Hafan Y Mor, Nr. Pwllheli, North Wales 16th – 18th March 2017 Part Three (Time for the Prog ‘After Life’?!) SATURDAY KONCHORDAT Konchordat, first of three bands on the second day from the distinctive Bad Elephant Music label, blew away…
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Hafan Y Mor, Nr. Pwllheli, North Wales 16th – 18th March 2017 Part Two (‘America is f…ed, the UK is f…ed. Let’s just have a good time!’) FRIDAY Leo: Friday was the official start to HRH Prog and witnessed the…
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The Globe, Cardiff 31st March 2017 In scientific terms ‘Magenta’ is considered an ‘extra special colour’ as strangely it is not actually found in the visible spectrum of light. Instead it is physiologically and psychologically perceived as the mixture of…
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Hafan Y Mor, Nr. Pwllheli, North Wales 16th – 18th March 2017 Part One (We do this so you don’t have to…) There is a mysterious enclosed community hidden away somewhere on the North Wales coast where all sorts of…
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“Alfred J. Prufrock would be proud of me”, declared Welsh Indie rockers Manic Street Preachers in 2001 on their song My Guernica. Musical adaptations or references to the works of T.S. Eliot in modern music have an interesting and sometimes…
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Motorpoint Arena, Cardiff 12th March 2017 We all need some Beauty in our lives right now. In a world in which it appears that what divides us is valued more than what unites us, and leaders have risen to power…
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Plymouth Pavilions, Plymouth 9th March, 2017 Ain’t music a strange thing. You can be in a room with 2,000 people and a song starts to play and suddenly you are in a completely different world with your heart broken… again,…
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Boston Music Room, Tufnell Park, London 26th February 2017 Dearly Beloved – we are gathered together for a ‘Prog on a Sunday’ service led by the promoter and ‘Very Reverend’ Jon ‘Twang’ Patrick, with worship convened at the Boston Music…
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Islington Assembly Hall, London 11th February 2017 On a night when The Pineapple Thief played to an enthusiastic sold out Islington Assembly Hall at the end of triumphant European tour, it seems appropriate to note that pineapples used to be…
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100 Club, Oxford Street, London 12th February 2017 In a turbulent time when we have leaders preaching exclusion and hate, and we are exposed to the nonsense of ‘Alternative Facts’, it is surely more important than ever that our artists…
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