due to uncertainty over COVID19, we have put our thinking caps on and in conjunction with MMH decided that the Friday Rock Party 2021 will have some VERY SPECIAL GUESTS joining us. This offer is only available for WEEKEND CAMPING tickets. The plan is to […]
Stonedeaf Productions Ltd proudly announces that energetic Swedish melodic hard rockers H.E.A.T will be coming to Stonedead Festival 2020. H.E.A.T have established themselves as one of the hottest melodic rock bands on the scene and we are thrilled to announce that they will play at Stonedead. With their self produced 6th album ‘H.E.A.T II‘, released […]
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