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Fusion 4: Day Two

The Civic Hall, Stourport Saturday, 4th March, 2023 SPRIGGAN MIST (Tony Colvill) Spriggan Mist have changed a little since I first heard their debut album, many years ago. They seem to have become more ‘Rock’ – the sound is tight…

Fusion 4: Launch Event & Day One

Fusion 4: Launch Event, 45 Live, Kidderminster Thursday, 2nd March, 2023 Apologies for missing nearly all the set of openers Last Flight to Pluto – Unfortunately a tipper truck smashing into a gantry on the M5 closed it for virtually…

Tomorrow – Permanent Dream

Tomorrow had a brief career in the mid- to late-’60s that was remarkable for two reasons. They were one-hit wonders with My White Bicycle (taken from their one eponymous LP), but more notably Steve Howe was the guitarist and he,…

Dave Foster Band – Glimmer

Dave Foster is probably known to prog fans for his first band, Mr So & So, who released a few albums and once looked like they might ‘happen’, but ultimately fizzled out. Or perhaps for his role in the Steve…

Days Before Tomorrow – Now and Then Part II: Stories and Dreams [EP]

American melodic progressive rock band Days Before Tomorrow (DB4T) return, a decade after disbanding, with an EP of previously unreleased material from that period, entitled Now and Then Part II: Stories and Dreams. Newly mixed, with musicians from an earlier…

P!nk – Trustfall

Yes, yes: I know. Please don’t look at me like that. It’s not prog. Allegedly. I blame Graham Norton. It’s all his fault. I only tuned in to his show to see Hugh Jackman, Judi Dench, Paul Rudd, Eugene Levy,…

Sad Serenity – The Grand Enigma

Sad Serenity’s The Grand Enigma is another in a long line of Covid lock-down projects that we have seen over the past year. Hatched by multi-instrumentalist Marcell Kaemmerer, this is the first project from the German-born former school teacher (music…