"And even after we’d been taken to The New Jerusalem, we still had some treats left in the (musical) box. ‘The Cinema Show’ with its delicate intro/verses and fantastic closing section never fails to deliver, and didn’t tonight. Slight deviation from the ‘Seconds Out’ presentation with the hard ending being replaced by the fading ‘Selling England by the Pound’ outro." Following in the footsteps of our previous WRC Best Prog Performance Award winners, Dream Theater (2020) and King Crimson (2015), both announced respectively, exactly one year and five years ago today, guitarist Steve Hackett's third and final night at The London Palladium on his 'Seconds Out + More' UK tour (pictured), has duly won our 2021 award, and to celebrate, today's Podcast Of The Day is our memorable chat with the ex-Genesis legend from nearly three years ago.

"The quartet quickly return for an excellent rendition of 'Long Way To Go', a great Rock song that never fails to get the blood pumping. And it's no surprise that the closing song is another Hughes classic - Deep Purple's 'Burn'. It's a classic for a reason and a fitting addition to the Daisies collection of covers. Aldrich does an excellent job of covering the keyboard parts, and Hughes is in his element with more ear piercing screams than a barefoot Cèilidh in a lego factory." Exactly four years after Kentucky's very own Black Stone Cherry won our 2016 WRC Best International Award, a now distinctly multi-international, The Dead Daisies, have carried off our 2021 award, following their performance at London's Shepherd's Bush Empire in November, of which, 'Mistreated', is our Video Of The Day.

The New Year welcomes a new Tuesday Blues itinerary (pictured) at London's iconic 100 Club, and today's 'Tuesday Blues Rocks!' Tracks Of The Day are chosen from some of the great bands performing up and till the end of June, namely Aynsley Lister, Albany Down, Virgil & The Accelerators, Ryk Mead Band, Brave Rival and Kyla Brox Band.

Ahead of their March and April UK Tour this year with special guest Troy Redfern, Cornwall-based Roots Rock band Wille & The Bandits release their fifth studio album, 'When The World Stood Still', on Friday 28th January, on their independent label, Fat Toad Records, with their second single, 'Good Stuff', being released on Friday 21st January, which is also one of today's 'Sunday Rocks!' Tracks Of The Day, complemented by five further new and recents releases from Gavin Harrison, Loud Apartment, Seas On The Moon featuring Athena, Oui Plastique and Rabid Hood.

With the result of our 'Best Podcast' winner still to be announced in our 2021 WRC Awards, it was good to hear from Blues Rock songstress Sari Schorr (pictured) on New Year's Eve, supporting Pete Feenstra's Rock & Blues nomination on Twitter by saying, "It's no surprise to me that Pete's nominated for best #podcast in Wrinkly Rockers Club 2021 Awards. He's as good as it gets. Congrats @feenstrabluesGreat way to start the New Year!" Suffice to say that Pete's recent chat to Sari about how she has coped with Lockdown, as well as her musical influences and attitudes, is today's Podcast Of The Day.

"The set is a classic of Glam Rock with all the hair, leather, make up and bandanas you would expect, as well as some awesome Rock tracks that have been honed to perfection over many years. There are many die hard Tailz fans in the audience, so it's no surprise that for many this is the band of the weekend." Exactly three years after Hard Rock Hell won our 2018 WRC Best Festival award, congratulations to HRH XIV who have carried off the award again in 2021, following an awesome three days at Camp HRH in Great Yarmouth in early November, as testified by today's Tigertailz Video Of The Day.

Exactly 32 years after Florida radio station WKRL played Led Zeppelin's 'Stairway To Heaven' (Video Of The Day) for 24 hours straight, and exactly six years after Purple Zeppelin won our 2015 WRC 'Best Tribute' award, congratulations to Coda - A Tribute To Led Zeppelin - who have won our first 2021 WRC award for 'Best Tribute'. Indeed, we hope to catch up with the guys at Hastings White Rock Theatre on Saturday 29th January to present them with their well deserved award. Meanwhile, also in today's first WRC Bulletin of 2022, we also look forward to January and our WRC Gig Calendar, plus we look back at December, including The Cinelli Brothers and The Sweet (Islington Assembly Hall) gig reviews, our Bad Touch, The Sweet (Bexhill) and Ana Popovic photo galleries, our Less Than Hollow, Bernie Marsden, Mississippi MacDonald and E D Brayshaw album reviews, also not forgetting our comprehensive December news archive. Finally, don't forget that if you want to receive our monthly e-mail bulletin, please submit your e-mail address in the box below.

As we look forward to hopefully a much better New Year (it couldn't be any worse could it?), today's six 'January 2022 Rocks!' Tracks Of The Day showcases some of the many gigs this month on our 2022 WRC Gig Calendar https://www.wrinklyrockersclub.com/gig-calendar-wrinklystock namely Focus (Friday 21st Under The Bridge, London), Sham 69 (Saturday 22nd O2 Academy Islington, London), Tremonti (Tuesday 25th Shepherd's Bush Empire, London), The Howling Tides (Wednesday 26th The Rescue Rooms, Nottingham), Stone Broken (Thursday 27th Electric Ballroom, Camden, London, pictured) and Saxon (Saturday 29th Eventim Apollo, London).

Today's latest Blues Club Podcast Of The Day has another two hours of non stop Best in Blues and Beyond with More Music and Less Chat, including New Releases, Classic Tracks and UK IBBA Presenters' Picks, featuring music from Catfish, Mississippi MacDonald (pictured), Richard Townend & The Mighty Bosscats, Connor Selby, Jimmy Regal & The Royals, Jamie Williams & The Roots Collective, Trev Turley, Tanya Piche Blues Band, The 251s, Dave Thomas, Dave Hunt and many more.

Today, we are going to attempt a first at www.wrinklyrockersclub.com by broadcasting six different Videos Of The Day over New Year's Eve, showcasing our six nominees in our 2021 WRC Video Of The Year award, namely 'The Great Divide' by Franky Perez, 'I Never Want To See Me Again' by TBelly, 'Halloween' by Manic, 'Live In S:t Nicolai' by Imminence, 'Fine Lines' by Derek Day (pictured) and 'Controlled Explosion' by The Vegan Cannibals. Simply choose your favourite(s) here https://www.wrinklyrockersclub.com/2021-wrc-awards-voting from each of the lucky thirteen categories provided, and hit the vote button. You have until midnight tonight to make your choice and only one vote per category per e-mail address is allowed.

Decerebration joins today's The Zach Moonshine Show Podcast Of The Day to play and talk about their new album, 'Follow The Scars', plus there's new releases from Behemoth, Sorcerer, Nattas, Pike vs The Automaton, Obsolescence, Jackpipe, and some classics, by request, from King Diamond, Acid Witch, Ozzy Osbourne, Gary Hoey, Grave Robber, Machine Head, Slayer, Suicidal Tendencies, Body Count, Skid Row, Pantera and Reign of Vengeance.

Midnight tonight is your last opportunity to vote for the runners and riders in our 2021 WRC Awards, including our six 'Tracks Of The Year' nominees featured on today's '2021 WRC Awards Rock!' Tracks Of The Day from King Buffalo (pictured), Empyre, Highland Rose, Beyond The Grey, Kardashev and October Thorns, chosen from over 2,000 tunes that we have shared this year on our daily 'Tracks Of The Day'. Simply choose your favourite(s) here https://www.wrinklyrockersclub.com/2021-wrc-awards-voting from each of the lucky thirteen categories provided, and hit the vote button. Make your choice now and remember that only one vote per category per e-mail address is allowed.