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Def Leppard are polished, but have writtten some of the best commercial rock music out there, saw them 4 times last year, the highlight being the Barrowlands show, spoiled only by The Darkness in support, Ricky Warwick was the other support and he rocked !! They are a stunning live band with some great tunes, I wouldn't say something like Rock of Ages is sugar coated, i admit there is some commercial stuiff, but at least they stopped before they became like the othger huige 80's rock band Bon Jovi !!! Cheers Stuart

Airplay is airplay and people do listen to it, it's all about exposure isn't it !! Radio 1 is a crap station but you'd be foolish to write it out of your plans !! Cheers Stuart

I've seen Amy a few times, never seen Katherine, although I've heard very good things about her, a lot of people really rate Amy as well. I have to admit I tend to find Amy's stuff a bit run of the mill, she plays with her band or acoustically, but it's very possible i'm just missing something, as a lot of people like her and she's very popular, it's kind of angsty rock, or that's how it sounds to me. Cheers Stuart

Aaah but we are on the verge of megastardom Hope to get some feedback when the site's up in the next few weeks, Cheers Stuart

Dokken like Def Leppard but with better solo's ?? I don't think so, Dokken aren't a patch on leppard, especially Pyromania/Hysteria era with Steve Clark soloing !! Dokken are a run of the mill rock band, some good stuff, some not so good, Cheers Stuart

It's pretty commercial pop/rock, I would think it may have a chance of getting played, for those that have heard or like Emma's solo work, it'll be interesting. I've sent demo's to several people involved within the music industry and have had extremely strong feedback, and we're currently looking at getting a few very special guest musicians to record bits for the album, should be excellent, we've already had strong record company interest, so fingers crossed for us Cheers Stuart

Cheers, much appreciated, Stuart

I'm on the verge of launching a new musical project called Baby Karma wih Blair Cunningham and Emma Forman, we've been working on tracks since November and are interested in getting some airplay for some of the tracks, anyone got any idea of who would be the best person to approach in Northsound nowadays ? The tracks are pop rock, very good (of course ). The tracks were recorded in Post Box Studio's and features some of Emma's stunning vocals over Blair's orchestrations. Any ideas anyone ? Cheers Stuart

Marillion Fish Baby Karma The Eagles Barenaked Ladies Cheers Stuart

The best vocals ever in music were surely Freddie Mercury, no-one has ever really come close, Cheers Stuart

Got my tix rumour has it they may be sold out by the time they are meant to go on general release, and to think people were worried about them not being able to fill these venues after 12 years away... Gonna be a good set of gigs for this Summer, 2 Fish dates in April, Marillion in July, Rush in September, Download Scotland, Duran Duran... it's gonna be cool... Anyone doing any of these ? Cheers Stuart

Sept 8th - Wembley Arena Sept 11th - Birmingham NEC Sept 12th - Manchester MEN Arena Sept 14th - Glasgow SECC

But will they play the first UK dates in 11 years !! Rumour has it of one Wembley date in September and possibly one other too, either Manchester, Birmingham, or the SECC Cheers Stuart

Quo was one of my first gigs, and yeah big Queen fan too, I was lucky enough to go to the 10 year anniversary gig of Freddie's death where Roger and Brian reformed with Bruce Dickinson and did a classic version of Radio Gaga, also seen Roger play with the SAS Band several times with Fish, and been out drinking and made a twat of myself having been introduced to Roger - D'oh !! Cheers Stuart

I like Then Jericho but you can't deny the fact that these bands only had commercial appeal for one or two albums regardless of how good they were, and with the added bonus of the Darkness not being original or inspiring then I see their shelflive just as short, if not shorter, and I wasn't talking about quality anyway because I think the quality of the last album is poor, I'm talking about commercial success, which will fade them into obscurity in the next few years. Cheers Stuart

Well he may have been good the once you saw him he was shit the 3 times I saw him !! Sorry got to disagree, they're bunch of twats who are playing mid 80's rip off stuff with none of the talent and have only made it big by media hypes, for proof of this all you need to do is check out the meda hype thrown around at the end of last year, they were media darlings but once that ends which it already is, they'll fade from media view, and if ever a band that were over hyped its them without the hype they'll fade. Lets see if there still doing this well in a year or two, I doubt it, they're the rock and roll novelty of this year, its like haircut 100,Sigue Sigue Sputnik, or Then Jericho, without the media they will fade and die. cheers Stuart

The darkness are a one, maybe 2 album wonder at most, they are a terrible band, the solo's are so much a Brian May rip off the only thing that lets them down is the lack of talent, Justin's voice has no mdulation, he can't pull off the live thing. And before anyone sees them I've heard the album several times and seen them live 3 times at other peoples gigs and they were terrible. Wailing, unoriginal, and having spoken to themselves was amazed at how seriously they took it all, personally think they're overated crap, and want to be Van Halen, AC/DC and Queen but aren't good enough to lick the boots of any of them. Cheers Stuart

I would have enjoyed it more if you could make out the vocals in the mixes, the only time I could hear them was in the solo performers. Cheers Stuart

Well its obvious who i'm going to say, but Jo McCafferty who this year has played with some of Scotlands biggest names and has played venues as diverse as The Wild Boar to Glasgow Barrowlands, and from The Lemon Tree to the Amsterdam Paradiso, not to mention having sold well over 1000 copies of her acoustic album Radiaxial, and shared a stage with members of Marillion, The Stone Roses, Genesis, the Eagles, XTC, Ultravox, and Big Country. She plays within Aberdeen but probably isn't part of the popular scene, but she had one of the mosr successfull years of any Aberdeen artist this year. Well worth seeing for people who haven't seen her, and you can see her on Friday at the Wild Boar. Apart from that I'd have to go for Emma Foreman, who's acoustic shows are brilliant, and her singing and songwriting is of the highest quality. Cheers Stuart

The release date for Jo's latest album is Monday, yep tomorrow. As there hasn't been anything released for a while we decided to bridge the gap, we're hoping to have the new band up and running by the end of the year and Jo decided to end the acoustic era with a bang. 'The Eight Year Gap' is Jo's 'new' acoustic album and is comprised of sessions which were recorded between the release of Nothing Whispered to Katy and Radiaxial, some of the songs you'll recognise as early versions of Easier Said Than Done and Lady Day are on the disc. There are 16 recordings available for the first time on this cd, including crowd favourites like Patricia Neale, and Melt. This CD will be available for 10 plus the usual CD shipping fee. This will be added to the website shop soon from www.jomccafferty.com and feel free to comment on this thread. This new album is a superb collection of songs, many of which have never been played live and will certainly be a classic for anyone who liked either of the first two albums. Hopefully this will whet people's appetite, there should hopefully be lots of news from Planet Jo soon, Take Care Stuart