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Gig review: ANTHRAX – Hammersmith Apollo, London, 23 November 2024
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Gig review: CARDINAL BLACK – Sub 89, Reading, 15 November 2024
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Album review: SOLEY MOURNING – The Rocket Pool
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Album review: MICHAEL MONROE – Blackout States
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Album review: STEVE HACKETT – Surrender Of Silence
Inside Out [Release date: 10.09.21] A new album from Steve Hackett is always an event to look forward to, such has been his consistency in releasing work of the highest calibre, year on year, racking up over thirty albums and … Continue reading
Album review: BLACK SABBATH – Technical Ecstasy (Super Deluxe 5LP Vinyl Box Set)
WIN A CD or VINYL COPY! BMG / Sanctuary Records [Release date: 01.10.21] Following the superb ‘Super-Deluxe’ releases of ‘Paranoid’, ‘Volume 4’ and ‘Sabotage’ in the last couple of years, it is now the turn of ‘Technical Ecstasy’ to … Continue reading
Album review: RPWL: God Has Failed – Live And Personal
Gentle Art Of Music [Release date: 30.04.21] RPWL started life way back as a Pink Floyd tribute band, and, rather like Marillion and their relentless (and wrong) “Genesis Clones” soubriquet, struggled early on to free themselves of the PF comparisons. … Continue reading
Album review: TRANSATLANTIC – The Absolute Universe
Inside Out [Release date: 05.02.21] Supergroups – don’t you just love them? Remember, back in the day, when England used to play various sporting matches against “The Rest Of The World”? England always won because they all knew each other’s … Continue reading
Album review: BEN RANDALL – Before The Rain
Thoroughbred Music [Release date: 02.04.21] www.benrandallguitar.com For me, it’s always been about the guitar. Back in the day, from the moment I heard Paul Kossoff’s wailing Les Paul on the early Free albums, I was hooked. Koss, Blackmore, Iommi, … Continue reading
Album review: KATATONIA – Dead Air
Peaceville [Release date: 13.11.20] First of all a confession: I did not join the Katatonia train until they de-coupled themselves from their black metal roots around 2009 with the progressive metal behemoth of an album, ‘Night Is The New Day’. … Continue reading
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Tagged Dead Air, Jonas Renkse, Katatonia, Progressive/Metal, review
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Album review: STEVE HACKETT – Under A Mediterranean Sky
Inside Out [Release date: 22.01.21] Being the modest chap that he is, Steve Hackett would probably not describe himself as a virtuoso. However, in a career spanning getting on for fifty years from the early days of Genesis through his … Continue reading
Album review: STEVEN WILSON – The Future Bites
SW Records [Release date: 29.01.21] There’s a body of music fans who, if their favourite artist dares to stray from their favoured genre, castigate said artist with the tired (and tiresome) clichés “sold out”, “going mainstream”, “chasing the Yankee dollar”, … Continue reading
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Tagged Blackfield, No-Man, Porcupine Tree, review, rock, Steven Wilson, The Future Bites
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Album review: RIVERSIDE – Out Of Myself (Re-issue)
Inside Out [Release Date: 12.02.21] Riverside have developed, album upon album, into one of the finest progressive rock bands on the planet, with albums such as ‘Love, Fear And The Time Machine’, ‘Shrine Of New Generation Slaves’ and ‘Wasteland’ garnering … Continue reading
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Tagged Out Of Myself, Progressive Rock, review, RIVERSIDE
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Album review: THE FLOWER KINGS – Islands
Inside Out [Release date: 30 October 2020] There’s a debate that rages in a certain music magazine as to what is and what isn’t “prog” – where much pointless navel-gazing and hand-wringing occurs in trying to decide whether the … Continue reading
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Tagged Islands, Jonas Reingold, Progressive Rock, review, Roine Stolt, The Flower Kings
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Album Review: RIVERSIDE – Lost ‘n’ Found – Live In Tilburg
Inside Out – [Release date: 11 December 2020] Where to start with the sadness of this release? Live in Tilburg was recorded in October 2015 – just four days before I saw them live in Manchester – one of my … Continue reading
Album review: MARIANA SEMKINA – Sleepwalking
Kscope [Release date: 14.02.20] Mariana Semkina is one half of exceptional Russian “chamber prog” duo Iamthemorning whose delicate, fragile and occasionally disturbing songs have breathed new life into the quieter side of progressive music. Her long term partner in IATM, … Continue reading
Album review: FRANK WYATT & FRIENDS – Zeitgeist
Self-released [Release date: 01.11.19] Frank Wyatt was a founding member of noted American band Happy The Man – who got together through a shared love of British progressive rock way back in 1973. A series of prog albums followed … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Frank Wyatt, Happy The Man, Progressive Rock, review, Zeitgeist
