Concert Reviews
City Hall, Newcastle Thursday 20th October 2016 The mighty Newcastle City Hall, once the domain for all measure of bands and a regular hunting ground for the avid concert goer, especially this one. Sadly, in more recent times the venue has…
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O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire, London Friday 21st October 2016 This is my first visit to the Shepherd’s Bush Empire and I absolutely love it. Built in 1903 as a music hall, it became the BBC Television Theatre in 1953 and…
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The Complex, Glendale, California, U.S.A. Saturday, 17th September 2016 One of the drawbacks to being a progressive rock fan that lives in the United States is how few bands get the opportunity to tour here. Since most of the bands…
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Real World Studios, Box, Wiltshire Saturday 8th October 2016 Music can express so much without words and such was the spirit and magic produced on October 8th in the musical shrine that is the Real World Studios it will be…
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Café OTO, Dalston, London Monday 26th September 2016 The Rhythm of Biz… Arriving at this intimate venue down a side street in Dalston, one is immediately taken by the contrast with last year’s venue, where Magma blew the dust off…
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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…
View More Sax Ruins / Barberos / Big Naturals & Anthroprophh
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…
View More The Power of 3 – The Gift, We Are Kin, Tiger Moth Tales
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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