013 Poppodium, Tilburg, The Netherlands 13th March 2014 by Basil Francis “Just testing you.” I was only able to hear these words, spoken by the man who I’d interviewed just six weeks earlier as he teased the audience after playfully…
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Matt Stevens is about to release his latest solo album, Lucid, after last year’s highly regarded The Fierce And The Dead album, Spooky Action. To tie in with our review of Lucid we took the opportunity to speak to Matt…
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Three years in the making, Lucid has achieved Matt Stevens’ goal of wanting to make a significant step forward from his previous solo albums. Despite being inspired by some dark times for Matt, it is certainly an uplifting listen that…
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O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire, London Wednesday 12th March 2014 Having reviewed the recently released Live In Tokyo by The Crimson ProjeKCt on these very pages, it now falls to your intrepid correspondent to report from the front… well, row D…
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Into The Maelstrom is the fourth album from Los Angeles’ Bigelf and their first release after signing for InsideOut last year. Following their well-received 2008 release, Cheat The Gallows, the band drifted apart and main-man, Damon Fox, found himself without a clear…
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Jack Bruce’s only album between 1980 and 1987, the year the Somethin Els project was started, was the atypical electronica oddity Automatic from 1983. During that time, although touring occasionally Jack was doing battle with his personal demons, a battle…
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RPWL have been around for some seventeen years now, and have released six studio albums (including this one), three live albums, two of which were also available as DVDs and have two compilations to their name. So there is little,…
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My first real introduction to the music of RPWL came this year with the release of the 2014 Wanted album (read why such a delay occurred HERE). So somewhat inspired by their latest studio release I backtracked to last year’s live…
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After releasing her first album Sugar For A Dream back in 2005, Susan Clynes continued with her studies rather than pursuing the singer-songwriter dream, eventually obtaining a master’s degree in composition from Ghent Conservatory. My first musical encounter with Susan came…
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I will not explain how this pairing came about, and the recording process that ensued, as you can read all about that and much more in TPA’s interview with the Peter and Gary, HERE. From a personal perspective, pairing the…
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