On 24th May Escape Music released “Fire and Grace”, the latest album from American band Alliance. The band features guitarist Gary Pihl (from Boston, the Sammy Hagar Band etc), drummer David Lauser (from the Sammy Hagar Band) and Robert Berry (from 3, GTR, 3.2 etc). Escape Music boss Khalil Turk gave me an opportunity to interview Gary or Robert and I jumped at the chance to record something with both of them individually. Both interviews can be heard on the Friday NI Rocks Show for 14th June. This is available now from the NI Rocks MixCloud page - https://www.mixcloud.com/NIRocks/interviews-with-gary-pihl-and-robert-berry-from-alliance-on-the-friday-ni-rocks-show-14th-june-2019/ .
Gary and Robert both chat about the history of Alliance, going back to the mid 90’s, and about the new album. Each picked three tracks from the album to play alongside the interviews.
Read more: NI ROCKS Interview with GARY PIHL from ALLIANCE and BOSTON
“Nowhere To Run” is the debut album from English band The Brink and it was released on Frontiers Music on 17th May. The band are one of the new generation of hard rock bands that are influenced by the great classic rock bands and they self-released two EPs before signing with Frontiers in 2017. The track “Save Goodbye” was included on the Friday NI Rocks Show on 5th April and “Are You With Me” on 10th May. An earlier single, “Little Janie”, was featured on the Show last year.
Read more: NI ROCKS Recommends "Nowhere To Run" by THE BRINK
There are two NI Rocks Shows uploaded each week on Rock Radio NI. These are the playlists for those shows for the month of May – all of which are still available from the On Demand Player. There are tracks by around 170 different artists on the Shows this month. Playlists for March were published previously and these Shows are also available via the On Demand Player – http://www.rockradioni.co.uk/news/rrni-updates/3585-ni-rocks-playlists-for-april-2019.html
This month the Friday NI Rocks Show included an interview with singer Danny Rexon from Craxy Lixx. All interviews can be found here - http://www.rockradioni.co.uk/interviews.html
“Fire and Grace” is the fifth studio album from American melodic rockers Alliance, a band that traces its roots back over thirty years; although their first album wasn’t released until 1996. Their last album was actually released over ten years ago, as the band members all continue to work on other projects. “Fire and Grace” was released on 24th May by Escape Music. The track “The Wheel” was featured on the Friday NI Rocks Show on 3rd May followed by “Real Thing” on 31st May.