How are you mate? Not bad. I haven't been out of bed long, I take a while to run on all cylinders, you know! How's things? Okay, not bad. We've done a couple of weeks in Germany. It has taken me a week to get over that, we did a lot of travelling. It has been great. And you are just resting in between projects right now? We are going to start the next Heartland record in the studio in mid January. I have just got maybe one more tune to write. Apart from that I am not flogging it at the moment. How has the Distance project faired up? I am really pleased with it actually. It's gone a hell of a lot better than I thought it would. Not that I didn't think the songs were good to begin with, but I was kind of nervous to start a new project. I hadn't met the guy before. Really!? Yeah, I knew very little about Kenny before hand. The thing just came about, because I was half way through writing the next Heartland record with Steve Morris and Steve had to break off for a little while to be ...

Chris Catena: A stellar line-up for a stellar debut.     Chris Catena pays tribute to the music of his life - classic hard rock - but not only that, many musicians he has admired over the years have come along for the ride. What a star packed debut! I talk with Chris about the album, it's songs and how it works for him being an independent artist. Hi Chris, Your debut album Freak Out is available now, but we need to do some work on letting folks know who you are. First of all, how did you get started as a musician? I AM SON OF A GREAT ITALIAN TENOR. I HAVE GROWN UP WITH THE MUSIC IN MY FEEDING BOTTLE! I HAVE ALWAYS BEEN IN LOVE WITH MUSIC SO I STARTED FOLLOWING MY FATHER IN HIS TOUR IN THE VARIOUS OPERA HOUSES AND SINCE THE BEGINNING I WAS ATTRACTED BY THIS GLITTERING WORLD. THEN MY SISTER MANUELA AND MY BROTHER GIANNI, OLDER THAN ME, INITIATED ME INTO THE LISTENING OF ROCK MUSIC. MY SISTER WAS IN LOVE WITH DIFFERENT KINDA MUSIC SUCH AS THE POP HITS AS WELL AS THE ROCK HITS OF THE TIME, THE GLAM OF ...

Crush40: A fresh name for a well known project. Japanese guitarist Jun Senoe runs through the new album compiling his work with Hardline singer Johnny Gioeli and guests Ted Poley and Tony Harnell. Jun, a previous release from you was available in Japan a few years back now, under the Sons Of Angels moniker. But this is album is a compilation of the rock vocal tracks from that album and some others recorded elsewhere isn't it? Yes, exactly. We released the album “SONS OF ANGELS / Thrill Of The Feel” from JVC for Japanese market in 2000. Where do the extra tracks come from? From the video game stuff. One came from the soundtrack of “SONIC ADVENTURE”, and the rest came from “SONIC ADVENTURE 2/ BATTLE”. Tell us the history behind the music itself - what was it recorded for and when? Ok… “Live & Learn” was written as a main theme of “SONIC ADVENTURE 2/ BATTLE” in 2001. Also “Escape From The City” is taken from the same game, and very popular with the videogame fans. From “Revvin' Up” to “All The Way” were written for the racing game called “NASCAR ARCADE”. The game was not so much popular especially in Europe though… And “...