A Room For Five - Live
Brighton Rock
A Room for Five – Live is a concert album by Canadian hard rock band Brighton Rock, released in 2002 via Z Records as their first new release in over a decade. Recorded on their 2001 reunion tour by the classic lineup—Gerry McGhee (vocals), Greg Fraser (guitar), Johnny Rogers (keyboards), Stevie Skreebs (bass), and Mark Cavarzan (drums)—it captures the band revisiting material from all three of their studio albums, Young, Wild and Free (1986), Take a Deep Breath (1988), and Love Machine (1991). The 14‑track set runs just under an hour and includes “Bulletproof,” “Young, Wild and Free,” “Barricade,” “Nothin’ to Lose,” “One More Try,” “Hangin’ High ’N’ Dry,” “Outlaw,” “Hollywood Shuffle,” “Nightstalker,” “Love Machine,” “Rebels with a Cause,” “Power Overload,” “Can’t Wait for the Night,” and “Rock ’N’ Roll Kid.”
Musically, the album functions as a live “best‑of” that emphasizes the band’s melodic hard‑rock and AOR strengths: big choruses, soaring vocals, and guitar‑keyboard interplay delivered with more grit and rawness than their polished 80s studio productions. Songs like “Young, Wild and Free” and “We Came to Rock” (represented live by the opener “Bulletproof”) come off heavier and more energetic, while “One More Try” and “Can’t Wait for the Night” highlight McGhee’s emotive vocal style in a concert setting. For fans, A Room for Five – Live documents Brighton Rock’s return after their 1991 breakup, proving that the band could still deliver powerful performances of their classic material and effectively freezing their reunited chemistry in time—especially poignant given McGhee’s passing in 2020 and the group’s status as one of Canada’s cult‑favorite 80s hard‑rock acts.
A Room For Five - Live
Brighton Rock
A Room for Five – Live is a concert album by Canadian hard rock band Brighton Rock, released in 2002 via Z Records as their first new release in over a decade. Recorded on their 2001 reunion tour by the classic lineup—Gerry McGhee (vocals), Greg Fraser (guitar), Johnny Rogers (keyboards), Stevie Skreebs (bass), and Mark Cavarzan (drums)—it captures the band revisiting material from all three of their studio albums, Young, Wild and Free (1986), Take a Deep Breath (1988), and Love Machine (1991). The 14‑track set runs just under an hour and includes “Bulletproof,” “Young, Wild and Free,” “Barricade,” “Nothin’ to Lose,” “One More Try,” “Hangin’ High ’N’ Dry,” “Outlaw,” “Hollywood Shuffle,” “Nightstalker,” “Love Machine,” “Rebels with a Cause,” “Power Overload,” “Can’t Wait for the Night,” and “Rock ’N’ Roll Kid.”
Musically, the album functions as a live “best‑of” that emphasizes the band’s melodic hard‑rock and AOR strengths: big choruses, soaring vocals, and guitar‑keyboard interplay delivered with more grit and rawness than their polished 80s studio productions. Songs like “Young, Wild and Free” and “We Came to Rock” (represented live by the opener “Bulletproof”) come off heavier and more energetic, while “One More Try” and “Can’t Wait for the Night” highlight McGhee’s emotive vocal style in a concert setting. For fans, A Room for Five – Live documents Brighton Rock’s return after their 1991 breakup, proving that the band could still deliver powerful performances of their classic material and effectively freezing their reunited chemistry in time—especially poignant given McGhee’s passing in 2020 and the group’s status as one of Canada’s cult‑favorite 80s hard‑rock acts.