Wyrd Ways Rock Show

Since the last show, we in the Rock and Metal... and the musical community as a whole... have been hit with several waves of bad news. Not only do we have news of Ian Hill , co-founder of Judas Priest , retiring from the band he's been in for 57 years due to arthritis in several joints that hamper his ability to play, we also had the deaths of Dolly Parton and Conrad "Cronos" Lant of...

Here we are in the opening days of September. 2026 is 75% done and with the Stonedead Festival firmly in the rearview mirror (not going to acknowledge Reading and Leeds since they don't acknowledge Rock and Metal anymore), festival season really is done for this year. That does mean that release schedules will be ramping up towards Christmas and the bands will be back to hitting the road...

We've made it to the middle of August, and the last stretch of festival season here in the UK and Europe.  Download, Eddfest (for the Iron Maiden fans), Bloodstock and Wacken are a memory, brought back by the sunburn on your skin and the mud in the treads of your boots.  Even the ringing in your ears has faded to the usual tinnitus we all have. There's only really Hellfest and Stonedead...

It's been an eventful few weeks here at Wyrd Ways Rock Show Towers.  Not only have we had another heat wave, your "esteemed" host's left eye fell apart again, requiring another dose of emergency retinal surgery.  Don't go knocking the NHS anywhere near me - from ringing the Eye Clinic to going under the knife took a grand total of 7 hours, and I didn't have to pay anything beyond what I...

July rolls around and it's time for another edition of The Wyrd Ways Rock Show . One day I'll get this back onto at least a fortnightly schedule, but sadly that isn't this month. You know how time gets away from you as life gets in the way? This is one of those times. Anyway... loads of new music as usual, including material from the new, forthcoming Masterplan album, the new single by K...

Welcome to another edition of The Wyrd Ways Rock Show. Pride Month 2026 is upon us and we have a special shout to previous guests, Porcelain Victoria and Edie Montana for International Sex Worker's Day, which happened on the 2nd. As with every episode, The Wyrd Ways Rock Show focuses on bringing you the best new music from established bands like Armored Saint, Accept and Black Veil Brides and up-a...

Welcome back to another edition of The Wyrd Ways Rock Show. As you've come to expect we’ve got a sprawling playlist that wanders through the best of what’s new and noteworthy. We kick off with the classic Heavy Metal of Generation Steel and Armored Saint , then drift into the more melodic waters of Black Veil Brides and Holy Wars . The voyage (since we seem to have tapped into a nautical theme) co...

No interview this time on The Wyrd Ways Rock Show, which means the spotlight falls firmly on the music. This edition delivers a packed mix of heavy hitters and underground discoveries, from the intensity of Infected Rain to the classic Thrash of Exodus to the majesty of the undisputed Finnish Queen of Symphonic Metal Herself, Tarja Turunen. Collaborations add extra weight, with Stitched-Up Heart j...

Welcome to the latest edition of The Wyrd Ways Rock Show . As always, the focus remains on the music and the push to get diverse voices heard. The centrepiece of this show is an interview I did at SOS 2025 with young Manchester-based band, Dacara . Huge thanks to them for the chat. As is the tradition here, I handed them the keys to the playlist for a bit afterward. You’ll be hearing Nice Try and...

This one took a bit longer to put together than expected. Honestly, I wanted to get it together a couple of weeks ago, but just didn't have the spoons. Anyway... As usual, The Wyrd Ways Rock Show is about new music and forcing a woke agenda down your throats. So a lot of the bands have women in them. With today, as I type this, being International Women's Day, I think that's kind of...

Wyrd Ways Rock Show CDXXXVI features special guests Anika McRae (one of the head honchoes of City Of Counterculture) and John Marshall joining me in the studio... erm the room at work we recorded in for this edition. Both of them are more than likely to make repeat appearances. As always, there’s a strong focus on new material and up-and-coming bands, but there's also some more experienced ha...

This edition of The Wyrd Ways Rock Show marks a new chapter for the show, with a fresh theme tune replacing Rat Salad . With Black Sabbath’s retirement and the passing of Ozzy Osbourne earlier this year, it felt like the right time to make the change and usher in something new for the show. In this edition, we’re diving into a solid mix of Trad, Symphonic, and Death Metal with a bit of Folk and Do...

