Topette!! – Live at the Jam Jar Topette!! celebrate 10 years together, with the release of their fourth album. With their UK base in Bristol, and their French home in Burgundy, it’s apparently a rare treat when Topette!! get together to play. Julien Cartonnet is a powerhouse on both bagpipes and banjo. Fiddler James Delarre’s innate melodic and harmonic sensibilities make him the perfect match for accordion virtuoso Andy Cutting. Tania Buisse’s propulsive bodhrán playing and Barn Stradling’s singularly distinctive bass grooves complete a sound that is i ..read more

It has been announced that Mandoki Soulmates, the international and inter-generational supergroup consisting of rock and fusion notables working with founder and mastermind Leslie Mandoki, proudly announce the new album, A Memory Of Our Future, which will be released worldwide on 10th May via Sony Music’s label InsideOutMusic. Pre-Order A Memory Of Our Future here: https://mandokisoulmates.lnk.to/AMemoryOfOurFuture-Bio The group celebrates the announcement with the release of a new single and video, Blood In The Water. Listen to the single here & watch the video here: https://www.youtube ..read more

Hot on the heels of their hugely successful ‘Classic Tales Of Yes’ American Tour, Progressive Rock legends, Yes, are poised to hit the road in the UK once more on a 9-date trek across the country starting on 23rd May at the Bridgewater Hall in Manchester and ending in London on 4th June at the prestigious Royal Albert Hall, a fitting end for such a majestic band. ‘The Classic Tales Of Yes Tour’ will see Yes mining their rich catalogue to deliver a career spanning set of classics, rarely played vintage cuts and new songs from 1970’s ‘Time and a Word’ right up to ‘Mirror To The Sky’, their 23rd ..read more

This is an incredible thirtieth solo album release from Steve Hackett, and quite a release it is too. Managing to combine a myriad of disparate styles and atmospheres into a coherent and intelligent whole, it draws on Steve’s own experiences as it tells a semi-autobiographical rite-of-passage tale centred on a young character named Travla. The concept requires an array of approaches to bring it to fruition and Steve is able to switch masterfully between sound collage, heavy rockers, the blues, pseudo-classical, balladry, prog rock and acoustic guitar led pieces that allow the tale to be colou ..read more

Martyn Joseph – This is What I Want to Say Martyn Joseph has a forty year journey of writing, recording and performing songs. What does the songwriter of hundreds of songs want to say? ‘My last album, 1960, was about looking back and taking stock, the kind of reflection many or us found ourselves in during lockdown. It was all the more acute for performers like me, people used to being on the road, used to moving on… suddenly we couldn’t move on’. In the two years since his last record, which reflected more than is usual on the story of his personal life, things have now been thrown into shar ..read more

Photo by Tina Korhonen, 2023. No use without permission. Thank you. Guitarist Steve Hackett is set to release his new studio album ‘The Circus And The Nightwhale’ on 16th February 2024, via InsideOut Music. A rite-of-passage concept album with a young character called Travla at the centre of it, ‘The Circus And The Nightwhale’s’ 13 tracks have an autobiographical angle for the musician who says about his thirtieth solo release: “I love this album. It says the things I’ve been wanting to say for a very long time.” A brand new track has been released, titled ‘Wherever You Are’, and you can watch ..read more

Heather Lynne Horton – Get Me to a Nunnery The album, recorded in Chicago across 2022 and 2023, features Horton on guitar and haunting violin; her husband Michael McDermott on guitar, keyboards, piano, and bass; Will Kimbrough on baritone guitar; John Deaderick on piano, keyboards, and organ; Matt Thompson on electric bass and upright bass and Steven Gillis, who also mixed four of the album’s songs, on drums. It’s an immediately arresting album, with a tribute in mind, as Horton in the liner notes roots it in the spirit of the late Sinead O’Connor ..read more

Photo by Tina Korhonen, 2023. No use without permission. Thank you. Steve Hackett has released the first single from the coming album The Circus And The Nightwhale. The albums opening track is chosen as the lead single, ‘People of the Smoke’, and you can watch the video now here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_iujNWzPL0 Steve says of the track: “People of the Smoke spins us all back in time to 1950, when bustling post-war London was stifled with smog from trains, chimneys, industry and smokers. I was born into that world! This song kicks off an album following my life’s journey both literal ..read more

Tamsin Elliott & Tarek Elzhary – So Far We Have Come Before Tamsin began her solo album FREY (2022), she spent several months in Egypt exploring Arabic music, during which she met Tarek on the Cairo live scene. Post-Covid Tarek visited the UK to make the collaborative album they had dreamed of creating together. Most tracks were composed, inspired by and interspersed with English dance tunes and pieces from Arabic classical and folk traditions. Each track has been meticulously thought-through, and produced with thought given to the sound, the instrumentation, the production, and overall t ..read more

Legendary rock guitarist Steve Hackett will release his new studio album ‘The Circus And The Nightwhale’ on 16th February 2024, via InsideOut Music. A rite-of-passage concept album with a young character called Travla at the centre of it, ‘The Circus And The Nightwhale’s’ 13 tracks have an autobiographical angle for the musician who says about his 30th solo release: “I love this album. It says the things I’ve been wanting to say for a very long time.” ‘The Circus And The Nightwhale’ is Steve’s first new music in over two years. It follows the beautiful acoustic LP ‘Under A Mediterranean Sky ..read more