Following the re-release of his solo album Devil’s Highway on 2nd January, I catch up with guitar legend and founding member of Stray, Del Bromham. We talk about the making of the album, growing up in a home filled with music, the ups and downs of the mus... See more
A Happy New Year to all my readers and my sincere thanks to everyone who has visited Darren’s music blog during 2025. As well as 65 posts covering an eclectic musical mix of folk, prog, glam, heavy metal, punk, hard rock and britpop, I also managed to get... See more
My final gig of the year. And rather than my more typical diet of folk, glam rock and heavy metal, it’s the Amy Winehouse Band.
The project brings together musicians who played with Amy Winehouse over the course of her spectacularly promising career, whic... See more
I’ve always had a bit of a soft spot for early ‘80s Uriah Heep. Even though I would become totally besotted with the Hammond-pounding Hensley/Byron era, my entry point into the music of Uriah Heep was not through demons, wizards or magicians but rather th... See more
After spending much of last year and the first part of this year living and breathing all things Steeleye Span while I worked on my book about the band (which came out this summer) it felt kind of fitting for this to be my penultimate gig of the year.
Ste... See more
