Category: Weekly Wallet Emptier

  • Review – Under A Banner – The Wild Places – by Emma Roebuck

    Review – Under A Banner – The Wild Places – by Emma Roebuck

    Under A Banner are Adam Broadhurst -guitars, vocals, harmonica, cittern; Jake Brooks – guitars and backing vocals; Simon Hill -bass guitar; Tim Wilson -drums, percussion, backing vocals; Kat Davis – keyboards. Powerful, poetic music about the world and the people and spirits which inhabit it.? When I was sent this album the above information was…

  • Review – Headspace – All That Your Fear Is Gone – by Progradar

    Review – Headspace – All That Your Fear Is  Gone – by Progradar

    Crikey, the plethora of excellent new music arriving daily at Progradar Towers is definitely increasing in volume! With this in mind, welcome to the first in an irregular series of shorter, more concise (yes, I know!) reviews to empty your wallet. You can thank me later…. Headspace – All That You Fear Is Gone Damian…

  • Progradar’s New Year Wallet Emptier – 12th January 2016

    Progradar’s New Year Wallet Emptier – 12th January 2016

    Happy New Year my friends, after the bumper musical cornucopia of 2015, it is quite difficult to see how 2016 could top it but, you never know! To get this year started with a bang, here’s a super-duper edition of Wallet Emptier featuring some great albums from last year that didn’t get to feature due…

  • Wallet Emptier – Sunday 18th October 2015

    Wallet Emptier – Sunday 18th October 2015

    Welcome to a serious bumper edition of The Wallet Emptier, no less than nine albums in this latest round up of new releases and music that I feel may be of interest to you lot out there. Keep your eyes peeled for forthcoming full sized reviews of some of these albums here at Progradar! Vanden…

  • Wallet Emptier – 29/9/15

    Wallet Emptier – 29/9/15

    Nad Sylvan – Courting the Widow Better known recently as the voice behind Steve Hackett’s ‘Genesis Revisited’ live show, Nad has had a varied career as a solo musician and as part of the musical projects Unifaun and Agents Of Mercy. ‘Courting the Widow’ is his first solo effort since 2005 and was quite a…

  • The Wallet Emptier – 16th September 2015

    The Wallet Emptier – 16th September 2015

    Working for a living means it has been a while since the last Wallet Emptier so the ‘weekly’ moniker has had to go for this edition. Twice Bitten – Late Cut ‘Late Cut’ is the CD album celebrating the 30th anniversary of legendary heavy wood duo Twice Bitten’s ‘No Third Man’ album. Using only stringed…

  • Not so Weekly Wallet Emptier – 2nd September 2015

    Not so Weekly Wallet Emptier – 2nd September 2015

    Sorry for my tardiness but holidays and work have got in the way…… Anyway, here we go with a few more delights for you to contemplate buying… Amadeus Awad – Death is Just a Feeling Lebanese musician Amadeus is one of those guys who really wears his heart on his sleeve. Deep, absorbing and dark…

  • Weekly Wallet Emptier – 22nd July 2015

    Weekly Wallet Emptier – 22nd July 2015

    The Fierce and the Dead – Magnet E.P. “A soundtrack for the current generation”, The Fierce and the Dead have a new EP on the way. For those unfamiliar with these ‘funny music’ pioneers they play instrumental music with a huge amount of substance, powerful and majestic with sheer brutality in places yet they can…

  • Weekly Wallet Emptier – July 15th 2015

    Weekly Wallet Emptier – July 15th 2015

    Geof Whitely Project – Circus of Horrors Prolific musician Arny Wheatley returns with his latest album under the Geof Whitely Project’ pseudonym. The laid back, electronic 80’s style feel of previous works is given a spruce up and relaunched with a classy and smooth delivery. The rather memorable guitar work and laconic vocals are still…

  • Weekly Wallet Emptier – 27/6/15

    Weekly Wallet Emptier – 27/6/15

    Gekko Project – Reya of Titan Gekko Project are a California based five piece Progressive Rock band, with duel vocals, symphonic keyboards, progressive guitars, driving bass and adventurous drums. Their latest album ‘Reya of Titan’ has all the ingredients of a classic progressive album with an intricate storyline given substance by some rather good musicians.…