Black Frog Presents at Chelmsford Social Club, Chelmsford Friday, 7th October 2022 On a windswept and rainy night, a potentially trepidatious trip, with the ever present vagaries of train travel, out to the Essex town of Chelmsford beckoned for the…
View More Rosalie Cunningham / The Tuppenny BuntersAuthor: Rosamund Tomlins
Wokingham Festival 2022
Cantley Park, Wokingham, UK Monday, 29th August 2022 The Berkshire town of Wokingham offers a most delightful summer festival! It’s a small family-friendly community event, with live music as the big draw, taking place in one level field in Cantley…
View More Wokingham Festival 2022Prog For Peart 2
Abingdon United Football Club, Oxfordshire 1st & 2nd July, 2022 A year ago, the first outing of this wonderful little festival, in aid of Glioblastoma Multiforme Research (for the particular form of brain cancer that ultimately took the life of…
View More Prog For Peart 2Pure Reason Revolution / Gazpacho
EartH, Hackney, London Sunday, 17th April 2022 Some of us went to earth on Easter Sunday. No, not hiding from anyone, although you’d be forgiven if you’d thought we had if you’d seen us disappearing through the unobtrusive, but scarlet…
View More Pure Reason Revolution / GazpachoThomas Andersen – Gazpacho
After the release of their Fireworker album in 2020 and the new Fireworking live album, Norwegian band Gazpacho are back on tour again, co-headlining with Pure Reason Revolution, culminating in a date at EartH in London. Ahead of the London…
View More Thomas Andersen – GazpachoFusion 3.5 Festival 2022
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 2022Prog the Forest
The Fiddler’s Elbow, Camden, London Sunday, 5th December 2021 Prog the Forest’s second outing finally took place after two COVID 19-related postponements, from the summer, and last year when a video play-list event was held online instead. Once again in…
View More Prog the ForestBram Stoker
During the recent HRH Prog X festival at London’s Shepherds Bush Empire, TPA’s Rosamund Tomlins was able to catch up with Bram Stoker shortly after their set, speaking to the entire band (Tony Bronsdon [keys/vocals], Jo Marks [bass/vocals], Warren Marks…
View More Bram StokerFranck Carducci
Finding it tricky to find time either prior to the HRH Prog X at London’s Shepherds Bush Empire, as sustenance and makeup duties filled the morning, or after the gig as merchandise needed to be promoted and fans attended to…
View More Franck CarducciEd Wynne – Ozric Tentacles
A couple of hours prior to Ozric Tentacles and Friends playing HRH Prog X at the O2 Shepherds Bush Empire, guitarist, keys and synth player, co-founder and mainstay of the band Ed Wynne kindly agreed to a recorded chat (while…
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