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Review – Flying Colors – Third Stage: Live In London – by John Wenlock-Smith
This latest Release from US Prog supergroup Flying Colors chronicles the final date of the ‘Third Stage’ tour that was wound up at Shepherd’s Bush Empire last December. This is a 2 CD and DVD package which really brings to life the spectacle and musicianship the band offer live with both audio and visual recordings…
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Review – Steve Hackett – Selling England By the Pound & Spectral Mornings Live at Hammersmith
This 2 CD / Blu Ray package is the latest release from the former Genesis guitarist who has, for the last 8 years, been repackaging and marketing his own version of his Genesis era history. Quite rightly so, when the rest of the original band are all doing decidedly different music these days. This nostalgic…
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Review – Arcade Messiah – The Host
The one man, mighty music machine that is John Bassett returns with a new album from his Arcade Messiah project. ‘The Host’, released on September 17th, was mooted as a return to the angrier, heavier sound of John’s original, and best known, band, the imaginatively monikered KingBathmat and we have been given what we were…
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John Wenlock- Smith Interviews David Longdon
In this piece I talk to David Longdon of Big Big Train about his latest album, a collection of songs recorded in collaboration with the late Judy Dyble entitled ‘Between A Breath and A Breath’, which was released on the 5th September 2020. DL – Thanks for writing such and insightful and sensitive review of…
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Lunatic Soul Premiere First Single & Video For “The Passage”
FROM THE NEW ALBUM THROUGH SHADED WOODS RELEASED ON KSCOPE ON 13TH NOVEMBER Following the announcement that Lunatic Soul will release their new and seventh album Through Shaded Woods, through Kscope on 13th November: the band have premiered ‘The Passage’, the first single and video to be taken from the forthcoming album: Of the new…
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Avandra Reveals Album Art, Track List and Title of Forthcoming New Album
This autumn is about to become more and more exciting, as Avandra has now announced the title, tracklist and coverart for their upcoming album! The album shall be called Skylighting and features 7 brand new songs. The four core bandmembers, were joined this time around by keyboardist extraordinaire Vikram Shankar (Redemption, Silent Skies, Lux Terminus) who provided additional layers…
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Review – Airbag – A Day at the Beach
No matter how corrupt, greedy, and heartless our government, our corporations, our media, and our religious & charitable institutions may become, the music will still be wonderful. – Kurt Vonnegut Crikey, there’s a quote that’s stood the test of time and how true it is. I am sat here listening to the much anticipated new…
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Review – Built For The Future – Brave New World
B4tF is a progressive/alternative rock band from San Antonio, Texas. The music represents strong elements of prog as well as melodic passages that hope to maintain accessibility. Drawing on a range of long time influence and admiration of bands such as Rush, Yes, Genesis, Tears for Fears, Gabriel, The Fixx, Ultravox and of course The…
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Review – Pain Of Salvation – Panther
Pain of Salvation have been firmly at the forefront of the progressiverock and metal scenes for nearly three decades now. Led by mercurial multi-instrumentalist Daniel Gildenl?w, the Swedish band have consistently demonstrated a sincere passion for moving their own extraordinary music forward, while always remaining lyrically enlightened and ferociously intelligent. The leaders in thoughtful, pained…
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Review – Tim Bowness – Late Night Laments
There’s nothing else that sounds like a Tim Bowness album, they have such a unique palette of sound and a feeling that the music is washing over you with Tim’s soothing vocal deep at the core. Tim is primarily known as the vocalist and co- writer with the band no-man, a long-running collaboration with Steven…