[With photos by Tony Colvill, Nigel John, Leo Trimming and Dave Glaves] The Drill Hall, Chepstow – 2nd to 4th October 2015 As a warmer than average September ebbs away and the temperatures start to dip it’s time once again…
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Panic Room
The Wharf, Tavistock 10th October 2015 A band from the Prog lists on a busy night prog wise for Devon and the South West; Panic Room in Tavistock, Stackridge in Ilminster, Los Endos at Babbacombe, and had I wished to…
View More Panic RoomGentle Knife – Gentle Knife
Oh this is nice. Gentle Knife, a 10-piece Scandinavian band from Oslo with lots of ’70s influences and not necessarily the ones you would expect. And how they combine, from melodic to discordant, challenging and yet comforting. Conceptually written around…
View More Gentle Knife – Gentle KnifeAnderson Ponty Band – Better Late Than Never
Somewhere around 1980, Jon Anderson approached Jean-Luc Ponty with a view to a collaboration. Now, over thirty years later, the man from Accrington and the man from Avranches, two very different environments, have finally got together. The album was recorded…
View More Anderson Ponty Band – Better Late Than NeverJohn Lodge – 10,000 Light Years Ago
When you’ve been in the music business from before I was even born, you’re pretty much entitled to make the album you want to, and if others are pulled along in its wake, then so be it. This is an…
View More John Lodge – 10,000 Light Years AgoBig Big Train
Kings Place, London 14th August 2015 [No photos of the band in action, by request of both band and venue, so many thanks to Tony “Quick Draw” Colvill for his on-the-hoof sketch, and thanks to BBT for signing it! Band…
View More Big Big TrainEncircled – The Gun Has Replaced The Handshake
Encircled have been together as a 3-piece for around 18 months and Scott Evans related the following to me about how the band got together:- “I had been writing but casually for a few years but decided to get serious…
View More Encircled – The Gun Has Replaced The HandshakeGlacier – Monument / Ashes for the Monarch
Two albums over a decade apart, one band and a more or less intact line-up. Similar but subtly different, the earlier album Monument (2001) has Yes influences to the fore, some other styling but overall Yes with enough originality to…
View More Glacier – Monument / Ashes for the MonarchFernwood – Arcadia
Music has been around for millennia, instruments come and go, some last, some set the standard (Stradivarius?). Les Paul did not invent music with the invention of the electric guitar, and perhaps that’s where Fernwood come in. Taking old instruments…
View More Fernwood – ArcadiaThe Skys – Colours of the Desert
I wasn’t quite sure what to make of this, a Lithuanian band who played at the HRH Prog weekend in North Wales and were recommended by a friend as one of the better live acts. So, released in 2011 if…
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