Interviews
INTERVIEW: TESTAMENT – Chuck Billy
Bay Area legends TESTAMENT are set to lay waste to Australia in June 2025; their first headline tour since 2010. With a new album on the way Australia will be first to hear it – can you […]
Articles by Mark Diggins
Reviews - Music Releases 2024
ALBUM REVIEW: Lionheart – The Grace of a Dragonfly
If you want a history lesson then Lionheart has a long and winding one: “…formed in late 1980 by Dennis Stratton (lead guitar/backing vocals, Iron Maiden), Steve Mann (lead guitar/backing vocals, Liar, Michael Schenker), Rocky […]
Interviews
INTERVIEW: BABYLON A.D. – Dylan Soto
In our series of Babylon A.D. Interviews based around the new record ‘Rome Wasn’t Built In A Day’ I planned to catch up with Ron and Derek to talk all about the new record but […]
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INTERVIEW: Mike Stern – Solo Artist (Ex-Canned Heat, Miles Davis)
Mike Stern is one of the great jazz guitarists of his generation, and it has been said that he “has the unique ability to play with the finesse and lyricism of Jim Hall, the driving […]
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INTERVIEW: AL ANDERSON of The Original Wailers
The thing I love most about The Rockpit is that you get the chance to talk to some truly inspirational musicians about the music they make. Some people just have that ‘presence’. Every time I […]
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INTERVIEW: RAVEN – John Gallagher – 50th Anniversary
RAVEN are that rare thing in music, true originals – cut these guys with a razor and they will BLEED true heavy metal – a more intense live band does not exist on this planet! Hailing […]
Reviews - Music Releases 2024
ALBUM REVIEW: Black Oak County – III
The press release for Black Oak County’s third album reads: “The Danish hard rock quartet BLACK OAK COUNTY releases their third album, taking them to new musical horizons, with a wide mix of thundering breakdowns, […]
Reviews - Music Releases 2024
ALBUM REVIW: Kings of Mercia – Battle Scars
Just when you think that your Best of 2024 list is pretty much settled along comes an album like this. If you love great Hard Rock with soulful vocals and heaps of drive then this second […]
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ALBUM REVIEW: Triple Engine – Triple Engine
On the eve of release we’ll let the press release set the scene:… Cast your mind back to March 2020… Western Australia is in isolation due to the challenges presented by Covid-19, resulting in the […]
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Adelaide’s best Rock bar celebrates its birthday with two nights of great local live music
If you’ve been to Adelaide and not yet dropped into ‘The Woodshed’ then there’s now two more reasons to hit them up! The Woodshed celebrates its birthday with two incredible nights of original live music […]
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LIVE REVIEW: Kim Wilde – The Astor Theatre Perth, 22nd October 2024
It was 2016 the last time Kim Wilde played to a Perth audience on this very stage, and you got the feeling tonight that a few of them had been counting down the days until […]
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ALBUM REVIEW: Trucker Diablo – Social Hand Grenade
There are few bands that we’ve got to review every single release by on the Rockpit: but forming in 2008 and releasing their first full length ‘The Devil Rhythm’ in 2011 – Trucker Diablo is […]
Interviews
INTERVIEW: PETE LORAN talks about new single ‘Save Me’
We catch up again with Pete Loran to talk about the release of his second single in the last few months ‘Save Me’. It’s a song that should pique the interest of fans of his […]
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ALBUM REVIEW: Sister Switchblade – Don’t Try This at Home
Australia has such a great Rock scene and Western Australian music is so strong at the moment, with every genre out there hitting home runs these days it seems. Sometimes though it’s a blast from […]
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ALBUM REVIEW: Gone Savage – Retrograde
Formed in 1990 GS have produced a number of demos, singles and EPs over the tears and a couple of years back in 2022 they released digital 12 track ST ‘Pastlife’ which collected some of […]
Interviews
INTERVIEW: BABYLON A.D. Derek Davis
When you hear something you like it sticks with you, and over the years Babylon A.D.’s first two records have more than stood the test of time for me. They’re records that sum up all […]
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INTERVIEW: John 5 (Solo Artist and Motley Crue)
John 5 should be a name you are all aware of if even it is only for his recent recruitment to Motley Crue to fill the shoes of Mick Mars. Hopefully though you know a […]
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INTERVIEWS: ANDY SCOTT of SWEET Returns to talk FULL CIRCLE
Mark caught up with Andy earlier in the year to talk about the Australian Tour and we touched upon the singles from the upcoming album ‘Full Circle’. After reviewing the record we just had to […]
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INTERVIEW: THE COMMONERS – Chris Medhurst
One of my very favourite albums of the last few years has to be The Commoners ‘Find a Better Way’ released back in 2022. This year the band is back with a new, arguably even […]
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INTERVIEW: BABYLON A.D. – Ron Freschi
Some things are worth waiting for. We originally spoke to Ron a few weeks before the release of ‘Rome Wasn’t Built in a Day’ the latest record by Babylon A.D. and the first to feature […]
Reviews Live 2024
LIVE: Charlie Musselwhite live at The Astor Theatre, Perth 26th September 2024
It’s a long way from Memphis to Chicago but we are sure glad that Charlie made that trip back in 1962 when the music world was on the verge of change. Rubbing shoulders with Chicago’s […]
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ALBUM REVIEW: The New Roses – Attracted to Danger
One of my favourite bands over the last ten plus years has been The New Roses and ever since that first full length “Without a Trace’ back in 2013 they’ve consistently lifted the bar each […]
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ALBUM REVIEW: Sweet – Full Circle
Never a band defined by their albums as far as the general public was concerned Sweet was a huge presence in the U.K. and Europe in the early to mid 70’s. Those in the know […]
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INTERVIEW: IRON MAIDEN – STEVE HARRIS – AUSTRALIAN TOUR INTERVIEW
We caught up with Iron Maiden’s Steve Harris a few weeks ago on the eve of British Lion’s and Iron Maiden’s tour of Australia and New Zealand, with Maiden reigniting the next leg of the […]
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ALBUM REVIEW: Fighter V – Heart of the Young
Fighter V are back with a new album! well sort of… It has certainly been a while for the band formed in 2019 in Hergiswil, Switzerland who released their classic debut ‘Fighter’ (think Journey, post-1987 Whitesnake […]