Arts Centre, Helmsley, North Yorkshire Friday, 19th April 2024 Tonight’s adventure involves the Friday traffic on the A19 from Newcastle to the picturesque market town of Hemsley in North Yorkshire. We arrived a little earlier than planned which gave us…
View More The Blackheart Orchestra / Foxpalmer
Norway’s Elephant9 return with a new album, guaranteed to pique your interest, and this is certainly the case for me having been on a writing hiatus due to the loss of my great friend and TPA editor Jez Rowden. So,…
View More Elephant9 – Mythical River
This release caught my attention primarily because of some of the musicians and singers featured on it, and Todd Rundgren being involved was certainly a huge personal bonus for me. It is, as the title implies, a ‘tribute’ project to…
View More Various Artists – Reimagining The Court Of The Crimson King
Central Theatre, Chatham Friday, 19th April 2024 I don’t often go and see tribute bands. It’s not that I’m some weird purist who disapproves of tribute acts, far from it! If the band that originally created the music is no…
View More UK Pink Floyd Experience
Cephid will be a new name to us all here at TPA, however this debut album released in February this year is the culmination of years of solo work by talented keyboard player Moray Macdonald, who will be familiar to…
View More Cephid – Sparks In The Darkness
Signature Brew, Blackhorse Road, London Saturday, 20th April 2024 For once in this Biblically wet year, a dry and even occasionally sunny day precedes another trip to the capital for me, where I meet up with my gig-going companion and…
View More Poly-Math / Big Lad / Kylie Monologue
Ellesmere is a project masterminded by Italian multi-instrumentalist Roberto Vitelli. You may have come across them, as their last album, Wyrd, caused a bit of a stir in prog circles at the end of 2020. Latest release Stranger Skies, in…
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After being unexpectedly floored by my first listen to Recycled, I seem to have precariously placed myself as the Nektar correspondent at TPA… at least for the time being. Jumping from the band’s heyday straight into the present was probably…
View More Nektar – Journey To The Other Side
It was so refreshing to see an album offered for review to TPA with such a pithy name. There’s none of this multisyllabic name nonsense, like Distended Algorithm or Beelzebub’s Hoover, this is the least Proggy name I’ve seen in…
View More Wheel – Charismatic Leaders
The culmination of a long period as a highly successful session musician and collaborator sees Oliver Wakeman return to solo pursuits. A window of opportunity has enabled songs that had been in development over the last decade or more to…
View More Oliver Wakeman – Anam Cara