The European Perspective: Recent Episodes
The Amazing Wilf
Happy New Year, everyone! In this show, Martin and Wilf say a not-so-fond farewell to 2020 with the third of their review shows. At least there was some great music released last year! Magenta – Reach For The Moon (09:25) from Masters Of Illusion, 2020 The Osiris Club – Mystery Sells (live) (04:46) from Blazing [...]
Part 2 of our 2020 retrospective, featuring yet more fantastic music, and two Northern blokes banging on about it. Tom Slatter – Our Very Last Christmas (03:59), single, 2020 Godsticks – Surrender (04:45) from Inescapable, 2020 Grumblewood – Castaways (05:18) from Stories of Strangers, 2020 Haken – Invasion (06:42) from Virus, 2020 Hats Off Gentlemen [...]
Martin and I begin our canter through the great album releases of this strangest of years. The Tangent – Life On Hold (05:31) from Auto Reconnaissance, 2020 Abel Ganz – Sepia and White (13:31) from The Life of the Honey Bee and Other Moments of Clarity, 2020 Airbag – Sunsets (08:16) from A Day at [...]
In the first of at least seven shows dedicated to the art of the prog epic, David and Martin visit the worlds of Big Big Train, Wobbler, Transatlantic, The Tangent, Abel Ganz, The Neal Morse Band and The Gift. Make a cuppa, sit back, relax and wallow in the long-form progressive rock song! Big Big [...]
Continuing with our Scandanavian theme, this time around we play some of the great 21st century progressive music that’s come out of Norway, including tracks from new albums by Wobbler, Motorpsycho and Arabs In Aspic. Wobbler – Imperial Winter White (15:04) from Afterglow, 2009 Major Parkinson – Madeleine Crumbles (05:07) from Blackbox, 2017 Soup – [...]
It’s been a while since we did a country special, so here’s one right here. Ladies and gentlemen, the fantastic progressive music of Sweden! Moon Safari – Too Young To Say Goodbye (06:29) from Himlabacken vol. 1, 2013 Anekdoten – Shooting Star (10:11) from Until All the Ghosts Are Gone, 2015 Introitus – Shadows (09:43) [...]
Martin is off doing something called the Three Peaks Challenge this weekend. He’s a mad bugger. Apparently it involves running up and down hills. He does it voluntarily, apparently. So I’m gonna spin some choons, as the kids say. Some old choons, some new choons. Choony McChoonface. Dyble Longdon – Astrologers (05:57) from Between A [...]
Martin is on holiday. I’ll do what I want! Steve Hillage – Hurdy Gurdy Man (06:34) from L, 1976 The Tangent – The Tower Of Babel (04:36) from Auto Reconnaissance, 2020 Sloth Metropolis – Band Together (05:35) from Humanise, 2020 Abel Ganz – The Life of the Honey Bee and Other Moments of Clarity (12:41) [...]