Wonderfully vibrant and expressive second solo album from virtuoso prog rock and jazz fusion guitarist, Nick Fletcher – setting the bar even higher on this release. When Steve Hackett, no less, states that “Nick Fletcher is probably the best jazz…
View More Nick Fletcher – The Cloud Of UnknowingMonth: June 2022
Birth Control – Open Up
It only makes sense to listen to Birth with a chaser of Birth Control. While one is a new band playing retro-prog, the other is an ancient group playing… funk, apparently. But are they hip, or hip replacement? I have…
View More Birth Control – Open UpSolace Supplice – Liturgies Contemporaines
The French prog scene is one I think is often overlooked and underrated. For sure, when it comes to the “classic era”, and the almost symphonic form that is often the first thought of many when it comes to how…
View More Solace Supplice – Liturgies ContemporainesThe Aristocrats
With their latest release taking the band in a different direction, we talk to The Aristocrats about how the new project with the Primuz Chamber Orchestra, from Poland, came about, featuring reimaginings of tracks from the band’s catalogue with an…
View More The AristocratsMagma / The Utopia Strong
The Garage, Highbury, London Friday 17th and Saturday 18th June 2022 Roger Trenwith … and now, over to Philomena for the weather… Only in the UK – or more specifically in the southern half of the UK – could you…
View More Magma / The Utopia StrongThe Bardic Depths – Promises of Hope
The Bardic Depths is the result of the unlikely collaboration between a multi-instrumentalist living in Lanzarote and a recognized historian from the United States. The Big Big Train Facebook page was the catalyst, the result being a self-titled debut album…
View More The Bardic Depths – Promises of HopeDave Bainbridge & Sally Minnear
St. George’s Church, Hartlepool, County Durham Saturday, 18th June 2022 As much of the country baked in the uncharacteristically hot June weather, I was delighted to be going to church, which I have to say was refreshingly cool. Entering St.…
View More Dave Bainbridge & Sally MinnearPoets Of The Fall – Ghostlight
There is something irresistibly infectious about Poets of the Fall. I had the pleasure of meeting the band in Berlin in 2012 as part of the Temple of Thought tour, courtesy of my then teenage son who’s fanatical passion for…
View More Poets Of The Fall – GhostlightMental Fracture – Disaccord
Everyone knows the old adage of not judging a book by its cover, but you can certainly infer a lot about an album by its cover art. Before I’d even listened to a note of Mental Fracture’s debut album, Disaccord,…
View More Mental Fracture – DisaccordAlex Henry Foster – Standing Under Bright Lights
Following the recent release of his remarkable cover of Lou Reed’s classic The Power of the Heart the charismatic French Canadian post rock artist, Alex Henry Foster, returns to the U.K. this June for his ‘Not All Wonder Have Been…
View More Alex Henry Foster – Standing Under Bright Lights