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  • Review – The Weever Sands – Secrets Of The Pecking Order

    Review – The Weever Sands – Secrets Of The Pecking Order

    It’s time for something that’s a little bit left-field and it honestly doesn’t get more left-field than the quirky, Canterbury-esque musings of The Weever Sands. When the subject matter is a troublesome week in the life of Phea the Pheasant then you know we are in for an idiosyncratic journey. ‘Secrets Of The Pecking Order’…

  • Review – The Mighty Ra – All Secrets Known – by John Wenlock-Smith

    Review – The Mighty Ra – All Secrets Known – by John Wenlock-Smith

    There is an old and unfair joke that when you get three Welshmen together that they form a choir, very untrue as here we have four Welsh musicians who have together formed a new progressive rock band! The four are Andy Edwards on guitars and vocals, Rob Griffiths on drums and percussion, Dave Rowe on…

  • Review – Sanctuary III – Robert Reed – by James R Turner

    Review – Sanctuary III – Robert Reed – by James R Turner

    Since Robert took some time out of the day job to release his first homage to Mike Oldfield back in 2014, his own little sub-genre has grown, with two full length sequels (‘Sanctuary II’ in 2016) as well as numerous EPs including variations on David Bedford and his own alternative take on the Doctor Who…

  • Review – Les Penning – Belerion – by Kevin Thompson

    Review – Les Penning – Belerion – by Kevin Thompson

    As a boy, for most of us, the way into music at school was by learning the recorder, wooden for the posh lads and plastic for the rest of us, although I did eventually get a wooden one. A class full of fumbling fingers covering various holes on the instrument (keep it clean please), to…

  • Review – Robert Reed – Sanctuary II – by Kevin Thompson

    Review – Robert Reed – Sanctuary II – by Kevin Thompson

    So let’s get this out of the way, this is not Mike Oldfield! What we have here is the very talented multi-instrumentalist, producer and composer Robert Reed, (of Magenta fame) with his follow up to the excellent ‘Sanctuary’ from 2014, on Tigermoth Records. Produced, mixed and engineered by Rob, and once again joined by the…