Asia – Fantasia Live in Tokyo 2007: Album Review
It’s the year 2007 and Asia are partying like it’s 1982, celebrating 25 years since their landmark debut.
Eliades Ochoa – Vamos a Bailar un Son (Special Edition): Album Review
Special reissue of 2020 album from Buena Vista Social Club kingpin, Eliades Ochoa
Simple Minds – Direction Of The Heart: Album Review
Let me see those hands. As ever, Simple Minds provide a stirring of the blood as we emerge from turbulent times.
Slash – 4: Album Review
Slash and his cronies get all spontaneous on album #4
Southern Avenue – Be The Love That You Want: Album review
Southern Avenue reimagine American music with a blast of Southern gospel blues, righteous R&B and soul power.
Swindle– The New World: Album Review
Sexy. Groovy. Masterfully produced. Swindle is back and he has brought his friends with him.
Counting Crows – Butter Miracle, Suite One: EP Review
Counting Crows release the first in a series of musical suites, that provide an immersive and musically evocative soundtrack for our times.
Gary Numan – Intruder: Album Review
Gary Numan returns with Intruder; his 18th opus full of industrial beats, crushing guitars, and jagged glitches.
Seth Lakeman – Freedom Fields, 15th Anniversary online gig: News
News of the online gig by Seth Lakeman and his band that celebrates fifteen years since the release of his seminal Freedom Fields album.
Nick Mason’s Saucerful Of Secrets – Live At The Roundhouse: Album Review
Nick Mason reinvents the early Pink Floyd days with his Saucerful Of Secrets. The gigs were brilliant and we now have a listen to the live recording of the London Roundhouse show recorded last year.
Clannad – In A Lifetime: Album Review
A fond farewell to the Irish family who can clock off after fifty years of music-making. Clannad and their legacy are celebrated on In A Lifetime.
Seth Lakeman – A Pilgrim’s Tale: Album Review
“If you’ve never heard anything about The Mayflower and the birth of the modern USA, these words and music could be your primer.” The words of Seth Lakeman on A Pilgrim’s Tale. Out now on BMG.
Gary Numan & The Skaparis Orchestra – When The Sky Came Down: Album Review
We reckoned Gary Numan’s show at Manchester Albert Hall was one of our gigs of the year. Now we return to to Manchester’s grand Bridgewater Hall and an equally majestic and frankly monumental recording of his orchestral tour.
Simple Minds – Live In The City Of Angels: Album Review
Simple Mids again invite us to come in, come out of the rain. We only need say one thing – “Let me see those hands.”
The Sherlocks – Under Your Sky: Album Review
Sheffield quartet overcome the difficult second album hurdle with flying colours.