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The greatest blog you will ever read….ever!
You know there’s one thing that really gets my goat… Before I carry on I should point out that there are many things actually, including false opening statements like the one above. I’m now in my...
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Viva la revolution!
We’re not getting any younger, none of us are… (Brad Birzer-Happy Birthday!) I’m now rather depressingly at the stage where I find myself saying out loud, “In my day things were better than they are...
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New Release –‘The Root, the leaf and the bone’– Manning (Oct 2013)
Manning, is the self-titled band name of the ridiculously talented and very modest Guy Manning, the singer, composer and multi-instrumentalist and former member of The Tangent, very ably backed by a...
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‘The Music that died alone’– 10 years on…
A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, long before the reflection of the ritual of work and tales of forgotten war heroes searching the radio waves there was a time when the music died alone. Back...
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New Release –‘Desolation Rose’– The Flower Kings (2013)
It’s probably accepted by many people who have followed the career of The Flower Kings that the prime years for them were the albums that ranged from the official band debut, ‘Back in the world of...
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‘And I’ll Scratch Yours’– (2013) – Peter Gabriel – Tough Love required!
In the history of Peter Gabriel’s solo career there are glittering moments of genius and other times where the ideas fell short of success or backfired. The Womad festival of ’82, the ‘Realworld’ theme...
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Phideaux – Live in the UK 2013
16-1-2013 Phideaux/Manning/landmarq CRS event. Maltby, UK On a grey, chilly November night in Yorkshire, England, in a small hall known as the Wesley centre in Maltby, a band whose members are...
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Twelve Reviews of Christmas…mind how you go!
Dedicated to all my superlative friends…. On the first day of Christmas a Prog Fan gave to me: A review full of Hyper-bo-le On the second day of Christmas a Prog Fan gave to me: Two Masterpieces and A...
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My arrogant choices of 2013
The more I think about prog music in the last year, the more I think that things are not as rosy in the garden as they first appear. Sure, the sheer volume of music, some of which is slickly produced...
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Exclusive: An Interview with Guy Manning – Nov 2013
By Eric Perry Manning’s latest album, ‘The Root, the leaf and the bone’ was released on the Festival Music label in October this year. On the lead up to the time of its release I was fortunate enough...
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Ignorance and Want and Gabriel…
“This boy is Ignorance. This girl is Want. Beware them both, and all of their degree, but most of all beware this boy, for on his brow I see that written which is Doom, unless the writing be erased....
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Snow Goose is no Turkey – A new Tangent Release!
The new release from the Tangent is due out on Christmas Eve….I’m going to stop there and clarify that. The newest release from the Tangent in 2013 is out on tomorrow. Yes another piece of great music...
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Edison’s Children –‘The final breath before November’
Reviewing the new release from Edison’s Children - ’The final breath before November’. A Brooding and Atmospheric sibling. Oh Brother where art thou…? The start of 2014 sees not one but two new studio...
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Review : ‘Bigelf’—‘Into the Maelstrom’
Into the future…with a blast from the past… Sometimes bands that openly wear their influences on their sleeves are derided for being derivative and lacking in originality—retro is both cool and a dirty...
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If there is any justice in the world…
Ossicles – Mantelpiece (Dec 2012) Sometimes an amazing album comes your way that you wonder how the rest of the world missed it. Over a year ago two 20 year old guys from Norway produced a breathtaking...
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Abel Ganz – Finally the wait is almost over….
NEWS: Abel Ganz – New album coming soon… Anyone who has heard Abel Ganz knows what a special prog band they are. Their last record Shooting Albatross was simply amazing. These guys from Scotland...
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Like Rush meets Jethro Tull –‘Resistor’–‘to the stars’
I’m bordering on Hyperbole, but blimey the new album from ‘Resistor’ – ‘To the Stars’ is an absolute marvel! To The Stars Resistor are an American Rockin’ Progressive Rock outfit from Providence, RI...
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Discovering Rush –‘The 40 year old virgin’
Hands up who’s a fan of Rush? One, two, three….okay hands down, there’s too many of you. Rush fans united… For the last thirty-five, or more years of loving progressive Rock music there was never a day...
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Kaukasus –‘I’ (2014) Exciting new debut release.
Fantastic new release Kaukasus – ‘I’ Out on May 5th From May 5th the new debut album from Scandinavian group ‘Kaukasus‘ is released. PRESS RELEASE - Described as “Dark, Nordic progressive rock, with...
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Review: Little Sparrow –‘Wishing Tree’ (2014)
Something new, yet something familiar… It’s a given that many progressive rock fans grew up on a diet of the beautiful, quirky songs of Kate Bush through the 70′s, 80′s and 90′s, many of whom will have...
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