LIGHT & SHADE OFFERS CLARITY AND PERCEPTION 
Light & Shade – Conversations with Jimmy Page by Brad Tolinski 
I have long since been an admirer of Brad Tolinksi’s Jimmy Page features in Guitar World magzine. As can be seen above, I’ve been an avid collector of these issues over the past 20 years. They have made for some of the most illuminating interviews Jimmy has conducted in the post Zeppelin years.
Brad has always show much empathy for the subject coming in from the angle of a real fan and enthusiast of …

In this extract from an exclusive recent interview with Dave Lewis for TBL , Glenn Hughes discusses the state of play inside Black Country Communion and the recording of their album Afterglow which is released this week.
Dave Lewis: How did the recording of this album compare to the two previous BCC albums?
Glenn Hughes: Well we were scheduled to do two five day weeks in the studio but Joe was knackered coming from South America. So ten days turned into five days, so I said to Kevin Shirley, ‘’Surely you jest, we can’t …

Halloween Zep image via Zezette.
ROBERT PLANT SAYS GOODBYE TO BRAZIL WHILE CELEBRATIO​N DAY PREMIERES..
REPORT BY ANDRE CRUZ
In Brasilia, DF, Plant visited a temple called “Templo da Boa Vontade”, before the gig, that had the same setlist of the second and last night in São Paulo – a journalist made a mistake and said that he played “Four Sticks” for the first time in Brasilia, but he already played this song the previous concert. The attendance at Nilson Nelson Gimnasium was about 10 thousand people and again the crowd was more …

Two separate reports have confirmed that Jimmy Page is working on a project to remaster the Led Zeppelin catalogue for a re-issue programme to commence next year.
Talking of future plans ahead in an interview with Phil Alexander in the superb new issue of Mojo magazine, Jimmy Page comments  “There are also a number of Led Zeppelin projects that will come out next year because there are different versions of tracks that we have that can be added to the albums so there will be a box sets of material that …

ROBERT PLANT PRESENTS SENSATIONAL SPACE SHIFTERS TWICE IN SÃO PAULO AND PREMIERES “FOUR STICKS” IN LATIN AMERICA 2012 TOUR – ON THE SPOT REPORT FOR TBL  FROM ANDRE CRUZ:
This week a Led Zeppelin member did two shows in two consecutive days in any point of the South-America for the very first time. It was also the first indoor Robert Plant show in the biggest city of the continent. The organizers choose São Paulo to Monday and Tuesday because it has the strongest Brazilian market for rock shows. Arriving lessening to …

Kashmir -The pride of Led Zeppelin – pic via Donato Farace
Bit of a catch up here with lots of things going on…
CELEBRATION DAY SCREENINGS FEEDBACK WRAP:
Here’s a last round up of feedback comments from the Celebration Day screenings –
Jumping on the last train…here is my take on Celebration Day. I celebrated the day at the Budokan…er, no, the Cineworld in Stockport (of all places). For the 8:45 pm screening, the second and last of the day, the seats were occupied by some fifty people, about 1/4 full, quite …

ROBERT PLANT PRESENTS THE SENSATIONAL SPACE SHIFTERS IN BELO HORIZONTE
This on the spot report from Andre Cruz for TBL: 
Last Saturday Robert Plant did his sixth show in his entire career in Brasil soil, the first one outside the 2 biggest cities (Rio and São Paulo).
The public of Belo Horizonte, in Minas Gerais state, saw an almost sold out gig at pavillion number 3 (5.500 m2) of ExpoMinas, a big convention center in Gameleira district, 5 km away from the city centre.
As happened in Rio, a public of different generations attended …

Robert Plant Presents The Sensational Space Shifters in Rio: This report of the opening gig via Andre Cruz of Rio De Janeiro:
 16 years and nine months. A long, long time without a Led Zeppelin related concert in Brasil or South America. But the wait was over with an unforgettable night with a very well balanced mix of Blues, Folk,World Music and even Rock `n` Roll. Without Country! With the Sensational Space Shifters debuting “Ramble On”, “Going To California” and “Rock `N` Roll”. The frustration of not seeing Celebration Day on …

‘’With the release of Celebration Day, the concert record of their reunion a the 02 Arena to honour Ahmet Ertegun, Led Zeppelin will bring joy to the world –and you will know exactly how that feels when you witness his simply astonishing film’’ DL – September 23rd 2012.
As can be detected in the above quote, when I wrote my original review after the press screening in late September , I was somewhat over whelmed by what I had witnessed. I also went some way to quantify my reactions and stated …

CELEBRATION DAY – IT WAS THAT FOR SURE… 
Well…where to start again…
The Celebration Day was exactly that – here’s just a sample of the many feedback reports –there are more on the TBL Facebook page
Waking up and reading all the many feedback reports from the Celebration Day screenings has been awe-inspiring –and once again the reaction has brought tears to my eyes…you just feel so proud of it all . How can one group of musicians create such worldwide joy – they are just phenomenal and so are their fans…..
 Nina McLean: …