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Soundle Music Festival ’25: Day Three

Queen Victoria Hall, Oundle Sunday, 8th June 2025 The previous two days had flown by and it was now Sunday. I might have looked a nerd doing it but I am glad that I had a small note book with…

Darkfish – Beyond

Earlier this week saw the release of Beyond, the debut waxing of Darkfish, or Sheila Maloney as she is known to her friends, family, and bandmates in the David Cross Band, where she adds essential keyboard textures to that collective’s…

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Soundle Music Festival ’25 – Day Two

Queen Victoria Hall, Oundle Saturday, 7th June 2025 On the Saturday of the Soundle Festival my body clock ignored how tired I was from the previous day of travelling and concert going, so it blithely woke me up at the…

Whispers Of Granite – Liquid Stone

There’s a moment on Liquid Stone where everything stops – just a single piano note stumbling quietly in the background, searching for its place. Trude Eidtang’s voice arrives like a hand reaching through the darkness, not to rescue but to…

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Soundle Music Festival ’25 – Day One

Queen Victoria Hall, Oundle Friday, 6th June 2025 Firstly, before I spend my time writing about the event, let me give you a brief introduction to the festival and its location. Soundle is a portmanteau word where Sound and Oundle,…

The Guildmaster – Gathering Of Souls

International progsters The Samurai Of Prog are a busy bunch. In addition to the TSOP concern, there are any number of offshoots featuring drummer Kimmo Pörsti and/or bassist Marco Bernard. One of those extracurricular bands is The Guildmaster, featuring the…

Red Bazar – Blood Moon

Blood Moon is the new album from Nottinghamshire based rockers Red Bazar, their first since 2022’s Inverted Reality. Red Bazar explore an increasing range of musical styles on Blood Moon. They have often displayed a hard almost ‘prog-metal’ edge to…

AlphaLine – Electromagnetic

AlphaLine are a dynamic four-piece UK band from Berkshire/Surrey who are increasingly appearing at prog-adjacent events and festivals. As a result, it now seems an appropriate time to revisit their 2024 debut album, Electromagnetic, and highlight their engaging and eclectic…

Pryzme – True Stories… And Other Lies

Pryzme are a French prog band built around the nucleus of guitarists and singers Dominique Blanchard and David Chollet. Their latest album True Stories…And Other Lies is their first since 2021’s Four Inches, and is a step forward in terms…

Santana

Co-op Live, Manchester Thursday, 19th June 2025 Like many people I feel that the word ‘Legend’ is used so much that it can, and often does, lose all meaning, so I try and avoid using it. After all there are…

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