Words to the Wise is a gorgeous album. Signalling the beginning of a new project from Peter Rand (keyboards), Kevin Hartnell (drums) and Stefanie Kisamore (vocals, guitar), this absorbing debut release offers us seven engaging musical vignettes rich with elegant…
View More Imperial Measures – Words to the WiseAuthor: Rob Fisher
Spock’s Beard
229 The Venue, London Thursday, 1st February 2024 Some nights make you glad to be alive. An evening with the scintillating Spock’s Beard on the final night of their UK tour in London was, without any shadow of a doubt,…
View More Spock’s BeardZeelley Moon – The Author and the Dreamer
We’ve had to patiently wait six years for Zeelley Moon to create a follow-up to the self-titled debut release in 2017 – a thoroughly captivating album which exudes musical elegance and melodic charm. Crikey – The wait has most certainly…
View More Zeelley Moon – The Author and the DreamerThe Flower Kings
The 1865, Southampton Thursday, 19th October 2023 Five fellas in assorted brightly coloured shirts and one rather dashing blazer saunter through the audience at Southampton’s The 1865, mount the stage, casually take time to ensure all their instruments are tuned…
View More The Flower KingsESP Project – Reverie
“When the world was dreaming There was magic in the air Where thoughts and feelings become reality.” Tony Lowe’s ESP Project is founded on a deceptively simple yet utterly remarkable vision. The lyric above, from the Carier Wave section of…
View More ESP Project – ReverieRoger Waters – This is Not a Drill
O2 Arena, London Tuesday, 6th June 2023 Everything is meticulously planned: nothing – absolutely nothing – is left to chance. From the occasional rumbles of distant thunder echoing around the arena as we entered, to the overt countdown at 15,…
View More Roger Waters – This is Not a DrillP!nk – Trustfall
Yes, yes: I know. Please don’t look at me like that. It’s not prog. Allegedly. I blame Graham Norton. It’s all his fault. I only tuned in to his show to see Hugh Jackman, Judi Dench, Paul Rudd, Eugene Levy,…
View More P!nk – TrustfallCollage – Over and Out
Twenty-seven years after their 1995 album, Safe, Poland’s widely revered – even iconic – band Collage return with a fifth new studio album, Over and Out. The engine room of the band remains the same – Krzysztof Palczewski on synthesisers,…
View More Collage – Over and OutArena – The Theory of Molecular Inheritance
Oh, my goodness me, yes! I haven’t rocked out to an Arena album since the truly magnificent The Seventh Degree of Separation (2011). It’s not that The Unquiet Sky (2015) and Double Vision (2018) don’t have their moments, but The…
View More Arena – The Theory of Molecular InheritanceAlta Forma – Spatium & Tempus
Time is not, as popular legend now has it, a big ball of wibbly wobbly timey wimey stuff. Rather, time is actually that which is needed for things to change. It speaks of movement from the past, into the present,…
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