Just three categories to go now as we focus on our nominees in our Best Prog Performance in our 2017 WRC Awards. In June we saw Toska perform at London's O2 Academy Islington, followed by IT towards the end of October at Progtoberfest 2 at The Bedford in London's Balham. Finally, Christmas began early as IQ (pictured) celebrated their 35th anniversary at Islington Assembly Hall. So there you have it - if you want to cast your vote for one of these three superb Prog bands then simply go here!

Originally broadcast on Saturday night - just before Christmas Day - today's Rock On The Ridge Track Of The Day includes music to uplift you at this time of year with a feel good show with great tracks and old favourites from Deep Purple (pictured), Boston, Guns N' Roses, Derek & The Dominos, Steppenwolf and more.

Rock icon Billy Idol will shortly be bringing his Live! 2018 Tour to the United Kingdom and across Europe. Billy was responsible for some of Punk Rock'’s most memorable, literate, and evocative moments and created a pioneering new sound by bringing the spirit of ’'77 to the dance floor, going on to fashion an immediately identifiable musical blueprint that integrates club-land throb, Rockabilly desperation, and Rock’ 'n’' Roll decadence. This will be Idol’s first UK/European run since his hugely successful Kings & Queens of The Underground Tour in 2014 and 2015 and it all starts in Manchester on Wednesday 20th June that includes a Saturday 23rd June appearance at London's O2 Academy in Brixton.

It's a brand new category this year - mainly thanks to our valued team of WRC reviewers out there! Anyway, in our 2017 WRC Awards today we switch our attention to the nominees in our Best Reviewed CD - namely Samantha Fish (Video Of The Day) for 'Belle Of The West', Black Country Communion (pictured) for 'BCCIV' and Mollie Marriott for 'Truth Is A Wolf'. Please cast your vote including our other ten categories here.

Today we are now more than halfway through our 2017 WRC Awards nominees and we turn our attention to Best Rock Performance - strangely enough three legendary bands that we all saw perform at London's O2 Arena. First up are Black Sabbath (Vid Of The Day) who we saw as part of their 'The End' tour in late January. Our second nominee is Deep Purple (pictured) who we caught just a month ago as part of their 'Long Goodbye' tour and finally Queen + Adam Lambert (Track Of The Day) ensuring their legacy lives on just twelve days ago. So there you have it - if you want to cast your vote for one of these outstanding Rock bands then simply go here!

A Merry Christmas from all of us at the WRC with our John Lennon Video Of The Day plus we jump on board the Christmas Blues train with a Black On Blues Special Track Of The Day featuring Pam Taylor, Buddy Guy, Jim Koeppel, Mindi Abair & the Boneshakers, Rev Shawn Amos, Fran McGillvray Band, Carey Bell, Michael Burks, Shemekia Copeland, Deb Ryder and Charles Brown. Have a rockin' Christmas Day!

Comin' atchya on the latest Blues On The Marsh Track Of The Day are Beau Williams, Chris Daniels and The Kings, Elles Bailey, Dr Wu and Friends, Dan Burnett, Richard Townend and The Mighty Bosscats, Thorbjorn Risager and The Black Tornado, Joe Rusi, Dave Ferra, Mississippi MacDonald and Steve Bailey, Wes Mackey, Catfish (pictured), Taj Mahal and Keb Mo , Bacon Fat Louis and TG Swampbusters to name just a few. Also don't forget to vote in our 2017 WRC Awards for Best Radio Show here which includes Blues On The Marsh!

"Despite his time in a Buddhist monastery and his solo, acoustic tours, he remains a natural Rock star, exemplified by his tormented vocals, continual bounding across the stage, Trump bashing interludes, dad-dancing movements and seemingly perpetual motion. Ably supported by the rest of the band, notably guitarist Brion James, dreadlocks flailing as he nails every solo, Dan captivated the audience with a succession of Network classics, including ‘Baby Now I’ and the slightly slower ‘Rainbow Child’." Read the whole of Big Ian's Dan Reed Network/Extreme Brixton Academy gig review here (photo courtesy of Laurence Harvey) from last Wednesday plus check out our Photo Gallery here.

With our Dan Reed Network review from last Wednesday here, today in our 2017 WRC Awards we coincidentally focus on our nominees in the Best International category. So we go back to March and London's iconic 100 Club where we first saw the Dan Reed Network, followed in July by Aussie legends Midnight Oil (today's Video Of The Day) who performed at the Hammersmith Apollo. Finally in this category, we look back to the begininning of October where we saw the awesome Living Colour (pictured) at London's ULU. So if you want to cast your vote for one of these awesome bands then simply go here!

And talking of Wrinklystock VI - yesterday afternoon saw the Friends Of Carlton Christmas Party - one of our nominated charities who benefitted from our Magic/The Replicants MJC gig at the end of November. Anyway part of the money raised from Wrinklystock VI 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!

Today we showcase our fourth category of eleven in our 2017 WRC Awards - the nominees in our Best Tribute category. Firstly, we go back to late October and 'The Iron Maidens' at London's O2 Academy Islington (pictured) who we had actually interviewed a few days earlier. We hold our hands up that our next nominees are not exactly a 'Tribute' given they have Thin Lizzy's original drummer! Anyway we saw Brian Downey's Alive & Dangerous (Video Of The Day) at Nells Jazz & Blues in London at the end of November, a week after Wrinklystock VI at Dartford's Mick Jagger Centre where we saw headliners Magic truly keeping the spirit of both ELO and Queen alive. So there you have it - if you want to cast your vote for one of these outstanding Tribute's then simply go here!

"What about the legend that is Tatler though? Well there's no doubting his enthusiasm as he hi-fived us down the front on the title track of two consecutive numbers from their 1980 debut album 'Lightening To The Nations', followed by 'The Prince', which demonstrated the early influence of Punk on Tatler's music - with the audience once again joining in or echoing Born Andersen on the chorus lines as they did with a few "wooooooaaaaah's" on the quieter, more sedate opening to 'The Heat Of The Night', another from 'Borrowed Time', before Tatler duly ratchet it up a gear with another awesome heavy guitar solo, although Rasmus was on the money for singling out Wilcox for praise at the end, for his unerring drumming." That was part of our take on Diamond Head's gig at London's O2 Academy Islington gig just over a couple of week's ago and we had the pleasure of interviewing all-round nice guy Mr. Tatler prior to the gig here (today's Track Of The Day).