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Status Quo / 2022 ‘Out Out Quoing’ UK and Eire Tour dates are announced

News April 20, 2021

Legendary Rockers Status Quo will tour the UK and Eire in spring 2022, with 14 dates, before the band head out to Europe.Tickets for the 'Out Out Quoing' tour are available from...

John ‘Rhino’ Edwards / Quo bassist talks about rocking out to support the live music industry

News November 28, 2020

John 'Rhino' Edwards, the esteemed bass player from Status Quo, has released the single 'Super Smashing Great' in support of Stagehand, the original live production welfare and benevolent fund.The Rhino's Revenge song,...

Breaking News: Status Quo forced to cancel Backbone tour

News August 12, 2020

Status Quo have this morning issued a statement confirming the cancellation of almost all of their 2020 tour, originally planned for the last quarter of this year. The only dates to survive...

Francis Rossi / “Live Aid still important, 35 years later”

News July 13, 2020

Today marks the 35th Anniversary of the Live Aid show. Two concerts were held simultaneously and attended by 172,000 at Wembley Stadium and John F. Kennedy Stadium in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and it...

STATUS QUO – AQUOSTIC LIVE

Archive April 20, 2020

Status Quo have dabbled in acoustic performances before – some of their back catalogue songs have acoustic guitars on them like 'Living On An Island' and the incredibly under-rated 'Someone Show Me...

IT’S NOT QUITE OVER AND OUT FOR RICK PARFITT AS POSTHUMOUS SOLO ALBUM IS A FITTING TRIBUTE TO HIS LEGACY

Archive March 23, 2020

On Saturday 21st July 1984 at Milton Keynes Bowl, Status Quo performed the last show of their 'End of the Road Tour' in front of 40,000 fans. Although many thought this was...

HEART TO HEART WITH FRANCIS ROSSI PART ONE

Archive February 7, 2020

He's pressed the button on the National Lottery show, he's received the OBE from the Queen, he opened up Live Aid in 1985, he's sold over 128 million records and counting and...

MAN DOWN STATUS QUO STORM THE CASTLE AS FREDDIE PROVES HE’S READY WITH THESE IMMORTAL CHORDS

Archive January 7, 2020

This was an unprecedented fifth time that Status Quo had played to a sold out crowd at the historic Rochester Castle on the bank of the River Medway, having first performed here...

HEART TO HEART WITH FRANCIS ROSSI PART TWO

Archive January 1, 2020

Part Two of MetalTalk's Heart To Heart with Francis Rossi and if Pet Shop Boys and Shakin' Stevens revelations had you reeling yesterday, you better fasten your seat belts for this one.Part...

STATUS QUO SET THE UNION CHAPEL, ISLINGTON ABLAZE AND THAT’S A FACT

Archive January 1, 2020

We decided to send our Editor to Friday night's Status Quo gig at The Union Chapel in Islington. He listens to Folk Metal, Death Metal, Motörhead and Manowar twenty-five hours a day,...

THE SKYNYRD NATION COMES OUT IN FORCE FOR THE FINAL SCOTTISH PERFORMANCE

Gig Reviews June 28, 2019

Legendary Southern rockers Lynyrd Skynyrd are in the country to say farewell to their UK fanbase with four arena dates as part of their ongoing 'Last Of The Survivors' Farewell Tour. It's...

JOHN COGHLAN’S QUO PAY SUPERB TRIBUTES TO RICK PARFITT AT EMOTIONAL PUTNEY EVENING

Archive December 31, 2016

It was wholly appropriate that this was the last gig of the year and what a tribute it was to Rick Parfitt at a sold out Half Moon in Putney.John Coghlan's Quo:...

BREAKING NEWS: STATUS QUO/FRANTIC FOUR: JOHN COGHLAN CONFIRMS THAT HE, PARFITT AND LANCASTER ARE REUNITED

Archive December 13, 2016

Status Quo have been on and off and on again all year with the Last Of The Electrics billed as the final time Quo would ever plug in, Rick Parfitt leaving the...

BREAKING NEWS: RICK PARFITT OF STATUS QUO SUFFERS HEART ATTACK AFTER TURKEY GIG

Archive June 16, 2016

In the early hours of Wednesday 15th June 2016, following the Status Quo gig at Expo 2016 in Antalya, Turkey, Rick Parfitt suffered a suspected heart attack.He is being treated in a...

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