Procol Harum 2010-2011 tour dates

Gary Brooker: piano and voice
Geoff Dunn: percussion
Matt Pegg: bass guitar
Josh Phillips: Hammond organ
Geoff Whitehorn: lead guitar


2010:
Sunday 31 October Leamington Spa, Warwickshire UK
Thursday 4 November Harrisburg, PA
Friday 5 November Westbury, NY
Saturday 6 November Collingswood, NJ
Tuesday 9 November Edmonton, Canada
Friday 12 November Snoqualmie, WA
Saturday 13 November Santa Barbara, CA
Sunday 14 November Los Angeles, CA
Thursday 18 November Tallinn, Estonia
Saturday 4 December Wilmington, DE
Saturday 11 December Southend-on-Sea, Essex, UK
Sunday 12 December Southend-on-Sea, Essex, UK

2011:
Friday 14 January Copenhagen, Denmark + Danish National Concert Orchestra and Choir
Saturday 15 January Copenhagen, Denmark + Danish National Concert Orchestra and Choir
Tuesday 18 January Aalborg, Denmark + Danish National Concert Orchestra and Choir
Thursday 20 January Vejle, Denmark + Danish National Concert Orchestra and Choir
Saturday 22 January Aarhus, Denmark + Danish National Concert Orchestra and Choir

THE TANGENT: new album and gig news

Quite a few Tangent goings on at the moment. Firstly, to thank everyone who has bought "A Place On The Shelf", and to let everyone who hasn't got round to buying know that…

A Place On the Shelf is STILL available from our website www.thetangent.org - a whole album of previously unreleased pieces including our version of a large Stravinsky piece, plus a whole new 20 minute long epic, described by some as the best track we ever did. Reviews of this have been few, but highly enthusiastic, and thanks to anyone who wrote one of them…

THE NEW ALBUM

Yes, we're recording again, heavily into the composition at the moment. Our next album is currently called "COMM" and is shaping up nicely for release in early 2011 we hope. We're agreed to work once again with Ed Unitsky on the sleeve for this one, after 2 albums with other artists, and that's something you may want to look forward to. We don't deliberately make CONCEPT albums as you may know, but we do have themes in our records, and it looks like the theme of this one is all about communications (and lack of them)…

GIGS:

The Tangent now have a few gigs coming up, mostly in the UK. We've recently had a very successful trip to Italy where we headlined a festival in Parma - the first review of which states that the audience were "blown away by their enthusiasm". There's some photos at the website and the facebook site of course.

THE TANGENT with UNITOPIA in the UK
weekend of Fri/Sat 22nd 23rd October.

Yup, these two Insideout bands will play together, firstly in London at the LUMINAIRE on FRI Oct 22. Then on the Saturday it's up to the CRS at the WESLEY CENTRE in Maltby, Rotherham, Yorkshire. This is a "No headline, No support" equal billing set of shows. Unitopia will OPEN proceedings in London, The Tangent will OPEN in Rotherham

THE TANGENT at the PEEL. Saturday November 13. The "House Of Progression" at the Peel in Kingston, LONDON, is now London's only dedicated progressive rock music venue and we are delighted to be playing our first gig there. This will be a full length set (around 2 hours we hope)…

THE TANGENT in BELGIUM. Sunday November 14 at the SPIRIT OF 66 at Verviers. The band return to a favourite haunt for a brief foray into Europe.

NEXT YEAR we are planning on returning more to Europe, and hopefully cracking that elusive American Festival date. Anyone who can help us with these goals, please get in touch, and - well until the next time, thanks for listening.

Symphony X 2009 Asian Tour dates

13 February, 2009 Bejing, China MG Live House
15 February, 2009 Shanghai, China Wanping Theater
17 February, 2009 Kowloon, Hong Kong HITEC Auditorium
20 February, 2009 Bangkok, Thailand AUA Auditorium
22 February, 2009 Taipei, Taiwan Sword Lake Youth Activity Center

As a semi-reminder, I will be writing up a piece on the new Paradise Lost special edition release. I've been living with the album the past few days, and...well, I don't have any other SymX albums to compare it to, so I can't say how it rests among previous releases like V or Divine Wings of Tragedy or anything else, but...I like it quite a bit. I'm not much into progressive metalthese days, having pretty much overdosed on it, but I'd say SymX may have a bit more in common with the European power metal bands in many ways.

And yes, Russell Allen is probably THE voice in prog metal as far as I am concerned.

Anyway, expect a more in depth review in the next day or so, once I get Karmakanic's review up on the blog (later today, I'd wager).