Okay, as you've probably noticed this edition of The Wyrd Ways Rock Show is running a little late. For those of you wondering where I’ve been, I’ve been dealing with some vision issues over the past few months. Things were getting pretty bad, to the point where I couldn’t read the screen on my computer properly and had to give up driving at night because I literally couldn’t see the end of the roa...

Hello and welcome to this week's edition of The Wyrd Ways Rock Show. This week's show, as well as all the usual brand spanking new music and interesting bands I've found while trawling social media, there's an interview with "the sex face of Burlesque" herself, originator of Stripknot (yes, you did read that correctly!), Trixie Blue. I spoke to her about... hang on... why am I telling you?&nb...

Before we get going with this week's Wyrd Ways Rock Show, Porcelain Victoria (this week's guest) asked me to pass on her apologies for misgendering Bambie Thug. They identify as "they/them", not "she/her" as Victoria said during the interview. No offence meant. So I had a little bit of a fanboy moment when recording this week's show. I've been listening to <strong>Porcelain Vi...

This edition of The Wyrd Ways Rock Show features a special guest star as part of my push to getting more diverse voices and interesting people on the show - fire performer, model, Circus freak, piercer, Paddle Mag Awards winner 2024, Sexual Freedom Awards Finalist 2025, and Alternative Awards nominee 2025, Kitty Von Crypt.  As usual with guests on the show, Kitty also gets to pick some music...

Welcome to the new edition of The Wyrd Ways Rock Show! Life got in the way again and I had a mental system crash last weekend, so that delayed everything. That's one of the things that happens when you're dealing with depression and anxiety. I hope that by being open with my own fight, we can normalise talking about it. That's one of the reasons I'm teaming up with Heavy Metal Thera...

This week's Wyrd Ways Rock Show comes at a time when our trans siblings are under attack from TERFs like that woman who wrote the Harry Potter books, the UK Supreme Court and even our Health Secretary, Wes Streeting. Please, if you are in the UK, write to your MP expressing your disgust at the way this marginalized community is being treated. This is especially despicable from a Labour g...

Apologies for the lateness of this "week"'s edition of The Wyrd Ways Rock Show - I just totally ran out of spoons. I'm only just now starting to be recovered enough to be doing all the stuff needed to put a show together. If you're wondering why I'm referring to cutlery and what that has to do with anything, click on this link for an explanation. It explains quite nicely while people lik...

Welcome to the latest edition of The Wyrd Ways Rock Show. This week's show is packed to the proverbial gunwhales with the usual blend of top quality brand new Rock and Metal, as you'd expect. We’ve got brand-new music from Vanitas and Bloodywood , a taste of Ward XVI ’s upcoming album Id3ntity , and a guest appearance from FFDP 's Ivan Moody on The Funeral Portrait ’s Holy Water . But it’s not jus...

It's been a little more than a week since the last edition of The Wyrd Ways Rock Show, but there is a reason for that. I had an anxiety attack at the pole class I attend on Saturday mornings. That basically meant that Saturday (where I do most of my planning for the new show) was a write-off, with Sunday being mostly about getting my head back together for Monday. The good news is that t...

This week's (oops...) edition of The Wyrd Ways Rock Show was going to be released before International Women's Day, but unfortunately the number of spoons I had available weren't up to the task. Especially after the emotional kick in the balls I received midweek. There's a few more details on my Insta, if you're intrigued, but that's limited to close friends. Anyway, as is sort-of tradit...

Welcome once again to The Wyrd Ways Rock Show. This week, as usual, loads of new releases from bands from all over the planet, showing just what a diverse genre Rock and Metal truly is, despite the best efforts of gatekeepers I like to call The Metal Taliban (there's even an article I wrote about that on The Wyrd Ways Rock Show website in the Blog section if you want to have a read). As well as th...

Welcome to the new edition of The Wyrd Ways Rock Show . Apolgies for their being no show last week. The first week in February is a massively busy (and expensive) one for me - both my wife and my son have birthdays. So I literally didn't have the headspace or time to do all the necessary work to put a show together. This week's different. I've actually had some time this week....

Yet again proving Gene Simmons wrong, here's another edition of The Wyrd Ways Rock Show . Seriously, if he was right, I wouldn't be finding so much new stuff to enjoy and play for you. I'd be stuck to playing the "old favourites", and that's when I'd probably give up. What keeps me going is all the new stuff that either arrives in my Inbox or I find on Instagram and Bandcamp. There'...