Queen Victoria Hall, Oundle Saturday, 7th June 2025 On the Saturday of the Soundle Festival my body clock ignored how tired I was from the previous day of travelling and concert going, so it blithely woke me up at the…
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There’s a moment on Liquid Stone where everything stops – just a single piano note stumbling quietly in the background, searching for its place. Trude Eidtang’s voice arrives like a hand reaching through the darkness, not to rescue but to…
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Queen Victoria Hall, Oundle Friday, 6th June 2025 Firstly, before I spend my time writing about the event, let me give you a brief introduction to the festival and its location. Soundle is a portmanteau word where Sound and Oundle,…
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International progsters The Samurai Of Prog are a busy bunch. In addition to the TSOP concern, there are any number of offshoots featuring drummer Kimmo Pörsti and/or bassist Marco Bernard. One of those extracurricular bands is The Guildmaster, featuring the…
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Blood Moon is the new album from Nottinghamshire based rockers Red Bazar, their first since 2022’s Inverted Reality. Red Bazar explore an increasing range of musical styles on Blood Moon. They have often displayed a hard almost ‘prog-metal’ edge to…
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AlphaLine are a dynamic four-piece UK band from Berkshire/Surrey who are increasingly appearing at prog-adjacent events and festivals. As a result, it now seems an appropriate time to revisit their 2024 debut album, Electromagnetic, and highlight their engaging and eclectic…
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Pryzme are a French prog band built around the nucleus of guitarists and singers Dominique Blanchard and David Chollet. Their latest album True Stories…And Other Lies is their first since 2021’s Four Inches, and is a step forward in terms…
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Co-op Live, Manchester Thursday, 19th June 2025 Like many people I feel that the word ‘Legend’ is used so much that it can, and often does, lose all meaning, so I try and avoid using it. After all there are…
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At a time when, seemingly at least, Punk ruled the airwaves and snarling teenagers were saying naughty words on the TV – it looked like bands with talent were threatened with oblivion. Some carried on regardless, other bands folded, while some…
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Of all Jimi Hendrix’s spiritual children, Robin Trower is one of the best. Who would have guessed that the guy so underutilized in Procol Harum would blossom into a guitar god who was so much more than imitative of his…
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