Telford’s Warehouse, Chester, 03/11/12 A rainy night in Chester, just a stones throw outside the ancient Romano/Mediaeval city walls stands Telford’s Warehouse, venue for tonight’s visit from ex-Hoax guitarist Jon Amor and his deceptively titled ‘Blues Group’. For the previously uninitiated, The Hoax were one of the UK’s most successful Blues exports of the 1990’s,… Continue reading The Jon Amor Blues Group – Gig Review
Category: Writing
Any articles by Nick Lauro that demonstrate his journalistic writing style
Pick Withers – A Road Well Travelled – (A Drumdoctor Interview)
The following is an interview I conducted with former Dire Straits drummer, Pick Withers, in 2010. A shortened version appeared in the July 2012 issue of Modern Drummer magazine. This is the full,
Alison Krauss & Union Station, Liverpool Philharmonic Hall, 14/07/12
If I were lucky enough to meet Robert Plant and be allowed to say one thing to him, it would have to be; “I get it.“ After watching Alison Krauss & Union Station perform to a sold out Liverpool audience, it’s understandable how being the singer in one of the biggest bands in Rock history… Continue reading Alison Krauss & Union Station, Liverpool Philharmonic Hall, 14/07/12
Stuart Adamson, 10 Years Gone, Crossing Three Decades
1983 was a year of immense personal change within my so far, brief lifetime. Being a mid teen, my body excelled in throwing mood-swings, courtesy of the hormones that efficiently executed their role of upsetting the DNA apple-cart. The year hadn’t started well either; schoolboy ‘musical differences’ within my band threatening to trash 1982’s progress,… Continue reading Stuart Adamson, 10 Years Gone, Crossing Three Decades