“After just one walkthrough or maybe even a glimpse from afar, you'll want to immediately reserve your spot in this luxurious, but unusually resilient high-rise” - Music Street Journal 10 Stories Down is The Pineapple Thief’s fourth studio album, originally released in June 2005. The album was recorded across 2004 and 2005 with frontman Bruce..
FRANCK CARDUCCI & THE FANTASTIC SQUAD – St Helens Citadel, 12 Sept 2025
The crowd's evident enthusiasm clearly fed back into the band's performance, and we saw something of that symbiosis which can occur when band and audience both take energy from each other. Photos: Andy Cowley This was a show which had taken quite some time to come to fruition - almost three years in fact! In..
THE MIGHTY RA – Now In A Minute
With this album The Mighty Ra have shown that they were never any sort of flash in the pan outfit, and have the longevity to make a real long-term go of it. With the loss of a key member still leading to a release as strong as this is as sure a sign of that..
Clive And Laura Photo: Steve Pilkington
From The Mead Hall: Clive Nolan And Laura Piazzai Talk Imaginaerium and Viking Venues…
I just said 'Do you know what we need? We need a Viking Mead Hall!'' And they all laughed - but they're not laughing now. I mean, neither am I, but that's beside the point! - Clive Nolan If you're like me, with decades of attending gigs behind you, you've probably seen shows in some..
SKIN ALLEY – Sun Music (Esoteric / Cherry Red)
So Many People begins as what appears to be a standard funk-rock workout, before a mid-song breakdown sees the flute enter again for a tremendous jam with the keyboards to give a deliciously proggy makeover in a most unexpected place. It's a bit like The Average White Band deciding to give it all up and..
CHAMELEONS – ‘Arctic Moon’ : long-awaited new album by legendary post-punk act out 12th September
“The Manc lizard kings mix of head shop philosophy and mournful stadium jangle has aged well. Still souls in isolation, still very much alive in there ****”MOJO“The muscular opener confirms they mean business, with further shape-shifting amid gothic jangles and a convincing anthemic passion recalling former moody heights, while the more sprawling tracks best illustrate..
JACK BRUCE – Harmony Row: Deluxe Reissue (Esoteric / Cherry Red)
Smiles And Grins - another live favourite - ups the 'prog' content again, as it seems to juggle time signatures like a unicycling clown: you keep thinking it must all collapse at any moment and yet somehow it keeps it all together cohesively. There have been a few Jack Bruce offerings in the last couple..
THE DONNAS – The Atlantic Years 2002-2005 (HNE/Cherry Red)
You don’t get any epics (on Spend The Night), for sure, but that’s not the point. The songs just come in, crash a sorority party, and leave through the window. Fun, fun, fun. There's a fair chance that - especially if you are from outside the USA - you may have never heard of The..
Rufus Publications Announce New Book ‘Ian Hunter’, Compiled By Ross Halfin
Rufus Publications is proud to present Ian Hunter, a new book compiled by Ross Halfin with the full approval and input of Ian Hunter. The book features written contributions from Joe Elliott of Def Leppard and Johnny Depp; the latter has also made a very special contribution to the project in the form of a..
CAMEL – Nude: Deluxe Reissue (Esoteric / Cherry Red)
I find this more appealing than the somewhat jazzier 'Camel/Caravan' crossover line-up on Rain Dances, and certainly preferable to I Can See Your House From Here or especially The Single Factor by some distance. The window for early '80s progressive rock predating the neo-prog movement revving up in the wings is a narrow and sparsely..