When you are presented with an album that completely and without shame reveres the late ’60s and early ’70s, sits on grannies pouffe in the corner of the room, provides you with numerous audio worm infections and makes you grin…
View More Broken Parachute – Living Dangerously
It’s been a long long time, hasn’t it? A good couple of years, which saw Emma Brewin-Caddy working with Cantor Semper in the hiatus. A close harmony group with musical accompaniment, in my view, and very nice it is too.…
View More We Are Kin – Bruised Sky
Whimsical. There you go, got that out of the way! The album where, by Tom’s own word, he exorcises his demons. With every album he gets better, not that I shall tell him, a raise on nothing remains nothing and…
View More Tom Slatter – Demon
Hi Rosalie, thank you agreeing to answer TPA’s questions, please feel free to answer as openly as you wish. I was disappointed when Purson faded, one of only a handful of bands I’ve seen twice in a week (HRH Prog,…
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With The Clockwork Prologue companion piece to 2016’s The Clockwork Fable now available, TPA’s Tony Colvill spoke to the band about (almost) all things Fist… Dean, in your role as Cogtopolis Eccentric Overlord (that is what CEO stands for, is…
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Every now and then the lunatics have an away day from the asylum; the Gandalf’s Fist collective are such a bunch of lunatics. The Prologue is really a tale within a tale, that fits somewhere, though where is a complete…
View More Gandalf’s Fist – The Clockwork Prologue
I first saw Purson at HRH Prog in 2016 and marvelled, then a few days later in The Cavern, Exeter, they were again superb. I anticipated more to come, only to have my hopes dashed when they called it a…
View More Rosalie Cunningham – Rosalie Cunningham
In anticipation of Antenna, the new album from The Gift, TPA’s Tony Colvill recently had a chat with singer Mike Morton, and as a bonus Leo Trimming spoke with Mike and guitarist David Lloyd at the Fusion festival in March.…
View More Mike Morton & David Lloyd – The Gift
Bands need to evolve, change, move on, stay fresh (unless you’re the Rolling Stones), and I wondered what The Gift would deliver with their fourth album… A promise is a promise, and Mike Morton promised that Album Four would be…
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On the eve of his tour in support of the recent Flowers at the Scene album, TPA’s Tony Colvill took the opportunity to have a chat with Tim Bowness about the album and his thoughts for the tour. Hi Tim,…
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