The Civic Hall, Stourport Saturday, 8th March 2025 SPLINK (Richard Swan) What a joyous start to Day 2 of the Fusion Festival! With the 4-piece Splink, like me, Steve Gould (the promoter of this event that grows in stature every…
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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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229 The Venue, London Thursday, 22nd August 2024 KUNAL SINGHAL Kunal Singhal, as well as being an active and important music promoter, promoting new left-field musicians via his Chaos Theory operation, has a neat musical act himself, featuring improvised vocal…
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The The Drill Hall, Chepstow Sunday, 14th April 2024 GLEN BRIELLE Aka Hugh Carter, founder member of Abel Ganz. His side project with solo keys and fellow Abel Ganz guitarist Malcolm McNiven was a lovely way to start off the…
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Oslo, Hackney, London Friday, 25th April 2024 LEONI JANE KENNEDY A solo spot opens the entertainment tonight, with Leoni Jane Kennedy accompanied by her acoustic guitar, played with consummate skill. Her set includes a Rush cover, pleasing the prog audience,…
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Poppodium Boerderij, Zoetermeer [NL] Sunday, 9th April, 2023 [This review first appeared in Dutch on the Progwereld website. You can read the original HERE, with huge thanks to the original contributors, and to Alex Driessen for the translation.] After a…
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Fusion 4: Launch Event, 45 Live, Kidderminster Thursday, 2nd March, 2023 Apologies for missing nearly all the set of openers Last Flight to Pluto – Unfortunately a tipper truck smashing into a gantry on the M5 closed it for virtually…
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Recover is a limited edition release by Kyros in which they cover an eclectic range of artists in their own style. Let’s face it, it’s been a bloody weird 18 months since the ‘C’ word hit us all. Some artists…
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Hard on the heels of latest album Celexa Dreams, Kyros have released a surprise EP, titled Four of Fear; four further slabs of futuristic prog frenzy. Well, at least the opening track Ace’s Middle is somewhat frenzied. Beginning with a…
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There was a period in the 1980s when new technology became an integral part of popular music and it was an exciting time. Bands like Duran Duran, Frankie Goes To Hollywood, Scritti Politti, and clever chaps like Nik Kershaw became…
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