Styx bring their only UK show in 2019 to the prestigious London Palladium on Tuesday 4th June for “An Evening Of Styx.” They will perform music to celebrate their hugely successful 47-year career, including tracks from their most recent studio album 'The Mission'. The band have been a staple of “Rock radio” playlists throughout this time, with songs including 'Crystal Ball', 'Come Sail Away', 'Lorelei', 'Blue Collar Man', 'Renegade', 'The Grand Illusion', 'Too Much Time On My Hands' and 'Fooling Yourself (The Angry Young Man)'. This will be the first time Styx have headlined their own show in the UK since 2005 and their first performance since their co-headlining tour with Journey and Foreigner in 2011. The current line-up of Styx has been working together for over 15 years and includes Tommy Shaw (vocals, guitars), James “JY” Young (vocals, guitars), Lawrence Gowan (vocals, keyboards), Todd Sucherman (drums) and Ricky Phillips (bass), along with surprise appearances by original bassist Chuck Panozzo.

It's Christmas Eve and today in our 2018 WRC Awards we focus on our nominees in the Best International category. Firstly we go back to a beautiful Summer's Day in London's Hyde Park where we witnessed not only Gary Clark Jr. (pictured) but also Santana at British Summer Time. More recently in November we saw both The Dead Daisies (today's Video Of The Day) at London's O2 Academy Islington plus Idlewar (Track Of The Day) at Camden's The Black Heart in London. So if you want to cast your vote for one of these awesome bands then simply go here!

American Blues Rock vocalist Sari Schorr will be special guest on King King's January/February 2019 UK Tour. The 10-date tour will take in amongst others, Nottingham Rock City (Thursday 31st January), London's Koko (Thursday 7th February) and Glasgow O2 Academy (Sunday 17th February). Having played over 20 festivals this summer, the band have just finished the UK leg of their special guest slot on Europe’s 'Tour The Earth' and are currently touring the European mainland leg of the tour. In May this year King King won three prestigious awards at the UK Blues Awards including Blues Band of the Year, Blues Songwriter of the Year (Alan Nimmo) and Blues Album of the Year for their fourth studio album 'Exile & Grace', which scored a Top 40 hit in the Official UK Album Charts and featured the singles '(She Don’t) Gimme No Lovin’, 'Long Time Running' and 'Broken' which became popular on Planet Rock and other Rock radio stations.

Rainbreakers will be supporting Wille and the Bandits on tour, as their special guests, in March next year, culminating with a gig at London's O2 Academy 2, Islington, on Saturday 30th. The Shrewsbury based four-piece expertly brew up the anger, anguish and frustrations of modern-day life and bottle such feelings into charged, passionate songs delivered by Ben Edwards’ forlorn, poignant vocals, carried by melodies that artfully alloy and interweave Blues, Soul and gritty Garage band Rock. Rainbreaker’s highly-anticipated debut album ‘Face to Face’ dropped in August this year, having been recorded at Monochrome Studios with renowned producer Tom Gittens.

Held in the stunning surroundings of Catton Hall, Bearded Theory’'s Spring Gathering, Derbyshire’s award-winning family-friendly festival, will return in 2019 for its 12th successive year, once again taking place over the late May Bank Holiday weekend. Indie legends Suede headline the Pallet stage on Friday 24th May whilst Saturday night is topped by legendary British rock band The Cult and Sunday is closed by founding member of the E Street Band Stevie Ray Zandt’'s Little Steven & Disciples Of Soul. They are joined on the Pallet stage by a first class roster of acts, including newly reformed 90's Indie icons Doves, Birmingham’'s Editors, Oh Sees, The Wildhearts, Steel Pulse, Reef, Hollie Cook, Mad Dog Mcrea and many more! The Woodland is headlined on Friday night by Punk legends Stiff Little Fingers, on Saturday by Scottish Indie-Rockers Idlewild and Jamaica's premier Ska band The Skatalites will close proceedings on Sunday night. Once complete, the festival line up will boast more than 200 acts across nine stages over four days

Today we showcase our fourth category of eleven in our 2018 WRC Awards - the nominees in our Best Tribute category. Firstly, we go back to February and Nells Jazz & Blues where we saw Thin Lizzy drummer Brian Downey's Alive & Dangerous - and then - more recently - The Music Of Cream (pictured) performed by the sons of Ginger Baker and Jack Bruce plus the nephew of Eric Clapton at The Hammersmith Apollo in late November. To complete some fine nominees we also have the Alter Eagles and Noasis! So there you have it - if you want to cast your vote for one of these outstanding Tribute's then simply go here!

Camden Rocks Festival has announced the first 120 acts for their two day, 400-band 2019 event over the weekend of 1st and 2nd June. Featuring riotous Alt-Rock act Ash, Essex troubadour Rat Boy, legendary Post-Punks New Model Army, USA teenage-dirtbags Wheatus, Indie-rock legend Carl Barât of The Libertines and many more, with over 250 acts still to be announced! Expect a mashup of genres featuring some of the finest and best known acts in the live music world, plus a showcasing of some of the brightest and freshest talent around, set in the UK's heart and home of Rock 'n' Roll, Camden Town.

Tune in to the 2017 WRC Award winning Rock On The Ridge show here tonight at 8pm where Bob and Jules and some special guests will be discussing and listening to the runners and riders in this year's 2018 WRC Awards here. In the meantime, today we focus on the Best Blues Rock performance category - namely Bernie Marsden who we saw at London's 100 Club at the beginning of this year, Danny Bryant (Video Of The Day) - for his performance at Olympia's Great British Beer Festival in London in August, Big Boy Bloater And The LiMiTs (pictured) who played London's Black Heart in Camden in September, and finally, Laurence Jones (Track Of The Day) who played London's Borderline in January. So there you have it - if you want to cast your vote for one of these outstanding Blues Rock performers then simply go here!

Yesterday afternoon saw another Friends Of Carlton Christmas Party - one of our nominated charities who benefitted from our Kast Off Kinks/The Replicants MJC gig at the beginning of this month. Once again, part of the money raised from Wrinklystock VII paid for yesterday's entertainment - which featured Jamie of Jamie & The Jets with his fantastic tribute to Elton John. Jamie's Dad and Rockrpix photographer John Bull would no doubt have been proud of him!

Today, in our 2018 WRC awards, we turn our attention to Best Rock Performance. First up are Iron Maiden (pictured) who we saw at London's O2 Arena in August. Our second nominee is The Rolling Stones who we caught in June at Twickenham and thirdly Glenn Hughes (Video Of The Day) at London's Electric Ballroom in Camden in October, ensuring that Deep Purple's legacy lives on. Finally, our last nominee also includes Glenn - step forward Black Country Communion who we saw play London's Hammersmith Apollo at the beginning of 2018. So there you have it - if you want to cast your vote for one of these outstanding Rock bands then simply go here!

Today's 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 featuring music from Eric Clapton, Buddy Guy, Smokey's King Shufflers, Scott Sharrard, Chris Rea, JFK Blue (pictured), Snakewood, The Marcus King Band and many more.

Yesterday afternoon saw the Friends Of Carlton Christmas Party - one of our nominated charities who benefitted from our Kast Off Kinks/The Replicants MJC gig at the beginning of this month. Anyway part of the money raised from Wrinklystock VII paid for yesterday's entertainment - none other than the return of the Abba Girls (pictured) who once again made the party go with a bang!