Robert Adams

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Articles

"I've Never Felt Better"

1 month ago | metaltalk.net | Robert Adams

With the latest Ricky Warwick solo album released Friday 14th, March, MetalTalk caught up with him via Zoom from Glasgow yesterday to chat about Blood Ties, The Almighty, Black Star Riders and sobriety. Ricky pops up on my Zoom screen bang on 10 am, looking fit and fresh with a “Hi Robert, great to see you again,” greeting. I had briefly spoken with him after his gig at The Craufurd Arms in Milton Keynes last Sunday.
Ricky Warwick / Blood Ties - His Most Personal & Powerful Album Yet

1 month ago | metaltalk.net | Robert Adams

Ricky Warwick returns with his eighth solo album, Blood Ties, and it is the most personal album that Ricky has ever released. Oh, it rocks like a hurricane as well. Release Date: 14 March 2025Words: Robert AdamsMusic has always been the driving force in Ricky Warwick’s life. After being given his first guitar at fourteen, he has never looked back. His career has been varied and plentiful – Touring guitarist with New Model Army, The Almighty, sic, solo, Thin Lizzy and Black Star Riders.
Coheed And Cambria / Vaxis III: The Father Of Make Believe

1 month ago | metaltalk.net | Robert Adams

New York Sci-Fi rockers Coheed And Cambria drop part three of their Vaxis pentalogy, titled The Father Of Make Believe and continue to raise their sonic bar. Label: Virgin RecordsRelease Date: 14 March 2025Words: Robert AdamsWith each release from Coheed And Cambria, I find myself thinking that they cannot do better than this. Then they go and do it again with their new album. The Father Of Make Believe has done exactly that.
Live Review: Ricky Warwick Lights Up The Craufurd Arms

1 month ago | metaltalk.net | Robert Adams

The Almighty, Black Star Riders and Thin Lizzy frontman Ricky Warwick takes his solo tour for his upcoming Blood Ties album to Milton Keynes and leaves everything on the stage. Words: Robert AdamsThere is a very healthy crowd gathered this Sunday night at The Craufurd Arms in Milton Keynes as Ricky Warwick and his Fighting Hearts stroll on stage to the dulcet sounds of Frank Wilson’s Northern Soul classic Do I Love You.
Avantasia Return With Here Be Dragons - Their Finest Album Yet

1 month ago | metaltalk.net | Robert Adams

It’s been a rather dismal start to 2025. We’ve got an orange megalomaniac once more in the White House. Before our American cousins get their fanny packs in a wad, that’s not a political statement, merely a statement of fact. Meanwhile, over here in good old Blighty, it feels like it hasn’t stopped raining since August 2024. It’s a good job we have got Here Be Dragons, the new album from Avantasia, to cheer us up.
Cruising The Fjords Aboard the Queen Anne

2 months ago | passportmagazine.com | Robert Adams

29 Embark on a majestic Norwegian fjords cruise onboard Cunard’s Queen Anne and experience breathtaking landscapes, luxurious amenities and some of the finest meals at sea! As soon as we learned that Cunard’s newest ship, Queen Anne, would embark on a cruise through the Norwegian fjords we booked our cabin! The itinerary for our voyage had us boarding ship in Southampton, England and setting sail on a seven-night voyage calling at four unique ports in Norway: Haugesund, Nordfjordeid,...
Magnum / Honouring Tony Clarkin With Live At KK's Steel Mill

Jan 7, 2025 | metaltalk.net | Robert Adams

O2 Forum, Kentish Town9-17 Highgate Rd, Kentish Town, London NW5 1JY jan7:00 pm11:00 pmMagnum / A Tribute To Tony Clarkin - London O2 Forum Kentish Town Veteran Brummie rockers Magnum are to release an official recording of the last night of their The Monster Roars tour. This KK’s Steel Mill show was the last that guitarist, songwriter and founding member Tony Clarkin would play with the band. This is a bittersweet album. Originally recorded to document the band’s 50th Anniversary tour, after...
Robert Adams/ The Best Of Heavy Metal In 2024

Dec 24, 2024 | metaltalk.net | Robert Adams

Season’s greetings to one and all. Yes folks, it’s that time of the year once more. It only seems a matter of weeks ago that I was sitting down to reflect on 2023. Now, with 2024 hurtling towards its finish line, here we are again. It has been yet another splendid year for music, and here are some of my personal highlights that kept the wheels of Bobby’s Rock Bus turning. Frost* released an album of sheer perfection with Life In The Wires.
Age Be Damned: The Damned Rock Cambridge With Unforgettable Show

Dec 19, 2024 | metaltalk.net | Robert Adams

Cambridge Corn Exchange saw the lineup of The Damned that recorded one of the band’s classic LPs, The Black Album. Dave Vanian on vocals, Captain Sensible on guitar, Rat Scabies on drums and Paul Gray on bass, along with Monty Oxymoron fulfilling keyboard duties, hit the stage at 9.20 pm. After a small delay while Rat Scabies in-ear monitors were fitted, they launched straight into the bona fide The Damned classic, Love Song.
From Strathaven To Supersonic: The Almighty Rock Cambridge

Nov 29, 2024 | metaltalk.net | Robert Adams

Having missed last year’s London gig by the reformed The Almighty and reading Paul Monkhouse’s glowing review of that very gig in these pages, there was no way I was missing out on one of this year’s Three And Easy dates. Even slow rush hour traffic heading into Cambridge could not dampen my enthusiasm for what was to come and I certainly was not disappointed.