“through your stormy waves through your crumbled walls through your broken sky through your fractured soul” Nothing truly prepares you for the death of a parent. The agonising numbness. The despair of grief. Cloying guilt and suffocating remorse. The unwelcome…
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Bush Hall, London Tuesday 3rd October 2017 It’s my first visit to Bush Hall, a charming and exceedingly elegant music and dance hall originally built in 1904. Put to a diverse variety of uses throughout its history from WWII soup…
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The Bear, Oxford Wednesday, 27th September 2017 What a fabulous evening. A week ago Damian Wilson was singing and body surfing to an audience of 3,000 people in Tilburg as part of The Ayreon Universe series of concerts. On this…
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I was lucky enough to see Mystery at The Borderline in London in September 2014. The tour was in support of their fifth studio album The World is a Game; Benoît David had left in March, to be replaced by…
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The arresting image of rutting stags, antlers locked in a dramatic contest for dominance and control, provides a thoughtfully reflective and emotionally perceptive insight into the contrasts which lie at the heart of this beautifully elegant second studio album from…
View More White Moth Black Butterfly – Atone
With Threshold‘s eleventh album and first in three years, Legends of the Shires, appearing next month, TPA’s Rob Fisher took the opportunity to talk to keyboardist Richard West and returning singer Glynn Morgan about the new album, the band’s illustrious…
View More Richard West & Glynn Morgan – Threshold
There is an exhilarating moment of revelation, approximately three and a half minutes into Stars and Satellites, the fifth track on this new album from Threshold, where the building crescendo in the wall of sound abruptly halts, leaving just an…
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White Star Records are currently riding the energetic crest of an impressively creative wave. After the release of Kepler Ten’s blistering debut album Delta-V in February, co-founders John Mitchell and Chris Hillman made the supremely shrewd move of signing ex-Touchstone…
View More Kim Seviour – Recovery is Learning
Victoria and Albert Museum, London Running to Sunday 1st October 2017 A healthy queue greets my arrival at the magnificent Victoria and Albert Museum. Having played around with the online booking system, it was pleasing – and a little surprising…
View More Pink Floyd: Their Mortal Remains [Exhibition]
‘Haunting’ is a word which is frequently used in relation to a number of progressive albums, signalling a disquieting and lingering sense of presence which inhabits and permeates the music, bringing with it associated feelings of wistful nostalgia, the pain…
View More Bjørn Riis – Forever Comes to an End