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Gig review: PAUL McCARTNEY- 02 Arena, London, 18 December 2024
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Tag Archives: Progressive Rock
Album review: CAIRO – Say
[Release date 03.10.16] www.cairorocks.com Following his departure from Touchstone, keyboardist and founder member Rob Cottingham has chosen not to resurrect his Captain Blue solo persona, but to throw himself into a new project with a new band – Cairo. Much … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Cairo, prog, Progressive Rock, review, Rob Cottingham, Say, Touchstone
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Album review: MARILLION – FEAR
This hour special was broadcast in the first hour of David Randall’s weekly show ‘Assume The Position’ on Sunday 18 September at 22:00 GMT on Get Ready to ROCK! Radio. More information earMUSIC [Release date 23.09.16] Is it really nearly … Continue reading
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Tagged album, FEAR, interview, Marillion, prog, Progressive Rock, review, rock, Steve Hogarth, Steve Rothery
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Album review: FAVNI – Windswept
[Release date 20.05.16] With a name change from Fauns (primarily because of the clash with the British band The Fauns) marking the introduction of new electric guitarist Thomas Glase and vocalist, flautist and fiddler Kirsten Middeke, this five-piece from Berlin … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Favni, folk, Germany, prog, Progressive Rock, review, Windswept
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Quick plays: AMPHETAMIN, GADI CAPLAN, PREACHER
AMPHETAMIN – A Flood Of Strange Sensations There is so much good progressive rock coming out of France at the moment with bands such as Delain, Lazuli, Black Noodle Project and The Last Embrace well worth checking out. Also well … Continue reading
Album review: CURVED AIR – The Curved Air Rarities Series Volume 1 – Tapestry Of Propositions
Curved Air Records [Release date 05.08.16] We live in age when every album, every gig, seems to be heavily choreographed. With albums pieced together and artists not necessarily sharing the same studio, or even continent, and gigs fixed to a … Continue reading
Album review: THE NEAL MORSE BAND – Alive Again
Radiant Records/Metal Blade [Release date 05.08/16] This is a slightly more modest release – 2CD/DVD – after last year’s impressive ‘Morsefest 2014’ box set. This live show was recorded near the end of the ‘Alive Again’ world tour in Holland. … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Alive Again, Mike Portnoy, Neal Morse, pop, prog, Progressive Rock, review, rock, Spock's Beard, the Neal Morse Band
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Album review: EMERSON, LAKE & PALMER – Reissues
BMG [Release date 29.07.16] In a year that has had its disproportionate share of rock/pop casualties, Keith Emerson’s passing was one of the saddest. And, inevitably, there is an immediate reflection on a long and varied back catalogue. This latest … Continue reading
Album review: KATATONIA – The Fall Of Hearts
Peaceville [Release date: 20.05.16] There are occasions aren’t there when only a quietly muttered ‘wow’ really does justice to whatever you’re experiencing at the time? There was a moment halfway through track 6, ‘Residual’, that I thought ‘I’m in the … Continue reading
Gig review: STONE FREE FESTIVAL Day 2 – O2 Arena, London, 19 June 2016
While the first day of the debut Stone Free festival had an eclectic mix of bands, the second was far more coherent with the theme of progressive rock both in the main arena and the Indigo. Combined with an older … Continue reading
Album review: BEN CRAVEN – Last Chance To Hear
Tuneleak Records [Release date: 29.03.16] Ben Craven is an Australian multi-instrumentalist – self-described as a ‘cinematic progressive rock singer-songwriter’. ‘Last Chance To Hear’ is his third studio album to date following ‘Two False Idols’ in 2005 and 2011’s ‘Great … Continue reading
Album review: GANDALF’S FIST – The Clockwork Fable
www.gandalfsfist.com [Release date 01.05.16] I enjoyed Gandalf’s Fist’s last album ‘A Forest Of Fey’, and they have really upped their game all round on this one. First, a mention about the packaging. Not only do we get a sumptuous triple … Continue reading
Album review: FROST* – Falling Satellites
Inside Out [Release date 27.05.16] This album has been a long time coming as the last Frost* album was 2008′s ‘Experiments In Mass Appeal’ and we even had Jem Godfrey announce the end of the band in 2011, only for … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Falling Satellites, Frost*, Inside Out, Jem Godfrey, John Mitchell, pop, prog, Progressive Rock, review, rock
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Album review: RIKARD SJOBLOM – The Unbendable Sleep
Gungfly [Release date: 10.02.16] Rikard Sjoblom, for the uninitiated, is the multi-instrumentalist frontman for Swedish avant-progressive rock darlings Beardfish. He was also the prime mover behind Gungfly, who briefly piqued interest from the music press a few years back and … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Beardfish, Gungfly, prog, Progressive Rock, review, Rikard Sjoblom, The Unbendable Sleep
