I remember well the first time I heard the debut album from Liquid Tension Experiment. An explosive wall of sound fizzing with life, carrying a high energy surge of technical musical brilliance and delivering insane levels of innovative artistry at…
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Progressive pop is making something of a welcome revival. Alan Parsons prefers it as being a ‘better’ description of his music, pointing to the ways in which progressive rock integrates modern trends and influences whilst combining it with an ‘epic’…
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The Palladium, London Tuesday, 7th November 2017 When Marillion are in this kind of mood, few bands are able to scale the heights of their sheer energy, presence and captivating virtuosity. Fresh from a triumphant evening at the Royal Albert…
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229 The Venue, London Friday, 3rd November 2017 Alongside Andrew Latimer and Camel, Pendragon are perhaps one of the U.K.’s most important and seminal progressive rock bands still actively recording and touring today. It is not simply a matter of…
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“through your stormy waves through your crumbled walls through your broken sky through your fractured soul” Nothing truly prepares you for the death of a parent. The agonising numbness. The despair of grief. Cloying guilt and suffocating remorse. The unwelcome…
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Bush Hall, London Tuesday 3rd October 2017 It’s my first visit to Bush Hall, a charming and exceedingly elegant music and dance hall originally built in 1904. Put to a diverse variety of uses throughout its history from WWII soup…
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The Bear, Oxford Wednesday, 27th September 2017 What a fabulous evening. A week ago Damian Wilson was singing and body surfing to an audience of 3,000 people in Tilburg as part of The Ayreon Universe series of concerts. On this…
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I was lucky enough to see Mystery at The Borderline in London in September 2014. The tour was in support of their fifth studio album The World is a Game; Benoît David had left in March, to be replaced by…
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The arresting image of rutting stags, antlers locked in a dramatic contest for dominance and control, provides a thoughtfully reflective and emotionally perceptive insight into the contrasts which lie at the heart of this beautifully elegant second studio album from…
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With Threshold‘s eleventh album and first in three years, Legends of the Shires, appearing next month, TPA’s Rob Fisher took the opportunity to talk to keyboardist Richard West and returning singer Glynn Morgan about the new album, the band’s illustrious…
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