French composer and guitarist Gabriel Keller returns with his second album, Hope Despite Everything, showing his poetic and often powerful progressive rock to great effect. As with his 2022 debut album, Clair Obscur, it is a diverse musical statement that…
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Northumberland’s finest – the 5-piece melodic progressive rock band, Stuckfish – have just released their fourth album, suitably titled IV, and have succeeded in not only matching the quality of the previous release from 2022, the glorious Days of Innocence,…
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Northumbrian 4-piece progressive rock band, Unit8, have just released their second album – The Second Arch – and a most enjoyable listen it is too. In fact, it might even have topped their impressive eponymous debut release from late 2022,…
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Pyramid was the third studio album by The Alan Parsons Project (APP), the progressive rock ensemble comprising the engineer/producer Alan Parsons and the songwriter, musician and manager Eric Woolfson. Originally released in May 1978, it followed the successful and eclectic…
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Abingdon United Football Club, Oxfordshire Saturday, 13th July, 2024 TPA returned to Abingdon United Football Club in Oxfordshire for the fourth Prog For Peart festival, with fourteen bands to entertain the prog faithful over two days, all in aid of…
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Abingdon United Football Club, Oxfordshire Friday, 12th July, 2024 TPA returned to Abingdon United Football Club in Oxfordshire for the fourth Prog For Peart festival, with fourteen bands to entertain the prog faithful over two days, all in aid of…
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Forum Music Studios, Darlington Tuesday, 2nd July 2024 It proved a triumphant return to his home town of Darlington for Dave Bainbridge, accompanied by his musical partner of many years, Sally Minnear. Now largely based in the United States with…
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Into The Sun is the long-awaited second album by the Cheshire-based melodic progressive rock band Sonic Tapestry and is one of the most impressive albums I’ve heard over the last year or so. It is a sumptuous amalgam of neo-prog…
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Key Theatre, Peterborough Sunday 12th May 2024 As last year, Sunday started with a call from organiser, Rachel Barratt, and the band, for all attendees to meet up, as the Pendragon Choir, outside the theatre at 11.15 am for a…
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Key Theatre, Peterborough Saturday 11th May 2024 Following the success of last May’s ‘Everyone’s A VIP Weekend’ at The Platform in Morecambe, Pendragon successfully repeated the feat at the Key Theatre in Peterborough with another thoroughly enjoyable and sun-drenched weekend…
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