Apparently Ginger wasn't at all well during his Wildheart's birthday bash at London's Forum last Saturday and in Manchester the following night, Ginger played on most of Hey! Hello!'s very impressive set - but again finished unwell. Fifteen minutes later he came back on stage (pictured) to apologise for not being up to the Wildhearts set, which has now been re-arranged for Thursday 26th January 2017.

As promised - today we have a brand new Wrinklycast featuring an interview with 2016 WRC Award Best Support nominees Bad Touch. It was a new venue for the WRC - but what a great night we had at the beginning of December at The Dome in Tufnell Park - principally for Bad Touch's album launch of 'Truth Be Told'. Despite being a freezing cold evening - the guys kindly agreed to a last minute outside interview with the WRC before they went on stage for an explosive 45 minute set before headliners Whiskey Myers rounded off a brilliant gig. So check out our Track Of The Day here plus take a gander here at our photo gallery from the night plus our CD review here.

Camden Rocks Festival have announced the first wave of bands for the 2017 lineup on Saturday 3rd June, including punk legends The Damned, Stoner Rock giants Orange Goblin, Ruts/Ruts DC and many more. The first 40 out of 250 bands are up, with the legendary Camden venue KOKO London on board this year, a total of a whopping 25 venues involved for 2017! The first announcement also features: Hey!Hello!., The Urban Voodoo Machine, Young Kato, Stone Broken, Moses, Big Boy Bloater And The Limits, Screaming Eagles, Imperial Leisure, Habitats, The Main Grains, Courage My Love, MassMatiks, Black Orchid Empire (Vid of The Day), Hands Off Gretel, Aaron Buchanan & The Cult Classics, Fizzy Blood, Broken Witt Rebels, Forte, Stereo Juggernaut, Black Sixteen, The Au Revoirs, The Franklys, Halflives, Weirds, Frauds, Oxygen Thief, HVMM, Cute Cute Death, Heel, The Kut, Secret Cameras and Alana Bondi with over 200 more acts to come!

Today's Rock On The Ridge Track Of The Day was originally broadcast on Saturday night and is a review of all the great music the 2015 WRC Award winning team have played this year. Music includes The Treatment, Monster Magnet, Birds of the Sun, Scorpion Child, The Black Jackals, The Broken Ravens, Desert Dragon, Zodiac, Monster Truck, I Kept The Wolves Away, The Temperance Movement, Order Of The Emperor, Valley of the Sun, Tax The Heat, Mason Hill, Palace Of The King, The Irontown Diehards, Mindriotmt, Mount Holly, Stone Broken, Ulysses, Whoopee Cat and one of Bob's fav's GT's Boos Band!

Aaron Buchanan And The Cult Classics recently toured with InMe and released their debut single 'All The Things You've Said And Done', taken from their forthcoming debut album 'The Man With Stars On His Knees'. After leaving Heaven’s Basement, Aaron formed The Cult Classics with his sister Laurie Buchanan on guitar, Tom McCarthy (guitar) Chris Guyatt (bass) and Kev Hickman (drums). With huge influences on the record coming from '90's Rock such as Alice In Chains, The Foo Fighters, Soundgarden, The Smashing Pumpkins and Pearl Jam amongst others - they all played their part in influencing this record alongside another band that had killer grooves and some top-class songs; namely Stone Temple Pilots. Today's Vid Of The Day is a tip of the hat in their direction also remembering the legacy of Scott Weilland (1967 - 2015). Recorded at Plus 11 Recording Studio - it's 'Creep' from the 1992 'Core' album.

With just under 1,000 votes already cast in our 2016 WRC Awards here - we are upping the ante today with a special Awards e-mail bulletin that is going out to all our WRC friends who are currently on our circulation list. And if you are not currently on our e-mail circulation list then please send us your details in the contact box below!

Long Beach, California's Rival Sons have announced dates for a European headline tour which is due to kick off in January 2017. After spending much of this year supporting the legendary Black Sabbath on "The End" tour, Rival Sons will once again be joining the retiring rockers across Europe and the UK as they play their final ever shows. The band will also be playing a few headlining gigs in between their shows with Black Sabbath, before kicking their headlining tour into full swing in February. The band will also be releasing the single ‘Thundering Voices’ (Vid Of The Day) to coincide with the tour.

Today's Black On Blues Track Of The Day includes tracks from Kat and Co, Peach, Ally Venable Band, Rinel van Venrooij, Shaun Murphy, Liz Mandeville, Annee 2Cu Blues Band and Jo Harman.

Manchester based hardcore youngbloods Broken Teeth have announced a European Tour, kicking off in Cologne on 5th January. The tour will also include two UK dates: Plymouth and Cheltenham. The band also have one last show scheduled for 2016 in Leeds, so for everyone seeking to see in the New Year in the pit, tickets to Leed's Snugglefest can still be purchased. Broken Teeth released their debut album 'At Peace Amongst Chaos' via Nuclear Blast earlier this year to great praise.

Tonight at The Manchester Ritz, The Wildhearts complete a run of shows which included Ginger’s Birthday Bash at London's O2 Forum last night. Ginger Wildheart has also released a single for Suicide Prevention at Christmas to promote Mental Health Awareness and the proceeds will go to The Samaritans. The Wildhearts, with the line up of Ginger and CJ on guitars and vocals, bassist Jon Poole and Ritch Battersby on drums, continuing to hold firm, are supported by Danny McCormack’s band The Main Grains and Hey! Hello!

Ramblin' Man Fair have announced that the inestimable Steve Harris' British Lion will be playing the Main Stage next year. The official side project of the legendary Iron Maiden bassist, British Lion introduces much more of a melodic Hard Rock dynamism to this most enduring of the icon’s musical repertoire and showcases the sublime vocal talents of Richard Taylor to the rocking masses. Other new additions to the bill include Blues Pills and The Vintage Caravan who join 2016 WRC Award nominees Big Boy Bloater and Monster Truck plus Magnum (Vid Of The Day) who we last saw at London's O2 Academy, Islington, four years ago, as our picture with lead singer Bob Catley testifies!

Today's Track Of The Day is Kevin Beale's Blues On The Marsh show originally broadcast on Friday night!