I discovered Freedom To Glide relatively recently following some air-play on Shaun Geraghty’s excellent The Prog Mill show on Progzilla Radio. It immediately hit the spot, not only through its musicality but also its subject matter (given that I am…
View More Freedom To Glide – The Chronicle of Stolen Souls
Back in late 2020, Solstice joyously re-emerged onto the music scene with their most uplifting album, Sia, just at the time the World needed a tonic from the ravages and lockdowns of Covid-19. When I reviewed that album, there were…
View More Solstice – Light Up
I finally get it… It has clicked with me… Sometimes these things just take a little time. Certain music doesn’t move you, but this second album by Dim Gray, Firmament, really does – NOW. And I’ll tell you what did…
View More Dim Gray – Firmament
A New Day Festival, Mount Ephraim, Faversham, Kent Saturday, 20
View More Solstice
Little Mill Oast, Marden, Kent Friday, 1st July 2022 My phone pinged. Message alert. Nick Jefferson… “We are doing a private, warm-up gig on July 1st in an old oast house in Marden. We’d like to invite you. Free food…
View More Kaprekar’s Constant
“A progression if ever there was one”; those were the words of Phil Stuckey when he kindly gifted me with this new album, Days of Innocence. So, in a single phrase I was left in hot anticipation of what it…
View More Stuckfish – Days of Innocence
I’ve been a huge fan of Airbag for a number of years, but only dipped into the co-founder’s solo releases in the last three-or-so years. I always wondered why I delayed that action (and more fool me) because, from the…
View More Bjørn Riis – Everything To Everyone
The Astor Theatre, Deal Saturday, 17th March 2022 What a treat to see Soft Machine on their 2022 tour, particularly in the delightful Astor Theatre in Deal, a seaside town on the Kent Coast that’s almost as far east in…
View More Soft Machine
The Booking Hall, Dover Sunday, 20th March 2022 I seem to be on a roll of attending Canterbury Scene gigs recently, and my journey continues with Caravan at The Booking Hall in Dover, Kent’s newest independent music and arts venue,…
View More Caravan
The Civic, Stourport on Severn Friday 4th March to Sunday 6th March 2022 Finally, the Fusion Festival, first planned for late March 2020 and postponed twice, returned triumphantly to this excellent venue in the Midlands after the two year pandemic…
View More Fusion 3.5 Festival 2022