Steven Wilson is in a playful mood. As the lights go down, he ambles to the front of the stage and gazes out over the audience. After the ‘consummate professionalism’ of the previous evening’s show, he announces, tonight will be ‘very different’. He conducts a survey of the audience to find out how many people attended last night, how many were attending tomorrow night, nods … [Read more...]
The Mute Gods – Tardigrades Will Inherit the Earth
The dance of death (Saltatio Mortis, Track 1) casts an ominous, foreboding shadow over the future of the human race. Roger King’s menacing funeral march for humanity is a ghastly premonition which sets an urgent and anxious tone for what follows on this second release from The Mute Gods. Tardigrades will Inherit the Earth effortlessly carries on from their disconcerting 2016 … [Read more...]
An Evening with Steven Wilson
An Evening with Steven Wilson Eventim Apollo, Hammersmith, London Wednesday 27th January 2016 Sometimes we possibly try too hard to make sense of things when in fact what we should probably do is just sit back and enjoy them. Yet 10 days on from an intense, at times over-whelming and above all utterly absorbing Evening with Steven Wilson, I am still pleasantly bewildered … [Read more...]
The Mute Gods – Do Nothing Till You Hear From Me
Describing Do Nothing Till You Hear From Me as “a rather disgruntled rant at the dystopia we’ve created for ourselves and our children”, founder Nick Beggs barely scratches the surface of a debut album whose tracks are a bold, moody and often cutting set of observations about the times in which we live. With both the lyrics as well as the music ranging from the intense and … [Read more...]