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Sir Steven Wilson (surely he should have been knighted by now for services to music?) did a brilliant job resurrecting and repackaging Jethro Tull’s classic albums, the ones that made us fans fall in love with them, but bowed out after 1982’s The Broadsword and the Beast. That was probably a wise move, because even the most rabid Tull aficionado would accept that few...

As I said before in my review of We Can Work It Out: Covers of the Beatles, 1962 – 1966, Beatles music is like comfort food to me, and I’ll always be fascinated to hear other musicia...

Hailing from Melbourne, with over 10 years’ experience of performing in and around the local music and club scene, PSI PHI (pronounced sci-fi) have now released their self-titled debut album. This set of songs was recorded over a single weekend in September 2025, with minimal over-dubbing, to capture the live performance feel, and the result is an exciting blend of Hammond-dr...

The release of Advent Horizon’s fourth album, Falling Together, finds the band in an introspective mood. If you think that translates to sappy ballads and mordant MOR, you would be wrong. As heavy as any of their previous releases musically, the album looks inward lyrically to tackle matters of faith and belief and stepping outside of the rigid systems that require t...

As a film lover, I’ve long admired Werner Herzog’s astounding and often bizarre catalogue, ranging from fever-dream-like tales such as Aguirre, the Wrath of God to tributes like Nosferatu the Vampyre and unbelievable jaw-dropping visuals such as the famous hauling of a 320-ton steamboat over a muddy hill in Fitzcarraldo. While I’d previously associa...