Reviews of Prog Rock, Classical Music, Art Rock and Jazz
Sunday 7 June 2026 University of Wolverhampton at the Halls, Wolverhampton ★★★★ BEAT brings King Crimson's 1980's legacy to joyful life I knew I was in the right place. At a fast food joint before the gig, I saw a man sporting a King Crimson (KC) T-shirt and an extravagant beard. Inside, there were more …
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***** How a magnificent new book helped me rediscover the maverick's music The Cover of ROCK and ROLE by Joe Banks published by Kingmaker Publishing. Often, the route to discovering new music is fairly conventional; there's no Damascene moment. I found The Cure and Joy Division (and many other bands) by listening to John Peel …
A melancholy disco masterpiece ***** Love you to bits is the seventh studio album by no-man, the long-running collaboration between Steven Wilson, frontman of Porcupine Tree and a solo artist, and singer and co-writer Tim Bowness, who is also a well-established solo artist. The band was formed in the late 1980s and signed to the …
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Sunday 1 December 2024 The Fiddler’s Elbow, Camden, London An excitingly eclectic mix of prog bands perform to raise funds for an environmental charity On a wet Sunday afternoon in early December, intrepid prog rock fans and supporters travelled from South London to North London... and also from Italy, Spain, the Netherlands, Belgium - and …
Tuesday 6 December 2022 First Direct Arena, Leeds ***** Robert Smith and The Cure are happy Goths In his 2004 song 'The Happy Goth', Neil Hannon of the Divine Comedy sang 'She wears Dr. Martens and a heavy cross/But on the inside she's a happy goth.' Back in the dark days of the last century, …