A year on from the enigmatic and sonically diverse tour de force that was Tales from the Silent Ocean, Steve Hughes’ debut solo release, the imaginative album Once We Were (Part One) has been released by the former drummer with…
View More Steve Hughes – Once We Were (Part One)Month: August 2016
A Different Aspect #3 – August 2016
In this update we feature:- Courtney Swain – Monstre S.O.T.E. – Chosen Eureka – Great Escapes Mike Kershaw – What Lies Beneath Sills & Smith – Echoes in Time Diki Dharmawan – So Far So Close Hello again, welcome to…
View More A Different Aspect #3 – August 2016Blue Öyster Cult
O2 Kentish Town Forum, London Friday 29th July 2016 Having often railed against the ever expanding nostalgia industry…quick, exploit the silver surfers while their ears still function…the unfettered greed of which now climbs up another notch with that astonishingly expensive…
View More Blue Öyster CultAirbag – Disconnected
2016 has seen a veritable outpouring of releases which express and embody a seemingly deep-seated contemporary preoccupation with despair and despondency. Melancholic gloom is finding strong, heart-felt resonances in the work of many song writers, bands, musicians as well as…
View More Airbag – DisconnectedThe Mercury Tree – Permutations
If I told you Mercury Tree have been roped into that driest of sub-genres “math rock” in the past it may put you off reading further. However, this Tree do human things with the dusty academic description that make this…
View More The Mercury Tree – PermutationsSantana – IV
Santana is a name known globally; Carlos and his band were at Woodstock in 1969, that performance and the many decades of music since helping to cement his claim to being one of the world’s greatest guitarists. Selling more than…
View More Santana – IVMacroscream – Macroscream
Another new band to me, Macroscream, hailing from Rome, feature a core sextet who cover a lot of instrumental ground already, to which is added a cast of seemingly dozens contributing vocals, brass and woodwind, padding out the sound and…
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