I do speak with band members either in interviews, at concerts or via chats on Facebook and a regular topic is how they get, or don’t, get people to come to their gigs. Also chatting with fellow prog fans at…
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Happy New Year! As ever, a host of wonderful releases have floated the TPA team’s boats throughout 2025, underlining the sheer quality of music still emerging from our corner of the Audioverse. It may be a niche realm, but the…
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Gentle Giant is currently in the spotlight: following the recent remaster of their acclaimed live album Playing The Fool – The Complete Live Experience, and now the autobiography of founder/singer/composer Derek Shulman is available. The latter’s life has taken several…
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Kino Film Theater, Rotterdam [NL] Wednesday, 17th September 2025 A third cinema visit with a certain David Gilmour. The first time he as a contributor in a documentary about the design collective Hipgnosis, and more recently as a band member…
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Villa Park, Birmingham Friday, 4th July 2025 Wednesday 23rd July 2025 18 days have passed since the last notes of Paranoid rang out and drifted away on the night time air over Birmingham, that final magical moment, and now, here…
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A ‘melomaniac’ is defined as having ‘an inordinate liking for music or melody’ by Merriam-Webster. As Jamie Robertson tells his life story, it is anchored in the music he was listening to at the time – the records he bought,…
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St George’s Church, Hartlepool Friday, 20th June 2025 Just a few weeks after my last visit to St George’s in Hartlepool to see the excellent Jocelyn Pettit, Ellen Gira & Miguel Girão, I found myself back at what is fast…
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TPA’s Dann Chinn covers all bases in this long chat with Michael Woodman, who gives us the lowdown on his new album Hiss of Today, and much, much more besides… Dann Chinn (DC): Let’s talk about stories, Michael, and storytelling,…
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Kino Film Theater, Rotterdam [NL] Thursday, 24th April 2025 Sony Music announced back in February of this year the newly restored version: Pink Floyd at Pompeii – MCMLXXII, a revisiting the groundbreaking 1972 film directed by Adrian Maben would be…
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The Palladium, London Monday, 12th May 2025 Some Reflections Hell hath no fury than a woman scorned. True. But a man who has parted with 70 notes for a gig he leaves halfway through isn’t too far behind! After 46…
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