Tag Archives: neo prog

Album review: ASH WING – s/t

Posted on November 2, 2025 by GRTR! HQ

White Knight Records [Release date 07.11.25] This album is one of several that arrived at GRTR! Towers without an accompanying press release. Perhaps this is a new trend: get the journos to do the work. Again, from the Rob Reed … Continue reading →

Album review : PALLAS – Eyes In The Night (The Recordings 1981-86, 7CD boxset)

Posted on June 21, 2024 by brianmc

Cherry Red [Release date : 28.06.24] You have to credit Cherry Red with their even handed approach to reissues/remasters. No offence to fans of neo-Prog band, Pallas, but the band is not front page news, and never have been, but … Continue reading →

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Gig review: MARILLION – Hammersmith Apollo, 30 September 2022

Posted on October 6, 2022 by Davoski

Late 2021’s Hammersmith gigs gave a taster of what Marillion had in store for 2022 when they played a sneak preview of the ‘Be Hard On Yourself’ suite. Nine months later the band is back at the venue to play … Continue reading →

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Album review: TWELFTH NIGHT – Smiling At Grief…Revisited

Posted on April 22, 2022 by GRTR! HQ

Twelfth Night [Release date 01.04.22] The cottage industry that is Twelfth Night continues. The band haven’t been active live since 2014 and some would say that their best work was done with vocalist/lyricist Geoff Mann in the early 1980s. The … Continue reading →

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Album review: THIS WINTER MACHINE – A Tower of Clocks

Posted on June 6, 2019 by jason

F2 Music [Release date 24.06.19] Second album by the Yorkshire based progressive rockers This Winter Machine, who are relative newcomers having formed in 2016. They consist of Al Winter (vocals), Mark Numan (keyboards, vocals), Graham Garbett (guitars, vocals), Scott Owens … Continue reading →

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Album review: TWELFTH NIGHT – Fact And Fiction

Posted on June 26, 2018 by jason

F2 Music/Festival [Release date 11.06.18] Twelfth Night were one of the bands to emerge in the early to mid-80′s boom in prog rock that was spearheaded by Fish-era Marillion. ‘Fact And Fiction’ was originally released back in 1982, Twelfth Night’s first proper … Continue reading →

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Album review: THE GARDENING CLUB – The Riddle

Posted on April 2, 2018 by GRTR! HQ

Advance copy [Release date: tbc] www.martinspringett.com The Gardening Club’s debut album dating back to 1983 is something of a minor prog classic. Canadian illustrator and musician Martin Springett, English expat and absorber of distinctly English prog stylings, has now unleashed … Continue reading →