After three visits to the United Kingdom to attend shows and two previous interviews with founder/songwriter/bassist Greg Spawton, I have the honour to speak once again to a member of the famous English prog band, Big Big Train. New Italian…
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TPA’s David Edwards recently had the great pleasure to be able to talk to one of his prog rock heroes, Steve Hackett, during one of those rare moments over recent months when he and his wife, Jo, have had some…
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With their latest release taking the band in a different direction, we talk to The Aristocrats about how the new project with the Primuz Chamber Orchestra, from Poland, came about, featuring reimaginings of tracks from the band’s catalogue with an…
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Enjoyable and diverse instrumental debut solo album from guitarist and songwriter Steve Anderson of The Room. A journeyman is the term given to a craftsman who is between an apprentice and a master craftsman. It is therefore a suitably modest…
View More Journeyman’s Progress – Journeyman’s Progress Part One [plus interview with Steve Anderson]
In the run-up to the official release of The Confidence Trick by UK progressive rock band Hats Off Gentlemen It’s Adequate, TPA’s David Edwards had the opportunity for an extended chat with the band’s Malcolm Galloway. Speaking remotely from his…
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By the late ’60s and early ’70s, the blues influences that had inspired the likes of The Rolling Stones, Eric Clapton and Jimmy Page were maturing into new genres of rock music, each developing their own identities with progressive rock…
View More Wishbone Ash – Argus (with Martin Turner)
Keyboardist and composer Hans Lundin is the sole constant through the history of the legendary Swedish band Kaipa, which he co-founded in 1973. With the band having just released their fourteenth album, the mesmerising Urskog, TPA’s Jez Rowden talks to…
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After the release of their Fireworker album in 2020 and the new Fireworking live album, Norwegian band Gazpacho are back on tour again, co-headlining with Pure Reason Revolution, culminating in a date at EartH in London. Ahead of the London…
View More Thomas Andersen – Gazpacho
“Singles by The Moody Blues were a rarity, so growing up on a diet of Radio 1’s early ’70s playlist, my exposure to the Moodies had been almost non-existent”, says TPA’s Geoff Ford. “My imagination was captured, in 1972, by…
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“Every melody I come up with automatically pops up while cycling/walking.” – Gert van Engelenburg Treehouse is the sixth studio album by Dutch symphonic rock band Leap Day, a band that seems to improve time and again with each new…
View More Gert van Engelenburg – Leap Day