really good interview talking about the new album old albums and giging http://www.getreadytoroll.com/interv...

Leading Japanese rock magazine Burrn! have done a piece titled 'Think About The Riffs' in which it cites Diamond Head's Lightning To The Nations album as the third greatest album for riffs following Black Sabbath's Master Of Reality & Slayer's Reign In Blood. The article went on to say "Brian's riff making ability was outstanding in the NWOBHM bands and the riffs in LIGHTNING TO THE NATIONS album were create new era of HR/HM music !"
This is a great achievement for Diamond Head considering the relative obscurity of the album when compared to other albums in the chart.

Top 20 "riff" albums, according to Burrn! magazine:

01. BLACK SABBATH - Master Of Reality
02. SLAYER - Reign In Blood
03. DIAMOND HEAD - Lightning To The Nations
04. IRON MAIDEN - Iron Maiden
05. EXODUS - Bonded By Blood
06. METALLICA - Master Of Puppets
07. MEGADETH - Peace Sells ... But Who's Buying?
08. MOTÖRHEAD - Ace Of Spades
09. AC/DC - Highway To Hell
10. DEEP PURPLE - In Rock
11. LED ZEPPELIN - II
12. SCORPIONS - Blackout
13. VAN HALEN - Van Halen
14. RAVEN - Rock Until You Drop
15. SAXON - Denim And Leather
16. JUDAS PRIEST - British Steel
17. S.O.D. - Speak English Or Die 18. VENOM - Welcome To Hell
19. PANTERA - Vulgar Display Of Power
20. CARCASS - Necroticism - Descanting The Insalbrious

Wakee Wakee you Mutinous Swaabs someone's got to feed the parking monster!!!

Andrew's alarm started to sound at 8-am and like the trooper he is, promptly rose to feed the monster.. I was somewhat awake and thought I would join him for a walk around Dublin City..
The sun was bearing down on the city this Wednesday morning and a walk seemed like a good idea.. However, I was unaware how far Lollipop was docked from the hotel and it seemed to take forever as we scurried to reach her.. Just as we turned into the street where she was docked the monster keepers were on the prowl. With the monster fed it was time to have slow walk back to the hotel for breakfast. We had another couple of hours on the meter before we would have to move Lollipop. The venues parking lot opened at 10.30-am and we could then park there free of hassle because we would be loading the gear out of the venue.
The city was warming up in the grip of the early morning sun and the amount of hips, lips and things that make you say ooh were adding to this heat. We made our way back to the La Stampa and just managed to catch Rachel, Becky and Dan before they left for the ferry. With au-revoirs said it was time to have breakfast at the wonderful establishment we were staying in.. Abbz was saying his farewells to Karen and Sam. They were flying back home today.

Once breakfast was downed it was time for one last walk around the City before retrieving and loading Lollipop and heading for Belfast.
We arranged to meet at the venue at 11.30 for load-out and to say our final farewells to Dr Michael and the guys from Soloway (Dave, Tony, Shane and Donal). Thanks guys keep rockin'. With Lollipop loaded and one more crew member on board (Brian) we set a course of due north for Belfast.
Lollipop was once again captained by Andrew with Abbz again as his co-pilot.. The ship felt complete with all the band members on board. Music played and the banter between the band was of the experience of the previous night. The mood was electric as we approaching Belfast. The clouds were gathering and it looked as if the heavens would open up by the time we reached the Rosetta bar. They did.
This was only the second time that the band had played Belfast. The first again being on the Megadeth tour.. We loaded in and were met by Andy the house engineer who gave us a phenomenal sound.. My drums sounded like cannons. Once sound-check was over it was time to eat. The promoters Corey & Dale organised Chinese food for us and then it was time to head to our lodgings..




You have to understand that we had just left the five star La Stampa hotel in Dublin when we arrived at the B&B in the city of Belfast.. Talk about Chalk and Cheese. However, it had a bed, a shower, a toilet and warm water. This was also to be the place of Nick's final interview for Tart TV. "It's not that bad" he said "it has an Alba TV, there pretty good"
Everyone was in great spirits and looking forward to the show.
We headed back to the venue for the show.
The place was almost sold-out. we couldn't believe it.. We went into our own psychological warm ups as we prepared for the show. The atmosphere was reaching fever pitch by the time our intro started. Once the ceremonial hug was complete we took to the stage.




The reception we received raised the roof.. There were moments during the show when the amount of noise the crowd made literally stopped us in our tracks. We were gobsmaked. What a feeling. Both Nick and I had to take pictures of these magic moments.
We ploughed through our set to rapturous applause.
Jim from 'Were all gonna die' gave me a load of T-shirts to give away at the Belfast show which I duly obliged.
With the show over it was time to sell Merchandise, sign autographs and all that jazz. For the second time in Belfast I was asked to sign a breast. Now you have to understand this is a great honour. But how do you hold said breast. Firmly? ,this could be interpreted as