

He continued to record and release music, often guesting with groups he’d influenced such as W.A.S.P. Photo: Ya Cheng/MetalTalk The evening opens with a video. An acoustic set, then an electric set delivered by the current road-hardened line-up. The group quickly gelled with Hensley, Kerslake, guitarist Mick Box, bassist Gary Thain and singer David Byron, touring heavily throughout the 1970s and scoring hits with songs like “Easy Living,” “Lady in Black,” “Stealin’” and “Look at Yourself.” Hensley left the group in 1980, released solo material and joined the American band Blackfoot before settling in St. The need to cover twenty-four studio releases through those decades means there’s no room for a support tonight.

Hensley was enlisted by Newton as a keyboardist in a band called Spice, which was renamed Uriah Heep to pursue a more progressive rock direction. The group released a pair of albums on Columbia but dissolved late in the decade, with Hensley briefly joining Toe Fat, which despite a horrendous band name achieved some success in the era. In 1965 he formed the Gods, which over the course of the next few years would included future Rolling Stones guitarist Mick Taylor, Greg Lake of King Crimson and Emerson, Lake & Palmer and future Uriah Heep bassist Paul Newton and drummer Lee Kerslake.
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With the Colchester show now completely SOLD OUT, the band are delighted to announce a full UK headline tour in the run up to Christmas – with tickets ON SALE NOW.Born in London in 1945, Hensley grew up outside the city and followed a familiar course for British rockers at the time, learning to play guitar as an adolescent and playing with a series of early 1960s bands as a teen. 1.1M views, 28K likes, 3.5K loves, 834 comments, 15K shares, Facebook Watch Videos from Progressive Rock Land: Uriah Heep - Gypsy - Live at Wacken 2019 - Mick Box / guitars, vocals - Bernie Shaw /. Proudly dubbed by the band as “our ‘ London Calling‘”, the new album has already been attracting warm reviews with NARC Magazine praising it as a record of “joyous experimentation” (⅘).įollowing the release of ‘Primetime Entertainment’, PET NEEDS will be hitting the road for a stretch of support dates across the UK with Frank Turner (following their mammoth ’50 States in 50 Dates’ tour together in the USA), before a previously announced special homecoming headline show in Colchester Arts Centre on 16th December. Dealing with feelings of fear, fatigue, adrenaline, failing and determination,’Primetime Entertainment’ proved to be a record of profound psychological and musical discovery for PET NEEDS that has produced a transfixing listening experience. A performance of a painting ought also to signal at every point (though not with Uriah Heep humility) that its a rendering of something that is being.

“ Lost Again” finds good company in exhilarating recent singles ‘ Fear For The Whole Damn World‘ and ‘ Get On The Roof‘, all of which were produced by Frank Turner during the sessions for ‘Primetime Entertainment’. Written and recorded in just 11 months after signing with Xtra Mile Recordings for their acclaimed debut, ‘Fractured Party Music’, the band’s latest album is a discernibly more personal effort than it’s party-primed predecessor. Johnny somehow wangled his way into all his shots being either sat in the van or in the pub! We only got covered in a little bit of sheep poo, too. “In the middle of our UK tour with Frank Turner, we battled the elements in the beautiful and unforgiving Peak District as we chased a paper aeroplane up a mountain. Somehow navigating their way back to civilisation, the band remember of the shoot: Charter Section 700(d) Arcadia Private Persons Arrests Uriah Heep David Luros Mark McCaslin Emerson Electric. Directed by Rockit Robbo, the video finds PET NEEDS frontman Johnny sending his bandmates on the ultimate fool’s errand. Dehol Truth (Inglewoods watchdog videos). Currently on the road with the producer of ‘Primetime Entertainment’, one Frank Turner, the band recently took a quick detour from the circuit to record an official video for ‘Lost Again’ in the remote wilds of the Peak District.
