Crammed into the less than 50 minutes of Dreadnaught’s first full album in a decade are more styles than you could reasonably shake a stick at. The variety and seamlessness of the delivery is what makes the New Hampshirites such…
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I recently watched a BBC documentary about bubbles. Fascinating. The mathematical properties inherent within the humble soap bubble are simply mind boggling. Also boggling are the bewildering skills and attention to detail that Bubblemath bring to their work. It has…
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The Fleece, Bristol Wednesday 19th July 2017 Some gigs should never happen. The obvious question here is – and with no disrespect at all to the venue – what on Earth is STANLEY CLARKE doing playing somewhere like The Fleece?!…
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Works, Volume 1 [2017 Remaster] By Leo Trimming “Welcome Back my Friends to the Show that Never Ends” is a phrase forever associated with Emerson, Lake and Palmer, the legendary progressive rock supergroup. Apart from being the title of their…
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Formed in 2002, the brilliantly named 25 Yard Screamer have released a steady stream of albums since, 2007’s Cassandra raising their profile with the track Blacklight making it into Classic Rock magazine’s list of the top 100 songs of the…
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With tracks entitled Repeat Until Muscle Failure, Slam Your Head Against the Wall (Carefully) and Make It Look Like An Accident, these Swiss sonic explorers were always going to spike my interest. Even more so when I pressed ‘Play’ as…
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A solo album in the truest sense, music and lyrics written and arranged by Stewart Bell, as well as the artwork and design, keyboards, drums and much of the vocals. Stewart uses the name of his band, Citizen Cain, to…
View More Citizen Cain’s Stewart Bell – The Antechamber of Being (Part 2): Stories from the Antechamber
The Trinity Centre, Bristol Sunday, 21st May 2017 I don’t know what it is but 2017 has been a veritable desert of gigs for me, rather than the usual dessert. It might be age related apathy, or the arse ache…
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Only two years on from their +- album, Danish indie/pop/prog stalwarts Mew release an unexpected seventh album, first news of it coming early in the year with the appearance of closing track Carry Me To Safety, the gentle start opening…
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I was not familiar with Marvin B. Naylor prior to catching his set at last year’s Eppyfest in Stroud, and what an enjoyable performance it was, his 12-string guitar and high register voice carrying the audience away on a spacey…
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