Hello, and thank you for having me!
I hope that my music blog will be of interest here. I review gigs and CDs, including many from the world of progressive rock, such as Steven Wilson, Porcupine Tree, iamthemorning, King Crimson, Ms Amy Birks, Nick Mason's Saucerful of Secrets etc.
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https://nick-holmes-music.com/
I do hope you enjoy reading it.
Thanks again
Nick Holmes Music
Nice site, and friend request sent on the Sadbook thing. Us reviewers need to stick together!!
I review and blog at www.lazland.org
Now also broadcasting for two hours every Saturday on www.progzilla.com at 4.00 p.m. UK time! Full of musical goodness!
Thanks - I have just been looking at your site too - it's great!Originally Posted by lazland
Looks like you are a big P-Tree Fan. (looked at blog) Welcome!!
Yes I am a massive PT fan! Saw them in London for the first time in 2022 and again in Manchester last year!
Malcolm Galloway is a former neuropathologist who took medical retirement due to the chronic condition Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome. He is lead singer, guitarist and songwriter of the prog rock band Hat’s Off Gentlemen It’s Adequate, who have released seven studio albums, with another one on the way. The band is based in London, and was formed by Galloway and Mark Gatland who have been playing together since school. In the first part of this in-depth interview, Galloway talks about the band’s unusual name, researching material for his songs, concept albums, and living with chronic pain.
https://nick-holmes-music.com/2024/0...equate-part-i/
Welcome to PE! FYI, promotions like a website or radio show go in the “What’s On, What’s New” forum and is limited to one thread. So you would post all future blog posts to that thread. Thanks!
WANTED: Sig-worthy quote.
Very interesting interview. The Light of Ancient Mistakes was one of my favorite releases last year. It was my first album of theirs, so I've been meaning to start working my way backwards through their catalog.
I looked it over. Very cool and easy to navigate. As a blog should be. Some sites are so cluttered, wish you well Nick!
Read my review of an excellent concert by Nick Mason's Saucerful of Secrets at Manchester Apollo last week
https://nick-holmes-music.com/2024/0...s-live-review/
Thanks very much - pleased you like it! Best wishes Nick
Here's the second part of my in-depth interview with Malcolm Galloway of London-based prog rock band Hats Off Gentlemen It's Adequate. I hope you enjoy reading it!
http://nick-holmes-music.com/2024/06...quate-part-ii/
Read my review of Hats Off Gentleman He's Adequate in a double bill last week in London with EBB, who won Prog magazine’s Best New Band of 2023. An excellent gig!
http://nick-holmes-music.com/2024/07...b-live-review/
The format of the website looks great! I'll definitely explore further.
What can this strange device be? When I touch it, it brings forth a sound (2112)
I have been listening a lot recently to Ghosts on Magnetic Tape by Bass Communion, the Steven Wilson side project. He lists it in his book 'Limited Edition of One' as one his his favourite albums. amongst much more famous ones he has made with Porcupine Tree and as a solo artist. Read my thoughts here
http://nick-holmes-music.com/2024/08...ass-communion/
Prog rock titan Gavin Harrison (Porcupine Tree, The Pineapple Thief, King Crimson) and Canadian bass player Antoine Fafard are joined by a host of collaborators on their eclectic new album Perpetual Motions. Review here:
http://nick-holmes-music.com/2024/08...-album-review/
Sounds good. Thanks!
That's also how Laurence Cottle put together Gavin Harrison's solo album, Cheating The Polygraph. The two devised a concept of Porkypig Twig covers, Cottle wrote and recorded the arrangements to a click, then Harrison went on at the end. And you can't tell that the whole thing went together backwards. Cottle, interestingly, is also a bass player - one of the rare jazz guys who plays bass guitar exclusively, and never learned to play the upright.Remarkably, Fafard presented Harrison with complete recordings to add drums and percussion later; Harrison’s playing perfectly matches the pieces so it’s impossible to tell that his recordings were done separately.
What is 'lyrical dissonance' and how does it apply to the work of Steven Wilson in his work with Porcupine Tree? Read my thoughts here:
http://nick-holmes-music.com/2024/08...orcupine-tree/
Your question should attract some interesting and lengthy answers but due to time restraints mine probably won't be one of them.
The main reason I am responding is to actually just suggest that this type of vehicle is probably as old as humanity itself. There just always seems to been examples of the dark comedy used in lyrics that pure function is that of entertainment and titalation. In Scotland examples are oft referred to as " Gallows Humour" but I have to suppose that as a phenomenon it will exist under various cultures world wide, and of course it's often not funny at all " Oh what a lovely war " springs to mind but really I could start a list that would go on and on,
https://cliveymacdougall.bandcamp.com/
Danger! demos, jazz and warts stored here in vast amounts.
https://www.soundclick.com/artist/de...bandID=1241900
Nice article.
Having only owned the DVD-A of In Absentia and the various live releases, I'd no idea it wasn't an album track.
Excited to see that a Deluxe Box Set of Fear of a Blank Planet by Porcupine Tree is being released in October! I can't wait, but in the meantime here are my thoughts on the original album
http://nick-holmes-music.com/2020/11...orcupine-tree/
Love this album but I'll think I'll pass on this.
The only bands I buy in Bulk are King Crimson and the Stranglers, but I have this album on CD and Vinyl and I like it a lot
It's amazing to think that Steven Wilson has recorded, produced and mixed a lot of his work both as a solo artist, and with Porcupine Tree, and as an expert remixer/surround sound mixer in his home studio, starting with a room in his parents' house which he called No Man's Land. Here are my thoughts about Steven Wilson and the art of the home studio, in a post I wrote a while ago
http://nick-holmes-music.com/2021/05...e-home-studio/
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