Faster Pussycat is one of those bands whose name is synonymous with the Sunset Strip scene in L.A.; evidenced by their appearance in the iconic rockumentary “The Decline of Western Civilization Part 2 – The Metal Years” in the same year that their debut album was released in 1987.
Next month, frontman Taime Downe is bringing the band back to the UK for the first time in almost ten years and to Belfast for the first time since 2013. I was very fortunate to be able to have a chat with Taime via Zoom on 29th July and you can hear that interview on the Friday NI Rocks Show on 7th August.
We focus on the tour, the recent history of the band and future plans.
https://www.rockradioni.co.uk/hosts/ni-rocks-friday-rock-show
The upcoming European tour stops in The Empire in Belfast on Sunday 13th September.
Read more: NI ROCKS Interview with TAIME DOWNE from FASTER PUSSYCAT
There are two NI Rocks Shows uploaded each week on Rock Radio NI. These are the playlists for those Shows for the month of July 2026 – all of which are still available from the On Demand Player. There are tracks by around 180 different artists on the Shows this month.
Playlists for June 2026 were published previously and those Shows are also still available via the On Demand Player - https://www.rockradioni.co.uk/news/rrni-updates/3961-ni-rocks-playlists-for-june-2026
There are also monthly Spotify playlists for the Friday NI Rocks Show which feature most of the tracks from each Show that month.
This month there were no new interviews, but the Lorraine Lewis interview from May is available on the website and I have an interview with Taime from Faster Pussycat recorded for the first show in August.
Previous interviews can be found here - http://www.rockradioni.co.uk/interviews.html and on the NI Rocks MixCloud page as well - https://www.mixcloud.com/NIRocks/ .
The featured album releases this month were from Harsh, Eva Under Fire, Zan/Cody, Five Finger Death Punch and Iconic
We don’t post album “reviews” but we do play a lot of new releases on the Friday NI Rocks Show each week. These are some of the albums released this month that we’ve featured tracks from over the past few months; or are likely to feature over the next few weeks. This month we focus on releases from Harsh, Eva Under Fire, Zan/Cody, Five Finger Death Punch and Iconic
There are two NI Rocks Shows uploaded each week on Rock Radio NI. These are the playlists for those Shows for the month of June 2026 – all of which are still available from the On Demand Player. There are tracks by around 170 different artists on the Shows this month.
Playlists for May 2026 were published previously and those Shows are also still available via the On Demand Player - https://www.rockradioni.co.uk/news/rrni-updates/3959-ni-rocks-playlists-for-may-2026