JETHRO TULL - Kneeling in front of Ian: Fifty years of stubbornness The
great anniversaries of long-serving rock bands are accumulating. Jethro Tull is also celebrating a round birthday this year. And what would the rock world be without the band with the nimble flute flamingo?! Music that seemed to come from the Middle Ages and yet was firmly rooted in the classical rock of the here and now. Ian Anderson has led the fortunes of these idiosyncratic formations over the years. And he intends to do so for a while longer.
NICK MASON - Late Satisfaction For
years, Nick Mason has been annoyed by the solo activities of his former bandmates Roger Waters and David Gilmour, when they take over the Floyd legacy. Now the drummer himself climbs into the ring to put the common musical legacy on stage in the right light. His band Saucerful Of Secrets is a means of overcoming frustration and maintaining the psychedelic early work that Waters and Gilmour avoid.
ROBERT PLANT - Tragic Hero Actually
, the seventieth birthday should be a reason to celebrate, according to the motto: "How did we make it this far?". Especially in the case of the former Led Zeppelin singer, who "zeroed" on August 20th because he had to carry many friends, companions and even a son to his grave. But the lion's mane from the British Midlands doesn't want to bring such real joy.
THE PRETTY THINGS - "We are not Verdi
" In December 1968 the Pretty Things released the story about "S.F. Sorrow", a psychedelic classic that is often called the first rock opera in music history. Fifty years later, on 13 December 2018, the circle closes: after an extensive autumn tour to the "Final Bow" at the Indigo at The O2 in London - to the "Last Ever Show" of the Pretty Things.
THE PINEAPPLE THIEF - group work with ghosts
"Dissolution", the twelfth studio release of the English formation The Pineapple Thief, has become according to their chief strategist Bruce Soord "rather a band album". This is all the more astonishing as he and his three colleagues didn't cross paths in the studio once during the entire creation process.
MARILLION - You
have made it - Marillion arrived at the Musicians' Olympus with a single performance. On 13 October 2017, the British Neoprogformation played a highly acclaimed concert in London's venerable Royal Albert Hall. For Steve Hogarth, Steve Rothery and Co., the opportunity to perform where greats like Jimi Hendrix, Led Zeppelin or Lou Reed have already filled the room with their energy was like a accolade. You can relive this "live fireworks in the Royal Albert Hall" ("Stern") on the now released recording "All One Tonight".
URIAH HEEP - Forever 49 The
dream has now lasted almost fifty years. The rock adventure Uriah Heep began in 1969. Now the British are adding a new chapter with "Living The Dream". In the interview with eclipsed, Phil Lanzon and Mick Box tried to draw full attention to this new album. The band still lives their dream in the here and now, even if they reach deep into the sound construction kit of the last forty-nine years. It does not want to celebrate this anniversary until 2020.
BARCLAY JAMES HARVEST - Anniversary for two of your
Berlin appearances in front of the Reichstag and in Treptower Park is still one of the biggest single concerts this country has ever seen. Around 200,000 people each gave Barclay James Harvest the most triumphant moments of their career in 1980 and 1987 respectively. A career that began fifty years ago and has brought about fundamental stylistic changes: From melodic symphonic rock to hymn-like prog to elegant pop rock, the skills of the English group, which still exists today, range. In double version.
DEEP PURPLE 50 - Part 5: Livealbums, Tributes and Epigones What
will remain of Deep Purple once the "The Long Goodbye Tour" is over? Will the tribute bands and epigones take over the business and do justice to the hard rock legend? Can they revive the Deep Purple myth in their songs or concerts? Or does the group, which is celebrated as the Liverock band, remain unique because of all its facets? These and other questions are addressed in the fifth part of our half-century Deep Purple article series.
The New York trio INTERPOL present themselves looser, more talkative and noisier than ever:
Paul Banks & Co. composed their sixth album "Marauder" while chilling on tropical beaches. It goes without saying that it still doesn't sound really cheerful.
Even two and a half years after the death of her guitarist, RIVERSIDE can't get back to normality: The
End of the World. Only a few people have survived and are trying to live on in the wasteland that used to be the earth. "Wasteland", the new Riverside album, describes a gloomy scenario. After the death of their guitarist Piotr Grudziński in February 2016, the Poles had dedicated their slightly different album "Eye Of The Soundscape" to him and tried to process the loss. Mastermind Mariusz Duda himself added two albums with Lunatic Soul - also an attempt to come to terms with the last two years in which his father also died. So, after all the grief work, back to normal?
PHILLIP BOA AND THE VOODOOCLUB is going really well at the moment - and regularly on
"Earthly Powers" Phillip Boa And The Voodooclub prove once more their hand for innovative sounds and wonderfully catchy melodies. Despite the farewell of co-singer Pia Lund in 2014, the indie icon has also been riding a wave of recognition for several years now: the concerts are well attended, the albums can compete with Boas classics from the early nineties. We met the German cosmopolitan for a conversation about the present and the past.
On his second solo album Symphony-X guitarist MICHAEL ROMEO brings film music and progmetal together. Actually
the time would have been ripe for a new Symphony-X album. But the progmetallers from New Jersey took a time-out last year. Almost all band members threw themselves into other projects. In summer, the terrible tour bus accident of Russell Allen's band Adrenaline Mob occurred, in which two people died and Allen has not yet fully recovered from the consequences. For guitarist Michael Romeo there was therefore inevitably a window of opportunity to try something new with "War Of The Worlds".
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