Mike Kershaw has released a notable album which resonates with the ‘interesting times’ in which we live. In a world beset with various political uncertainties and more general concerns about the future of our modern society it seems inevitable that…
View More Mike Kershaw – Arms Open WideAuthor: Leo Trimming
Carl Palmer’s ELP Legacy – Live
How does a crucial member of one of the most renowned progressive rock bands in history remember his friend and band member, and honour the memory of the glory days of their band? Carl Palmer has chosen his own inimitable…
View More Carl Palmer’s ELP Legacy – LiveBig Big Train / Beatrix Players
The Anvil, Basingstoke Wednesday 11th July 2018 Big Big Train have become something of a phenomenon in the last few years, gradually developing a very committed following through a combination of high quality progressive rock music and astute marketing, alongside…
View More Big Big Train / Beatrix PlayersBrian Devoil – Twelfth Night
On the eve of the release of a 3-CD Definitive Edition of Twelfth Night‘s classic Fact & Fiction album, TPA’s Leo Trimming took the opportunity to speak to drummer Brian Devoil. The resulting interview is extensive and wide-ranging with Brian…
View More Brian Devoil – Twelfth NightTwelfth Night – Fact And Fiction: 3-CD Definitive Edition
Let’s cut straight to the chase – Fact and Fiction is one of the greatest Progressive Rock albums released in the 1980s, and yet for some strange reason it never achieved the success its sheer inventiveness, lyrical excellence and fluid…
View More Twelfth Night – Fact And Fiction: 3-CD Definitive EditionAmplifier / Awooga
The Exchange, Bristol Sunday, 27th May 2018 AWOOGA Awooga start the evening with an entertaining set of heavy psychedelically tinged rock. Hailing from Sheffield they are signed to Rockosmos, the label of Amplifier mainman, Sel Balamir, and there are clear…
View More Amplifier / AwoogaAmplifier – Trippin’ With Dr. Faustus
A Deal with the Devil is the central theme to the Christopher Marlowe play ‘Dr.Faustus’, and Amplifier main man Sel Balamir in his inimitable style explores the relationship between Man and the ’ultimate baddy’ in their most recent album… at…
View More Amplifier – Trippin’ With Dr. FaustusThomas Andersen – Gazpacho
Gazpacho played the only U.K. gig on their 2018 European tour, in support of their latest album Soyuz, at The Dome at Tufnell Park, London on 28th May, and their keyboardist Thomas Andersen sat down for a chat with TPA’s…
View More Thomas Andersen – GazpachoC:Live Collective – The Age of Insanity
This is an age in which a mendacious, manipulative manchild lunatic has taken over the Asylum whilst elsewhere a blackened, ruined stump of a Tower shamefully overshadows a nation that’s lost its moral compass, amidst the stench and filth of…
View More C:Live Collective – The Age of InsanityGazpacho – Soyuz
Gazpacho return with Soyuz, their tenth studio album since 2003. There really is no band quite like these Norwegian artists, distinctive, moving and haunting, each new release imbued with their unique brand of ambitious music, full of idiosyncratic themes, inventive…
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