Following the release of their semi-prophetic Top 10 album, ‘Easter Is Cancelled’, at the end of last year, The Darkness return tonight here https://www.axs.com/uk/events/397551/the-darkness-tickets?skin=aegpresentsuk at 8pm GMT to close 2020 with a new message of festive joy and goodwill with a live concert and stream from London’s Indigo at The O2. It will also be recorded for a live album, ‘Streaming of a White Christmas’, out in April 2021 on CD and Vinyl, in partnership with Live Here Now. The show promises to be a flamboyant extravaganza packed with all the snow and tinsel one could dream of as the band unwrap a selection of their biggest hits, fan favourites and Christmas cracker surprises galore. Spreading further Christmas cheer this year, The Darkness have also teamed up with Signature Brew to create the special extra seasonal bitter, Bells End!

Today's latest Blues Club Podcast Track Of The Day is 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 King King, Joe Bonamassa (pictured), Dr. Feelgood, The Teskey Brothers, Catfish, The BluesBones, Tanya Piche Blues Band, Laura B And Her Band, Shaun Murphy, When Rivers Meet, Jamie Williams & The Roots Collective, Jo Harman, Frank Bey, Katie Bradley, Dave Ferra, Pink Floyd, Rosco Levee & The Southern Slide, plus many more.

'Rock And Roll Radio', the third solo album by Swedish vocalist and multi-instrumentalist Michael Palace, was released by Frontiers at the beginning of this month, of which the track, 'Way Up Here', is today's Video Of The Day. It's the first that Palace has fully self-produced, mixed and mastered, and it delivers authentic 80's influenced AOR/Melodic Rock in spades, with dreamy keyboards, layers of soaring guitars, a huge drum sound and thundering bass. Palace has also featured on releases by other artists, with the likes of labelmates Angelica, Crazy Lixx, Find Me and Creye benefitting from his expert songwriting, guitar and vocal skills. His association with Frontiers began as a songwriter and guitarist for First Signal (featuring Harem Scarem vocalist Harry Hess), Cry of Dawn (featuring session vocalist Göran Edman), Kryptonite (featuring The Poodles vocalist Jakob Samuel) and Toby Hitchcock (also of Pride Of Lions), after which he signed to the label.

Country singer-songwriter Hayley Jensen released her latest single, 'Fireworks', last month, through Social Family Records, the Power Pop-Country follow-up to her biggest hit to date, 'Breakin’ Hearts'. Co-written with Aussie expat and Billboard Country #1 songwriter, Phil Barton, and writing partner, Dana Heaton-Perdue, 'Fireworks' features soaring, powerhouse vocals we’ve come to expect from Jensen, the song capturing the electricity and spark of young love. Sticking with a winning formula, Hayley called on the production prowess of Troy Kokol at Reluctant Cowboy Records in Canada, who also produced and co-wrote 'Breakin’ Hearts'. As with the previous single, Jensen recorded vocals in her home studio in Sydney, and Kokol played every instrument on the track.

Today's latest Track Of The Day is episode 23 of 2020 WRC 'Best Radio Show' nominees https://www.wrinklyrockersclub.com/wrc-award-nominees Rock Vault 107, featuring Kansas (pictured), AC/DC, The Eagles, Boston, Jethro Tull, Guns N' Roses and loads more. Indeed, you can also listen live to Jules and Bob tomorrow night and every Friday night at 8pm on 107 Meridian FM. Taking you back in time, they'll bring you tracks that you may know and some you may not, plus they always feature a special year.

Don't forget that there's still time to vote in our 2020 WRC Awards, as today we turn our attention to the nominees in our Best Prog Performance. In January we caught both of Francis Dunnery's It Bites gigs at Wolverhampton's Slade Rooms and Manchester's Club Academy (pictured), whilst later that month we saw The Crazy World Of Arthur Brown at Nell's in London. In early February we also took in Atomic Rooster at the 100 Club, and finally, towards the end of the month, and also in London, we attended Dream Theatre's Eventim Hammersmith Apollo gig. So if you want to cast your vote for one of these superb Prog Rock bands then simply go here https://www.wrinklyrockersclub.com/wrc-award-nominees You have until midnight on 31st December to make your choice and only one vote per category per e-mail address is allowed - so there.

