Concert Reviews
The Barbican Theatre, London 8th April 2017 A beautiful and warm spring day in the capital glossed over a visit to a rather lacklustre Italian eatery near Dean Street, prior to a convoluted saunter on the Tube the wrong way…
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Hafan Y Mor, Nr. Pwllheli, North Wales 16th – 18th March 2017 Part Three (Time for the Prog ‘After Life’?!) SATURDAY KONCHORDAT Konchordat, first of three bands on the second day from the distinctive Bad Elephant Music label, blew away…
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Hafan Y Mor, Nr. Pwllheli, North Wales 16th – 18th March 2017 Part Two (‘America is f…ed, the UK is f…ed. Let’s just have a good time!’) FRIDAY Leo: Friday was the official start to HRH Prog and witnessed the…
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Phoenix Arts Centre, Exeter 16th March 2017 Article by Tony Colvill This was an evening for dispelling ‘Ghosts’. I say this for many a reason, all with little logic. The eighties were not my decade, musically I did not feel…
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The Globe, Cardiff 31st March 2017 In scientific terms ‘Magenta’ is considered an ‘extra special colour’ as strangely it is not actually found in the visible spectrum of light. Instead it is physiologically and psychologically perceived as the mixture of…
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Performing The Adventures Of Prince Achmed PhilaMOCA, Philadelphia, PA, U.S.A. Wednesday, 15th March 2017 It was on a ritual sojourn to NYC’s wonderful (and now sadly gone) “Other Music” back in 2004, that I was first introduced to the infectious…
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Hafan Y Mor, Nr. Pwllheli, North Wales 16th – 18th March 2017 Part One (We do this so you don’t have to…) There is a mysterious enclosed community hidden away somewhere on the North Wales coast where all sorts of…
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Haken – Academy 3, Manchester 24th March 2017 On their tenth anniversary Haken find themselves well established as leaders in the heavier progressive market. Could be a pressure or a curse yet they seem to be revelling in the fact…
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Eventim Apollo, London Friday, 17th March 2017 The Devin Townsend Project arrives in London after eight weeks on the road supporting his latest studio album, Transcendence. Prior to tonight’s concert, however, Townsend has created an eager sense of expectation by…
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Motorpoint Arena, Cardiff 12th March 2017 We all need some Beauty in our lives right now. In a world in which it appears that what divides us is valued more than what unites us, and leaders have risen to power…
View More Anderson Rabin Wakeman (ARW)