Concert Reviews
Little Theatre, Cleadon Village Saturday, 30th November 2024 Obviously, concerts are about the music. Be that hearing new bands or familiar ones playing equally familiar, or less well known material. However, on occasion a concert can be more than the…
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O2 Islington, London Sunday, 24th November 2024 Hamferð The cave-like interior of the O2 Islington is bathed in red light as the slowly growing crowd await Faroese black metal band Hamferð, the first of three bands at tonight’s celebration of…
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Camden Club, London Sunday, 17th November 2024 STORM DEVA Words: Roger Trenwith | Photos: Simon Arnold Another Sunday afternoon gig in the familiar surroundings of the Camden Club sees the faithful turn up in droves for this matinée concert. Due…
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Fire Station, Sunderland Monday, 11th November 2024 For those who are familiar with Julia Fordham’s voice they will know how wonderful it is. Yes, there are more powerful singers in the annals of music history but her style is not…
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Arena Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia Tuesday, 29th October 2024 A year (almost to the day) before this very gig, Dream Theater announced the return of founding drummer Mike Portnoy. This wasn’t news I took happily as I was upset by the…
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First Direct Arena, Leeds 7th November 2024 REEF It is hard for any band to fill a support slot, especially when the main act happens to be Deep Purple. Most of the audience is there to see the ‘name’ and…
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St Matthias Church, Stoke Newington, London Friday, 1st November 2024 Billed as “An Evening With iamthemorning”, the idea of Marjana Semkina and Gleb Kolyadin, and their band playing their songs of death and pain in a church seems like a…
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Williams Center, Rutherford, NJ, USA Thursday 17th to Sunday 20th October 2024 Occurring a week later than is customary, Progstock 2024 was welcomed by both a larger than usual crowd and unusually warm and sunny weather for late October. As…
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Poppodium Boerderij, Zoetermeer [NL] Saturday, 26th October 2024 By now, the connoisseur audience knows what to expect from Lazuli: approximately two-hours of an intense and above all energetic show by the excellent French quintet. The audience consists of about 200…
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The 1865, Southampton Sunday, 26th October 2024 FLUCTUS QUADRATUM A square wave hit the South Coast as Fluctus Quadratum rolled in to The 1865 in Southampton to open for The Emerald Dawn. This is a band with some story behind…
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