Legendary Australian rockers Taste have released today's Video Of The Day for '2020's Gone', the new single from their upcoming EP, 'Brothers Vol. 1', that will be available worldwide on Wednesday 23rd December. Written as an anthem to kick this year's arse and say "good riddance 2020", Ken Murdoch (vocals), Michael Tortoni (bass) and Joey Amenta (guitar), are hoping to create a universal response at 12.01am on Friday 1st January 2021 by encouraging all media and musicians to join them in playing '2020's Gone' through whatever outlet is available to you! 'Brothers Vol. 1' is an EP for our times, but steeped in the wide-screen colours of a more Progressive era. Real strings. Layers of percussion. Walls of harmony. Crafted segues, dramatic timing shifts and a vast, unified vision that befits the grandeur of its title. The band is a potpourri of Queen, Muse and 10cc. Harmonies, guitars and souring vocals abound!

DBA (Downes Braide Association) return next year with their fifth album, 'Halcyon Hymns', which will be released on Friday 5th February, and the duo have recently launched the first track from the album, 'Love Among The Ruins', a delightful and uplifting love song, that is today's Track Of The Day. Keyboard wizard with Yes, Geoff Downes was a founder member of Asia and was one half of Buggles, with Trevor Horn on 'Video Killed The Radio Star', whilst British singer-songwriter-pianist-producer Chris Braide, who recently re-located back to the UK from the USA, has worked with the cream of artists, from Lana Del Rey, Paloma Faith and Marc Almond to Beyonce to name but a few. Indeed, 'Halcyon Hymns' also features contributions by Almond (ex-Soft Cell) and David Longdon (Big Big Train). It's their fifth DBA collaboration, and follows their previous critically-acclaimed studio albums 'Pictures of You' (2012), 'Suburban Ghosts' (2015) and 'Skyscraper Souls' (2017). The duo have also released 'Live In England' (2019), recorded at their first ever concert at Trading Boundaries, East Sussex, in 2018.

Multi-award-winning, genre-crossing Blues, Roots and Americana star, Elles Bailey, released her brand new covers album ‘Ain’t Nothing But’ last Friday and her first single, Country music Supergroup, The Highwomen's, 'Crowded Table', is today's Video Of The Day. It's a 16-track album, recorded live as part of Elles’ 'Ain't Nothing But' livestream series at White Noise Studios, surrounded by dangling Edison bulbs and candles on the floor, during this Summer. The album draws together 2 of her 3 livestream shows: ‘Ain't Nothing But The Lyrics’ and ‘Ain't Nothing But The Blues'. ‘Ain’t Nothing But’ not only showcases Elles’ much-acclaimed, feeling-filled, sonorous and super-smoky distinctive lead vocal style, but also features stunning performances from Joe Wilkins (guitar and background vocals tracks 1-16), Phil King (guitar and background vocals, tracks 1-7) and Joe James (double bass and background vocals, tracks 8-16).

Today, we look again at our Best Radio Show category nominees in our 2020 WRC Awards, which includes The Blues Club Podcast, The Zach Moonshine Show, Rock Vault 107 plus today's Blues On The Radio Track Of The Day, that features two fabulous tracks from Lisa Mann, ahead of her Zoom appearance tonight, at the similarly nominated, 'Best Livestream' show, The Tuesday Night Music Club. Anyway, simply choose your favourite show here https://www.wrinklyrockersclub.com/wrc-award-nominees by hitting the vote button. You have until midnight on 31st December to make your choice and only one vote per category per e-mail address is allowed - so there.

Following the release of his album, ‘The Bookends’, via Provogue/Mascot Label Group last year, Eric Gales has now rescheduled next year's UK tour from February 2022 to March 2022. The album features collaborations with B. Slade, Doyle Bramhall II and Beth Hart, and was written over a nine month period, recorded at Studio Delux, Van Nuys, California, The Dog House, Woodland Hills, California and Blakeslee Recording, North Hollywood. Special guest on all shows is the critically acclaimed British Blues Rock guitarist Danny Bryant. Hailed as “A National Blues Treasure", Bryant released his 11th studio album ‘Means of Escape’ via Jazzhaus Records to great fanfare last year.

With socially distanced gigs gradually rearing their new normal heads again, such as Warmduscher at Hackney's Earth on Saturday night (pictured), today's Video Of The Day is the Dave Sinclair Four performing 'Apropos Blues' at St. Harmonica's Blues Club in London's Southgate, back in October. Consisting of David Sinclair - vocals/guitar, Geoff Peel - guitar, Jos Wolfman Mendoza - bass, Rory Mendoza - drums and Laurie Garman - harmonica, this was the first public performance of 'Apropos Blues', a song written during the first UK lockdown, and performed just ahead of the second lockdown. So why don't you check out the DS4 YouTube channel and subscribe?