Yes, Wrinklystock legends The Replicants are returning to Wrinklystock 6! We caught up with some of the band at Iron Maiden's O2 gig last Saturday and they told us how excited they were to be playing at our WRC sponsored charity concert ‘Magic - a kind of Queen & a kind of ELO’ at the Mick Jagger Centre, Dartford, on Saturday 18th November at 7.30pm. Following the success of the Monster’s Of Irish Rock featuring Limehouse Lizzy and U2 Tribe at last year’s ‘Wrinklystock 5’ - ‘Wrinklystock 6’ stars Magic, a tribute to two of the greatest British Rock bands of all time - Queen and The Electric Light Orchestra - together in one fabulous show! Tickets can be purchased here for a bargain £22 or from the MJC Box Office on 01322 291100.

It's been in the can for just over two month's now - but it has been well worth waiting for. Despite the cowardly attrocity in Westminster that same Wednesday afternoon, life in England's capital city, as it always does, carried on in the face of adversity, as Monster Truck did both London and Canada proud at Camden's Electric Ballroom on 22nd March. With excellent support from "in yer face" two piece The Picturebooks, we were lucky enough to interview Jon, Brandon and Jer backstage beforehand and also present them with their 2016 WRC Best Support Band award! Anyway, check out our May Wrinklycast and today's Track Of The Day.

Since their formation in 2014, Garage Rock band Saint Agnes have released four sell-out singles, a live EP and cemented their place as London’'s most exciting live band. They are a 4 piece based in East London fronted by boy/girl duo Kitty Arabella Austen and Jon Tufnell. Saint Agnes play blistering Doom with Zeppelin swagger. They combine the churning fuzz bass of Black Rebel Motorcycle Club with the dark Blues interplay of The Kills and The Dead Weather. Latest single‘ 'Merry Mother Of God Go Round'’ (today's Vid Of The Day) was the second in a series following up the success of ‘'Sister Electric’', which sold out its lathe cut vinyl release on pre-order. For the first-Time Saint Agnes recently left their home country to play a selection of shows over Europe, to recruit new fans for their coven! Make sure you catch them!

We recently saw our 2015 WRC ‘One’s To Watch’ award winners Southbound supporting Frankie Miller's Full House at The Borderline at the beginning of May and the guys are deservedly headlining in their own right at London's iconic 100 Club tonight. Supporting them will be WRC friends Deep Blue Sea plus The Lol Goodman Band who have been getting great reviews - so it's gonna be a real belter. The music starts at 8pm and curfew is at 11pm.

"Step forward the gem of the evening – OK it was a cover of Whitesnake’s ‘Crying In The Rain’ - but it was just under ten minutes of quality British Hard Rock at its very best – showcasing Ousey's vocal style, which is soulful and smooth before he left the stage and handed it over to McBride and Wisefield to do the honours – before they duly handed the baton over to Wakeman. Awesome. It was then back to ‘Second Skin’ with a nod to the late 70’s AOR and ‘That Kind Of Love’ – a Snakecharmer microcosm – great vocals, harmonies, catchy chorus and riff. James’ pounding drum on ‘Guilty As Charged’ from their first album, nearly saw the giant Murray emerge from the back of the stage, but Neil thought better of it given the tambourine wielding Ousey and both Wisefield and McBride stealing the limelight again with some great guitar work." Finally, read AJ's review of the recent Snakecharmer/Rebecca Downes gig at London's O2 Academy Islington here plus check out both our Vid Of The Day and our photo gallery here.

This week's Route 66 Track Of The Day also pays tribute to Greg Allman who died on Saturday. Host Rory Auskerry's Stockport based show also celebrates the efforts of all Manchester's Sunday marathon, half-marathon and 10k runners given the tragic events there last week. There are also birthday tunes for two members of The Rolling Stones!

"As Bad Company once said after coming on after Nazareth blew the bleeding roof of Olympia – “how do we follow that?” Well we were torn – Greg Allman on the Classic Rock stage (who had tragically lost his Mum before the gig) and Marillion on the Prog stage? To be perfectly honest we flitted between the two and I could hear Marillion’s iconic ‘Neverland’ when I was watching Allman. Drat! In the end we backed Greg – respect for him – given the maxim “ The show must go” I suppose. Although we missed part of his big band blues set - Greg’s band were funky and slick and to see them perform ‘Whipping Post’ is another one off my bucket list but no ‘Ramblin’ Man’? Anyway, The WRC troops wandered happily off into the night – muddy and not looking forward to the trip home." That was part of our 2015 Ramblin' Man Fair review - and given Saturday night's news that Greg had died at the age of just 69 - we now look back and realise how lucky we were to see the Southern Rock pioneer that wet July night (pictured). Therefore, today's Vid Of The Day from that set is dedicated to Greg.

Today's Black On Blues Track Of The Day features Rev Shawn Amos, Davis Coen, Micki Free, Mark Cameron Band, Steve Kozak Band, The New Bluebloods and Jonny Lang.

Well as it turned out, it was one almighty gathering at London's O2 Arena on Saturday night. Starting with the Maiden Army turning out in force in the sun, just down the road at The Pilot Inn - with original Maiden guitarist Dennis Stratton among the faces - and you wouldn't be at all surprised to learn that the Pub ran out of Trooper! We also caught up with Wrinkly The Siver Fox (the one without the hair) - the lucky bast**d - who managed to go to the after show party and meet guitarist Janick Gers (the one with the hair). Anyway, with a review to come - check out our photo gallery here.

Iron Maiden's 'The Book Of Souls Tour' European leg finished this weekend as Ed Force One landed in London with two sold-out shows, last night and tonight, at the O2 Arena. Unsurprisingly the set last night was the same as we saw at Download 2016 - comprising predominantly of the new - opening with both 'If Eternity Should Fail' and 'Speed Of Light' from the excellent 'The Book Of Souls' - and the old - 'Children Of The Damned', 'The Trooper' and 'Iron Maiden' (with Eddie thrown in for good measure). 'The Number Of The Beast' and 'Wasted Years' concluded the evening before 'Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life' sent the crowd home happy. The band now flies to the U.S.A for an extensive series of arena and amphitheatre shows including dates in Canada, ending with two nights in Brooklyn, New York, on 21st and 22nd July. With a review and more pics to come - check out today's Vid Of The Day.

As promised - today we have our Blackfield photo gallery here from their Islington Assembly Hall gig on Friday night. And yes we do indeed have photographic evidence that Steven Wilson did, as we predicted, join Aviv Geffen on stage during a veritable feast of Blackfield pop classic's including 'Miss U', 'Pain' and 'End Of The World' interspersed with all the new 'Blackfield V' stuff.

"Another song from the 'Honest Man' album, 'Quiet Company', a soft ballad with great guitar work, is up next and it's a pin drop moment, as the the audience takes in this quite beautiful song which highlights the tender side to Matt's usually powerhouse of a voice. Drawing comparisons between his native Canada's and our own mining industries in the UK, the title track from the 'Coal Mining Blues' album follows, another great and poignant song. Although Mr. Andersen is not a household name (yet) here, he certainly has a good fan base, which is perfectly illustrated as the majority here know every word to 'I Lost My Way' from the 2014 album 'Weightless'. Now it's audience participation time, with Matt performing one of his personal favourites, Curtis Mayfield's 'People Get Ready'. Gone is the Gospel element of the song in favour of simple guitar, with all the girls supplying the "ooohs", the guys the "aaahs", and one man on a stool who has everyone eating out of the palm of his hand." You can read the whole of Phil C.'s Matt Andersen Borderline, London, review from Thursday night here plus check out today's Track Of The Day.