Finally, it’s been a long time coming: the new live Blu-Ray/DVD/double audio CD from Camel saw the light of day earlier this year. Being present on the night, I noticed the presence of an extensive crew of cameramen to record…
View More Camel – Live At The Royal Albert Hall
A few years ago I was on holiday in Italy with my girlfriend, our base was the old port of Genoa on the Mediterranean Sea. On one of our trips we found ourselves in the provincial town of La Spezia,…
View More In Memoriam: Astrid Kirchherr, 1938-2020
At the end of May, the symphonic British neo-proggers IQ were scheduled to visit the Netherlands and France in the context of their Resistance Tour 2020. We now know what happened: both shows had to be cancelled due to the…
View More IQ – A Show of Resistance (Live~stream)
Levelled: Emotional Creatures, Part 3 is the sixth album by Englishman Steve Thorne, the successor to Island of the Imbeciles (2016) and the third part of his trilogy Emotional Creatures. With some imagination you could call Thorne a (prog) singer/songwriter.…
View More Steve Thorne – Levelled: Emotional Creatures Part 3
On 26th January 2019, Pete Jones and his Tiger Moth Tales (TMT) performed at the Boerderij in Zoetermeer for what would become his third solo performance in the Netherlands. Previous performances, on the same stage, during the sixth edition of…
View More Tiger Moth Tales – A Visit To Zoetermeer
It was nothing more than a small message in the margins of the tsunami of articles about the coronavirus, but subconsciously it drew my attention, there it was: Radio Caroline founder Ronan O’Rahilly passed away at the age of 79.…
View More Love, Peace and Good Music – A Tribute to Radio Caroline Founder Ronan O’Rahilly
A new album by Pallas, more than five years after their latest full-fledged studio CD Wearewhoweare in 2014 Yes and no. Yes, the material is indeed from the Scottish neo-prog band, and no, this isn’t new work but mostly adaptations…
View More Pallas – The Edge of Time
Messrs Mike Rutherford and Greg Spawton have a number of things in common. First of all, they are both co-founders of a prog rock band of some stature. In addition, they are both bass guitarists with a predilection for Moog…
View More Anthony Phillips – Strings of Light
The legendary Kayak made an appearance in European venues in early 2019. With an excellent new CD, Seventeen (not entirely coincidentally also the seventeenth studio album from the band), well received by both press and public. Revolving around founder/composer/keyboardist Ton…
View More Kayak – Kayak Live 2019
Several times before I have declared on these pages that I am not a big fan of cover/tribute bands. But from time to time I am put to the test on my convictions. This applies very much to the performance…
View More Tubular Tribute – A Tribute to Mike Oldfield [DVD]