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Album review: JADE VINE – Mind Of A Man
Self released – Release date: 26 February 2016 You know you’re onto a winner when the wife shouts from downstairs “What’s that you’re listening to? Sounds good” And she’s right – this is good. Very good. Jade Vine are a … Continue reading
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Tagged Anathema, art rock, Danny Cavanagh, Jade Vine, Mind Of A Man, Progressive Rock, review
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EP review: DREAM ETERNAL BLISS, THREE DAYS FROM RETIREMENT
DREAM ETERNAL BLISS DEB EP New Jersey debutants Dream Eternal Bliss deliberately bringing together the 80s pop of bands like Berlin, Roxette, and Duran Duran, and fuse it with the AOR melodic dexterity of bands like Toto on their debut … Continue reading
Album review: LYRIAN – The Jester’s Quest In The City Of Glass
Medieval Records [Release date 01.04.16] Here’s a prog concept album that doesn’t take itself too seriously, judging by the lighter touch in the accompanying press release. There is no doubt that a lot of effort and enterprise has gone into … Continue reading
Album review: THE RAPTOR TRAIL – New World
MBM Entertainment [Release date 11.03.16] It’s great when a new band takes its cue from anything other than early seventies blues rock. The Raptor Trail major on well constructed songs, great playing and a definite – even if subconscious – … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Jupiter Coyote, New World, prog, Progressive Rock, review, rock, southern rock, The Raptor Trail
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Album review: TONY PATTERSON – Equations Of Meaning
Esoteric Antenna [Release Date: 26.02.16] It must be very difficult if your day job is vocalist for a Genesis tribute band to sound like anything other than said progressive rock Gods. But is this necessarily a bad thing? There is … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Equations Of Meaning, Genesis, Nick Magnus, Progressive Rock, ReGenesis, review, Tony Patterson
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Album review: BRUCE SOORD – Bruce Soord
K-Scope [Release date: 27 November 2015] The cries of “oh no, he’s doing a Steven Wilson on us” may have been the first reaction of progressive rock luminaries The Pineapple Thief’s legion of fans when hearing that said band’s … Continue reading
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Tagged Bruce Soord, Darron Charles, Progressive Rock, review, The Pineapple Thief
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Album review: KIAMA – Sign Of IV
Tigermoth Records [Release date: 02.02.16] Alongside Steven Wilson, Rob Reed must be one of the busiest men in the field of progressive rock at the moment. As well as his day job as leader and creative inspiration of the wonderful … Continue reading
Album review: OLLOCS – Outer Edge
Self released [Release date: 24.10.15] Okay, let’s get the issue of the name out of the way first. Ollocs. What were they thinking of? Ollocs, whilst lending itself to a myriad of infantile jokes (I was thinking of giving it … Continue reading
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Album review: YUKA & CHRONOSHIP – The 3rd Planetary Chronicles
Cherry Red Records [Release date: 25.09.15] There are times aren’t there when all the planets align to produce something a bit special – er, no pun intended… Essentially the band of keyboard virtuoso Yuka Funakoshi, Yuka & Chronoship have been … Continue reading
Album review: TANGERINE DREAM – Out Of This World (Vinyl Edition)
Invisible Hands Music [Release date (vinyl): 11.12.15] Released in memory of Edgar Froese, founding member of the legendary electronic rock pioneers Tangerine Dream who sadly passed away in January 2015, ‘Out Of This World’ is a compilation of the band’s … Continue reading
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Tagged album, ambient, Edgar Froese, electronic, Out Of This World, Progressive Rock, review, rock, special edition, Tangerine Dream, Vinyl
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Album review: THE SKYS – Journey Through The Skies
Self-released [Release date: 06.11.15] Following up The Skys’ 2012 release ‘Colours Of The Desert’ (which was excellent – with a few caveats), Lithuania’s finest return with ‘Journey Through The Skies’ which, in the same way as ‘Colours’, is another tremendous … Continue reading
Gig review: LONELY ROBOT – The Scala, London, 20 December 2015
So onto the final gig for 2015 for me and one I have been looking forward to as it is Lonely Robot, aka John Mitchell (It Bites/Frost*/Arena), whose debut album ‘Please Come Home’ is one of my top 5 albums … Continue reading
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Tagged 20 December 2015, gig, HeKz, John Mitchell, London, Lonely Robot, pop, prog, Progressive Rock, review, rock, The Scala
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