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Fond Farewells and Many Partings (Touchstone, Magenta, Lonely Robot)

12/12/2015 Tim Hall

A night of swansongs at Leamington Spa with Touchstone, Magenta and Lonely Robot (read more)

Loitered Lens: Riverside

15/11/2015 Carl Byron Batson

Riverside hit the road in support of recently released album Love, Fear and the Time Machine. Photos (read more)

Grandiose Autumn Rock Roundup (Bauda, Caligula’s Horse, Vanden Plas)

25/10/2015 Tim Hall

With releases from Bauda, Caligula’s Horse and Vanden Plas, October sees a plethora of progressive rock records. (read more)

No Tribute Act. Spock’s Beard, Islington Academy

14/10/2015 Tim Hall

Even twenty years into their career Spock’s Beard have avoided the all-too-easy trap of turning into their own tribute act (read more)

Hitting the Key, or Falling Flat? (Operation: Mindcrime)

22/09/2015 Tim Hall

Geoff Tate’s voice, once a magnificent lead instrument, is a shadow of what it once was. (read more)

Loitered Lens: Cloud Atlas

13/09/2015 Tim Hall

Huge guitar, soulful vocals, a strong rhythm section and great use of atmospherics (read more)

Love, Fear and the Time Machine (Riverside)

03/09/2015 Tim Hall

Not only the best album of Riverside’s career, but a strong contender for album of the year (read more)

Elder statesmen of the third wave: The Oblivion Particle (Spock’s Beard)

27/08/2015 Tim Hall

Swirling Mellotron and Hammond organ, blasts of hard rock guitar, rich layered vocal harmonies, and a strong sense of melody. (read more)

Loitered Lens: Ramblin’ Man Fair

23/08/2015 Kailas

Photos from Ramblin’ Man Fair. Saturday 25th & Sunday 26th July 2015, Maidstone, Kent (read more)

Deeper and Darker: Magnet EP (The Fierce and the Dead)

21/08/2015 Tim Hall

If Spooky Action had something of a punky, garage-rock vibe, Magnet is darker and denser (read more)

Coma Ecliptic : a Progressive Metal Monster

15/07/2015 Tim Hall

There is more than one number that feels as though it contains a whole concept album’s worth of music in seven or eight minutes. (read more)

Loitered Lens : Magenta

12/07/2015 Tim Hall

Magenta play dense and complex music with a heavy and unapologetic influence of 70s Yes. (read more)

A saxophone short, but mesmerising nonetheless [Knifeworld]

06/06/2015 Tim Hall

Psychedelic grooves, Zappa-style horn arrangements, intertwining guitar and bassoon lines, and layered vocal harmonies. (read more)

Showing the depth of the songbook at Bury Met [Mostly Autumn]

01/06/2015 Tim Hall

Shaking up the setlist in such a radical way was a bold move, but a very welcome one (read more)

Far below the Sturgeon threshold [Eschaton]

07/05/2015 Tim Hall

There is evidence of some technical instrumental ability here and there, but they’re failing to do anything worthwhile with those chops. (read more)

van Giersbergen Gently Storms The Garage [The Gentle Storm]

01/05/2015 Tim Hall

Her charisma and remarkable voice dominated the stage throughout (read more)

Luna Rossa : Secrets and Lies

06/12/2014 Tim Hall

Luna Rossa increasingly feels not so much “Panic Room unplugged” as a separate parallel band in its own right. (read more)

Bigelf : The Garage

02/12/2014 Tim Hall

This was one of those gigs that prompts the usage of words like “Progtastic”. (read more)

Trojan Horse : World Turned Upside Down

28/10/2014 Tim Hall

Unlike lesser bands who attempt derivative pastiches of the sounds of 70s progressive rock or 80s post-punk, Trojan Horse actually capture the spirit of the things (read more)

Transatlantic : KaLIVEoscope

16/10/2014 Tim Hall

For all the fabled self-indulgence of their sprawling studio albums, this recording gives a taste of just why Transatlantic are held in such high regard as a live act. (read more)

Haken : Restoration [EP]

10/10/2014 Tim Hall

Haken have the instrumental virtuosity and musical scope of the best in progressive rock, but unlike some other bands they aren’t content to create reverential pastiches of 70s greats. (read more)

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 mix. (read more)

Loitered Lens : Steve Hackett

26/05/2013 Tim Hall

Photos of Steve Hackett live at Hammersmith Apollo, May 10th (read more)

Marillion Convention Weekend [Review]

01/05/2013 Tim Hall

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 (read more)

Ebony Tower : The Magic Box Pt 1

29/04/2013 Tim Hall

Despite the bands occasional use of the term “prog” in promotion, they don’t go in for grandiose epics. (read more)

Rob Cottingham: Captain Blue

15/01/2013 Tim Hall

Parts of the album sound like a far lighter version of Touchstone, with the dual male-female harmony lead vocals recalling that band’s early years when Cottingham handled a greater proportion of the vocals. That feeling pervades, whether it’s on rockier up-tempo numbers or lush ballads. (read more)

Peter Gabriel Plays So

19/11/2012 Trebuchet Magazine

The album upon which ‘Red Rain’, Don’t Give Up’ and the ubiquitous ‘Sledgehammer’ featured will be played in its entirety, along with a showcase of tracks spanning the artist’s career (read more)

Panic Room: On Business

16/11/2012 Tim Hall

‘exceedingly long songs, with largely instrumental content, too many time signatures, a subject matter focusing on the obscure and the middle-earth, and far too many widdly neo-classical solos. We don’t do any of that, and we don’t wear capes.’ Panic Room, on prog (read more)

Stabbing a Dead Horse

14/11/2012 Tim Hall

“We have Mellotron! We are Prog again!”. Tim Hall reports on the last night of the Stabbing a Dead Horse prog rock tour. (read more)

Twelfth Night: Live and Let Live

20/10/2012 Tim Hall

Twelfth Night remain one of the formative bands of the early 80s neo-prog scene, and this new edition of what many consider their definitive album represents a good starting point to discover their music. (read more)