Grimsthorpe Castle, Bourne Saturday, 6th September 2025 The third day, Saturday already, and I am met by a virtually cloudless sunny day that reminds me why I should always take weather forecasts with a sack full of salt. ARGHAM [Photo…
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The Horn, St Albans Wednesday, 15th October 2025 St Albans is about 25 minutes by train from my London hub of choice, the delightfully brutalist wasteland that is Euston station, so in that respect it is no harder to get…
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Mark Trueack fittingly recently released In Journey’s Groove – An Adventure in Life on his 70th birthday, underlining that this is a musical document looking back on the more salient points of his life. Journey’s Groove… is an entertaining and…
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Grimsthorpe Castle, Bourne Friday, 5th September 2025 A beautiful sunny morning that ensured that the day started well but, still tired from the previous day I reviewed my strategy for seeing bands and realised that I was spreading myself too…
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Gentle Giant is currently in the spotlight: following the recent remaster of their acclaimed live album Playing The Fool – The Complete Live Experience, and now the autobiography of founder/singer/composer Derek Shulman is available. The latter’s life has taken several…
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Before reading this review of an album you probably know inside out, you need to know where I’m coming from with it. The nature of a reissue review is heavily dependent on whether the author is familiar with it or…
View More The Alan Parsons Project – I Robot (Super Deluxe Edition Boxset)
Grimsthorpe Castle, Bourne Thursday, 4th September 2025 Intro and first impressions… Despite this festival being in its third year I was still a virgin to Nene Valley Rock Festival. So, other than seeing a line up full of interesting bands,…
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Kepler Ten return with their third album Random Number Generator Episode 1, after a five year gap since A New Kind of Sideways. Interestingly, they present this new album as the first part of a series of shorter digital only…
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Wippy Bonstack; great name huh? It may not surprise you to learn that it’s made up, as a name for the solo work of Ben Conigulario, a hugely talented multi-instrumentalist and composer. He has a number of band projects, (Sun…
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There are so many classic prog artists from the 70s still making a living from making music that I hardly get surprised anymore when a new one pops up. However, I must admit, I was pretty shocked to see the…
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