Best Of 2017

End of another year gives you the chance to look back at what was another great year of music.

Mark 

Albums

1 Eclipse Monumentum
2 Threshold Legends Of The Shires
3 H.E.A.T. Into The Great Unknown
4 Black Country Communion BCCIV
5 One Desire Self titled
Special mentions to Brother Firetribe Sunbound,Night Ranger Don't Let Up,Riverdogs California,Sons Of Apollo Pyschotic Symmetry,Accept The Rise Of Chaos,Inglorious 2,Bigfoot Self Titled,Revolution Saints Light In The Dark

Live Albums

1 Iron Maiden The Book Of Souls Live Chapter
2 Black Sabbath The End
3 Delain Live At The Paradiso
4 Joe Bonamassa An Acoustic Evening At Carnegie Hall
5 The Winery Dogs Live In Santiago
Special mentions Accept Restless And Live,Tyketto Live From Milan

Gigs 

1 Guns N'Roses Olympic Stadium / Black Sabbath Genting Arena(final ever show)
2 Iron Maiden O2 Arena(5 days after the Manchester bombing and a real sense of f**k you terrorists!!)
3 Metallica O2 Arena
4 Neal Morse Band Islington Academy
5 Brother Firetribe London Borderline
Special mention to Dan Reed Network/Vega 100 Club,Eclipse/One Desire Nottingham Rescue Rooms,Helloween Brixton Academy,Joe Bonamassa Royal Albert Hall,Delain Koko,Dream Theater Hammersmith Odeon,H.E.A.T. Islington Academy,Mike Portnoy's Shattered Fortress Koko,Damian Wilson Bear Inn Oxford

Looking forward to in 2018 albums by FM,W.E.T.,Vega,Dan Patlansky,Stone Broken,The Temperance Movement and Saxon.
And gigs by Black Country Communion (already one of the gigs of the year),Iron Maiden,Pearl Jam,The Foo Fighters,Stone Broken,King King,Beth Hart,Nickelback,G3 and Dan Patlansky.

Shazz

Albums 

1 H.E.A.T. Into The Great Unknown
2 Threshold Legends Of The Shires
3 Accept The Rise Of Chaos
4 Broken Witt Rebels
5 Inglorious 2

Gigs 

1 H.E.A.T. Islington Academy
2 Metallica O2 Arena
3 Delain Koko
4 Iron Maiden O2 Arena
5 Inglorious Southampton The Brook

Nigel


Albums 

1 U2 - Songs of Experience (Deluxe)
Iron Maiden - The Book Of Souls Live Chapter
3 Bernie Torme - Dublin Cowboy 
4 Black Star Riders - Heavy Fire
5 Thunder - Rip it Up (Deluxe)

Special mention of The Quireboys White Trash Blue - just missed out on a top five place

Gigs 

1 U2 - Twickenham 
2 Y & T - Holmfirth
3 The Quireboys - Halifax
4 Michael Schenker Fest - Sheffield 
5 Black Star Riders - Holmfirth

Also a special mention for Bernie Torme for a great show at Oxford in December that just missed out on making my top 5.

Nige

Albums...

No order....

Black Country Communion : BCCIV
Robert Plant  : Carry Fire
Is this the life we really want ? : Roger Waters
Kenny Wayne Shepherd : Lay It On Down
Thunder : Rip It Up
Cheap Trick ; We Got It Going On
Inglorious II

Gigs (in No order)
Ramblin Man was good as ever, although 2016 probably edged it...standout sets from Stone Broken, Dan Baird’s Homemade Sin (without Dan Baird they made it up as they went along https://youtu.be/M3kRuLPPjkk 
https://youtu.be/gIzVLoJ6jOk ) UFO and Kenny Wayne Shepherd

Foreigner, Cheap Trick and Jason Bonham’s Led Zeppelin experience. First US gig experience. Amazing.

Little Big Town (yeah I know it’s not rock but it was in The Ryman, in Nashville and that’s rock ‘n’ f****in roll as far as I’m concerned.)

Robert Plant : still awesomely awesome

Beth Hart solo in Coventry Cathedral also has awesomeness 

I lied about no order because the Thunder Christmas Party is number 1


Horrible things in 2017...

The loss of Tom Petty and Malcolm Young
The new Theory of a Deadman album

Unsweetened Soya milk.




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