The Tramshed, Cardiff 3rd December 2016 It is a truly wonderful thing to see a band more than 30 years after you first saw them, a band that never split up and then reformed for the inevitable nostalgia trail but…
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Category: Concert Reviews
Concert Reviews
Lazuli
The Fleece, Bristol Sunday 27thNovember 2016 What does this band actually have to do to increase its profile? Seriously, they play stunning show after stunning show to rapturous receptions, supported Fish in packed houses for a long string of dates…
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Billy Bottle & The Multiple
Camden People’s Theatre, London 20th November 2016 Are you sitting comfortably? Then let us begin… It all started with a scout for U.K. TV musical talent show The Voice turning up in deepest Devon on the trail of much-travelled musical…
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Iamthemorning & Tim Bowness
Bush Hall, London Monday, 14th November 2016 Tim Bowness by Roger Trenwith A completely seamless journey from our doorsteps out in the sticks, down to Euston, and on to Shepherd’s Bush Market tube station saw us arrive at the oddly…
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Afro Celt Sound System
The Phoenix, Exeter Saturday, 12th November 2016 In a notably bad week when a racist and misogynist opportunist demagogue somehow persuaded the United States electorate to elect him President, AND we lost a great poet/songwriter in Leonard Cohen, it’s just…
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The Room – DVD Recording
Robin 2, Bilston Sunday 23rd October 2016 A trek to Wolverhampton, with coffee at Gloucester Services, always nice but better when you don’t leave things there. With old age, the memory goes, and you do daft things. I first saw…
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Anathema
The Globe, Cardiff Saturday, 5th November 2016 The Globe in Cardiff was sold out on Guy Fawkes Night to witness some musical pyrotechnics from this outstanding band, currently on the road in an ‘electric’ rock format after successfully touring and…
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Summer’s End Festival 2016
The Drill Hall, Chepstow 30th September to 2nd October 2016 [With photos by Tony Colvill, David Glaves, Phil Lively and Leo Trimming] For the second year The Drill Hall, on the banks of the River Wye in Chepstow, is the…
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Anderson Rabin Wakeman (ARW)
Count Basie Theater, Red Bank, New Jersey, U.S.A. Wednesday 26th October, 2016 ARW is the newest configuration of musicians roaming America – and soon Europe – playing the music of YES. What sets them apart is their legitimate claim to…
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Magic Bus
Unit 23, (South Devon Arts Centre), Totnes, Devon Saturday 29th October 2016 Magic Bus originated in Devon, playing rock music infused with a psychedelic spirit, mixing various influences including the Canterbury scene of the ’70s with the West Coast sound…
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