Hello People,
Welcome to my new website, Rock The Net! If you’re a defender of the faith – in other words a heavy metal fan – you are more than welcome to enter...
Here, you can find out about my latest book ventures as well as information on the magazines and fanzines I write for. I will regularly update and improve the site and if anything interesting happens or is going to happen soon, I’ll update my diary. You can also check out the Playlist page to see what I’m listening to each month. Everything I have ever written that has been published is in My Writings and Archives. If you wanna find out what I’m doing next, just check out Current Projects.
And if you’re really bored you can find out more about me on the, er, About Me page.
On the Links page you’ll see loads of links to some really cool sites, which I visit quite often. Finally, I’d like to mention that I have conducted interviews - exclusive to this site - with a number of writers which you can read on the Interviews page. This is part of my ongoing personal project; I hope to build up an archive of interviews with noted authors in the hope of learning more about writing books and pop culture in general.
I hope you like it. And remember people: rock hard and ride free!
(13/10/08)
New Section! Foreign Editions!
(11/10/08)
Here's a link to Metal Maniacs' review of 'Defenders Of The Faith'.
New Diary Entry! What’s Going On With Me?
New Concert Dates in the Gig Guide!
New Playlist!
(26/09/08)
New Interviews! Jerry Ewing, Malcolm Dome, Joe Shooman.
New Concert Dates in the Gig Guide!
Film Review! BABYLON A.D.
New Cover Interviews!
Win a copy of my Robert Plant Book!
(29/08/08)
Album Review! 'Arena' Todd Rundgren (Cooking Vinyl)
New Concert Dates in the Gig Guide!
(20/08/08)
Four amazing new interviews with writers for your reading pleasure!
Jerry Bloom, Dave Ferris, Martin Popoff and Sterling Whitaker.
The first details of my new Bon Jovi book are now in Current Projects!
New Concert Dates in the Gig Guide!
New Cover Interview!
New Playlist!
(12/08/08)
New Diary Entry! What Am I Up To?
New Robert Plant book reviews Here!
The new issue of Powerplay is out now.
(01/08/08)
As the publication date draws ever closer, I give to you a first taste of what to expect from my new book about Al Atkins: Extract One.
(29/07/08)
New Interviews! Mark Blake, Garry Bushell and Matthias Mader.
(24/07/08)
'Defenders Of The Faith: The Story Of Judas Priest' will be published in Poland, Bulgaria and Germany later this year. More details to follow.
I am featured in this DVD documentary of Led Zeppelin's grand double-opus Physical Graffti, released by Chrome Dreams: Here
New Concert Dates in the Gig Guide!
You can read an interview with me here: About.com
Check out the latest issue of Fireworks Here
Issue 100 of Powerplay is now in shops.
(18/07/08)
New Diary Entry! It’s All Go…
New Film & Books Entry! Other Realms
New Playlist!
(15/07/08)
Message from the Webmaster:
G'day! After a slightly longer break than expected, communication is resumed. Neil must have been lonely without me to talk to because he has been talking to lots of legendary writers in my abscence. The upside of this is that we can now bring you a massive four new interviews with some of the biggest names in rock writing to slake your hunger!
New Interviews! Joe Ambrose, Jeff Apter, Alan Clayson and Chris Welch.
(30/05/08)
New Concert Dates in the Gig Guide!
My hard-working webmaster Mr. Rob McKenna is taking a well earned break from, well, almost everything for the next 4 weeks as he travels around Australia. But don't worry because we'll be back in July with lots of updates. At some point it'll be possible to buy signed copies of my books directly through this website and via Paypal...watch this space. For the meantime: ROCK ON!
(26/05/08)
New Interview! Gavin Baddeley
(24/05/08)
New Book Information! Some more details on Dawn Of The Metal Gods are available at Iron Pages
(21/05/08)
New Diary Entry! Happenings In April/May
New Interviews! Ben Myers, Rich Wilson
Album Review! 'Good To Be Bad' Whitesnake (SPV)
New Robert Plant Review Added Here
New Film & Books Entry! Current Reading List
New Concert Dates in the Gig Guide!
New Playlist!
The Latest issues of Fireworks and Powerplay are now availiable to buy online and in shops.
Message from the Webmaster:
Apologies to all of those Rock fans out there who check the site regularly. Sorry for not having updated the site in such a long time, Things have been too hectic the past two months for one man alone to handle (Maybe I need some staff!). Thanks to Neil for being so patient and understanding, it was greatly appreciated. You will all be glad to hear that things are back on track and the usual flow of updates will resume. Rock On people!
(27/03/08)
New Section! Interviews with Writers
(24/03/08)
New Film & Books Entry! R.I.P. Sir Arthur C. Clarke (1917-2008)
(23/03/08)
The Cover Art for the Al Atkins book has been finalised. Check it out:
New Diary Entry! Recent Happenings
New Film & Books Entry! The Future Ain’t What It’s Supposed To Be
New Concert Dates in the Gig Guide!
An article about my Robert Plant bio was printed in Birmingham's Sunday Mercury here
(23/02/08)
Reviews of my Robert Plant book have started to emerge, you can read the first two here
New Concert Dates in the Gig Guide!
(18/02/08)
New Playlist!
New Sites on the Links Page!
New Concert Dates in the Gig Guide!
(16/02/08)
New Concert Dates in the Gig Guide!
(11/02/08)
New Diary Entry! January/February
New Film & Books Entry! Groupies & DVDs
(05/02/08)
"Defenders" and "Robert Plant" get their own pages! Click an image to get all the info.
(31/01/08)
My new book is published today. You can pick it up from all major book stores and online services.
Visit:
(NB: Some companies say that the book was written with Paul Stenning and published on February 28th. This is false. Hopefully the details will be amended soon.)
Robert Plant: Led Zeppelin, Jimmy Page & The Solo Years (2008)
IMP: PB, 238 pages, picture section (including rare photos of Plant,) original quotes from various artists and ex-colleagues, extensive appendices, every album reviewed, set lists.
(29/01/08)
New Playlist!
New Concert Dates in the Gig Guide!
New Sites on the Links Page!
(14/01/08)
The publication date for my book on Robert Plant has been brought forward to January 31st. You can pre-order the book from all major online book stores like Play and Amazon. I have a copy already and it looks fantastic. IMP have done a great job!
(07/01/08)
New Diary Entry! 2007 In A Nutshell
New Film & Books Entry! New Year Treats
You can view all of 2007's updates HERE
