Concert Reviews
The Black Heart, Camden, London Saturday, 14th October 2023 The Black Heart in Camden – always too hot, always overloaded sound, but tonight it didn’t matter. Rushden’s finest, The Fierce And The Dead, are here to officially launch their new…
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EartH Hall, EartH, Dalston, London Wednesday, 27th September 2023 This is my first time at EartH. Originally a dazzling 1930s Art Deco cinema – now, after close to a hundred years, a building that’s been round the block, been razored…
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Rivoli Theater, the Williams Center, Rutherford, New Jersey, U.S.A. Friday 6th – Sunday 8th October 2023 This will not be your typical concert review. But then, ProgStock is not your typical prog music festival. Yes, there are numerous bands from…
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The Royal Albert Hall, London Friday, 29th September 2023 This magnificent, if acoustically challenging, venue is an unlikely setting for the once kingpins of the counter culture that is Hawkwind, yet here we are, and not for the first time…
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The Crooked Billet, Henley on Thames, Oxfordshire Monday, 2nd October 2023 In the summer of 1989, a young unknown singer had joined Marillion and they were recording an album at Hook End Manor in Oxfordshire. When they weren’t recording –…
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The Bedford, Balham, London Sunday, 10th September 2023 A warm early mid-September day kindly greeted both audience and performers as they arrived at this lovely venue buried deep in a more salubrious ’burb of South London. The audience had arrived…
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Cadogan Hall, London Wednesday, 13th September 2023 As previously announced, a report on the last performance in a series of sixteen shows that would take British band Big Big Train (BBT) through nine countries, under the moniker ‘The Journey Continues’.…
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Acapela Studio, Pentyrch, Cardiff Saturday, 30th September 2023 Some places are just special, and that magic often seeps through into the performances that take place in them. One such place is Acapela Studio, a converted chapel in the village of…
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The Caves, Edinburgh Sunday, 10th September 2023 So, what to do on a Sunday afternoon in Edinburgh? The perfect time for some quality chilled guitar sounds from Ali Ferguson and his band alongside the magical duo of The Blackheart Orchestra!…
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Abingdon Nene Park, Peterborough Sunday 3rd September, 2023 Sadly the last day of this remarkable festival. It’s been hard work for everyone involved and my hat is off to all. As Chris and I pondered the previous morning at breakfast,…
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