Eiger Studios, Leeds Saturday, 21st September 2024 After two years in Hull, Al Winter and This Winter Machine, moved their annual day festival to Leeds for a highly enjoyable full day of prog at the nicely filled, quirky and intimate…
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Playhouse Theatre, Whitley Bay Thursday, 19th September 2024 Big Big Train have a career that spans back over 34 years, since their formation in 1990. For a band with that kind of longevity, you would have expected them to have…
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Northumberland’s finest – the 5-piece melodic progressive rock band, Stuckfish – have just released their fourth album, suitably titled IV, and have succeeded in not only matching the quality of the previous release from 2022, the glorious Days of Innocence,…
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Innisfree Sports & Social Club, Newcastle Saturday, 9th March 2024 It was certainly another great evening of driving, melodic prog rock in the North-East with Franck Carducci returning to the Innisfree Social Club, less than 7 months after their last…
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Abingdon Nene Park, Peterborough Sunday 3rd September, 2023 Sadly the last day of this remarkable festival. It’s been hard work for everyone involved and my hat is off to all. As Chris and I pondered the previous morning at breakfast,…
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The Civic Hall, Stourport Sunday, 5th March, 2023 LEAGUE OF LIGHTS (Rosamund Tomlins) A wonderful way to start off the Sunday repertoire of, once again, varied bands that makes Fusion always such a brilliant festival! A delightfully stimulating choice for…
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Happy New Year! Another strange year – this seems to be becoming a habit! At least there has been plenty of new music to enjoy and live performances are well and truly back on track. As is usual at this…
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The Radio Rooms, Tweedmouth, Berwick-upon-Tweed Friday, 16th September 2022 North-East melodic prog rock band Stuckfish deliver a stunning full-length live performance of musical quality, depth and diversity on home turf in a lovely, intimate venue full of family, friends and…
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Abingdon United Football Club, Oxfordshire 1st & 2nd July, 2022 A year ago, the first outing of this wonderful little festival, in aid of Glioblastoma Multiforme Research (for the particular form of brain cancer that ultimately took the life of…
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“A progression if ever there was one”; those were the words of Phil Stuckey when he kindly gifted me with this new album, Days of Innocence. So, in a single phrase I was left in hot anticipation of what it…
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