Europe’s biggest rock and metal festival, Download, will turn a gesture of solidarity, love and respect into a tradition by reprising last year’s astonishing ‘Thumbs Up’ tribute to fallen brother Stephen Sutton at the Main Stage at 16:00 this Saturday 13 June. Two years ago Download had the great pleasure of welcoming the inspirational Stephen ...

_{Slaughter frontman Mark Slaughter recently released a solo album called “Reflections in a Rear View Mirror”. This was the first album release from Mark or Slaughter in about 15 years. I posted a recommendation for the album recently (http://www.rockradioni.co.uk/back-stage/music-reviews/1994-ni-rocks-recommends-qreflections-in-a-rear-view-mirrorq-by-mark-slaughter.html ) and have played a few tracks on the show.}

_{As a long-time Slaughter fan it was great to hear some new material being released and I figured it would be a good opportunity to try and secure an interview with the man himself. Thankfully, we were able to get things arranged and I spoke to Mark on 9th June via Skype. This interview was broadcast on the Friday NI Rocks Show on 12th June and can now be heard On the NI Rocks MixCloud Page -}

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REVIEWERS tend to be relatively hard workers, given most put in a shift in front of their computers after they punch in the hours in another job to pay the bills and earn beer tokens. But, compared to Mark Tremonti we're a bunch of lazy wasters. The man's picture is in the dictionary next to 'workaholic'.


For those not familiar with Mr Tremonti, he is the guitarist for Alter Bridge and former main man in Creed. After releasing his solo debut 'All I Was' in 20121 and