TBL Celebrates Houses Of The Holy at 40:
A lot of work went into collating and writing the Houses Of The Holy feature earlier in the year – I was as usual spinning a few other plates, so it’s most gratifying to receive the kind of feedback below that makes it all worthwhile…inspiring a return to the music with a fresh perspective is always my mission on everything that comes out of here…judging by these comments it’s job done with Houses…
This one from Paul Humbley:
This is the least played Zeppelin vinyl in …

Led Zeppelin Houses Of The Holy  TBL 40th Anniverary Special:
40 years ago today Led Zeppelin released their long awaited fifth album, Houses Of The Holy.
We have been counting down to this milestone anniversary and the TBL website and Facebook page will be celebrating the album’s release over the next few days.
I myself have been getting intensely re acquainted with the Houses Of The Holy album since January, as over the past three months I’ve been collating a major feature  for the new issue of Record Collector – that issue is now …

I know I’ve run this before, but the posting on Jimmy’s site today – and the fact it’s 15 years ago today that they performed the Shepherds Bush Empire gig, prompted me to dig out the Mad Month of March text from TBL 13 that chronicles this intensive period that saw them stage the showpiece Shepherds Bush gig plus appearances of Top of The Pops and TFI Friday.
1998 really was a fantastic year for Page and Plant activity – for some of  us in the TBL crew perhaps the last carefree period before we got …

Robert Plant presents Sensational Spaceshifters – West Coast Blues and Roots Festival – Fremantle: Western Australia, Perth –
This report by Mick Judd for TBL
Just got home. It was a great day with some great acts preceding Robert and the Strange Sensation, such as Chris Issak, Tedeschi Trucks Band and Status Quo. Robert and band came on about 7.30 pm and brought the house down with mostly Dreamland and Might Re-arranger materials. He looked quite fit and the band were well geared up for the gig. At one stage he made …

JIMMY PAGE AND JOHN PAUL JONES ACCEPT ECHO INTERNATIONAL LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD IN BERLIN: 
Jimmy Page and John Paul Jones were in attendance to accept Led Zeppelin’s International Lifetime Achievement Award at the Palais am Funkturm in Berlin last night.
Here is a link to watch the acceptance of the award: It’s wonderful to see Jimmy and JPJ together to receive yet another much deserved accolade…
http://www.ardmediathek.de/das-erste/echo-2013/lebenswerk-international-led-zeppelin?documentId=13822376
Many thanks to Wolfgang Siedel
Photo Luca Teuchmann/Getty
Here’s a brief interview clip with Jimmy and summary of last night’s ECHO awards which saw Jimmy Page and John Paul Jones in …

Here’s a new interview with Robert Plant via Digital Today Singapore conducted by Kevin Mathews ahead of his Sensational Spaceshifters date at the Timbre Rock & Roots music festival on Thursday.
Yes, he’s now officially in town. The voice behind Led Zeppelin will be performing, quite aptly, at Timbre Rock & Roots music festival. We were worried he’d strain his voice prior to his set on Thursday night, but Plant didn’t seem to mind, judging from our long and quite candid chat. Read on.
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YOU’VE HAD OVER FORTY YEARS OF MAKING MUSIC, WHAT …

As Robert prepares for his first appearances down under since 1996 – here’s a round up of pre – tour media coverage, interviews and quotes: 
Robert Plant has an unquenchable thirst for music that moves him.
From his golden-haired, rock-god days as frontman for Led Zeppelin to his latest British urban, West African-inspired incarnation, The Sensational Shape Shifters.
“Try combining West African rhythms with Led Zeppelin-fired blues,” he explains ahead of his two April shows in New Zealand.
It will be Plant’s third visit to New Zealand. Speaking from his home in Machynlleth, Wales, …

Robert Plant Presents Sensational Space Shifters set for JamBase Live at the Gorge WA  July 5/6
Robert Plant, Michael Franti, Rodrigo y Gabriela, Slightly Stoopid,  Robert Randolph & The Family Band, G. Love & Special Sauce and STS9 are among the acts slated to appear at the JamBase Live festival. As previously reported, the first-ever JamBase festival will take place at George, WA’s  Gorge Amphitheatre on July 5 and 6.
Other confirmed acts include: Galactic, Railroad Earth, Bruce Hornsby & The Noisemakers, Lettuce, Nicki Bluhm & The Gramblers and ALO. The event …

Deborah Bonham has a charity gig with Paul Rodgers plus a full scale tour lined up  to coincide with the relase of her excellent new album Spirit.
Here are all the details:
Paul Rodgers & Deborah Bonham 30th March 2013 @ The Venue, Spur Rd, Chichester W. Sussex PO19 9PR UK
Paul Rodgers has announced that he will be returning to The Venue in Chichester to raise funds for Animal Welfare on Sat 30 March. Joining Paul Rodgers on the bill will be Deborah Bonham and her Band. All the proceeds will go to …

TBL ARCHIVE SPECIAL PAGE & PLANT LIVE IN ISTANBUL – 15 YEARS GONE
Now this one is a bit of an epic.  This was first published in TBL 13 – It’s an road chronicle of the TBL crew’s adventures in pursuit of Jimmy Page and Robert Plant across the and month of March 1998. This took in two dates in Istanbul – something of a zenith in my own ‘’Crazy things I’ve done in the name of Zep’’ portfolio, followed by the superb Shepherds Bush Empire gig which in turn was …