Rahul Shrivastava

Rahul Shrivastava was born in Newcastle, England, at the back end of the 1970s, and it wasn’t long before he was growing up on a diet of heavy rock ‘n’ roll.

His first music-related job was at a Leeds-based company called Phocis Ltd, where his role was to digitally encrypt online music. It didn’t involve much writing, but there are worse things than being forced to listen to T-Rex and the Yardbirds during product testing!

After living and working in Greece for a while, he returned to the UK and bagged a job with the BBC in Newcastle in 2002. Working on the BBC Tyne website allowed him to put his love of writing to the test, and opened the door for his rock journalism.

His first ever gig was Whitesnake, and his favourite gig was Arthur Lee & Love. He can’t understand why he keeps buying Iron Butterfly albums when they only ever did one good song, and he is still kicking himself for visiting San Francisco just months before he discovered the joys of Acid Rock.

He is also currently writing and researching an article on the underground music scene of Newcastle during the late 80s / early 90s, and for several years, was an adminstrator on the Deep Purple Fan Forum.