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Author: Basil Francis

Despite being TPA’s youngest member, Basil is ironically more fond of the old stuff and has a hankering for reissues and boxsets...
Squackett - A Life Within A Day

Squackett – A Life Within A Day

Esoteric’s series of reissues keep bringing me opportunities to discover or reassess albums I’ve overlooked in the past; some are newer than others, it seems. As I found with Nektar’s Remember the Future, it was worth giving the album a…

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Anthony Phillips – The Golden Hour: Private Parts & Pieces XII

Anthony Phillips – The Golden Hour: Private Parts & Pieces XII

Didn’t I already review Private Parts & Pieces XII? Ah, I’m mistaken; turns out what I reviewed in the past was Twelve, the title of Private Parts & Pieces V. Confused yet? The music of Anthony Phillips has had a…

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Carmen – The Albums 1973-1975 [3CD Boxset]

Carmen – The Albums 1973-1975 [3CD Boxset]

A few months ago, I reviewed Patterns on the Window, a set that I hoped would introduce me to dozens of little-known progressive artists from the 70s – after all, it had ‘progressive’ in the subtitle. But as wave after…

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Nektar - Journey To The Other Side

Nektar – Journey To The Other Side

After being unexpectedly floored by my first listen to Recycled, I seem to have precariously placed myself as the Nektar correspondent at TPA… at least for the time being. Jumping from the band’s heyday straight into the present was probably…

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Stackridge - The Forbidden City [Live 2CD/DVD Box Set]

Stackridge – The Forbidden City [Live 2CD/DVD Box Set]

In hindsight, 2007 was a great time to be alive. Social media was barely a thing, Trump was only bothering people on The Apprentice and there was still hope that everything would make sense at the end of Lost. Everything…

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Eurovision 2024

Basil’s Eurovision Roundup

With Australia’s Voyager proving to be very popular at Eurovision last year, the message is clear: Eurovision and prog rock are no longer mutually exclusive! It’s high time that we all got invested in this long-running song contest and hope…

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Sydney Taieb – Atlantis Chronicles - TPA interview

Sydney Taieb – Atlantis Chronicles

The Parisian aquatically-themed prog metal group Atlantis Chronicles was formed in 2010 and released their third album Nera in 2022. The group’s impressive musicianship stayed with reviewer Basil Francis who decided to seek out drummer Sydney Taieb for some more…

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Van der Graaf Generator - Still Life

Van der Graaf Generator – Still Life [Remastered]

Esoteric’s approach to reissuing albums on vinyl seems as canny as picking names out of a hat; it’s impossible to predict what they’ll choose next. With stablemates Van der Graaf Generator, Esoteric have selected two rather opposite entries from the…

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Nektar - Recycled

Nektar – Recycled [5CD Remastered Boxset]

In the past, I’ve been critical of Nektar’s merits and made anything I actually liked by the group seem like some sort of a guilty pleasure. The snide remarks stop here. Loosely hanging my expectations on the albums’ ProgArchives ranking,…

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Emerson Lake & Powell - Complete Collection

Emerson, Lake & Powell – The Complete Collection [3CD Boxset]

Quoting myself from my review of Greg Lake’s Magical career retrospective box set: “I’ve never listened to the Emerson, Lake & Powell album for much the same reason I’ve never listened to any of Lake or Emerson’s solo stuff before,…

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  • 24/10/25 (Fri) - WAKEMAN, Rick (The English Rock Ensemble) EASTBOURNE at Congress Theatre
  • 24/10/25 (Fri) - PATTERSON (Tony) & MELBOURNE (Doug) HARTLEPOOL at St George’s Venue
  • 24/10/25 (Fri) - CANDACRAIG HARTLEPOOL at St George’s Venue
  • 24/10/25 (Fri) - WISHBONE ASH WIMBORNE at Tivoli Theatre
  • 24/10/25 (Fri) - ALPHA MALE TEA PARTY LEEDS at Wharf Chambers
  • 24/10/25 (Fri) - THE UTOPIA STRONG HEBDEN BRIDGE at Trades Club
  • 25/10/25 (Sat) - WAKEMAN, Rick (The English Rock Ensemble) BOURNEMOUTH at Pavilion Theatre
  • 25/10/25 (Sat) - WISHBONE ASH FROME at Cheese & Grain
  • 25/10/25 (Sat) - ALPHA MALE TEA PARTY LIVERPOOL at District
  • 25/10/25 (Sat) - THE BLACKHEART ORCHESTRA LONDON at Dingwalls
  • 25/10/25 (Sat) - SLOTH METROPOLIS GLASGOW at Bloc
  • 25/10/25 (Sat) - 2 PARTS GUITAR (Gordon Giltrap & John Etheridge) MILTON KEYNES at The Stables
  • 26/10/25 (Sun) - WAKEMAN, Rick (The English Rock Ensemble) TORQUAY at Princess Theatre
  • 26/10/25 (Sun) - BURKE, Dec KIDDERMINSTER at JHAC – Jelleyman’s Heritage Arts
  • 26/10/25 (Sun) - ALPHA MALE TEA PARTY GLASGOW at The Hug And Pint

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