O2 Academy, Islington, London Saturday, 13th September 2018 Back in the day, when prog was young, they used to have showcases. The most memorable of these was Genesis-Lindisfarne-Van der Graaf Generator, all for a couple bob, leaving change for a…
View More Resonate Festival 2018 – Jump / Verbal Delirium / Comedy of Errors / The Gift / Son of Man / LifesignsAuthor: Tony Colvill
The Pineapple Thief – Dissolution
Dissolution: the breakups, the heartaches, the dark side of the relationship, our all too human issues with technology and social media, open dissolution in a public forum. Heavy fodder for an album of music but delivered with aplomb by the…
View More The Pineapple Thief – DissolutionSpock’s Beard – Noise Floor
I must admit to having a difficult relationship with Spock’s Beard; it’s not them, it’s me. Offered up as an alternative to Genesis and the long gaps between albums I dipped in, somewhere around 2002, I cannot say with any…
View More Spock’s Beard – Noise FloorWeend’ô – Time of Awakening
Music always has the ability to affect emotions, but although those moments are quite far between surprises happen. I first heard Weend’ô (pronounced ‘Window’, it’s Japanese) at the Summer’s End festival in Chepstow last year, and as seems to be…
View More Weend’ô – Time of AwakeningColin Tench (20/12/1954 – 27/12/2017)
I’ve probably been a Facebook friend of Colin Tench for about one and a half years. Never met him. But through the music he produced and the funny, witty, and intelligent rapport I had with him on FB pages and…
View More Colin Tench (20/12/1954 – 27/12/2017)Anthony Phillips – Slow Dance: Remastered & Expanded Deluxe Edition
Released in 1989, I was introduced to Slow Dance via the Woolworth’s bargain section where I picked up the cassette for 50 pence. And so, it slipped into my consciousness, well in this case semi-consciousness – bedtime listening. Relaxed, I…
View More Anthony Phillips – Slow Dance: Remastered & Expanded Deluxe EditionCircu5 – Circu5
In a year where there seem to be more concept albums than ever and backed by a couple of alleged psychological observations this is, in Sigmund Freud sotto voce, “Very Interesting”. The premise is thus: “It traces the life of…
View More Circu5 – Circu5Justin Currie & The Pallbearers / Les Johnson & Me
Phoenix Arts Centre, Exeter Tuesday, 24th October 2017 Justin Currie has recently released his fourth “solo” album with This Is My Kingdom Now, I would say formerly of Del Amitri although technically the band have never split up. Justin was…
View More Justin Currie & The Pallbearers / Les Johnson & MeI Am The Manic Whale – Gathering the Waters
Okay, another crowd funder and another punt not heard. No idea beforehand but very satisfied with the results. I could end it there, that could be the review! But it deserves more, another sentence at least. The riff that opens…
View More I Am The Manic Whale – Gathering the WatersSummer’s End Festival 2017
The Drill Hall, Chepstow 6th to 8th October 2017 “Sanctuary in Music…” The Drill Hall is fast becoming the new spiritual home for the U.K.’s longest established festival of progressive music, the setting, close to the banks of…
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