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  • Review – Cosmograf – Heroic Materials

    Review – Cosmograf – Heroic Materials

    Music is the moonlight in the gloomy night of life. – Jean Paul Friedrich Richter Music heals you, music lifts you, music gives you solace, music is one of the only things that gives you succour when you are both happy and sad and music has made my life a better place to be. Music…

  • New single and new album pre-order from Cosmograf…

    New single and new album pre-order from Cosmograf…

    Much loved UK progressive rockers Cosmograf, the brainchild of multi-instrumentalist Robin Armstrong, have released a video for brand new single British Made, from their forthcoming ninth studio album ‘Heroic Materials’. Watch the video here: The new album, released through Robin’s own label Gravity Dream on 9th September, 2022, is a conceptual piece, centred around the…

  • Review – Big Big Train – Grimspound – by Progradar

    Review – Big Big Train – Grimspound – by Progradar

    No matter how much time passes, no matter what takes place in the interim, there are some things we can never assign to oblivion, memories we can never rub away.? – Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore. Imagine, if you will, a deserted beach and a man in studious concentration, digging up the sand and…

  • Review – Big Big Train – Folklore – by Progradar

    Review – Big Big Train – Folklore – by Progradar

    And I thought about how many people have loved those songs. And how many people got through a lot of bad times because of those songs. And how many people enjoyed good times with those songs. And how much those songs really mean. I think it would be great to have written one of those…

  • Interview with David Longdon – Pt1 from 6th March 2016 – by Progradar

    Interview with David Longdon – Pt1 from 6th March 2016 – by Progradar

    Before I get round to reviewing ‘Folklore’, here is my first interview with David Longdon, recorded on 6th March 2016. Martin – Good morning David, I appreciate you taking the time to talk to me. David – That’s fine Martin.. M – This actually came out of the blue, a friend of mine called Kevin…

  • Progradar Big Big Train Feature Part 1 – Review – Stone & Steel – by Progradar

    Progradar Big Big Train Feature Part 1 – Review – Stone & Steel – by Progradar

    There’s a place inside us where we can still be that small child who was in awe of every new experience, every sight and every sound. You know that unfettered feeling of sheer joy when you happen upon a picture book scene that is near perfect. Living in Yorkshire, I get to see and appreciate…

  • Review – David Longdon and The Magic Club – Wild River – by Progradar

    Review – David Longdon and The Magic Club – Wild River – by Progradar

    I’m what you might call a music completist. You know the sort of person I mean, I begin to really appreciate a band or artist’s music so I have to seek out and devour all their output, be it studio or live albums or DVD/Blue-Rays of live performances, I have to listen to, and have,…

  • An interview with Greg Spawton (and a little Kings Place reminisce) – by Progradar

    An interview with Greg Spawton (and a little Kings Place reminisce) – by Progradar

    It is almost three months since the three seminal gigs of the year. When that fantastic community of friends and music fans, now known as The Passengers, got together for a brilliant social event and a series of concerts like none of us had known for quite a while. It wasn’t just about the music,…

  • Review – Big Big Train – Wassail

    Review – Big Big Train – Wassail

    “Next to love, Music is the best solution to any problem. Music feeds the heart with what it needs in the moment… Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.” For those of us that feel music like we feel the blood in our veins, it is something we cannot live without.…