THIN LIZZY guitarist Scott Gorham is featured in a new interview with the UK-based Express & Star. An excerpt is available below:

We’re talking as the latest incarnation of Thin Lizzy prepares to return to Wolverhampton Civic Hall next month, almost exactly a year after a triumphant show at the venue this January.

That tour was put together to mark the 25th anniversary of the death of the band’s iconic leader, Phil Lynott. Taking his role as lead singer was Ricky Warwick (THE ALMIGHTY) alongside Gorham, Downey, DEF LEPPARD guitarist Vivian Campbell, bassist Marco Mendoza and keyboard player Darren Wharton.

“The whole tour went great,” says Gorham. “The whole tour was sold out except for maybe one or two places that were nearly sold out. I think a couple of years or four and back we kind of struggled a bit for ticket sales but I think people have heard who’s in the band now and seen YouTube clips and it’s all come good.”

Fans certainly seem more enamoured of this version of the band than the one of a few years ago fronted by guitarist John Sykes.

“Yes absolutely, we saw that on the last tour. It just shows you the power of Ricky Warwick, what he is and what he does and how he does it,” says Gorham.

It’s been an incredibly busy 2011 for Thin Lizzy, with the tour, festival appearances, the release of expanded editions of classic albums and the release of a lavish collection of BBC material – At The BBC, in three formats, a 6CD, 1 DVD box set, a 2CD anthology and a 5 LP vinyl set.

“We were out on the road for seven months this year,” says Gorham. “Then we crank it up again in January and we’re going to do it all again. We’ll be doing this tour here January and February, we’ll be playing Europe, well, Scandanavia really, then it’s back to America, then we come back over here for a few of the festivals then it’s back over to America for a few festivals over there. Then they’re trying to book gigs now in Australia, Japan and South America. We’ll be getting a fair few Air Miles!

“Everybody has stuck with this, which is great which was probably not the case just a few years ago when there was the whole thing of ‘No Phil, no Lizzy.’ That thing has kind of lapsed now, now that so many people have got to see what we do. I think there’s always going to be a couple of people who are going to think on the negative side but I think any band gets that anyway.”

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