{"id":2876,"date":"2018-12-18T05:00:42","date_gmt":"2018-12-18T05:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=2876"},"modified":"2018-12-18T09:55:02","modified_gmt":"2018-12-18T09:55:02","slug":"twelve-days-of-christmas-a-look-back-at-2018-with-rpm-july","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=2876","title":{"rendered":"Twelve days of Christmas – A look back at 2018 with RPM – July"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Summer l-u-v-i-n happened so fast”.<\/em><\/p>\n

JULY<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>With the sun turning Shit Island a lighter shade of brown due to a lack of rainfall on Englands not so Green and pleasant land it was only Rock and Roll that could save us and\u00a0in marched Hey Honcho & The Aftermaths<\/a> with their absolute banger ‘Chico Purito!’<\/a>\u00a0In a nutshell it’s everything that is great about wild and reckless garage punk others Might call it Action Rock. Hey Honcho are the newly crowned kings of Spain and boy can they wield those guitars. They make a real pretty noise let me guarantee you that and we love that off the hook shit here at RPM. Click on the links and let some sunshine into your lives and say hello to the boys and tell em RPM sent you. Now July just got a little bit hotter!\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

On the live front, Leigh took a trip no not like that he went to Birmingham to catch Lenny Kravitz<\/a> raise vibrations at the NEC and rated Lenny as a guy who still has the chops and on his way back he caught\u00a0Richie Kotzen<\/a>\u00a0rock the Thekla in Bristol for another highlight on the live front.<\/p>\n

Other notable releases were those belonging to dragSTER<\/a> who released a new long player via Louder Than war\u00a0label entitled ‘Anti Everything’ which saw fi and the boys unleash their most brutal offering yet.\u00a0 they seemed focussed and really up for it on this release and certainly one of July’s better albums.\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Twin Flame Radio<\/a> is perhaps better known as Bam (he of the Dogs D’Amour and Wildhearts) and Share Ross (Vixen) released their debut album and what a little bobby dazzler this one was and took us by surprise\u00a0especially Bams voice which wouldn’t look out of place alongside a youthful Ian Hunter or perhaps Robin Zander as Bam belted out a bevy of beauties taking half the vocal duties a real 70’s glam rock vibe happening here.\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

There was one massive release as far as a lot of the team RPM were banking on that was released (just in time for Rebellion) for Bar Stool Preachers<\/a> and that was the follow up to ‘Blatant Propaganda’<\/a>\u00a0debut the much anticipated follow up ‘Grazie Governo<\/a>‘. Not that there was any doubt but it lived up to all expectations and Nev Brooks commented that it was the high point of the year let alone Month which is some accolade. To be fair Nev had this to say about BSP,”So where do I start, how about next year the\u00a0\u00a0Bar Stool Preachers<\/strong> exploding to the next level, playing to ever-growing crowds these guys are the real deal and destined for ever bigger things, they have the potential to worm their way into every household” (in the nicest possible way that is)<\/p>\n

July being a pretty lean month compared to some others – this album really impressed with the quality and passion put into the songs it’s there for all to hear.<\/p>\n