Concert Reviews
Bridgewater Hall, Manchester Friday, 5th May 2017 By John Wenlock-Smith A concert of two sets. In the first part of the show, Steve played tracks from his latest album, The Night Siren, which he informed us had been well received…
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Sub89, Reading Thursday 28th April 2017 I rather like Sub89 as a venue. Whilst the public image it portrays tends to focus on its use as a thriving night club, it is nevertheless quietly acquiring a growing reputation as a…
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Klub Wytwórnia, Łodz, Poland 7th – 9th April 2017 Marillion Weekend – A Fan’s Perspective [With photos courtesy of Alan Jones, The Web U.K., used with many thanks] When I was a child my favourite day of the year was…
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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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