Rainbow

This February, some 44 years after the original line-up of Ultravox! supported their Island Records label mates, Eddie And The Hot Rods live at the Rainbow Theatre, Finsbury Park, London, Island/UMC will celebrate with a series of video and audio drops recorded during the 1977 concert. This will premiere at 8pm on Monday, February 15 with a video drop of “I Came Back Here To Meet You.” From then on HD restored videos and tracks will be delivered weekly until a full track EP release on March 19.

First ever 'live' album release for the Scottish soul-rock singer, recorded in London at the Rainbow in 1974.12 tracks including 'Coming on Strong', 'Wishing Well' & 'Penicillin Blues'.

The Best of Rainbow compiles 16 of the best tracks from Rainbow's first seven studio albums, wisely avoiding 1977's live On Stage release. The first two tracks from their debut album, 1975's Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow, showcases the instant bond that was formed between Blackmore and Ronnie James Dio, especially on "Man on the Silver Mountain." Blackmore changed the band for the following year's Rainbow Rising, with Jimmy Bain replacing bass player Craig Gruber, and Cozy Powell taking percussion duties away from Gary Driscoll. Adding keyboard player Tony Carey helped tracks like "Starstruck" and the lengthy "Stargazer" to sound a little more dimensional and fluent than the group's first effort.

Rainbow Serpent are one of the best Electronic Music bands to emerge from Germany having a rare talent for infectious sequences and sublime melodies. At one moment they can produce tracks overflowing with the joy of life and then in the next turn their hands to growling menacing stuff. Frank Specht is one half of the awesome Rainbow Serpent and as with Gerd Wienekamp's (the other half of Rainbow Serpent) album 'Der Laborant - Kontakt' what we get is a mixture of very recognisable Serpent characteristics as well as a different angle identifying the individuality of each member.