I have had this short album – or long EP, whatever – in my “to do” pile for quite a while, and a recent discussion on a Facebook thread with those fine Bad Elephant chaps about cover versions prompted me…
View More Jack O’The Clock – Outsider SongsMonth: October 2015
Magic Bus – Transmissions From Sogmore’s Garden
Down in deepest, darkest rural Devon is the semi-mythical rural town of Totnes, which some inhabitants now believe is twinned with C.S. Lewis’s magical land, Narnia. Renowned for its atmosphere of alternative lifestyles and ‘New Age’ hippy culture, Totnes is…
View More Magic Bus – Transmissions From Sogmore’s GardenCurved Air ~ 45th Anniversary Concert
Under The Bridge, Stamford Bridge, Fulham, London Friday, 4th September 2015 I have enjoyed the music of Curved Air since the release of their debut album Air Conditioning, which coincidentally was one of the first picture discs and was released…
View More Curved Air ~ 45th Anniversary ConcertJanet Feder – T H I S C L O S E
From Denver, Colorado, this is different. Janet Feder plays guitar and sings. Nothing unusual there perhaps but she does it in a particularly unusual way. T H I S C L O S E is Janet’s fifth album having started…
View More Janet Feder – T H I S C L O S EBlackmore’s Night – All Our Yesterdays
Blackmore’s Night return with their tenth studio album, the follow up to 2013’s Dancer and the Moon. Ritchie Blackmore, Candice Night, and their band of minstrels continue to perform their Renaissance inspired rock which made its debut on 1997’s Shadow…
View More Blackmore’s Night – All Our YesterdaysLapis Lazuli – Alien
Another band helping to define the New Canterbury sound, and actually hailing from the Kent cathedral city, Lapis lazuli burst upon an unsuspecting world in 2012 with their double-debut, the “un” rather than “in” famous Bungalow Sessions, released as two…
View More Lapis Lazuli – AlienSpring – Spring
When I heard that Esoteric Recordings, those wonderful curators of Rock’s Rich Tapestry, were re-releasing the self-titled album by Leicester band Spring, an obscure bunch of very early prog rockers, conversely well known in the world of record collecting, my…
View More Spring – SpringSummer’s End Festival 2015
[With photos by Tony Colvill, Nigel John, Leo Trimming and Dave Glaves] The Drill Hall, Chepstow – 2nd to 4th October 2015 As a warmer than average September ebbs away and the temperatures start to dip it’s time once again…
View More Summer’s End Festival 2015Dworniak Bone Lapsa – Fingers Pointing At The Moon
With such a wealth of new albums being released, and many now falling under the progressive umbrella, it is inevitable that a growing number will not receive the exposure they deserve. In the case of Fingers Pointing At The Moon…
View More Dworniak Bone Lapsa – Fingers Pointing At The MoonVarious Artists – ¡Salgan Al Sol!
Argentina is a vast country, in fact the eighth largest in the world. Consequently, with a population of only 41.5 million it is somewhat sparsely populated, especially given the fact that nearly 13 million of the total live within the…
View More Various Artists – ¡Salgan Al Sol!