F Project is a solo venture from a Canadian musician by the name of François Meg. His genre is described as ‘guitar-based rock’, which doesn’t quite tell the whole story, as you may expect. His songs are instrumental and whilst…
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Forty years on from when Steve Overland and his original posse, FM, rode out from London into the wild west of the music industry, they are still entertaining in saloons around the world. Over many years in the saddle they…
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Forum Music Studios, Darlington Tuesday, 2nd July 2024 It proved a triumphant return to his home town of Darlington for Dave Bainbridge, accompanied by his musical partner of many years, Sally Minnear. Now largely based in the United States with…
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An expected surprise. I thought having bought the Broken Parachute collaboration, that a Ben Bell solo effort might bring another choice of similar highs. It doesn’t but it doesn’t need to, it has its own perfectly adequate choice, different as…
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At the end of 2023, The Flower Kings (TFK) toured Europe and the UK. In the Netherlands, at the Pul in Uden (October 27) and the Boerderij in Zoetermeer (October 28), we had the pleasure of catching the Swedish progrock…
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Boogaloo Club, Zagreb, Croatia Saturday 8th June 2024 Eurovision 2024 was a stressful event for fans of the contest with Palestine protests happening in and around the venue, the disqualification of one of the most popular acts this year and…
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It’s been six years since Coma Rossi burst onto the prog scene with their critically acclaimed eponymous debut album. For this second record only guitarist Gaurav Govilkar remains from that pre-Covid line up, and the five-piece has slimmed down to…
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My trawl through the formative years of the Vertigo label and its “spiral” imprint continues… After VO7, the catalogue numbers have changed, as has the decade. We are now into 1970 and the music biz is growing apace. The major…
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Last year, I fell down a Baker Gurvitz Army rabbit hole with Esoteric’s excellent Neon Lights five-disc set. As I said at the time, I was convinced to purchase the collection of three studio albums that Esoteric put out in…
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The Key Theatre, Peterborough Sunday, 2nd June 2024 THE BEGGS SISTERS (Graham Thomas) Opening act on Sunday, an unenviable slot perhaps, was the Beggs Sisters, and they proved to be an ideal choice, and a healthy crowd turned up to…
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