Issue 10
If Issue 10’s Armed & Ready didn’t have loads to get excited about, Strictly For Konnoisseurs is the exact opposite… The feature makes a welcome return, and it does so with a bang!
Featuring Rex, Stars and Pat Travers…
Issue 8
Hi there, pop pickers! Issue 8’s Striktly For Konnoisseurs is brought to you by none other than Antipodean radio legend, Alan ‘Fluff’ Freeman!
As a result, we get a rather middle of the road, radio friendly, conceptual heavy set of pop picks! from Emerson Lake and Palmer, Barlclay James Harvest, Alan Parson Project, Pink Floyd and Vangelis. It is also the final Striktly For Konnoisseurs to appear in the magazine – not really the blaze of glory that we’d expect…
Issue 7
When two of the albums featured in Striktly For Konnoisseurs are the debut LPs from Led Zeppelin (1969) and Blue Oyster Cult (1972), it makes you wonder if this faithful feature of early Kerrang! is starting to run out of source material…
Issue 6
Issue 6 brings us a debut album from a band that would go on to sell millions of records and rule the world in the 1980s, and a classic album from an underdog who should have enjoyed much more recognition than they ever did. Once again, Strictly For Konnoissuers demonstrates exactly why it was so important to the early development of the magazine…..check ’em out.
Issue 5
Issue 5 revisited three slabs of rock n roll history!
Alice Cooper finally gets his foot in the door at Kerrang!, whilst we have what is essentially a bootleg in the form of The Runaways ‘Live At The Starwood’. The cream of the crop though is The Stooges ‘Funhouse’ kicking out the jams and breaking studio recording down to its bare bones…..like only The Stooges can….
Issue 4
A psyched-out edition of Strictly For Konnoisseurs finds us revisiting the MC5 having been punched in the face by their sonic maelstrom in Issue 1. We also enjoy albums by The Underground Allstars and The Seeds. Hold tight kids!!
Issue 3
Issue 3 finds us exploring the work of two bands whose sound and direct connections to major acts meant they were always going to be labelled as a poor mans version of both. Don’t be misled though, these are two quality inclusions to Striktly For Konnoisseurs, with albums that more than hold their own against those to which they were often compared.
Issue 2
We bring you the sonic marvels that were Blue Cheer and Stack Waddy!!
At times, brutal, but always hard and heavy…..the origins of Metal? You decide…….
Issue 1
The first ever Striktly For Konnoisseurs finds us presented with an eclectic mix of music featuring Marcus, Arthur Lee. MC5, Black Oak Arkansas and Golden Earring.
Revisit these classic pieces of musical heritage 40 years later