A Day at the Beach is Airbag’s first new album since Disconnected in 2016. Last year, following Bjørn Riis’ latest excellent album A Storm is Coming in a run of outstanding solo releases and the departure of two original band…
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The ‘Bright Ambassadors of Morning’ of Pure Reason Revolution broke up 10 years ago, seemingly burning out after shining brightly over a brief 5 or so years, therefore, it came rather as a surprise when they appeared out of the…
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Modern Welsh progressive rock band Magenta are a band who follow their own very distinctive melodic path, describing narratives through dramatic and emotional music. They create beguiling musical and lyrical canvasses. Masters of Illusion is based upon the stories of…
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Chimpan A is a fascinating project led by multi-instrumentalist Rob Reed, of Magenta, and the superb vocalist Steve Balsamo, who worked with Reed on Kompendium in 2012. Balsamo is probably best known for his stellar performances on the West End…
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“So here we are once more…” Marillion’s debut album from 1983, Script for a Jester’s Tear, is the latest EMI-era album to get the deluxe edition re-reissue treatment. Many will look back very fondly at this album, which introduced a…
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Marillion’s debut album from 1983, Script for a Jester’s Tear, is the latest album from the band to get the deluxe edition reissue treatment (to be released in April 2020), and Mark Kelly recently spoke with TPA’s Leo Trimming about…
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As we all know, there are albums that divide opinion. Sometimes these opinions are so extreme as to make the uninitiated think that different albums are being discussed. In this first of a possibly semi-regular feature, depending on, you know,…
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Latent Avidity is the latest album from Polish progressive rock band Retrospective, who have been releasing music since 2007. I do not know what they feed them on in Poland but it does seem to be producing some impressive bands,…
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To put it very simply, John Holden has done it again. Lightning has indeed struck twice, after 2018’s Capture Light. In Rise And Fall, John Holden has released a very fine album, encompassing a range of fascinating stories, packed with…
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Once Around the World Tour Bush Hall, London, Sunday, 19th January 2020 & Slade Rooms, Wolverhampton, Friday, 17th January 2020 BUSH HALL, LONDON by Rosamund Tomlins Francis Dunnery’s It Bites mini UK tour, following on from the past three years,…
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