Daily Archives: March 24, 2013

Album review: ILLUMION – The Waves

Freia Records – [Release Date: 20.12.12] Ahhh -  remember the good old days prog fans, when you could march down to your local record emporium, lay down your pound note and skip out with the latest waxing from King Crimson … Continue reading

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Interview: 10Q’s with STANDING OVATION

Standing Ovation’s latest album ‘The Antikythera Mechanism’ is a real mix of styles and will be of definite interest to fans of progressive metal. Here we catch-up with vocalist Jouni Partanen…  1.     What are you currently up to? At the … Continue reading

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Album review: MAHOGANY FROG – Senna

      Moonjune Records Mahogany Frog is an exciting, challenging, hard hitting, innovative and progressive Canadian band. They draw from the same progressive, electronic and symphonic arc as Erik Norlander’s Rocket Scientists, but much like their gate fold art … Continue reading

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Gig review: STIFF LITTLE FINGERS – The Forum, Kentish Town, 22 March 2013

The Men They Couldn’t Hang provided a perfect opening for Stiff Little Fingers. Their firebrand folk-punk set harked back to the glory days of The Pogues and the radical high water mark of New Model Army and Billy Bragg. Well-crafted … Continue reading

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Album review: THE NEW BLACK – III: Cut Loose

AFM This is the German band’s third release (slight hint in the title!) – not that I’ve heard either of their earlier releases though.  Their self titled debut appeared in 2009 with follow up “II – Better in Black” released … Continue reading

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Quick plays: URIAH HEEP, SAMSON, SIR REG

SAMSON – Head On Lemon / Cherry Red A real NWoBHM classic here, Samson’s second album and the first to feature vocalist Bruce Bruce, aka Bruce Dickinson. Samson issued what is widely considered one of the first NWoBHM LPs in … Continue reading

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Gig review: FM – Shepherds Bush Empire, London, 23 March 2013

FM, Shepherds Bush Empire, London, 23 March 2013

2013 sees FM’s stock as high as it has been for some time. Hot on the heels of not one but two new albums, they filled the first three levels of Shepherds Bush Empire. While last year’s gigs celebrating the … Continue reading

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