Martin Kielty
Not only is one-time TeamRock Online News Editor Martin an established music journalist, having written for The Daily Record, The Sun, The Herald, The Scotsman and many others, but he’s also penned several books on music history, including SAHB Story: The Tale of the Sensational Alex Harvey Band, a band he once managed, and the best-selling Apollo Memories about the history of the legendary and infamous Glasgow Apollo. For Louder, Martin has written for Classic Rock and Prog on the print side, and at one time had written more articles for Louder's websites than any other writer on our books (and he's still not far off that top spot, if you're asking). He’s appeared on TV and when not delving intro all things music, can be found travelling along the UK’s vast canal network.
Latest articles by Martin Kielty

When Quantum Jump took the longest word in the dictionary to Number 5
By Martin Kielty published
“Taumata-whaka-tangi-hanga-kuayuwo-tamate-aturi-pukaku-piki-maungahoronuku-pokaiawhen-uaka-tana-tahu-mataku-atanganu-akawa-miki-tora”

Rick Wakeman To Tour US with Hayley Sanderson
By Martin Kielty published
Keyboard wizard Rick Wakeman’s Strictly Wakeman US tour takes place in July, featuring the vocals of Strictly Come Dancing’s Hayley Sanderson

Watch a new video clip of Pink Floyd making The Dark Side Of The Moon
By Martin Kielty published
Pink Floyd release a new clip from restored concert movie Pink Floyd at Pompeii -– MCMLXXII, filmed as the band worked on The Dark Side Of The Moon

Pink Floyd Release One Of These Days clip from restored Pompeii MCMLXXII movie
By Martin Kielty published
Watch Pink Floyd’s performance of One Of These Days from their restored Pompeii concert film which arrives in cinemas on April 24

Chimpan A premiere their cover of Peter Gabriel’s Here Comes The Flood
By Martin Kielty published
Robert Reed and Steve Balsamo of Chimpan A commence 4-EP series with a Peter Gabriel cover, leading up to new album Music Is Art Vol. 1

New-look Katatonia announce 13th album Nightmares as Extensions of the Waking State
By Martin Kielty published
Katatonia reveal their new line-up and lead single Lilac from upcoming album Nightmares As Extensions Of The Waking State

Steven Wilson has remixed Chicago II in Dolby ATMOS
By Martin Kielty published
Steven Wilson has completed a Dolby ATMOS remix of Chicago’s groundbreaking 1970 album Chicago II, with Blu-ray and vinyl editions to be launched in April and May respectively

Bruce Soord details 10th anniversary edition of debut solo album
By Martin Kielty published
The Pineapple Thief leader Bruce Soord’s self-titled solo album will be reissued in vinyl to mark its 10th anniversary in May

After an epic-length search for lost tapes, Clannad passed into Legend alongside Robin Hood
By Martin Kielty published
The Irish band’s award-winning work on cult 80s TV show Robin Of Sherwood transformed how music was used in small-screen productions. Amid flashbacks to overwork and lightning-speed inspiration, they bowed out at the Albert Hall with the release of Legend Extended

Flag-burning prog innovators The Nice found trouble on stage and off it
By Martin Kielty published
Keith Emerson, Davy O’List and Lee Jackson created enough controversy to last for decades in their original three-year run

The Yes Album was very nearly Yes’ final release. But fate intervened three times
By Martin Kielty published
The then-unknown band lost their management, got hurt in a serious road crash and cut a dodgy deal – and that’s why they’re still around today

When Pink Floyd, Arthur Brown and Rush got in trouble with the law - with proggy results
By Martin Kielty published
Never mind the usual drink and drug offences… quirky, eccentric incidents seem to surround some of those who make music the same way

The underwhelming moment when Yes’ Jon Davison met predecessor Jon Anderson
By Martin Kielty published
The brief encounter wasn’t what anyone could have predicted – but it was enough to give the younger singer a tantalising idea.

Linda Thompson on struggling to sing and struggling to perform live
By Martin Kielty published
The folk icon – who never planned on being one – recalls hilarious haircuts, playing musical bedrooms, boxing clever with label execs and becoming a heavy metal fan

“I was always the lowest common denominator”: Jeffrey Hammond’s five years with Jethro Tull
By Martin Kielty published
Bassist contributed to some of the band’s most definitive works – but ultimately couldn’t resist the call of another art form

Ian Anderson still detests the mindless sax of Jethro Tull’s A Passion Play
By Martin Kielty published
Horrified by sessions in a French chateau, they went home, dumped the work they’d done on their Thick As A Brick follow-up and started again. The result was a Marmite production that inspired split rumours

How See Emily Play became Syd Barrett’s last stand as Pink Floyd took flight
By Martin Kielty published
Their second single remains their second-biggest hit, and will always be significant in their history

“He was definitely there, and it was weird”: Syd Barrett’s 1975 visit to Pink Floyd‘s studio
By Martin Kielty published
Five years after they’d felt forced to dump him, the band’s original leader shocked his former colleagues at Abbey Road in 1975

The happy accident of Run For Home, Lindisfarne’s biggest-selling hit
By Martin Kielty published
If Back And Fourth producer Gus Dudgeon had arrived early, Ray Laidlaw wouldn’t have been looking through Alan Hull’s lyric book beside a piano

"Leslie said to the audience 'There’s a technical hitch,' and he touched the microphone and the guitar. And that was it": The tragic story of Stone The Crows, Scotland's great lost band
By Martin Kielty published
With musical talent to spare and Led Zeppelin’s manager behind them, Stone The Crows should have been a success story. Instead it’s one of tragic death and unfulfilled potential

“The film is so shocking that as soon as you hear any of the music, you’re thinking about maniacs running around causing havoc”: Mogwai’s favourite progressive movie soundtracks
By Martin Kielty published
Stuart Braithwaite and Dominic Aitchison struggle to keep their list down to five

"If you haven’t been ripped off, you haven’t been in the music business”: How personal tragedy, the demands of touring and the pressure to make money destroyed Alex Harvey
By Martin Kielty published
In 1977, the Sensational Alex Harvey Band played the Reading Festival. Harvey was being acclaimed as a punk pioneer and the future looked bright. But it was to be their last ever gig…

Steve Hackett previews Foxtrot At Fifty live album with Watcher Of The Skies video
By Martin Kielty published
16-track release was filmed in Brighton during 2022 tour
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