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Cruise to the Edge announced its 2022 lineup, featuring headliners Alan Parsons and Marillion.

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By Tom King We continue our look back at the music of 50 years ago… By the time the early 70’s rolled around jazz music had evolved to a point that would be hard for the earliest proponents of the art-form to recognize. Even though Bix and Pops had improvised solos in their early work…they and the other pioneers still used a form and a melody that they would almost always circle back to. As Miles Davis and others experimented with different time signatures, different inst...

Andrew Whitehead The Roundhouse and Di Clay - Credit: Andrew Whitehead/Di Clay It was built as an engine shed - later became a liquor warehouse - and bounced back from dereliction to become the epitome of London cool. The Roundhouse in Chalk Farm has had a much livelier history that most railway buildings, and more than 170 years on its still going strong. The Roundhouse dates from the 1840s, when rail lines started carving their way across north London. It was a hugely impressive piece of arch...

Ask the Cuban-born, Chicago-raised guitarist and singer Eddie Turner how he ended up in Colorado about five decades ago, and he says, “It’s actually pretty simple. I saw the band Zephyr when I was in high school, and I was just like, ‘Wow, what an amazing band! I just kind of said to myself, ‘Im going to join that band one day.’” In the early ’70s, Turner moved to Boulder to study liberal arts at the University of Colorado, and after playing in the band Mother Earth, he did finall...

Map shows the most famous people linked to each northern Lincolnshire area The Pudding has created a map to show who the top person associated with your town or village is, based on the last four years’ worth of Wikipedia search data 14:41, 10 MAY 2021 Updated The Pudding has created a map to show who the top person associated with your town or village is based on the last four years’ worth of Wikipedia search data. From actors to an astronomer, there are plenty of people from northern Linc...

Map shows the most famous people linked to each North Lincolnshire area The Pudding has created a map to show who the top person assocated with your town or village is, based on the last four years’ worth of Wikipedia search data 14:45, 10 MAY 2021 The Pudding has created a map to show who the top person assocated with your town or village is, based on the last four years’ worth of Wikipedia search data. From actors to an astronomer, there are plenty of people from northern Lincolnshire who...

  As co-founding editor Barry Miles tells it, according to journalist Alex Watson, “It’s very, very difficult now to imagine how straight England was, even in the mid 60s. It was a very black and white world then… The idea of anyone from our community writing for the  Guardian or the  Times was inconceivable. None of the papers had any popular music coverage in those days. Our group of people needed somewhere to express themselves, so in early 1966, Hoppy (John Hopkins) and I starte...

JR Moores , April 19th, 2021 08:26 The algorithmic writer-replicant branded "JR Moores" by his egghead manufacturers analyses the latest psych and noise-rock releases. Home page artwork: The Boys Cosmic by Deep Hum As somebody who valued authenticity to the point of disaster, Kurt Cobain would have been delighted to learn that artificial intelligence has come up with a new Nirvana song. He was, after all, the author of such grunge-era hits as Come As You R2-D2 and Pennyroyal T2: Judgment Day. T...

A question from Ally Pally staff - when was first big standing gig at the palace? Theyve asked for our help in accessing the local mindhive! Do you have any memories of gis gone by? Can you help? Tags (All lower case. Use " " for multiple word tags): Permalink Reply by Gill on March 21, 2021 at 12:58 Post on Twitter - I cant find their account. Also contact old NME/Melody Maker reviewers such as Danny Baker, who has a phenomenal memory. And if he doesnt know then hell make it his mission to...