TPA’s Basil Francis recently put together a review of Grbschnitt’s mammoth 17-disc boxset 79:10 and got in touch with drummer Eroc to discuss the history of the band… I wanted to start by asking you, how would you describe Grobschnitt…
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Bush Hall, London Friday, 24th August 2018 I must own over a dozen albums where the ivory tinkler is one Dave Stewart, a man who was synonymous with underground progressive music in the 1970s. Dave’s ubiquitous nature was briefly highlighted…
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Lazleitt is an eclectic progressive rock project led by Alex Lazcano, from Washington, DC and their debut album is a very good musical work of art, and may well have this band following their album title, On the Brink to stardom.…
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Franklin Mint hail from Bristol, not far from my place of residence, a city which has an interesting musical heritage with a number of great bands and a wide choice of live venues. The band rose from the ashes of…
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Do you remember 2013? Here are some fun facts about that year: Natalie Coleman won Masterchef, Jorge Mario Bergoglio won Best New Pope and the words “twerk” and “selfie” were added to the dictionary. Notable and factual events, all. It…
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“This is probably the one and only time I’ll ever tour with an orchestra – unless it goes so well!” says Steve Hackett as he prepares to take his Genesis Revisited Tour on the road across the U.K. in October.…
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The Forum, Bath Tuesday 11th September 2018 Let’s talk about guitarists for a moment. There are innumerable mindbogglingly talented players around, deploying all of the tricks and techniques that the human brain (and fingers) can conjure up, but how many…
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Mass Sky Raid, like Karnivool, are an Australian progressive/alternative rock band, and the similarity does not end their, as musical there is a close likeness to Karnivool, which is a great thing, but they also share the production skills of…
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After a decade-long break, Tomorrow’s Eve is back with the third chapter of its Mirror of Creation trilogy, Project Ikaros. The entire album is a dramatisation of a Utopian world created by “Project Ikaros”, which seems like something straight out…
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Public Service Broadcasting’s third long player Every Valley, follows a similar path to 2015’s The Race for Space in that the album is centred around a theme (or ’concept’ if you like!), but this time the subject is closer to…
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