I Am The Manic Whale

TPA Best Albums of 2020

Here’s to a hopefully happier New Year! It’s that time again where we look ahead to the audible delights that might give us a quick peck on the cheek, a full-blown snog or have us running screaming from the singles…

I Am The Manic Whale – Things Unseen

A gentle piano intro, and the voice intoning a complex and odd melody, “picking melodies out of the black and fumy air” indeed. Then, something stirs, crashing chords, strident bass and drums, and a synth melody soaring aloft; yes friends,…

The Decade in Review – John Wenlock-Smith

Firstly let me say this has been a much harder than expected exercise, partly because so much good music has passed through these hands in ten years. My final selections focus on more mainstream progressive acts, as that is my…

CIRCU5 / I Am The Manic Whale / Let’s Swim, Get Swimming

Level 3, Swindon Saturday, 30th September 2019 This is as much a review of this fantastic little sticky-floored venue with its inexpensive bar, as it is the bands I saw. Apparently, Level 3 closed because another Swindon venue was getting…

Michael Whiteman – I Am the Manic Whale

With two studio albums under their belt, I Am the Manic Whale released a live album earlier this year, a record of an acclaimed series of shows that have raised the band’s profile considerably. TPA’s John Wenlock-Smith spoke to main…

Michael Whiteman – I Am The Manic Whale

I Am The Manic Whale recently played at the HRH Prog Festival in North Wales in November 2018 and singer Michael Whiteman met with Leo Trimming of The Progressive Aspect for an interview shortly after their successful and popular performance……

I Am The Manic Whale – New Forms Of Life ~ Live At The Oakwood

I Am the Manic Whale have released their first live album, documenting the album launch gig in Reading in May 2018 for their second album Gathering the Waters and is a fine summary of the increasingly popular and determinedly eccentric…

Masquerade 2

Boston Rooms, Tufnell Park, London 2nd December 2017 Mike Morton is usually the vocalist with London based Progressive rock band The Gift, but he also occasionally turns his hand to promoting ‘mini festivals’, such as Resonance and last year’s first…

TPA Best Albums of 2017

As we approach the end of another exciting year of wonderful music and enjoyed the delights of many fabulous releases, The Progressive Aspect, in collaboration with Anthony Rowsick’s radio programme Prog-Watch, have collected together our “The Best Albums of 2017”.…

I Am The Manic Whale – Gathering the Waters

Okay, another crowd funder and another punt not heard. No idea beforehand but very satisfied with the results. I could end it there, that could be the review! But it deserves more, another sentence at least. The riff that opens…

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