Playhouse Theatre, Whitley Bay Wednesday, 14 October 2026 The Playhouse Theatre in Whitley Bay is hardly renowned for staging ‘touring’ rock bands that are promoting their own music. It’s essentially a town theatre, and as such it normally features a…
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I’ve heard it often been said, that when a band release a live album, that it marks the end of a chapter in their career. That it’s an audio statement of “this is where we got to, and the next…
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Neal Morse is an insanely prolific song-writer, with a vast array of albums that he has been involved with over the last 30 years. Beginning with 6 studio albums with Spock’s Beard, 5 with Transatlantic, 3 with Flying Colours, 3…
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Well it’s taken a long time to finally be released, including an additional 15-week delay, but at long last it’s here, the 50th Anniversary edition of Genesis’ legendary concept double album, The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway. Bizarrely, it’s not…
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Cherry Red Records are the present curators/distributors for the Be-Bop Deluxe back catalogue, which compromises of 5 studio albums and 1 live release. The band had a relatively short life-span, with a recording career only covering across a 5 year…
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Another Steve Hackett tour, and another live album/video to mark its success, as well as being a perfect souvenir for all those that witnessed one of the many dates, and want to relive the show at home. This is another…
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When I saw that this album was coming up for review, I was interested to cover it purely because I know so little of Nad Sylvan, other than him being a part of Steve Hackett’s live touring band for the…
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Haken are a British progressive rock band that were embryonically formed back in 2004, by three friends having ‘bedroom jams’, which eventually developed into a fully functioning band unit. Some 20 years later, Haken are touring their 7th studio album,…
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A marvellously reassuring fact about Steven Wilson is that no matter what music he releases, or what project title it goes under, it will be worth listening to. Even if the music ends up not really fitting in with your…
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Yet another Steve Hackett live album? A question you may be asking yourselves when reading about this latest release. And that would be a fair comment when for over the last decade or so, every new tour has had an…
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