
Live! Pom Poko (Norway) @ The Albert Hall Manchester, 20th October 2025
Reading time: 4 minutesI’ve seen Norway’s raucous math rockers Pom Poko six or seven times now but apart from a wondrous show at the Øya Festival in Oslo
Reading time: 4 minutesI’ve seen Norway’s raucous math rockers Pom Poko six or seven times now but apart from a wondrous show at the Øya Festival in Oslo
Reading time: 2 minutesIt was just over a year ago that we reviewed Last Plane Out’s highly melodic, orchestrated, ‘All Fool’s Day’, a sort of prog-lite effort with
Reading time: 2 minutesAn unusual artist name, and an unusual song title. Lily Oktober sounds like she could be a Russian spy in a Bond movie. Without the
Reading time: 2 minutesI genuinely do not know what to make of this one, and I rarely say that. I was aware of Bergen’s Real Ones, they’ve been
Reading time: 2 minutesRural Tapes (Arne Kjelsrud Mathisen) pays us a visit usually once a year and previously there has been consistency in the nature of his output.
Reading time: < 1 minuteWe all need a ‘Lifeline’ from time to time when we’re drowning in the global maelstrom, and NAYAH discovered the need for hers when she
Reading time: 2 minutesDiscrete Circuitry is Aaron Meagher, who doesn’t sound Swedish and who isn’t. He hails from the Emerald Isle where he spent several years immersed in