Photos: Courtesy of Steve Hughes Tales from the Silent Ocean is the first solo album from ex-Big Big Train drummer Steve Hughes, released earlier this year on F2 Music. Sean Filkins (another former Big Big Train man) also features on…
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Tales from the Silent Ocean is the first solo album by Steve Hughes, former drummer of Big Big Train, who has crafted a remarkably complex and diverse album. This work is also marked by the significant lyrical and inimitable vocal…
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The Pineapple Thief’s main man, Bruce Soord, has released an eponymous and personal album of delicately crafted songs, suffused with memories and feelings. Soord has been stretching his musical envelope in recent years, recording with Jonas Renske in the remarkable…
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Photos by Gabriele Peloso (for rebelrebelmusic.com) and Leo Trimming O2 Academy, Islington, London 1st November 2015 A packed Islington O2 was treated to a fine KScope double bill as iamthemorning and Gazpacho entertained and fascinated a very receptive crowd. iamthemorning bewitched…
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Before Gazpacho‘s triumphant gig at the O2 in Islington on 1st November promoting the new album, Molok, TPA’s Leo Trimming was delighted to get the opportunity to speak to keyboardist Thomas Andersen. Leo introduced himself as representing TPA, a site…
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Pictures by Leo Trimming and Kevin Thompson (from Manchester on 22nd Oct 2015) Marble Factory, Bristol 21st October 2015 Riverside’s tour to promote their remarkable album Love, Fear and the Time Machine recently hit Bristol and they showed real class with…
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Down in deepest, darkest rural Devon is the semi-mythical rural town of Totnes, which some inhabitants now believe is twinned with C.S. Lewis’s magical land, Narnia. Renowned for its atmosphere of alternative lifestyles and ‘New Age’ hippy culture, Totnes is…
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[With photos by Tony Colvill, Nigel John, Leo Trimming and Dave Glaves] The Drill Hall, Chepstow – 2nd to 4th October 2015 As a warmer than average September ebbs away and the temperatures start to dip it’s time once again…
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…And I Saw a Boy Looking Up Dreaming of his Future from my Past, from my Past Such poetic words open Riverside’s sixth captivating album, and set the scene perfectly for a dream-like journey of reminiscence and hope. This is…
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Thirty-three years ago, King Crimson played in Oxford, Guildford, Cromer, Dunstable and Poole. You would have to go back to 1972 to find the band performing in cities such as Cardiff, Brighton and Birmingham. Almost unbelievably, King Crimson have now…
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