Once again showing the breadth of styles within the music we call rock’n’roll, Ray Collins Hot Club rub shoulders with Th McCurdy Brothers in this month’s magazine. In fact, we asked for, and are publishing, two reviews of The McCurdy Brothers UK tour, different reviewers, and different gigs, highlighting the geographical spread as well as the style spread of the Big Beat.

We also cover the historical spread of the music with features on Jim Lowe, Mick’s recollections of the early sixties and a brief report on the latest get-together of the most devout of the rock’n’rollers, the teds, gathered in Blackpool for The Ted Do

Welcome by the way to new writer Kate Lao Shi, with her, take on the Camden date of the Red Hot Riot UK tour…..Rock On, Johnny Hop