International viewers start your research now then imagine the late John Peel delivering in his usual laconic style “…that was Donut Membrane with Spunky Side Dish, but now something new, prescribing some sage advice…” That would be Dr. Woman and…
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Royal Concert Hall, Nottingham 14th February 2019 Paul Carrack, one of Britain’s hardest working performers is back on the road and continuing to thrill his legions of fans as he tours the UK through the spring. Wearing his trademark hat…
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Underground music scenes in all urban centres naturally develop their own amoeba-like existence, dissolving and reforming in different shapes as the mood and the Muse takes them. Belgian capital Brussels is no different, and one such meeting of like minds…
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Further to Rhys Marsh’s late 2018 announcement that he has signed to Karisma Records, I’m pleased to be able to take on this review. His last album, The Black Sun Shining, was spontaneous, visceral music. Rhys returns to a more…
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1998. To me another period where the manufactured music seemed to take over the airwaves, so the arrival of Semisonic with Closing Time was a godsend; nothing to do with my alternative residence of the pub, but the quality of…
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Art-pop: “progressive rock without the rock attitude”, explains Marek Arnold when I question him further. The instrumentation and the way the songs have been arranged, combined with Manuel Schmid’s interpretation and singing of the lyrics inclines it toward being pop.…
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The Slaughtered Lamb, Clerkenwell, London Friday, 8th February 2019 Time portals, sausages in the air, and heads leading independent lives to bodies are just three things one goes to gigs like these for, oh yeah, baby! A tempestuous and bursting…
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Metaphor is a San Francisco area progressive rock band that used to be a Genesis cover band during the mid-1990s. The fact that they covered Genesis, created an immediate interest and desire to listen to, and then review their latest…
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I Am The Manic Whale recently played at the HRH Prog Festival in North Wales in November 2018 and singer Michael Whiteman met with Leo Trimming of The Progressive Aspect for an interview shortly after their successful and popular performance……
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I Am the Manic Whale have released their first live album, documenting the album launch gig in Reading in May 2018 for their second album Gathering the Waters and is a fine summary of the increasingly popular and determinedly eccentric…
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