THE man they call "The Guitar Whisperer" has one more challenge before his return to Paraguay – a country he spent over 40 years wanting to visit. Guitar…
WHEN life has been tough over the past few months, there has been a silent clock inside helping you keep going and count down to the album launch gig…
HIGHS and lows were on offer at the SOUND OF GUNS gig at the Ironworks on Thursday. The highs came from the headliners and local support Parmaviolets.…
BEST Ironworks gig of the year so far? Yes, it’s early. But if it’s guitars and drums like World War Three you want, BAND OF SKULLS can scare the living…
SOMETIMES a gig’s about something other than the music and however great the music and the songs in the set, it’s about the interplay between the musicians…
WHEN Skye band Stereoglo called it a day a few years ago, frontman Richard Macintyre returned briefly with a solo project, disappeared – and has now spread…
MAYBE it’s no surprise that Scottish Ballet soloist Eve Mutso’s daughter loves dancing. Eve was pregnant with Hele-Riin three and a half years ago…
THE release of new video The Fog may have made Highland singer Rachel Sermanni feel more at home as she faces temperatures of 20C plus in India. Rachel…
SO Santa lost his way and arrived a little late with his Ironworks winter showcase treats? He was forgiven 16 times over by music fans. The two nights…
IT wasn’t until Pint, Pages And Pen – the second new song of the set was done and dusted – that Kyle Falconer turned and gave his first big smile of the…
Even before his official EP launch this week, young Inverness singer-songwriter Graham Brown has already had queues of people lining up to get their hands…
Glasgow quartet Kassidy have been frequent visitors to the north, including memorable performances at Loopallu and Belladrum. Now they're heading back…
THOUGH Abagail Grey's new single isn't a Christmas song it's got the gift of giving all tied up. Released on Monday, the two-track single's called…
SHE'S been singing since she was eight, was signed at her first record company audition and has a voice that's up there with idols Aretha Franklin, Janis…
Here’s a couple of stocking filler DVDs for your favourite rocker and below that fans of the UK’s big voice and international superstar songstress.
SHE’S been singing since she was eight, was signed at her first record company audition and has a voice that’s up there with idols Aretha Franklin, Janis…
NO wonder when GLENN TILBROOK’s trailer parked up outside the Ironworks, it was as if an old-fashioned magic medicine show had pulled up in town. Sunday’s…
CLIMBER, writer and speaker Andy Kirkpatrick still has the top of the tallest vertical rock face in Europe in his sights – after his fourth attempt to…
ALL the years on from The Undertones’ first show in home-town Derry, the last thing they’re doing is slowing down. Lead guitarist Damian O’Neill explained:…
SICK of the endless loop about the Euro meltdown and the life or death revolutions that don’t get anywhere? Hello Egypt, where the military is now…
