Published on 30th December 2019 | by John Wenlock-Smith
Let’s get something clear straight from the off: I love Christmas music, always have done since first hearing Slade’s Merry Christmas Everyone and the masterpiece that is Greg Lake’s I Believe in Father Christmas, and countless... Read More →
Published on 29th December 2019 | by Roger Trenwith
Ones That Nearly Got Away This is the first of a few reviews of albums released in 2019 that I only came across in the last couple of weeks, but deserve some belated attention. Not only... Read More →
Published on 27th December 2019 | by Bob Mulvey
Surely one of the busiest gigging outfits on the UK scene, something I can attest to as scarcely a week goes by without me adding to their burgeoning list of shows in the TPA UK Gig... Read More →
Published on 26th December 2019 | by Graham Thomas
Long Distance Calling are a post-rock band from Germany and are well into their second decade of existence. I was introduced to them by my son-in-law, an ardent death metal and doom fan, but I was... Read More →
Published on 23rd December 2019 | by John Wenlock-Smith
Ken Hensley was a founding member of Uriah Heep from their earliest inception right through to June 1980 after the Conquest world tour, at which time he felt he had gone as far as he could... Read More →
Published on 21st December 2019 | by Roger Trenwith
The return of this fine Spanish band after a six year gap from the superb Isla Purgatorio is as welcome as it is surprising, given that the band released two albums in 2013, and then nothing.... Read More →
Published on 19th December 2019 | by Leo Trimming
The chances are that even if you have never heard of Les Penning you may well have heard him – he recorded recorders and other instruments with the legendary Mike Oldfield in the 1970s, most notably... Read More →
Published on 18th December 2019 | by Alex Driessen
By the end of the seventies, progressive rock music got stuck in a rut. The big bands struggled with their (musical) direction and did not always release their best work. Moreover, there was the emergence of... Read More →
Published on 17th December 2019 | by Basil Francis
As popular as progressive metal is amongst fans, it seems even more popular amongst aspiring, talented new artists, all raring at the chance to show off their chops and dazzle with their musicianship. Unfortunately, this has... Read More →
Published on 16th December 2019 | by Roger Trenwith
The second instalment of the collision of soundworlds known as Sonar and David Torn arrives by design rather by accident. Whereas Vortex was the result of Torn’s exploratory guitar finding a home amongst Sonar’s cyclical minimalist... Read More →
