A mere forty plus years after they started, Solstice are finally beginning to get the acclaim and recognition their efforts down the years have deserved. In the wake of two successful new album releases and gigs played to larger crowds, the 2024 readers polls in Prog Magazine saw Solstice voted ‘Band of the Year,’ alongside..
SOLSTICE – Return To Cropredy (Wild Thyme Records)
Guardian ... can rarely have been played better: utterly belying its origins back in those very early '80s days when the band (and audience!) were young and possibilities stretched before us like a sun-drenched highway. It is delivered with verve, passion and precision... Recorded at the band's enthusiastically-received Cropredy Festival set in 2023, it is..
ANDY GLASS LIGHTS UP! – Solstice Man Talks About The New Album And Other News
Despite a few periods of musical inactivity, Solstice has been around for over forty years now, and IS still led and directed by guitarist and main-man Andy Glass. They began in the early eighties, a time when prog rock was undergoing some kind of renaissance after a fallow few years, when bands like IQ, Pendragon and..
SOLSTICE – Andy Glass on band’s return
My intention is to work hard and try to get some ‘live’ shows for next year. I really think this new album’s gonna be a killer and it’s definitely gonna be our best album yet ... Solstice is nominally a prog band, but one with a considerable influx of New Age and Folk influences. Formed..