Just before Mostly Autumn went up on stage at Sheffield’s O2 Academy to close the HRH Prog X festival, I was able to have a quick chat with Bryan Josh, guitarist, vocalist and driving force behind the band, to ask…
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UK melodic prog rock band Mostly Autumn release a powerful and evocative new album, documenting their experience of the pandemic over the last year or so. It has all the ingredients of a classic Mostly Autumn album, but soaked with…
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O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire, London 4th & 5th September 2021 After a couple of date postponements due to the COVID 19 pandemic, and a few line-up changes, HRH Prog 10 finally happened, simultaneously in London and Sheffield; my report comes…
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O2 Academy, Sheffield 4th & 5th September 2021 After many changes to both the date and the line-up due to the COVID 19 pandemic, HRH PROG X finally kicked off at the O2 Academy in Sheffield (and the O2 Shepherd’s…
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Styx has always been something of an outsider in rock music: successful as an AOR band with symphonic tendencies, producer of mainstream hits and ballads. Active since its foundation in 1972 and extremely successful in the mid-seventies, the fact that…
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For King and Country is a new project led by Magenta mainman Rob Reed, but its roots go right back in his school days. Before Reed formed Magenta in 1999 he was in Cyan, formed at school in the early…
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Surrender of Silence. Even the title sounds a little angry. All Steve Hackett albums offer something, some take a time to settle in, this one is no different. The Obliterati is definitely angry, and whilst my personal leaning is toward…
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Fuel Rock Club, Cardiff Thursday, 9th September 2021 Last week I attended my first large-scale outdoor show in what seems like aeons, this week it’s back to the clubs for the first date on Godsticks’ short tour of the UK,…
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Guitarist, songwriter and composer Alan Dweck caught the music bug young, writing his first song aged nine. He cites Pink Floyd’s Dave Gilmour as a chief early influence on a life and career which has seen Dweck absorb cultural influences…
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Fioraidh is a new solo project from Scotland with some history. The name Fioraidh is a Celtic neologism that pays tribute to the band Fury, that Mark Reid was once a member of. The pronunciation of both names is roughly…
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