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Gig review: TEN – Leo’s Red Lion, Gravesend, Kent, 9 August 2025

Back in the mid-nineties, when melodic rock was at its lowest ebb, Ten were one of the first shoots of hope as a thriving underground scene emerged and I was a huge fan. They were the great white hope of … Continue reading
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Tagged AOR, Dann Rosingana, Darrell Treece-Birch, Gary Hughes, gig, Leo’s Red Lion, melodic rock, Steve Grocott, TEN
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Album review: TEN – Something Wicked This Way Comes

Frontiers [Release date: 20.01.23] Here’s another Ten album title that will again appeal to the literati or the cinephiles among the band’s fans. It’s their sixteenth studio release since 1996. Ever present founder/ writer/ singer, Gary Hughes has gathered a … Continue reading
Album review: TEN- Here Be Monsters

Frontiers Records (Release date 18.02.22) It’s been over three years since Ten released the rather underwhelming ‘Illuminati’, though mainman Gary Hughes had a busy 2021 with a solo album and compilation and writing the critically acclaimed ‘Tao’ project.’ ‘Here Be … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Gary Hughes, melodic rock.AOR, TEN
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Album review: GARY HUGHES – Decades

Frontiers Records [Release Date 12.03.21] With Gary Hughes having just released his first solo album in a long while, the simultaneous release of this generous 29 track double compilation is very timely as an opportunity to discover (or rediscover) the … Continue reading
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Tagged album, AOR, compilation, Gary Hughes, melodic rock, TEN
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Album review: GARY HUGHES – Waterside

Frontiers Records [Release Date 12.03.21] It’s been a relatively quiet period for Gary Hughes, the usually prolific Ten mainman- over two years since Ten’s last album but a whopping 14 since his last album under his own name. Now, on … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Dann Rosingana, Darrel Treece-Birch, Gary Hughes, melodic rock, TEN
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Album review: TEN- Illuminati

Release Date 9.11.18 Ten were standard bearers of the then underground melodic rock scene in the nineties and have recovered after a lean spell to resume a prolific recording schedule- this being their sixth album in this decade alone. Singer … Continue reading
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Album review: TEN – Gothica

Frontiers [Release date 07.07.17] Album number thirteen from the enduring melodic rockers Ten, which also sees them back on Frontiers in a multi-album deal. They have hit a purple patch these past few years, helped no doubt by the same line-up … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Gary Hughes, Gothica, John Halliwell, melodic, review, rock, Steve McKenna, TEN
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TEN – Heresy & Creed

FRONTIERS RECORDS www.frontiers.it Less than two years after returning to something like their old form with their Stormwarning release, Ten have capitalised on renewed interest and a successful mini tour with a new line up with an … Continue reading
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Tagged Frontiers, Gary Hughes, Heresy & Creed, melodic rock, TEN
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HRH AOR announces first eighteen acts
Tesla confirmed to headline new HRH AOR Festival in proud association with Classic Rock Magazine. Hard Rock Hell in proud association with Classic Rock Magazine are set to launch a new indoor weekend AOR music festival simply called HRH AOR … Continue reading
Posted in Festivals & Large Events, Gigs and Tour News, NEWS
Tagged Gary Hughes, HRH AOR, Jeff Scott Soto, Rotherham, Serpentine, TEN, Tesla
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