The Drill Hall, Chepstow Saturday, 13th April 2024 DOMINIC SANDERSON My discovery of the weekend! This was, for me, the most ultimate progressive performance of the festival! I was a tad late for the start, as I’d left my camera…
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45 Live, Kidderminster Saturday, 20th January 2024 I went into this gig unfamiliar with much of Tim Bowness’s back catalogue and with only a passing knowledge of No-Man’s songs. That meant I came into the venue with a different perspective…
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Abingdon United Football Club, Oxfordshire 8th July 2023 TPA were once again back at Abingdon United Football Club in Oxfordshire for the third iteration of Prog For Peart festival, with sixteen bands to entertain the prog faithful over two days,…
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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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Butterfly Mind is Tim Bowness seventh solo album, and his sixth for Inside Out Music. It was due to be released to coincide with the 40th anniversary of Tim starting to perform music in bands back in his native North…
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Tim Bowness has over recent years released an excellent quartet of solo albums. He is also known for his vocal and co-writing contributions with no-man in collaboration with Steve Wilson, but here the focus must be on his solo work.…
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Happy 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 bar in 2010. It’s…
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Enigma variations for the new age Is it electronica or dance? Is it pop or prog? Love You To Bits, no-man’s first release for eleven years, seems to encompass all of these, an intriguing mix of styles from the duo…
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Loreley Amphitheatre, St. Goarshausen, Germany 19th to 21st July 2019 Morning Proggers! Here’s the view from breakfast on the terrace 😊 Will try to keep count today, here’s the first… Suisse band F.O.R.S. (Famous Or Random Stars) kick off today.…
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Dingwalls, Camden, London Friday, 7th June 2019 Over fifteen quid for fish’n’chips, with a small pot each of tartare sauce and mushy peas? That’s a typical Camden pub for you. And it came pre-salted! What’s that all about then? Aside…
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