On June 1st 2024 the Polish melodic progressive rock maestros Riverside played a triumphant homecoming gig at COS Torwar in Warsaw, marking the pinnacle of touring for their ID. Entity album. Over the last 20-odd years Riverside have become a…
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SWX, Bristol Monday 20th May 2024 Riverside are back for a second part of the ‘I.D. Entity’ Tour a year or so since they last toured these isles… and frankly my Prog socks are well and truly blown right off!…
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TPA / The Prog Mill ‘Lost and Found’ – Riverside Special with guest host Leo Trimming. Leo takes us on a journey through the band’s musical history, including solo projects and other collaborations by band leader Mariusz Duda and other…
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Indigo at the O2, London Saturday 22nd & Sunday 23rd April 2023 After a number of editions in Eindhoven, the Prognosis Festival makes it’s debut as a sister event in London, running at the Indigo, within the confines of the…
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O2 Institute2, Birmingham Friday, 21st April 2023 Riverside are back, and this time they are determined to define their Identity positively after the nightmare of the pandemic, quite aside from the band’s own personal loss a few years ago. With…
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ID. Entity is Riverside’s first album since 2018’s cathartic Wasteland, and as the title suggests, this release very much focuses on their exploration of identity, including their own. Riverside have been through tough times, most obviously the tragic loss of…
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It seems to be traditional to start these things by saying just how difficult it was to choose 10 of the best albums, and that if you asked me to tomorrow the list would be totally different. However, to be…
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Arena The Seventh Degree of Separation – 2011 A period of hiatus and the introduction of a new singer may have helped breathe life into Arena. The first album of the ‘Manzi-era’ hinted at the more theatrical elements of Nolan’s…
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Picking 10 releases from across a decade is no easy task. Injustices will be done! The different criteria you can use and the wide range of emphases on which you pin importance lead to all manner of selections and lists,…
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SWX, Bristol Thursday, 21st March 2019 In the week leading up to what was meant to be our glorious (?) Brexit Day for the U.K. it was perhaps appropriate that Bristol was treated to a cosmopolitan show from two fine…
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