Latest articles by Paul Lester
The Enid live in Tring - review
The Enid head to Tring to soldier on without creative mastermind Robert John Godfrey
Outer Limits: How Prog are North Sea Radio Orchestra?
They’re the collective specialising in alternative chamber music with plenty of twists and have been compared to the late great Frank Zappa. But how prog are North Sea Radio Orchestra?
Sand's Sam Healy: "There are no facts when you’re listening to music"
Sam Healy has not one but two outlets for his proggy musical ideas: North Atlantic Oscillation, and solo venture Sand. And they both have albums out now...
Emerson Lake & Palmer - Reissues album review
Not yet ratedFourth, fifth and sixth albums in the ELP reissue program
Wayne Hussey: "I spent all my money on birds, booze, drugs and guitars"
The Mission frontman Wayne Hussey answers our heavy questions for heavy rockers
Steve Hillage - Searching For The Spark album review
A box set of 22 CDs, plus extras, from the 70s prog rocker turned 90s dance alchemist
Undertones - Undertones/Hypnotised album review
40th-anniversary vinyl/digital reissues of Derry pop-punks’ first two albums.
The Rolling Stones - The Rolling Stones In Mono album review
Sixteen-LP/15-CD box set of the Stones’ output from the 60s, as nature – and their Satanic Majesties themselves – intended it to be heard
Interview: Marillion's Steve Hogarth on being punk and replacing Fish
We speak to Marillion frontman Steve Hogarth as F.E.A.R. (Fuck Everyone And Run), the angriest and most politically charged album they've ever recorded, is released
Meat Loaf: “I'm not afraid of anybody!”
With a new album out soon, the larger-than-life Meat Loaf talks about Bat Out Of Hell, bad health, “dumb people” and getting back with songwriter/producer Jim Steinman
The rise and rise of Marillion – the band that refuses to die
They’ve made it through drink, drugs and the departure of Derek Dick. Now, with the release of new album F.E.A.R., Marillion share their survival secrets
Whiskey Myers - Mud album review
Fourth album from these Texan good ol’ (actually, quite young) boys
Supersonic Blues Machine head to Norway for Notodden Blues Festival
A collection of top-drawer guitarists buddy up to form a six-string supergroup, Supersonic Blues Machine, and it’s more than just mutual back-slapping.
Pavlov's Dog live review - The Underworld, London
Not yet ratedCult 70s proggers come to Camden.
Dream The Electric Sleep - Beneath The Dark Wide Sky album review
Not yet ratedBlackouts and revelations from the Kentucky post-proggers Dream The Electric Sleep
Necro Deathmort - The Capsule album review
Not yet ratedLondon duo Necro Deathmort give it loads of ominous electronica
Tau - Tau Tau Tau album review
Not yet ratedFormer Dead Skeleton channels Bowie’s death in the desert
What's the Mercury Prize's problem with rock?
Another year, another Mercury Prize nominations list, another round of moans from rock fans complaining that their music isn’t represented
Alien Sex Fiend - Classic Albums Volume 2 album review
Goth-electro pioneers from the Batcave and beyond reissue their classic albums
Emerson Lake & Palmer - Reissues Anthology album review
Prog overlords issue expanded versions of first three albums, alongside a new compilation
Why The Struts are the rock'n'roll band Britain needs
Not yet ratedWhat happened when glam-pop rock’n’rollers The Struts came, saw and conquered at Camden's legendary Dingwalls venue
