Ana Popović & Ben Poole: Sunday 5th May 2019, The Deaf Institute, Manchester
The Deaf Institute is small but full this Bank Holiday Sunday and it’s an early start too. A guitar squeals out as fingers race...
Have New Year’s Day crossed-over with new album, Unbreakable?
It's hard to pinpoint where bands like New Year's Day (NYD) sit in terms of audience or even genre. On the one hand, they appeal...
The Well’s third album Death and Consolation
Austin-based power trio The Well are usually classed as having progressive influences as wide ranging as Joy Division and Blue Cheer. The group is made...
Texas Hippie Coalition show true grit
The heavy rock band known as the Texas Hippie Coalition from Denison in Texas, (never guessed that did you?) release their 6th album and after numerous...
Hot Suede get leathered
Hot Suede are a five-piece rock band from Kansas City with a sound that suggests bands as diverse as Queen, Floyd, Soundgarden and Queens of...
Time Of The Healer by Bright Curse
I have always had a soft spot for a bit of heavy French psychedelia, and Soul Manifest were very good exponents of that with...
Moody Blues bassman John Lodge brought his 10,000 Light Years band to London for...
In the almost baronial splendour of Cadogan Hall, Sloane Square, Moody Blues bassman John Lodge brought his 10,000 Light Years band to London for...
The Far Meadow’s Foreign Land
The Far Meadow are a symphonic, prog rock band from London who emerged from Blind Panic, and who’ve just released their third album, Foreign...
John Mitchell releases Under Stars by Lonely Robot
Lonely Robot are a crossover solo prog project from the mighty John Mitchell, a man who’s almost a tour de force and a one-man army...
The Shrine are in a Cruel World
I love it when I'm researching a band for a review and find other bands out there with the same name. The Shrine are a...
