Looped Squares is a German-based band with roots from diverse musical and geographical backgrounds. I recently spoke to the band who gave an insight into their meeting, origin and the Looped Squares album. “We met when we worked at Thomann…
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It’s a bit of a sad image: this elderly man attending a matinee performance alone in the tiniest room of an old cinema in his hometown. I went to the cinema with some degree of embarrassment, but luckily I wasn’t…
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I’ve declared my love for the ’80s on these pages before, some kind of guilty pleasure. I’m mainly talking about Duran Duran, Spandau Ballet, Simple Minds, Level 42 and others. But of course, there was more to this decade: what…
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The release of a new Steve Thorne album always gives me ambivalent feelings: on the one hand, there is this great music and on the other hand those gloomy, depressing lyrics. This contradiction actually characterises the entire oeuvre of the…
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Cadogan Hall, London Wednesday, 13th September 2023 As previously announced, a report on the last performance in a series of sixteen shows that would take British band Big Big Train (BBT) through nine countries, under the moniker ‘The Journey Continues’.…
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With a ‘new’ solo album, Virgin Grounds, due for release, TPA’s Alex Driessen welcomed the opportunity to speak to the maestro himself, Ton Scherpenzeel. The keyboardist and composer is leader and kingpin of the legendary Dutch progressive rock band Kayak,…
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Virgin Grounds, the ‘new’ album by Ton Scherpenzeel, best known for his work with Kayak, is an enhanced reissue of an instrumental album originally composed for a Dutch television series, Conquer the Arctic (1991). At the time, it was released…
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I Am The Manic Whale lynchpin songwriter and frontman Michael Whiteman talks to TPS’s Alex Driessen about the history of the band, the writing process and the strong element of storytelling in the band’s music. Some time ago, I accidentally…
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Poppodium Boerderij, Zoetermeer [NL] Saturday, 26th August 2023 The Journey Continues Tour 2023 will take Big Big Train (BBT) through a number of countries in mainland Europe, starting and ending on their beloved island. In September 2022, De Boerderij had…
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Every time I see the band name Legacy Pilots I can’t help but think of the movie Space Cowboys. As a reminder, it’s an American adventure film from 2000, directed and produced by Clint Eastwood, with a star cast consisting…
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