Trading Boundaries, Fletching Saturday, 18th November 2023 A few years ago I commenced a review with the following lines: “Every now and again in the grind of ‘Real Life’ something special happens and it makes you think to yourself, ‘That’s…
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Maze of the Mind, which was released earlier this year by German guitarist and multi-instrumentalist Martin Miller, may have passed some of us by at the time, but this is an album worth investigating – better late than never! His…
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St. Mary’s Church, Totnes Saturday, 14th October 2023 Jo Beth Young returned to Totnes for the first time in over four years (when she performed under the name ‘Rise’ and followed the previous year’s concert as ‘Talitha Rise & The…
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The Earl Haig Club, Cardiff Thursday, 19th October 2023 ReGenesis are currently on a UK tour, nearly 30 years after they first formed, and TPA caught up with them in Cardiff. Some may wonder why TPA are covering a tribute…
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The chances are that until recently most of us might not have heard of John Greenwood, but it’s a pretty safe bet that most modern progressive rock fans would have heard of the legendary Australian band Unitopia. John is Unitopia’s…
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There was a time when rock music was about the younger generation and rebellion, with songs feverishly fixed upon love and sex. Somewhere along the line it seems rock has grown up and matured as that generation has aged, their…
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The Crooked Billet, Henley on Thames, Oxfordshire Monday, 2nd October 2023 In the summer of 1989, a young unknown singer had joined Marillion and they were recording an album at Hook End Manor in Oxfordshire. When they weren’t recording –…
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The Turning of the World is the latest venture from the multi-talented Peter Jones’ Tiger Moth Tales project, and as usual he takes a different direction on this release after his previous album, the Prog imbued A Song of Spring.…
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This Winter Machine return with their fourth album, the ambitious conceptual piece The Clockwork Man, a dark dystopian story with a sci-fi steam-punk feel, rooted in insights and perspectives about modern society. It is probably fair to say that things…
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Unitopia are back with their first new studio album since 2012, the expansive Seven Chambers, a double album partly inspired by personal adversity for the artists. The title is a poetic reference to the human heart, reflecting both the literal…
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