Concert Reviews
The Clore Ballroom, Southbank Centre, London Saturday 17th September 2016 As we enter the Royal Festival Hall at the Southbank Centre, London, we are immediately met with a lively, invigorating and happy buzz. It is the penultimate day of the…
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Waterside Theatre, Aylesbury Monday 5th September 2016 The second of only two dates in their home country on the latest outing for King Crimson (Mk8.1) sees the band that forced what became known as progressive rock, pink of face and…
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The Exchange, Bristol 17th August 2016 It’s a gig night so off I go for a symphonic evening of songs about Hobbits and unicorns. But wait! Huge generalisations aside, playing the genre game can be a one-way ticket to a…
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The Lexington, London 7th August 2016 Article by Leo Trimming Three is a number usually associated with mystical properties inherent in pyramids and the Holy Trinity amongst other things, and on a hot summer night there was an air of…
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O2 Kentish Town Forum, London Friday 29th July 2016 Having often railed against the ever expanding nostalgia industry…quick, exploit the silver surfers while their ears still function…the unfettered greed of which now climbs up another notch with that astonishingly expensive…
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Lansdown Hall, Stroud, Gloucestershire 16th July 2016 It takes a person of determination, enthusiasm and drive to set up their own festival. To keep it going for five years also requires resilience to repeatedly overcome the unforeseen and continue to…
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Loreley starts here… Lovely Loreley – sunny and warm, as usual. And here we are! Just in time to see Lion Shepherd – mellow Prog and well received by the growing crowd… Subsignal hit the stage… Subsignal – great musicians…
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‘Start the Sound’ Tour Islington Assembly Hall, London Saturday 18th June 2016 A Panic Room gig is always a cause for eager anticipation. Their live performances are, without fail, musically thrilling, emotionally intense and warmly uplifting. At the same time…
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Sub89, Reading Wednesday 15th June 2016 Frost* are in good mood tonight as they take to the stage for their ‘warm up’ gig before heading out on the road for a UK tour supporting the release of their third studio…
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Obihall, Firenze, Italy 31st May 2016 Well, not quite as Close To The Edge as I would have liked to my accommodation, but a 3.7 mile trek from the jungle of buildings that constitute Florence; it is hot, it is…
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