Category: HEAVY PETTIN’

All 3 HEAVY PETTIN’ Eighties albums have been reissued, remastered and with bonus tracks on Burnt Out Wreckords via Cherry Red Records. We already featured Heavy Pettin’ 2 first, now it’s time for their third and last 80s LP “The Big Bang”, including previously unreleased tracks as bonus.
Originally appeared in 1989, “The Big Bang +2 [Cherry Red Remastered + Unreleased]” sees the band fully embracing the AOR sound production of that magic year, hugely layered, plenty of keyboards and sing-along choruses.
“The Big Bang”, the third album from Heavy Pettin’ saw them changing their style from the early Def Leppard orientated hard rock into the hook-ladden late ’80s AOR style plenty of keyboards and the huge vocals from singer Hamie, which sounded not that far away from SHY’s Tony Mills.
No surprisingly that with this album they were called as the European answer to Journey – check tracks like “Lonely People”, “Looking For Love” or “Madonna On The Radio !” and imagine that one of the mighty Steve’s (PERRY / AUGERI) handles the vocal duties…

British cult rockers HEAVY PETTIN’ second album ‘Rock Ain’t Dead‘ has just been remastered and reissued including a bonus track, on Burnt Out Wreckords via Cherry Red Records.
Hard rocking Scottish band Heavy Pettin’ (named after UFO’s 1976 studio album), was formed in Glasgow in 1981 when guitarist Gordon Bonnar, drummer Gary Moat, bassist Brian Waugh, vocalist Steve ‘Hamie’ Hayman and lead guitarist Punky Mendoza joined forces to give the biggest and best rock bands at the time a serious run for their money.
“Rock Ain’t Dead” holds a fair amount of powerful melodic rockers in “Heart Attack” and “China Boy”, the power ballads “Lost in Love” and “Dream time”, and the super dramatic AORish midtempo “Sole Survivor” – with an unforgettable chorus.
A really welcomed digitally remastered reissue including a bonus track, “Rock Ain’t Dead” is an album that still needs to be discovered by many Melodic Hard Rock fans, and this new version is the one to pick up…

Eighties British cult hard rockers HEAVY PETTIN’ debut album ‘Lettin’ Loose‘ has been reissued, remastered and with 2 bonus tracks, on Burnt Out Wreckords via Cherry Red Records.
Signed by major label Polydor, this Heavy Pettin’ rockin’ debut was produced by Brian May and Queen engineer Mack, a confident display of the band’s talents with their catchy melodic hard rock being favorably compared to early Def Leppard.
With a remastering overseen by drummer Gary Moat, ‘Lettin’ Loose’ is an ’80s cult classic and still sound as fun and fresh today, the perfect introduction to someone who may have missed HEAVY PETTIN’ the first time around…

Cherry Red Records has released this “Best Of Heavy Pettin’“, a collection of remastered versions of songs selected by drummer Gary Moat reflecting HEAVY PETTIN’ at their best, including the singles that charted: ‘Love Times Love’, ‘In And Out of Love’ and ‘Rock Me’.
The cover artwork is a previously unseen photo by David Plastik taken at The Breaking Sound festival in France in 1984, while other unseen photos of the band have been used for the booklet to showcase HEAVY PETTIN’ at their prime, plus liner notes from renowned Ross Muir.
Scotland’s answer to Def Leppard, as so many people thought from Leppard’s manager Peter Mensch, who booked them as tour support for…