In 2019 Grice Peters recorded this, his third album, One Thousand Birds at Forward Studios in Rome which is due to be released on 22 March. In 2019 and 2020, Grice will be promoting his new album through live streaming…
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Sometimes you really have to work it, scratching beneath the surface to get the drift of what an album is really trying to say to you. At other times it comes easy and quickly. Well I have to say that…
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During my time reviewing albums I have become very interested in the great music being produced by the Norwegian music scene, therefore when I saw this reissue album by the Seventies band Ruphus my curiosity was tested further. The fact…
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“Jazz isn’t dead, it just smells funny”, was one of the many inimitable one-liners from rock music’s very own Groucho Marx, Frank Zappa. I probably shouldn’t be writing this, as it’s “like dancing about architecture” apparently. Frank’s caustic description of…
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Caught by the Machine is the new album from U.K. outfit The Room, who hail from the south of England and is their first release for the White Star label, run by John Mitchell (It Bites, Kino & others). The…
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Barnfield Theatre, Exeter Saturday, 23rd February 2019 Nostalgia. Tribute Act. True enough terms, and there are those who will dismiss such bands and artists as riding on the shoulders of giants, but they keep the music alive, present it to…
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Finnish band Beast In Black have released their second album, From Hell With Love, a homage to the eighties, so loved by Anton Kabanen – the founder and driving inspiration behind Beast In Black. From Hell With Love picks up…
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Sub89, Reading Friday, 1st March 2019 In 1989, this reviewer attended his first gig at the tender age of 13, watching FM play a one-off gig at The Astoria in London before they embarked upon the tour for their second…
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RPWL return with their first original studio album since 2014’s Wanted, with songs seemingly inspired by science fiction in Tales From Outer Space. These are not corny tales of sci-fi pulp fiction but vehicles for the band to shine a…
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Taking 1967 as a cultural “Year Zero”, this fine compilation, featuring over three and a half hours of what back then would have simply been called “underground sounds”, takes an in-depth look at the year that followed Sgt. Pepper. Almost…
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