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Album review: DAVE KERZNER – Breakdown – A Compilation 1995 – 2019
Cherry Red [Release date: 22.11.19] Dave Kerzner is a deservedly celebrated musician and producer who has had a long and varied career both as a solo artist and as a member of a number of excellent bands. Starting out with … Continue reading
Album review: BLIND EGO – Preaching To The Choir
Gentle Art Of Music - [Release date: 14.02.20] German progressive rock titans RPWL have been ridiculously busy lately, both collectively and individually. Their ‘Tales From Outer Space’ album from early 2019 was deservedly five starred, as was their double live … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Blind Ego, Kalle Wallner, Preaching To The Choir, progressive metal, review, RPWL
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Album review: FERNANDO PERDOMO – The Crimson Guitar
Forward Motion Records – [Release date: 8 November 2019] Fernando Perdomo’s day job is as the guitarist and bass player for the excellent Dave Kerzner Band but he has spread his solo wings quite frequently in recent years, to mixed … Continue reading
Gig review: STEVE HACKETT – Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool, 11 November 2019
The latest incarnation of Steve Hackett’s “Genesis Revisited” tour swept into Liverpool’s iconic, Eric Gill-inspired, Philharmonic Hall on an absolutely filthy November evening – not that it deterred a single one of the Hackett cognoscenti who filled the hall to … Continue reading
Album review: STEVE HACKETT – Genesis Revisited: Band And Orchestra
This interview with Steve Hackett was broadcast on Get Ready to ROCK! Radio on the eve of his UK orchestral tour. The hour special includes tracks from several albums included in the retrospective box set released in October 2018. Steve … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Bluray, Bradley Thachuk, Gary O'Toole, Genesis Revisited: Band And Orchestra, Heart Of England Philharmonic Orchestra, John Hackett, Jonas Reingold, Nad Sylvan, Progressive Rock, review, Rob Townsend, Roger King, Steve Hackett
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Album review: YOGI LANG – A Way Out Of Here
Gentle Art Of Music [Release date: 08.11.19] Although probably a new name to those not in the know, Yogi Lang’s day job is as vocalist and front-man for exceptional German progressive rock luminaries RPWL (he’s the ‘L’). He’s flown solo … Continue reading
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Tagged A Way Out Of Here, art rock, Kalle Walker, Parzivals Eye, prog, Progressive Rock, review, RPWL, Yogi Lang
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Album review: RPWL – Live From Outer Space
Gentle Art Of Music [Release date: 15 .11.19] Back in the day, bands such as Pearl Jam recorded all their gigs, pressed the CDs at the venue and flogged them to fans on their way out as a souvenir. A … Continue reading
Album Review: JOE LOUIS WALKER – Viva Las Vegas Live
Cleopatra Records [Release date: 10.05.2019] There’s just something about these old blues guys that sets them apart and I think the word is authenticity – it’s in their blood, and they’re going to keep doing it until they can’t … Continue reading
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Album Review: BILLY SHERWOOD – Citizen: In The Next Life
Frontiers Music [Release date: 12.07.2019] The prolific Mr Sherwood is a busy man. Not only is he now ensconced as bass player in the ever-revolving door of personnel that is Yes and also as the wonderful John Wetton’s replacement in … Continue reading
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Tagged Asia, Billy Sherwood, Citizen: In The Next Life, Progressive Rock, review, Yes
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Album review: IAMTHEMORNING – The Bell
K-scope (Release date: 02.08.19) One thing is for certain – you don’t listen to the music of iamthemorning for a laugh. Their exceptional 2016 album ‘Lighthouse’ which was based around the complexities of mental illness and which I described … Continue reading
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Tagged album, classical, folk, Gleb Kolyakin, Iamthemorning, Marjana Semkina, Progressive Rock, review, Russia, The Bell
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Gig review: MARTIN BARRE BAND (50 Years of Jethro Tull) – Floral Pavilion, New Brighton, Wirral, 2 June 2019
The International Guitar Festival Of Great Britain, held annually for many years, has been a showcase for some of the world’s finest players. Sadly, it has lost its focus a little in recent years with acts appearing that have no … Continue reading
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Tagged 50 years, Clive Bunker, Dan Crisp, Dee Palmer, Floral Pavilion Theatre, gig, hard rock, Jethro Tull, Martin Barre, prog, Progressive Rock, review
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Album review: RED BAZAR – Things As They Appear
White Knight Records [Release date: 26.01.2019] Whilst much of music these days drifts aimlessly in a reality-TV-induced slough of mediocrity, progressive rock appears to be in rude health – bucking the trend with a slew of tremendous albums released … Continue reading
