SEVEN UP

We’ll be tipping you off with our ones to watch in 2012 in the New Year but rest assured the consistently impressive UFO will demand top billing next year.

With new album Seven Deadly recently dropping on the rushonrock decks we thought it was about time we gave it a whirl. 

And so good is the band’s latest offering – due for release towards the end of February – that it’s keeping Mariah Carey’s Christmas song off the stereo.

Seven Deadly hits stores a couple of weeks before UFO embark on full UK and Irish headline tour taking in 16 dates.

And although he’s bound to be just a little biased Tommy Newton, who engineered the new record, revealed: “Phil Mogg has never sounded better!”

With Pete Way’s future still shrouded in doubt UFO are still being touted as a quartet ahead of next year’s tour with Mogg joined by Paul Raymond, Andy Parker and Vinnie Moore.

But with the bass slot vacant there’s every chance the towering rhythm king – last seen guesting with Michael Schenker – could return to the fold in 2012.

Look out for a full review of Seven Deadly next year and don’t forget you can check out the guys at one of the following dates:

15^th March – Cambridge The Junction

16^th March – Edinburgh HMV Picture House

17^th March – Newcastle O2 Academy

18^th March – Leeds O2 Academy

20^th March – Dublin Academy

21^st March – Belfast Spring & Airbrake

23^rd March – Milton Keynes The Stables

24^th March – Tavistock The Wharf

25^th March – Bristol O2 Academy

27^th March – Nottingham Rock City

28^th March – Norwich Waterfront

30^th March – Manchester HMV Ritz

31^st March – Wolverhampton Wulfrun Hall

1^st April     – Southampton The Brook

3^rd April     – Brighton Concorde 2

4^th April     – London Forum