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 …

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 …

At 7pm on Saturday 4th September, the UK’s leading classic rock radio station PLANET ROCK will air an exclusive hour-long documentary interview with Black Country Communion. The documentary will feature Planet Rock speaking to the BCC members about the band’s formation and future. The one hour radio special will also be repeated on Thursday 9th September at 11pm.
Presented by DJ Nicky Horne, the behind-the-scenes documentary includes exclusive interviews with Glenn Hughes, Joe Bonamassa and Jason Bonham, plus a selection of music from their highly anticipated debut album. Also featured in …

The UK’s leading classic rock radio station Planet Rock will premiere “One Last Soul”, the first single taken from the forthcoming Black Country Communion album on Monday August 2nd at 6pm GMT on ‘The Nicky Horne Show’.
The song makes its radio debut ahead of the album which is released in the UK via Mascot Records on Monday September 20th. Listeners will be able to tune in to Planet Rock in the UK on DAB Digital Radio, on Sky 0110, Virgin Media 924, Freesat 730, iPhone and online at www.planetrock.com

Pic by John-David-Mercer-Press-Register
The internet is currently full of Robert Plant delights  including a continuing flow on YouTube of fan footage from the US shows including this excellent piece from Stubbs BBQ in Austin.

There’s also an  exclusive preview of Angel Dance ,the first single from the forthcoming Band Of Joy album.  To listen to this  follow the link to Rollingstone.com Angel Dance
Rounder Records have released a EPK with an interview with Robert and more exclusive preview cuts from the album including the superb “You Can’t By Me Love”. This can be …

”One publishes a splendid Led Zeppelin magazine doesn’t one” – The TBL 2 meet HRH, July 21st 1982.
Seeing the announcement of the Princes Trust concert due to be staged later this year with Eric Clapton headlining, reminded me of my experiences at the 1982 Princes Trust Rock Gala staged at the London Dominion Theatre.
This was the night Robert Plant performed on a London stage for the first time since the demise of Zep. My good friend Tom and I were there on the evening of July 21st 1982 to witness …

The TBL 2 GF and DL meet with another fully paid up member of the Black Country Communion – Marble Arch London July 5th 2010
Last Monday was a bit of a whirlwind day as aside from the evening’s Them Crooked Vultures gig, Gary and I had a lunchtime rendezvous with Glenn Hughes.
This was to conduct a follow up interview with Glenn regarding the Black Country Communion album. As he had been on the phone from LA back in February, Glenn was a fantastic interviewee.   Accommodating, friendly, lucid and incredibly positive, …

DL with a fully paid up member of the Black Country Communion –  London June 29th 2010
Let’s get this one out of the way.  England’s exit from the World Cup was indeed a bitter pill to swallow. I know we were poor overall, but I can’t help thinking if the goal that never was had been rightly allowed it might have all been a different story. It’s all history now though and we are left with the aftermath, the recriminations and inquests.  Can’t get too excited about the rest of …

Black Country Communion pic by Marty Temme
Back in February Glenn Hughes explained to me that the album he was recording with Jason Bonham,  Joe Bonamassa and Derek Sherinian was ‘’A big rock statement’’.  He went on to say ‘’This is the real thing the right thing to do at the right time.’’
Having been afforded an exclusive preview of the Black Country Communion album due for release here via Mascot Records on September 20th, well Glenn has been true to his word.  The album is jam packed with quality rock songs …