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Review – Napier’s Bones – Monuments – by Scott Evans
For those unfamiliar with Napier’s Bones, they are a Uk based prog rock duo made up of Gordon Midgley, lyric writer and musician extraordinaire and Vocalist Nathan Jon Tillett, who also provides artwork to the albums. ‘Monuments’ is the band’s fifth album and continues in the vein of traditional prog rock with very story based…
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Review – Napier’s Bones – Alpha-Omega Man – by Emma Roebuck
Welcome to Napier’s Bones’ fourth outing and they have decided to create their own mythology for this new album, ‘Alpha-Omega Man’. A rare thing for me to quote biblical/religious texts but it’s appropriate “I am the Alpha and the Omega,” says the Lord God, “who is, and who was, and who is to come, the…
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Review – Napier’s Bones – Hell and High Water – by Emma Roebuck
Gordon Midgely and Nathan Tillet, two musicians that found each other by chance, separated by a few hundred miles from Yorkshire to Plymouth, managing to create music together via the wonders of modern technology and the interweb. Another of these types who inhabit the no label world and do it for the love and wanting…
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Review – Gordon Midgley – The Vanished Age – by Emma Roebuck
“From Classical tales of Jason and Odysseus to cinema blockbusters via Norse sagas, Hesse and Tolkien, the ‘Hero’s Quest’ is a staple of mythology and literature. A voyage of self-discovery A Rite of Passage.” So says the bandcamp page of Gordon Midgely’s solo project. He and Nathan Tillet form Napiers Bone’s whose two albums ‘The…