The Garage, Islington, London Friday, 21st December 2018 After a splendid day as a tourist in the company of my trusty TPA colleague Mr Phil Lively, during which we visited the Post Office museum and took a trip on their…
KNIFEWORLD AT THE LEXINGTON Or An Adventure In That London With A Gentleman And Some Music. It was a winter’s day of contrast and light, pummelled by cold winter rain, but illuminated in so many ways. My companion for the…
The Musician, Leicester 9th May 2016 Pagan Vibes in the Land of Champions. Starting a short tour to promote their rather fine new platter Bottled Out Of Eden, the bright-eyed and bushy-tailed ur-rock psychedelic beastie that is Knifeworld chose Leicester’s…
Although loosely tied in with the prog genre, Knifeworld are a band who make genuinely progressive music, thereby bucking an all too common trend where many musical collectives and their comfy audiences revel in looking backwards at bands who were…
Knifeworld are a band that leapt out of the shadows fully formed and blew me away at the Summer’s End Festival in 2012. Like many others who there that day the band were a revelation and one of the highlights…
TPA’s Dann Chinn covers all bases in this long chat with Michael Woodman, who gives us the lowdown on his new album Hiss of Today, and much, much more besides… Dann Chinn (DC): Let’s talk about stories, Michael, and storytelling,…
“With every passing day it gets harder They tell you it’ll change, how can they know?” Borne from much turbulence in the form of the pandemic and a concurrent domestic upheaval resulting in estrangement from his family, this album has…
The Victoria, Swindon Sunday 18th February 2024 The Vic is a lovely venue, friendly and welcoming with an excellent stage room downstairs, today laid out with seats to rest the weary bones of the 30+ lucky audients who have assembled…
Happy New Year! Hopefully 2023 treated you well. In most respects it was a step further along the road to getting back to whatever normal is/was, but the world still feels like a different place these days. As ever, a…
Chlöe Herington is a woman with a long history on the prog-adjacent fringes of this weird scene we inhabit. TPA’s Roger Trenwith had a chance to chat with her about her project V Ä L V Ē, their imminent new…