Camden Club, London Sunday, 13th April 2024 An afternoon of what was going to be psychedelic and prog rock from Wales in this familiar comfy venue changed direction slightly with the withdrawal of headliners Sendelica due to health problems. Get…
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To tie in with the review of the new Lost Crowns album, The Heart Is In The Body, main man Richard Larcombe and I met up at the Restaurant At The End Of The Universe for a virtual lunch, and…
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Roger (R) – It falls upon me to guide our readers through the downuplands of this strange weather, otherwise known as The Heart Is In The Body, the new exercise in aural semaphore emanating from behind Richard Larcombe’s excitable brow…
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It’s been a while since I visited O.R.k.-land, a place where precision heaviness meets crunchy intent, and this multi-national outfit do not disappoint with their latest dispensation from on high, Firehose Of Falsehoods. This highly appropriately titled album arrives at…
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Keeping alive the flame of mostly improvised music in the fields of jazz and rock, up there in Sheffield is one Martin Archer, and his label Discus Music. There is a conglomerate of like-minded radical musicians in the locality who…
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“Thank you all, let’s levitate together” says an obviously well-chuffed Dave Brock after the end of the scorching opening track Levitation, the curtain raiser to this fabulous set of songs at that wonderfully appointed, cavernous, and prestigious venue, The Royal…
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A lot of you in this small pond we swim around in will be aware of a prog-adjacent band hailing from Rushden, Northamptonshire, England. Less of you will be aware that Rushden is a sleepy and somewhat neglected backwater of…
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The opening line in the exhaustive booklet in this box set is a quote from the greatly missed John Peel – “Kevin Ayers’ talent is so acute you could perform major eye surgery with it”. This was indeed the case,…
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O2 Islington, London Sunday, 24th November 2024 Hamferð The cave-like interior of the O2 Islington is bathed in red light as the slowly growing crowd await Faroese black metal band Hamferð, the first of three bands at tonight’s celebration of…
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Camden Club, London Sunday, 17th November 2024 STORM DEVA Words: Roger Trenwith | Photos: Simon Arnold Another Sunday afternoon gig in the familiar surroundings of the Camden Club sees the faithful turn up in droves for this matinée concert. Due…
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