 | | Robert Plant, photo: Sarah Jeynes |
Robert Plant - the mighty voice of the legendary Led Zeppelin - is back on home turf with his band The Strange Sensation. See Robert Plant and The Strange Sensation at Wolverhampton Civic Hall on Monday 12th December and Tuesday 13th December. The gig in Wolverhampton will include songs from Plant's solo work plus his ground breaking work with Led Zeppelin. Fans of Robert will also hear new material from his latest album 'Mighty Re-Arranger'.
 | | Robert Plant, photo: Sarah Jeynes |
Mighty Rearranger, which came out in May, is the 56-year-old musician's first album of new material since 'Fate of Nations' in 1993. It mixes blues-based rock riffing and African elements, along with some pointed and potent lyrics which have brought him the best reviews and most attention in his solo career.
 | | Robert Plant, photo: Sarah Jeynes |
Asked if he'd tried harder with this album, Plant laughed. "No, I'm always trying," he said. "But the thing is, I just found way more of an identity and focus for the entire project, musical, lyrical and I suppose cerebral in a way.... It's a very well-intended and focused combination of ideas." Plant was so confident in the album, which he recorded with his current band Strange Sensation, that he even made a pilgrimage in March to the South by Southwest music conference in Austin, Texas. The convention is the country's major gathering of the indie-rock world, a place that has always been foreign territory for the former rock titan.
 | | Robert Plant, photo: Sarah Jeynes |
"I was trying to open it up as much as I can," Plant said. "I think there's a tendency ... to think that there's a point chronologically where everybody drifts around in middle age, wandering and presenting coiffeured pieces of memorabilia. "I just don't see that as a raison d'etre. So I wanted to go wherever it was that I could, to just let people know that this is an absolutely real and tangible project that probably is carrying a lot more metal and weight than the identikit stuff that's around us at the moment." | 
