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Gig review: SUZANNE VEGA – Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool, 25 October 2025
Suzanne Vega is one of those artists whose standards have never dropped. The native New Yorker’s tours of the UK have been rather infrequent and, somehow or other, I always managed to miss out – until her performance at Liverpool’s … Continue reading
Gig review: THEA GILMORE – Nantwich Civic Hall, 17 April 2025
The queue to get in to Nantwich Civic Hall began forming a whole hour before the doors were due to open for Thea Gilmore’s home-town gig – testament to the high esteem in which she’s held. This is what you … Continue reading
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Book review: Richard Houghton – LED ZEPPELIN – Whole Lotta Love – A People’s History
Spenwood Books [Publication Date: 01.12.24] We’ve all heard or read about the history of one of the greatest rock bands to bestride the world through film, television and a number of mighty tomes over the years. From “Hammer Of The … Continue reading
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Tagged A People's History, book, Led Zeppelin, review, Richard Houghton, rock music, Whole Lotta Love
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Album review: IQ – Dominion
Giant Electric Pea - [Release Date: 28.03.25] It’s a new IQ album – what’s not to like? At the forefront of the progressive rock cognoscenti’s ‘Finest Prog Bands’ list since their debut ‘Tales From The Lush Attic’ in 1983 (when … Continue reading
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Tagged Dominion, IQ, Mike Holmes, Peter Nicholls, Progressive Rock, review
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Album review: EVERON – Shells
Music Theories Recordings / Mascot [Release date: 28.02.25] German progressive rock band Everon were quite prolific in the late nineties / early noughties, releasing seven albums between 1993’s ‘Paradoxes’ and ‘North’ in 2008 – all of which somehow avoided … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Everon, prog, Progressive Rock, review, Shells
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Album review: THEA GILMORE – These Quiet Friends
Self Released at theagilmore.net [Release date: 28.02.25] We’ve all got them. Those songs we turn to in times of trouble, joy and sadness to help us get through – songs that lift the spirit and are the companions … Continue reading
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Album review: RUBY DAWN – Blood On Water
Self-released [Release date 01.11.24] Hailing from Wokingham in the UK, Ruby Dawn are a rather fine progressive/art-rock band consolidating their progressive credentials with this follow-up to 2023’s ‘Beyond Tomorrow’, which, from all accounts, was an excellent debut in itself. Fronted … Continue reading
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Album review: SYLVAN – Back To Live
Gentle Art Of Music/Soulfood [Release date: 12.07.24] Sylvan, alongside label stable-mates RPWL, have been at the forefront of German progressive rock since the release of their debut album ‘Deliverance’ in 1999 and have raised the bar with every subsequent … Continue reading
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Tagged Back To Live, Johnny Beck, Marco Gluhmann, Progressive Rock, review, RPWL, Sylvan
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Album review: MARCO GLÜHMANN – A Fragile Present
Gentle Art Of Music / Soul Food - [Release date: 14.06.24] So, what happens if the two finest progressive rock bands in Germany get together (with a number of special guests) to make a progressive rock album? The answer is … Continue reading
Album review: LEON ALVARADO – The Changing Tide
Melodic Revolution Records [Release date: 31.05.24] Leon Alvarado is an American multi-instrumentalist who started his recording career in 2009 with an album called ‘Plays Genesis And Other Stuff’ and has progressed (see what I did there?) to Pink Floyd on … Continue reading
Album review: YES – Talk
Spirit Of Unicorn/Cherry Red Records [Release date: 24.05.24] Originally released in 1994 and remastered here for its 30th anniversary, ‘Talk’ is very much the lost album of the Yes canon (not helped by the Victor record company going bust not … Continue reading
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Tagged Alan White, Chris Squire, Jon Anderson, Progressive Rock, review, talk, Tony Kaye, Trevor Rabin, Yes
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Album review: BIG BIG TRAIN – The Likes Of Us
Inside Out [Release Date: 01.03.24] When David Longdon tragically died in an accident at his home in 2021, Big Big Train, one of the finest folk/prog bands this country has produced, were shattered to the core. How could they continue … Continue reading
Album review: STEVE HACKETT – The Circus And The Nightwhale
Inside Out [Release date: 16.02.24] As a recognition of 50 (ish) years in ‘the biz’, Steve Hackett, erstwhile guitarist of Genesis, has released not only a landmark 30th solo album, but also bookended his solo career by releasing a concept … Continue reading
