Ross McGibbon
April 25, 2018
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CHERRY RED RECORDS Out now Grand concept prog on a wide sonic stage. Pounding piano chords, strings and a bit of mock-Gregorian chant. For me, this is a little like indulging in a huge
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Ross McGibbon
April 25, 2018
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CHERRY RED RECORDS Out now Limpidly beautiful guitar. Eclectic drops of world sounds (Arabic singing on track two). The gentle plod of seventies progressive rock. Many guitar tones. Vintage keyboards. Very fine musicianship, complex
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Ross McGibbon
March 28, 2018
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April 2018 Massive amounts of showboating from French bassist, Shob, makes this album a lot of funky fun. Not that it’s all funky–there are hard rock moments too–but this leans heavily to funky tracks and
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Ross McGibbon
January 15, 2017
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With a gig coming up in Leeds on the 16th March, it’s a good excuse to look briefly at the career of this iconic band. In more than forty-five years as a band, Hawkwind
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Ross McGibbon
May 25, 2016
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REPUBLIC OF MUSIC May 27th 2016 The creaky, spooky opening tones, leading into Behemooth, remind me of the delightfully dippy gig I saw the Moulettes perform last year. They were clearly very proud of
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Ross McGibbon
October 22, 2015
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What does a reader want from a review? A detailed note-by-note comparison with the recordings and previous gigs, or the opposite extreme, the sensations of a neophyte? It’s the latter tonight and the sensations
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