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The Gift To Release ‘Sweet Bird Of Youth’ On 14/4/25, New Album, ‘Seven Seasons’ Out Late Summer 2025.
The Gift was all set to release their fifth album, the conceptual Seven Seasons, by early autumn last year. But life (as John Lennon so aptly put it) is what happens when we’re busy making other plans?! Stef Dickers (bassist of ten years standing) was the last remaining original member aside from Mike Morton. He…
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A day in the life, The Gift return revitalised – new single, Think Of England, released and details of new album, ‘Seven Seasons’, announced…
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Review – The Gift – Antenna – by Leo Trimming
Antenna, the diverse fourth album from The Gift signals a significant change in direction and style for this London based band, driven by a fresh and accessible impetus. In a recent interview Mike Morton of The Gift summarised their new album as focusing on the Difficulty of being Human , and added that it was…
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Mike Morton Announces Dates And Line-up For Resonate, The Follow-up To 2014’s Resonance Festival
The Gift’s Mike Morton has announced the dates and the majority of the line-up for 2018’s 2-day Resonate, the follow up to the Resonance Festival, an ambitious but ultimately rewarding 4 day musical extravaganza staged in 2014. Taking place at the O2 Academy Islington on Saturday 8th and Sunday 9th September next years, Resonate will…
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Progradar Best Of 2016 – Leo Trimming’s Top 10
Cosmograf – The Unreasonable Silence Simply stunning. Robin Armstrong has imagined a rich narrative of alien incursion (or paranoid breakdown?!) with sonic brilliance. The imaginative story is unnerving, whilst the music is captivating on a human level but cinematic in scope – ranging from crunching Purple riffs, through atmospheric acoustic passages to sweeping Floydian soundscapes.…
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Review – The Gift – Why The Sea Is Salt – by Leo Trimming
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10th Anniversary Limited Edition reissue of Awake & Dreaming – by Sabrina Beever
On the 13th of February UK progressive rockers The Gift will be be re-releasing their seminal first album ‘Awake and Dreaming’ to mark its 10th anniversary. The re-issue will feature stunning artwork by Brian Mitchell, thereby giving the album a new lease of life with the striking imagery. Initially the re-issue will be limited to…