Tag Archives: Holland

Feature: Call Collect: An introduction to FOCUS

Posted on April 1, 2020 by GRTR! HQ
Focus - Hard Rock Hell Prog, Pwllheli, 21-22 March 2014

In their own words, Thijs van Leer and Jan Akkerman discuss the early days of Focus and their wider success…and demise in the late 1970s.  This feature is based on interviews in 1990 for a ‘Record Collector’ article published in … Continue reading →

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Album review: MARILLION – Unplugged At The Walls/Tumbling Down The Years

Posted on March 15, 2018 by GRTR! HQ
MARILLION - Unplugged At The Walls

earMUSIC [Release date 23.03.18] Live albums three and four in this set of bi-monthly releases find our intrepid heroes in a restaurant in Oswestry in 1988, and once again at the 2009 Marillion Weekend convention in Port Zelande, Holland. Unplugged … Continue reading →

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Album review: JULIAN SAS – Coming Home

Posted on August 20, 2016 by petefeenstra
Julian Sas - Coming Home

Cavalier [Release date 18.03.16] ‘Coming Home’ is an aptly titled,  solid rock-blues album with southern rock edges and spiritual references. It incorporates Holland’s leading rock-blues guitarist Julian Sas’s penchant for gritty vocals, evocative guitar playing and anthemic blues balladry. It … Continue reading →

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Album review: NEMESEA – Uprise

Posted on May 9, 2016 by GRTR! HQ
NEMESEA - Uprise

Napalm Records [Release date 29.04.16] You might be forgiven thinking that Dutch pop metallers Nemesea were new kids on the block out to steal Delain’s thunder.  But they have been around for at least 10 years although without their compatriots’ … Continue reading →

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Album review: JAN AKKERMAN – Jan Akkerman (1977 reissue)

Posted on January 23, 2016 by GRTR! HQ
JAN AKKERMAN - Jan Akkerman

Esoteric Recordings [Release date 29.01.16] “Jan Akkerman”, the 1977 album with the distinctive “guitar in bed” cover, was Akkerman’s answer to Jeff Beck’s ‘Blow By Blow’ two years earlier.  This was the Dutch guitarist’s first solo album since splitting from … Continue reading →

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TOYZ – The Infinite Road

Posted on January 5, 2013 by GRTR! HQ
Toyz - The Infinite Road

Every so often a disc shows up that looks just the same as a million others – classic prog-rock cover, picture of the band looking completely normal, track-list titles that would sit on any other album; ‘Departure’, ‘Face The Mirror’, … Continue reading →

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FOCUS – X

Posted on October 17, 2012 by GRTR! HQ
Focus - X

Eastworld Recordings (2012) One of the great rejuvenations of recent years has been the Thijs van Leer version of Focus, things seemed to click with the arrival – in 2006 – of original drummer Pierre van der Linden and they’ve … Continue reading →

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THE GATHERING – Disclosure

Posted on October 14, 2012 by GRTR! HQ
The Gathering - Disclosure

I have to confess I’ve never tripped over The Gathering – a Dutch band who started out in 1989 pedalling death/doom metal, but who like the rest of us have mellowed with the passing years and evolved into something quite … Continue reading →

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