Next Friday will see the running of the 10th Night of the Prog and TPA will be there to cover it, providing a full post-review as well as live updates via our Facebook page. With the beautiful natural setting of Freilichtbühne…
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With the Tangent’s, A Spark in the Aether, due out shortly, I caught up with Andy Tillison (who’s never short of a word or two thousand) to chew the cud on the new album. And, when you’re done reading this,…
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Before his recent gig in Verviers, Belgium, I got the chance to chat with Neal Morse for 15 minutes. The interview was originally scheduled to be with Mike Portnoy, but due to illness he had to cancel… Neil, you’re coming…
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Fish played the final date of his Moveable Feast Tour to a sold-out Spirit of 66 in Verviers, Belgium (yes, Verviers!). Re-scheduled from the previous date of 4th December due a throat infection, the intimate venue was packed to the…
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Ten years ago, or so, I remember boldy declaring that Steven Wilson, Daniel Gildenlöw and Neal Morse were all musical geniuses. You can argue this until you’re blue in the mouth, but it was my opinion at that time and…
View More The Neal Morse Band – The Grand Experiment
Sweden’s Pain of Salvation are surely one of the biggest puzzles in prog. Bursting onto the scene in the late 90’s, they took the prog metal scene by storm with their debut album Entropia and followed it up with One…
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I have to admit that I had no idea who Soen were and had passed by the promo invitation on the assumption that they were a regular metal band. Fortunately though the promoter challenged my pre-conception on this – “proggy…
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Amplifier main-man, Sel Balamir, has stated a desire to “put out at least a record every year while we can” and with Mystoria closely following last year’s well-received Echo Street, he’s good to his word. Sel has also gone on…
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013 Poppodium, Tilburg, The Netherlands 13th March 2014 by Basil Francis “Just testing you.” I was only able to hear these words, spoken by the man who I’d interviewed just six weeks earlier as he teased the audience after playfully…
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Into The Maelstrom is the fourth album from Los Angeles’ Bigelf and their first release after signing for InsideOut last year. Following their well-received 2008 release, Cheat The Gallows, the band drifted apart and main-man, Damon Fox, found himself without a clear…
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