All Ian McLagan's Rage
Interview by Ian Fortnam, bol.com, April 2000
IAN MCLAGAN’S CV reads like a veritable who’s who of rock ‘n’ roll. Over the course of his 54 years the Hounslow-born keyboard player has ...

Alice Cooper Gets Brutal
Interview by Ian Fortnam, bol.com, May 2000
WAY BACK in the post-Woodstock doldrums of the early 1970s, Alice Cooper erupted out of Phoenix, Arizona, and immediately consigned the wilting bouquet of navel-gazing flower ...

Lou Reed: Royal Albert Hall, London
Live Review by Ian Fortnam, bol.com, May 2000
THE PREMIER PARAGON OF subterranean New York cool’s post-Velvet Underground career has never been anything other than unpredictable. For every Berlin there’s been a Metal Machine ...

Tina Turner: London, Wembley Stadium
Live Review by Ian Fortnam, bol.com, July 2000
NESTLED BETWIXT the iconic twin towers of Wembley Stadium lies a sumptuous banqueting hall that’s completely rammed to its very rafters with the affluent and the ...

Britney Spears: Wembley Arena, London
Live Review by Ian Fortnam, bol.com, October 2000
IN CERTAIN SOCIAL CIRCLES it’s entirely acceptable, if not positively compulsory, for gentlemen rock journos of a certain age to swan about like leather-clad rutting bucks ...

The Fall: Dingwalls, Camden, London
Live Review by Ian Fortnam, bol.com, November 2000
Well, they’re untouchable, aren’t they? Since Mark Edward Smith initially put the very first Fall line-up into place some 23 years ago, generations of chin-stroking sociology ...

AC/DC: live at Wembley Arena
Live Review by Ian Fortnam, bol.com, December 2000
TIMES CHANGE. ROCK STARS and rock stars go. Thrash gives way to death; gives way to glam; gives way to stoner; gives way to nu. But ...

Izzy Stradlin
Interview by Ian Fortnam, bol.com, March 2001
SHAKING THE notoriety gained following six years on the road with Guns N' Roses was never going to be the easiest of tasks. But Izzy Stradlin, ...

Mr. Coverdale and His Enormous Snake
Interview by Ian Fortnam, bol.com, September 2002
THE GENTLEMAN rock star lounges decorously before us, a cigarette steadily smouldering between his fingers. ...