Captain’s Log: Star Date 02102023. About lunchtime. Our sensors have detected soundwaves from a mysterious green planet populated by little men with propellors on their pointy heads. The Chief Science Officer believes this is the mysterious Planet Gong, which is…
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There was a time when rock music was about the younger generation and rebellion, with songs feverishly fixed upon love and sex. Somewhere along the line it seems rock has grown up and matured as that generation has aged, their…
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This is Steven Wilson’s seventh outing with a full studio album release. Anyone that has been following his career will be aware of his beginnings in the late ’80s, with his Porcupine Tree and No-Man projects, his success in the…
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The Crooked Billet, Henley on Thames, Oxfordshire Monday, 2nd October 2023 In the summer of 1989, a young unknown singer had joined Marillion and they were recording an album at Hook End Manor in Oxfordshire. When they weren’t recording –…
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The first time I encountered solo Marc Almond was the song My Hand Over My Heart on the 1991 Pride compilation Get Out. I was completely enthralled by such a perfect ’90s pop tune and would play it for anyone…
View More Marc Almond – Tenement Symphony (6CD/DVD Limited Edition Box Set)
The Bedford, Balham, London Sunday, 10th September 2023 A warm early mid-September day kindly greeted both audience and performers as they arrived at this lovely venue buried deep in a more salubrious ’burb of South London. The audience had arrived…
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The Turning of the World is the latest venture from the multi-talented Peter Jones’ Tiger Moth Tales project, and as usual he takes a different direction on this release after his previous album, the Prog imbued A Song of Spring.…
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Cadogan Hall, London Wednesday, 13th September 2023 As previously announced, a report on the last performance in a series of sixteen shows that would take British band Big Big Train (BBT) through nine countries, under the moniker ‘The Journey Continues’.…
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Acapela Studio, Pentyrch, Cardiff Saturday, 30th September 2023 Some places are just special, and that magic often seeps through into the performances that take place in them. One such place is Acapela Studio, a converted chapel in the village of…
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With a ‘new’ solo album, Virgin Grounds, due for release, TPA’s Alex Driessen welcomed the opportunity to speak to the maestro himself, Ton Scherpenzeel. The keyboardist and composer is leader and kingpin of the legendary Dutch progressive rock band Kayak,…
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