The Vicious Rumors tour was great – and excellent band to share the stage with and genuinely inspiring as well. The bus itself looked like it had been caught in the final bombing raids of Word War Two, but it was still an absolute pleasure. Not only Vicious Rumors, but also The Order Of Chaos and PhallaX – all good people and excellent bands.

Arriving back in the UK, Iron Knights are immediately in a state of upheaval, but any ideas about the band disappearing are premature. There are some great plans beginning to take shape.

Anyway…apart from that, I am now going to be drumming for certain shows with James Rivera’s ‘Sabbath Judas Sabbath’ tribute band. James has got one of those rare voices that can do complete justice to both Ronnie James Dio and Rob Halford, so am really looking forward to backing the Painkiller up on stage. He uses different bands for different geographic regions, so the first confirmed show that I am doing will be on 16 August at The Roadhouse in Birmingham…and there will be more. Can’t wait! \m/

As well as that, another project has started to take shape: Köbalt. Who is that? Well…early days, but it’s metal and it’s heavy. Going to take a while to get some sounds online, but watch this space…

Apart from that, Exorcism album is nearly recorded….a couple of other projects with some spectacular musicians are happily sitting in line to get kicked into gear….book and film stuff is inching towards more action……everything is cool.

Southampton was a good show last night, and I even finally got the Roto toms into action!

Budapest tomorrow and the start of the Vicious Rumors tour for us. Looking forward to it hugely!

Awesome \m/
The taste of heavy metal barbecues.

Actually, apart from being very cool, what a great way to use the wastage of stick production

So Iron Knights just knocked off four more UK shows – which were great fun. We played Nottingham, Birkenhead, Wolverhampton and Stoke-on-Trent. The middle two were new venues, although the Wolverhampton one used to be the Little Civic, which I had played years ago with Blaze.

Good stuff all round, and we got some recording for the live EP done thanks to Steve Wray and his trusty slave Leigh Oates.

Onwards with writing tracks for Iron Knights now as we approach two more shows in the UK (Horsham and Southampton) before heading off to Europe for the Vicious Rumors tour (alongside The Order Of Chaos and PhallaX).

Also, in the meantime, laying down some drums tracks with Jay Parmar for the Exorcism album and also doing some stuff with two other mates; and excellent bassist and guitarist each.