Author: Tim Hall

Loitered Lens : HRH Prog

A selection of photos from HRH Prog festival gives a hint of how things went down at the North Wales shindig...

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John Wesley : Disconnect

Wesley keeps a foot in both the singer-songwriter and guitar hero camps, and the songs are far more than mere vehicles for guitar pyrotechnics....

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Halo Blind : Occupying Forces

Memorable but unconventional melodies, and some great use of atmospheric instrumental passages in place of conventional solos...

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Bigelf : Into the Maelstrom

It's been a long wait for this album, but the wait has been worth it. ...

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Panic Room : Incarnate

This is an album by a band not afraid to try something slightly different, and there is much to like about it. ...

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Loitered Lens : Tarja Turunen

'the world of metal definitely needs more cellos'. Photos of Tarja Turunen live at the O2 Academy, February 2014...

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Tarja Turunen : 02 Academy [Live]

Tarja is a dynamic live act with a remarkable and unique voice, and on the strength of performances like this doesn't only reproduce her records live but exceeds them. ...

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Rainbow : Singles Box Set 1975 – 1986

If you listen very carefully, you might hear the sound of a barrel being scraped...

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Transatlantic : Kaleidoscope

Symphonic rock riffs, quiet reflective passages, jazz-inflected instrumental sections and huge anthemic climaxes with recurring motifs....

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Loitered Lens : Von Hertzen Brothers

Photos of The Von Hertzen Brothers, live at The Garage, Islington. ...

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Loitered Lens : Mostly Autumn

A year of ups and downs for Mostly Autumn ends on a high note. Photos of Mostly Autumn at the Bilston Robin 2....

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The Fierce and the Dead : Spooky Action

There are elements of progressive rock, post-punk, indie/alternative and metal in the music, resulting in a record that is both all of those things and none of them. ...

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Loitered Lens : Touchstone

Oceans of Time ought to cement Touchstone’s growing reputation as one of the most exciting bands in the scene....

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The Temperance Movement [Live]

'Understated bluesy soloing rather than pyrotechnic shredding'. Trebuchet catches The Temperance Movement live....

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Touchstone : Oceans of Time

There are still plenty of heavier passages where they show their metal side. But there is far more light and shade....

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Luna Rossa : Interview

'The Sleeping Pills & Lullabies title was an idea of mine. It was the idea of two different ways of falling asleep…'...

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Fish : Feast of Consequences

It all amounts to an album that's well worth the six year wait...

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Breed 77 / Fozzy : Sub 89 [Live]

This is the first time I've seen bras thrown at the band; you don't get that at prog gigs....

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Heidi Widdop (Cloud Atlas) : Interview

The excitement I am feeling that finally I am in a position to record music that I have written, that I can produce it to sound exactly as I feel it should, is just massive! ...

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Maschine : Rubidium

Contemporary progressive rock at its best, mixing metal, jazz and rock in a seamless blend...

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Tarja : Colours in the Dark

It's all completely over the top, but then it's a Tarja record, and you wouldn't really expect anything else; it would be like expecting Meatloaf to make a lo-fi Americana album. ...

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Lu Cozma : Lockdown

It's not a full-band recording, but neither is it completely stripped-down and minimalist. The dominant instrumental sounds are acoustic guitar and programmed rhythms, but there's a lot else in the...

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Iain Jennings : My Dark Surprise

Some of the delicate piano lines on this record are quintessential Iain Jennings...

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Loitered Lens : Steve Hackett

Photos of Steve Hackett live at Hammersmith Apollo, May 10th...

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Steve Hackett : Hammersmith Apollo

It wasn't a reverential note-for-note reproduction of the original recordings, but neither was it a ground-up re-imagining that didn't respect the original versions....

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Marillion Convention Weekend [Review]

Weekend-long fan conventions have been a regular feature of the Marillion calendar since the first one at an out-of-season Pontins back in 2002...

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Ebony Tower : The Magic Box Pt 1

Despite the bands occasional use of the term "prog" in promotion, they don't go in for grandiose epics. ...

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UFO : Live, Oxford

Never a swaggering frontman in the first place, UFO's Phil Mogg reaps the benefits in his latter years, still delivering classic rock in 2013 to Oxford's O2...

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Loitered Lens : UFO

Loitered Lens captures the action at UFO's gig at the O2, Oxford. Photography from Trebuchet Magazine...

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Blue Coupe : Live

The new material stands up well alongside the old, and marked them out as something far more than a mere nostalgia act, rather a band who still have something to say....

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