The new Tight But Loose magazine is almost ready to go. We signed off the proofs yesterday and it should be all ready to ship out at the end of the month.
Many thanks to Mick Lowe, Gary Foy, Cliff Hilliard and Jez Firth for their help with this issue and all the contributors who have made it what it is.

With so much recent Zep related activity, this 27th issue of the magazine has grown in to quite an epic. Over the past three months, designer Mike Lowe and …

The long awaited Black Country Communion album is released here next Monday. It’s already number one on the Amazon pre order chart and is garnering excellent  reviews.
The band will be conducting a live interview on Nicky Horne’s show on Planet Rock this Sunday ahead of the album’s launch.
See http://www.planetrock.com/
In an exclusive interview with Dave Lewis for the TBL magazine,  Joe Bonamassa revealed how quickly the album was recorded.
‘’The one thing you can say about this album is that there was no danger of it being over thought. It was three …

Robert Plant and the Band of Joy are to perform the second night of the BBC 2 Electric Proms, at the Roundhouse in Camden, London on October 29th. Robert Plant and Band of Joy will be joined by the London Oriana Choir, the choir that joined the singer a few months ago at the Abbey Road concert. The concert will be broadcast live on BBC Radio 2 at 8pm and also shown as a part of ” A Night With Robert Plant”, a special evening dedicated to Robert’s career on …

Photo by Scott Heck
On Sunday night Robert and the Band Of Joy performed at the Bowery Ballroom in New York to a 500 strong audience in a special album preview show, similar to the one at the Mayfair 1 in London. The Band Of Joy played a full set list  which lined up as follows:
Monkey , House of Cards , Please Read the Letter , Misty Mountain Hop , Rich Woman , Somewhere Trouble Don’t Go , Medley (Twelve Gates To The City, Wade In The Water, In My Time …

Robert Plant’s Band Of Joy album is released in the UK today. It has already garnered some of the best reviews of Robert’s career. I previewed the album here back in August and having lived with it over the past few weeks,  I can only add  that repeated plays have further enhanced my appreciation of the scope and depth of Robert and the band’s performance.
As he noted in yesterday’s Sunday Times Culture magazine, ”It’s a place where I can actually sing, instead of just trying to compete. I like that …

(Photo by  Shelley Mays/The Tennessean).
Robert Plant and The Band Of Joy made a surprise appearance at the Americana 2010 Award Show at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, Tennessee, last night (9th September).
The band performed a 30-minute performance of songs from their upcoming album including Monkey, House Of Cards, Harms Swift Way, Satan Your Kingdom Must Come Down and We Bid You Good Night at the end of the evenings awards ceremony. Earlier in the evening Robert took to the stage to honor Buddy Miller with the Instrumentalist of the Year …

John Paul Jones will be appearing with Dave Rawlings Machine on their UK tour this month. He will be playing mandolin as their special guest on the following dates:
Sunday September 12th ABC,Glasgow
Monday September 13th The Sage, Gateshead
Tuesday September 14th Leeds Irish Centre, Leeds
Friday September 17th Troxy,London
For ticket details visit Dave Rawlings Machine web site
http://www.daverawlingsmachine.com

Photo Copyright © Janet Macoska  – Used by permission of Genesis Publications
‘Jimmy 1977 by Janet Macoska’ – April 27, 1977, Richfield Coliseum, Cleveland, USA.
Jimmy Page was recently interviewed for The New York Times regarding the forthcoming publication of the Jimmy Page By Jimmy Page book .
Talking to Ben Susario  he said ’’As far as a pictorial record, you can certainly see a little bit behind the music, and you can make your own mind up. I’m not really colouring it too much with what annotations I’ve made. I didn’t want …

You can hear Robert Plants new Band Of Joy CD in it’s entirety on line at the player below. The on line streaming of the album, via NPR will be available until the album’s release on  September 14th.  Robert Plant will perform on the Monday, September 13 edition of NBC-TV‘s “Late Night with Jimmy Fallon”. The show will air at 12:35 a.m. ET (technically early Tuesday morning, September 14th ), the evening following his New York show.

Robert appeared on the BBC 1 Andrew Marr Show on Sunday morning for a interview and …

Photos By Svenn
John Paul Jones made a surprise appearance at the Punkt Festival in Kristiansand, in the south of Norway on Saturday  September 4th. John performed a solo piece that was a commissioned work for “Nearly Ninety” – formulated for the choreographer Merce Cunningham’s 90th birthday. He then remained on stage to be joined by Norwegian avant-garde/electro acoustic group Supersilent.

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John’s involvement in the festival came about after a chance meeting two years ago with Jan Bang and Erik Honoré the organizers of the festival who initially invited him …