To the Bone Tour: St. David’s Hall, Cardiff – Weds 21st March 2018 Royal Albert Hall, London – Weds 28th March 2018 Cardiff by Mel Allen On a reasonably pleasant evening the faithful began to gather for the latest Steve…
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Category: Concert Reviews
Concert Reviews
Yes 50th Anniversary Tour
City Hall, Sheffield Wednesday, 14th March 2018 As the opening strains of Stravinski’s Firebird Suite filtered through Sheffield’s City Hall, the years just fell away and transported the predominantly ageing audience back to their youth, back to the classic Yes of the…
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Stick Men
Acapela Studio, Pentyrch Friday, 16th March 2018 Acapela Studio‘s rural setting in the village of Pentyrch’s 19th Century Capel Horeb, which is about as far out of Cardiff as you can be whilst still being, nominally at least, in Cardiff,…
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Knifeworld (plus Judy Dyble, Helen McCookerybook & The Perfect English Weather)
KNIFEWORLD AT THE LEXINGTON Or An Adventure In That London With A Gentleman And Some Music. It was a winter’s day of contrast and light, pummelled by cold winter rain, but illuminated in so many ways. My companion for the…
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Masquerade 2
Boston Rooms, Tufnell Park, London 2nd December 2017 Mike Morton is usually the vocalist with London based Progressive rock band The Gift, but he also occasionally turns his hand to promoting ‘mini festivals’, such as Resonance and last year’s first…
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North Sea Radio Orchestra / William D. Drake
The Gresham Centre, St. Anne & St. Agnes, Gresham Street, London Sunday, 26th November 2017 I was in a church the other day, St. Anne and St. Agnes, Gresham Street, in the City of London, near The Barbican. I was…
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HRH Prog 6
Hafan Y Mor Haven Holiday Park, Pwllheli, Wales 17th & 18th November 2017 HRH Prog 6 put on display an impressive range of bands old and new in the now familiar yet remotely beautiful North Wales location. Following on only…
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Bad Touch / Mollie Marriott / Anonymous
Foxglove Arts Centre, Leek, Staffordshire Friday, 10th November 2017 Leek is a small market town that lies equidistant between Stoke on Trent in the south, Buxton in the East and Macclesfield in the North, and the Foxglove Arts Centre is…
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Carl Palmer’s ELP Legacy
Shire Hall, Howden Saturday, 25th November 2017 Two concerts in the same month – things must be looking up in the North-East of England. Well, although Carl Palmer’s ELP Legacy were playing in Gateshead, for this concert we travelled down…
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Ulver / Stian Westerhus
Islington Assembly Hall, London Wednesday, 15th November 2017 Islington, long since gentrified by incremental Hipster Creep, is the sort of place where, if so inclined, Tarquin and Jemima could waste their ludicrous salaries from Perfect Curve* in sundry branches of…
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