Philip Wilding
Philip Wilding is a novelist, journalist, scriptwriter, biographer and radio producer. As a young journalist he criss-crossed most of the United States with bands like Motley Crue, Kiss and Poison (think the Almost Famous movie but with more hairspray). More latterly, he’s sat down to chat with bands like the slightly more erudite Manic Street Preachers, Afghan Whigs, Rush and Marillion. He ghosted Carl Barat’s acclaimed autobiography, Threepenny Memoir, and helped launch the BBC 6 Music network as producer and co-presenter on the Phill Jupitus Breakfast Show. Five years later he and Jupitus fronted the hugely popular Perfect 10 podcast and live shows. His debut novel, Cross Country Murder Song, was described, variously, as ‘sophisticated and compelling’ and ‘like a worm inside my brain’. His latest novel The Death And Life Of Red Henley is out now.
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Not yet ratedLavish reissue of Fish’s fourth solo album

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Comprehensive three-disc set charts Purple’s career highs

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Nikki Sixx’s descent into hell, revisited

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After being close to calling it a day, working on latest album War Is Over convinced them that they still had something to say

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Production maestro Terry Brown looks back at the creation of Rush's seminal fifth album, A Farewell To Kings

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Not yet ratedAnd just when it looked like the three brothers had left us behind… peace is restored and we’re back in the kingdom of pomp, pop and 12-minute showpieces.

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Electro-rock collaborator’s hits and misses

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Fifth album shows the band are learning how to protest and survive

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This huge box set brings a whole new meaning to the term ‘super-deluxe’

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Not yet ratedTwo-disc reissues for two landmark Montrose releases

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Rock and soul sing out on band’s latest album

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Motörhead run ramshackle over some of their fave tunes

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Riverside man’s fifth solo album most personal and musical yet

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Burnished arena rock reaches its zenith

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Eureka Machine man goes pop!

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Steven Wilson stays resolutely one step ahead

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Not yet ratedA mixed bag of young guns and veteran rockers take over London’s O2 Arena for the second outing of the indoor festival

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NYC rock legends start to feel the strain

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Corey Taylor and co confuse their musical compass

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It’s difficult to tell whether it’s the band or the 2,600 devoted fans in attendance who are having the most fun at this year’s Marillion Weekender in Holland

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Metal and classical trains of thought meet to create musical theatre

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Five-piece give classic rock a new coat of paint

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Twenty years and seven albums down the line, the Manic Street Preachers thought they might have hit the buffers. Then recording 2007’s Send Away The Tigers assured them that they had a future
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