The new It Bites live album “This Is Japan” will be available from the bands website from Monday 29th March 2010. The double CD features a concert performed on the 3rd July 2009 in Tokyo and includes many previously unreleased live tracks from the bands well received 2008 studio album “The Tall Ships” and comes packaged with a 24 page booklet. The first 1000 copies sold will come with a bonus CD called “Deutsches Live” and features seven tracks taken from last April’s tour with Saga in Germany, Austria and The Netherlands. Incidentally the band returned from Japan last Sunday (March 21st) after playing gigs in Tokyo and Osaka on March 19th and 20th. The track listings for “This Is Japan” are:

Disc 1 Kiss Like Judas Oh My God Ghosts All In Red Plastic Dreamer Great Disasters Yellow Christian The Ice Melts Into Water Midnight

Disc 2 The Wind That Shakes The Barley Old Man And The Angel This Is England Calling All The Heroes

Our launch gig for ‘Someone Here is Missing’ (or SHIM for short) is confirmed at the Bush Hall in London on Wednesday May 19th. You can get your tickets here. We’ve also just confirmed a German festival at Viersen (near Düsseldorf) on Saturday 24th July. It’s called ‘Eier mit Speck’ which literally translates to ‘eggs with bacon’. Yum… For those of you who can read German, you can find out more here ...

Somerset based instrumental psychedelic rock band Ozric Tentacles are to have their classic 1990 album “Erpland” re-released as a special edition on May 1st 2010 by Snapper Records to mark its 20th anniversary. The recording which was originally released as a double album on vinyl will come as a two disc set with the music remastered and digitally transferred. The second disc will be a bonus DVD which will include the concert “Live At The Brixton Fridge” from 1991 which features “Erpland” material.

Well, it has been a fairly busy time behind the scenes around Mostly Autumn these last few months. A few decisions have been made and plans put into place for a very exciting year. Of course we are all looking forward to the gig on 2nd April in Leamington – with mixed feelings it’s true but then we must look forward and welcome Olivia for her first gig fronting the band at the Gloucester Guildhall on 10th April followed by 5 Dutch dates – really exciting to see what she can do (a few words from her below). The gig at Leamington you will be pleased to know, will be filmed for a DVD – by John Vis – a Dutch friend who has much experience and we will get it released as soon as we can – fingers crossed everything will go well on the night.

Bryan is putting in a tremendous amount of time writing and in the studio and has decided the new album (Go Well Diamond Heart) will kick off the new era for Mostly Autumn in fine style with a Limited Edition double album. This will be available for pre sale soon and we hope to start shipping around July. The general release single album will probably have a release date around late September. Of course timings are not set in stone yet!!

Meanwhile – we have the spring tour to look forward to and a tour in the autumn to promote the new album (though look out for a few tasters in the set list a bit sooner....maybe).

Dutch April tour:
140410 - Bibelot, Dordrecht
150410 - De Kade, Zaandam
160410 - Auw Kerk, Bunde (Maastricht)
170410 - Metropool Hengelo
180410 - W2 Den Bosch

Roger Waters management has confirmed that "Roger is seriously considering touring The Wall in its entirety in 2010 and 2011". How the Tour will be staged is still unknown. There are rumblings of a star studded lineup reminiscent of the Berlin Show. The main theory at the moment is that Roger will use the same band he toured with in 2008. Stay tuned to Outside The Wall for the latest details surrounding this event!

Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmour will appear on Bryan Ferry’s new solo album to be released by EMI/Virgin in September. Recoding took place at Hugh Padgham's studio in West London. David has guested on a number of the Roxy Music founder’s solo albums, and appeared with him at the 1985 Live Aid show. Other guests on the album include Jonny Greenwood, Nile Rodgers, Marcus Miller, Mani and Flea. Songwriting contributors include Scissor Sisters and Groove Armada.

Unitopia have confirmed the release date for their upcoming album “Artifical. The CD will be available on May 3rd 2010 in Europe and May 4th 2010 in North America through InsideOut. The first and special Edition of “Artifical” will feature a 20 pages booklet plus three bonus tracks and the band are pleased to announce those attending RoSfest 2010 will be able to purchase this special Edition directly from the stand on May 1st. Artwork for the album has once again been done by Ed Unitsky. The band have added three musicians this year with Jamie Jones (Drums), Shaun Duncan (Bass) and Peter Raidel (Saxes) joining the four core members of the band, namely Mark Trueack (Lead and backing vocals), Sean Timms (Keyboards/backing vocals), Matt Williams (Guitars/backing vocals) and Tim Irrgang (Percussion). In addition to the bands appearance at RoSfest, they will also be performing at the Summer’s End festival in the UK at the beginning of October 2010.