Album Review: THE PINEAPPLE THIEF – It Leads To This
kScope [Release date: 09.02.24] The Pineapple Thief have been around since 1999 – initially on the periphery of progressive rock with their early albums on the legendary Cyclops label. They were chosen to re-launch the now esteemed kScope label with … Continue reading
Album Review: THEA GILMORE – Thea Gilmore
Mighty Village Records [Release date: 17.11.23] Twenty one albums into a career that has set the bar so high in the singer/songwriter genre, Thea Gilmore has, at last, had the self-confidence and artistic freedom to release an eponymously titled set … Continue reading
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Tagged folk, review, Singer/Songwriter, Thea Gilmore
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Album/EP Review: HELD BY TREES – Eventide
Sound Canyon Records [Release date: 11.08.23] Following on from Held By Trees’ excellent ‘Solace’ in 2022, the band assembled once more at Peter Gabriel’s Real World Studios to realise two projects. The first was a sparkling, live re-recording of … Continue reading
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Tagged David Joseph, Eventide, Held Bt Trees, Progressive Rock, review, Robbie McIntosh, Talk Talk
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Album review: HELD BY TREES – Solace – Live At Real World Studios
Sound Canyon Records [Release date: 11.0.23] Held By Trees is a collective of outstanding musicians, three of whom had connections to and played with the band Talk Talk. Back in the day, Talk Talk, under the eclectic leadership of the … Continue reading
Album review: SUBSIGNAL – A Poetry Of Rain
Gentle Art Of Music [Release date: 22.09.23] My fellow GRTR! reviewer Pete Whalley gave a four-star review to Subsignal’s previous album ‘La Muerta’ in 2018 – opining at the time that the band had “waved goodbye” to their metal tendencies … Continue reading
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Tagged A Poetry Of Rain, Progressive Rock, review, RPWL, Subsignal, Yogi Lang
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Album review: DESOLATION SOUND – Salish Rock
Robo Jack Records - [Release date: 28.07.2022] What’s in a name? For all fans of doom metal it’s time to look elsewhere as Desolation Sound are not the Lords of Valhalla that the name suggests. In fact, anything but – … Continue reading
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Album review: SOUTHERN EMPIRE – Another World
Giant Electric Pea - [Release date: 04.09.23] Southern Empire was formed in 2014 following the break-up of Australian progressive rock pioneers Unitopia, and have carried the torch for Southern hemisphere prog since. Signed to IQ’s Giant Electric Pea label, the … Continue reading
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Tagged Another World, Progressive Rock, review, Sean Timms, Southern Empire, Unitopia
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Album review: RPWL – Crime Scene
Gentle Art Of Music [Release date: 17.03.23] It is now more than twenty years since RPWL’s debut album ‘God Has Failed’ was released to an unknowing world – to a muted response. But, muted response or not, it laid down … Continue reading
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Tagged Crime Scene, Kalle Wallner, Progressive/Art Rock, review, RPWL, Yogi Lang
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Album review: KATATONIA – Sky Void Of Stars
Napalm Records [Release date: 20.01.23] Ever since Swedish behemoths Katatonia de-coupled themselves from the doom-metal train to oblivion with the ‘Night Is The New Day’ album way back in 2009, they have been the flag-bearers of a genre best described … Continue reading
Album review: TOM ADAMSON BAND – Old View Of The New World
Blue Build Records - [Release date: 20.12.22] Tom Adamson is a Scottish-born multi-instrumentalist who has played alongside and supported a diverse number of top-line acts including Sister Sledge, Supergrass, Toploader, Johnny Dankworth & Cleo Laine and er, John Barrowman. This … Continue reading
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Tagged blues, folk, Old View Of A New World, review, rock, Tom Adamson Band
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Album review: RAIN – Radio Silence
Giant Electric Pea [Release date: 27.01.23] Another release on the Giant Electric Pea label – they’re getting quite prolific… For those not in the know, GEP is the label founded by IQ stalwarts Mike Holmes and Martin Orford in … Continue reading
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Tagged Andy Edwards, Frost*, IQ, John Jowitt, Progressive Rock, Radio Silence, Rain, review
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Album Review: RETURNED TO THE EARTH – Fall Of The Watcher
Giant Electric Pea [Release date: 27.01.23] Written and recorded through lockdown between 2019 and 2021, ‘Fall Of The Watcher’ is Returned To The Earth’s fourth foray into the studio. Originally released in 2022 on BandCamp, Giant Electric Pea, the exemplary … Continue reading
