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Review – Karmakanic – ‘Transmutation’
The acclaimed Swedish progressive rock band Karmakanic is back with their highly anticipated sixth studio album, ‘Transmutation’. Produced by the band’s founder and visionary leader Jonas Reingold, The album has been mixed by five-time Grammy Award winner Chris Lord-Alge, renowned for his work with legends such as Muse, Tina Turner, and Bruce Springsteen. For this…
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Review – Steve Hackett Live at Victoria Hall, Stoke – by John Wenlock-Smith
When Steve Hackett commenced his very successful reinterpretation of classic Genesis music back in 2009, it delighted and enthralled fans worldwide, especially as Genesis as a band were inactive at that time, having last played dates in 2007 around the world. Phil Collins left the band to be replaced by Ray Wilson and their subsequent…
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John Wenlock-Smith Interviews Steve Hackett
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Steve Hackett – Genesis Greats, Lamb Highlights & Solo Tour – UK Shows – October 2024
Legendary guitarist Steve Hackett brings his: Genesis Greats, Lamb Highlights & Solo Tour to the UK for 16 dates in October.? The UK tour culminates with a visit to London’s prestigious Royal Albert Hall on Wednesday 23rd October. To mark the 50th anniversary of The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway, Hackett is including a selection…
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Review – The Raging Project – Future Days – by John Wenlock-Smith
This is a very strange album for me, mixing as it does elements of almost rap, progressive metal and ambient textures. ‘Future Days’ is the brainchild of French musician Ivan Jacquin who, along with Lionel Fevre, was in an electro metal act which developed into Project Rage in 2007. Joined by Jeannick Valleur, they released an…
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Review – Steve Hackett – The Circus And The Nightwhale – by John Wenlock-Smith
On February 16th Steve Hackett will release his thirtieth solo album ‘The Circus And The Nightwhale’. This album is not a concept album as such, however, it does have thirteen tracks interlinked and inter-woven and which take an autobiographical angle into Steve’s life journey. In the official blurb that accompanies the release we are told…
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Steve Hackett launches?’Wherever You Are’; second track taken from ‘The Circus and the Nighwhale’
Legendary rock guitarist Steve Hackett is set to release his new studio album The Circus And The Nightwhale on 16th February 2024, via InsideOut Music. A rite-of-passage concept album with a young character called Travla at the centre of it, The Circus And The Nightwhale’s? 13 tracks have an autobiographical angle for the musician who says about…
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Steve Hackett reveals the first single People of the Smoke from his new conceptual studio album?’The Circus And The Nightwhale – Out 16th February, 2024.
Legendary rock guitarist Steve Hackett is set to release his new studio album The Circus And The Nightwhale on 16th February 2024, via InsideOut Music. A rite-of-passage concept album with a young character called Travla at the centre of it, The Circus And The Nightwhale’s? 13 tracks have an autobiographical angle for the musician who says about…
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Steve Hackett celebrates over 50 years of music with his new conceptual studio album? The Circus and the Nightwhale?
Legendary rock guitarist Steve Hackett will release his new studio album The Circus And The Nightwhale on 16th February 2024, via InsideOut Music. A rite-of-passage concept album with a young character called Travla at the centre of it, The Circus And The Nightwhale’s? 13 tracks have an autobiographical angle for the musician who says about his 30th…
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Review – Steve Hackett Foxtrot At Fifty + Hackett Highlights: Live in Brighton
2022 Saw Steve Hackett fully re-emerging from the spectre of frustration over a few difficult years thanks to the pesky worldwide pandemic that affected much of the wield and disrupted how we lived and interacted with each other. It was, indeed, a turbulent, nay difficult, time for many, which saw lots of planned activities being…