2024 blusters in with storms and rain but despite widespread world problems it fails to stem the flow of new music flooding into our ears. Rushing in a torrent towards us there have already been a number of commendable albums…
Esoteric’s series of reissues keep bringing me opportunities to discover or reassess albums I’ve overlooked in the past; some are newer than others, it seems. As I found with Nektar’s Remember the Future, it was worth giving the album a…
Capping a career that has lasted for over half a century, Blue Öyster Cult have issued their fifteenth studio album. Ghost Stories is comprised of performance rehearsals and workshopping demos that were intended for albums recorded between 1978 and 1983…
Dario Saraceno is a singer, guitarist and Stickist native to Ripacandida, situated in the Italian province of Potenza, about 150Km east of Naples, and 1300Km from London, where he settled in in the sixties. Dario and his band, The Clear,…
Every now and then I need some chaos in my musical life, whether that’s King Crimson, Frank Zappa, Mr Bungle or Bent Knee. It didn’t take me long to realise that this album ticked all the chaos boxes and a…
Featured artists: Alter Ego | Wombat Supernova | Malwina Zero | Oddtomatic Kicking off the ADA section for 2024 (yes… we know it’s April) we have bite-sized reviews of just some of the recent instrumental albums & EPs to land…
Featured artists: Cédric Theys | Great North Star | Siobhan McCrudden | Daniel Crommie | Exowst Scotland Rounding off the ADA section for 2023 we have five bite-sized reviews taking a snapshot of just some of the albums, EPs and…
SWX, Bristol Monday 20th May 2024 Riverside are back for a second part of the ‘I.D. Entity’ Tour a year or so since they last toured these isles… and frankly my Prog socks are well and truly blown right off!…
Poppodium Boerderij, Zoetermeer, The Netherlands Saturday, 11th May 2024 Supergroup Cyan performed at the last ProgDreams Festival held at the Boerderij, unfortunately I couldn’t attend their show at the time. But one year later, the English progrock band led by…
Key Theatre, Peterborough Sunday 12th May 2024 As last year, Sunday started with a call from organiser, Rachel Barratt, and the band, for all attendees to meet up, as the Pendragon Choir, outside the theatre at 11.15 am for a…
Key Theatre, Peterborough Saturday 11th May 2024 Following the success of last May’s ‘Everyone’s A VIP Weekend’ at The Platform in Morecambe, Pendragon successfully repeated the feat at the Key Theatre in Peterborough with another thoroughly enjoyable and sun-drenched weekend…
Ramsgate Music Hall, Kent Saturday, 4th May 2024 Saturday night in Ramsgate, at the Ramsgate Music Hall, which apparently has earned the accolade “Best small venue in the country”. Certainly, the layout of the place and the superb sound earn…
Tavistock Wharf, Tavistock, Devon Thursday, 25th April 2024 The rather modest but homely venue of The Wharf in Tavistock, a town tucked away on the western edge of Dartmoor in SW England, is fast becoming the unlikely spiritual home of…
Oslo, Hackney, London Friday, 25th April 2024 LEONI JANE KENNEDY A solo spot opens the entertainment tonight, with Leoni Jane Kennedy accompanied by her acoustic guitar, played with consummate skill. Her set includes a Rush cover, pleasing the prog audience,…
Arts Centre, Helmsley, North Yorkshire Friday, 19th April 2024 Tonight’s adventure involves the Friday traffic on the A19 from Newcastle to the picturesque market town of Hemsley in North Yorkshire. We arrived a little earlier than planned which gave us…
Andy Tillison has just come out of lockdown. Not a Covid lockdown but 20 months of self-imposed isolation in a compact studio at his remote Yorkshire farmhouse while he single-handedly (well, both hands and feet) created the 13th Tangent album,…
The Parisian aquatically-themed prog metal group Atlantis Chronicles was formed in 2010 and released their third album Nera in 2022. The group’s impressive musicianship stayed with reviewer Basil Francis who decided to seek out drummer Sydney Taieb for some more…
Following the release of Big Big Train‘s (BBT) fifteenth studio album, The Likes of Us, TPA’s Alex Driessen was given the opportunity to interview one of the members of this originally British band. The choice fell on American drummer/singer Nick…
A week or two before Christmas, TPA’s Roger Trenwith sat down with Carollyn Eden and Stuart Clark, a.k.a Storm Deva, and they had a good old natter, discussing their backgrounds, how the band formed, their influences and the recently released…
Chlöe Herington is a woman with a long history on the prog-adjacent fringes of this weird scene we inhabit. TPA’s Roger Trenwith had a chance to chat with her about her project V Ä L V Ē, their imminent new…
After seeing The Anderson Council’s incendiary performance at a local venue in New Jersey, TPA’s John Giordano was able to grab a few words with vocalist/guitarist Peter Horvath and lead guitarist Michael Potenza. The two were both warm and engaging,…
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