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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Southern Empire continue the current wave of Australian albums hitting our progressive music shores with their third album, Another World. They face the challenge of following their brilliant 2018 release Civilisation with new singer Shaun Holton, after the amicable departure…
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Welsh band Retreat From Moscow came out of nowhere in early 2022 with one of the best debut ‘Prog’ albums of 2022, The World As We Knew It. They now follow it up with an ambitious release suffused with a…
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The Rock ‘n’ Roll Circus is back in town! Franck Carducci & the Fantastic Squad are currently touring with their unique brand of captivating, infectious rock, scintillating playing and entertaining over the top showmanship… so that seems like a really…
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Planetary Overload Part 2: Hope is the third ambitious album from the United Progressive Fraternity, a project established by vocalist Mark Trueack, who first came to prominence in Unitopia. It has been four years since the first Planetary Overload album,…
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The Eden Project, Cornwall Tuesday 25th July 2023 Purple lights bathe the stage and crowd, huge biodomes simultaneously pulse with light and immortal, classic sounds fill the air… all this as Roger Daltrey sings the glorious Love Reign O’er Me…
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