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Fall From Grace Latest release by Ross Stewart New Single launches 29 th  May 2025 Two things to get your teeth into straight away with Ross Stewart's new single  Fall From Grace:   it’s another great, bouncy tune; you get to bask in the sheer joy of a needle-sharp Stewart rock guitar solo that is hard as diamonds.  It is the kind of guitar solo you feared might be lost in the Digital Age, but here it is, a solo that makes you want to unpack an air guitar and spin round the room, eyes squeezed tight shut. Lyrically, Ross Stewart continues to explore his growing awareness of emotions, life and the kind of mistakes that can seem catastrophic early in adult life.  His latest song poses the question  Is it a fall from grace, or is it just getting older?  The song   ends with a cry for help for the over-whelmed voice,  I’m drowning, I’m drowning .   There is no attempt to push trite answers. The power of the vocal delivery...

Spear of Destiny, Janus Tour 2025 John Peel Centre for The Arts, Stowmarket - 1st May 2025 The impossibly handsomest boy of the post-punk scene was looking positively cherubic as he took the stage to plug in his lead at The John Peel Centre on May Day 2025.    The young man who looked like the son of a Greek God in 1983 is 68 years old now and he’s still looking good, the hair curl still with us.   Kirk Brandon ’s Spear of Destiny are back to a six-piece band, he’s still got his big guitar, a grand piano of a guitar, there’s the saxophone blended into the constant guitar ( as found on The Stooges second album Funhouse, released in 1970) , the slightly incongruous ‘muso’ lead guitar, the keyboards and the rhythm section, the driving force of this show.   The crowd, standing (thank goodness) are an assortment of the committed, the curious and the ambivalent.  T-shirts on show include Spear of Destiny’s latest promoting  Janus -  the new recording...