Suffocation (1:40) Artificial World (5:42) Nothing Last Forever (5:31) Not Human Anymore (5:22) Tesla (13:21) Reflections (3:18) The Power Of 3 (1:22) Rule Of 3's (4:10) Gone In A blink Of An Eye (5:49) The Great Reward (6:38) Bonus tracks What Kind Of World (9:36) This Time I Think We Got It Right (3:51) Relative To Me (3:01)

Unitopia will also be performing on the following dates:

Please visit our Youtube channel and check out the new video from our studio featuring Tom Norris from the London Symphony Orchestra. Tom arranged all the strings for our upcoming 'The Gentle Art Of Music' album and played himself violin and viola. It really was a great honour that such a brilliant musician is part of this CD. The double album 'The Gentle Art Of Music" is already available in our own online shop.



Please also check out Tom Norris' website and listen to his solo-album 'Edge Of The World'.

Hope to see you guys on tour!
Yogi, Kalle, Chris, Markus and Marc
RPWL

In 2008, EMI released ‘Early Years’, Marillion’s Official Bootleg Box Set 1982-1987, a six disc set of previously unreleased live recordings featuring the band’s original front man and vocalist, Fish. In 1988, following the band’s fourth opus, ‘Clutching At Straws’, Fish departed to follow a career as a solo artist, leaving the core band members of guitarist Steve Rothery, bassist Pete Trewavas, Mark Kelly on keyboards and drummer Ian Mosley, to seek a new singer and front man. They settled on former Europeans vocalist Steve Hogarth in 1989, releasing ‘Season’s End’ that year, and continuing to write and release new product with the same line-up to this day.

This second, companion volume, features a total of four entire concerts and two radio sessions across its eight discs. Kicking off with their April 1990 set at Leicester’s De Monfort Hall, this gig is a mixture of tracks from the then current album ‘Season’s End’, along side Marillion classics and fan favourites such as ‘Kayleigh’, ‘Lavender’ and debut single, ‘Market Square Heroes’.

Thieves’ Kitchen have announced on their website that they have tentatively started work on a follow up album to their 2008 release “The Water Road”. The band had to postpone all live gigs in 2009, including an appearance at the FMPM festival in Montreal, because of repetative stress injuries to guitarist Phil Mercy’s arm and hand. However Mercy writes that there is no lasting damage to the tendons and muscles and was able to pick up a guitar last October. The band have started to write material for a new CD which could possibly appear in the early months of 2011. For the full story see HERE.

Wolfspring, the side project of Nemo guitarist and singer JP Louveton have signed up to ProgRock Records for the upcoming release of their self titled debut album on July 13th. Apart from Louveton, WolfSpring are composed of Julian Clemens (German English-speaking singer), Ludovic Moro-Silibot (Metal drummer) and Guillaume Fontaine on keyboards, who is also a member of Nemo. The bands profile on ProgRock Records describes their music as “metallic sounds, acoustic atmospheres and symphonic music, WolfSpring belongs to that kind of modern progressive bands that does not hesitate to join extremes, however keeping a musical coherence and a personal sound.” The new album will be delivered at the end of May for people who pre-order.

1. The Haunting [6.28] 2. 24/7 [5.47] 3. Carpathian Wolves [4.57] 4. Train's Gone [7.19] 5. Now Or Never [6.39] 6. Mutation [5.54] 7. Howling With The Banshee [6.59] 8. Our New MediaEvil World [12.18]

Jon Anderson has announced on his website that he will be performing again with the Contemporary Youth Orchestra of Cleveland. The concert will take place at the Severance Hall in Cleveland, Ohio, US on Monday 24th May 2010 at 7.30pm and will be filmed for later broadcast and DVD release. Tickets will be on sale from Monday, April 5th by calling the Severance Hall Box Office. Anderson has previously performed with the Contemporary Youth Orchestra in May 2004 when they presented the World premiere of the Symphonic Song Cycle.

'It's been quite a ride through the Utopian Worlds, and it's now time to return to origins and to an energized Poles territory. We officially announce that we have started work on the 3rd album. More details to be released as we move further, both regarding the concept, artwork, sound and some surprise musicians.

Thanks to all the fans for the support, you can count on another great album that will be surely blow your speakers away, so prepare for that coz we won't provide any refund. Yes, the music is taking over, evolving into Factory's most powerful sound yet'

Just having released Time And Motion, RMI are coming out with their second box set in just over a month. The box set, entitled "Lost In Transit", consists of the band performing live between the years 2004 and 2007. None of the music has been released officially on CD before. Steve says that, "...this box set, shows the full range of the RMI arsenal, some of our favorite live performances, and we hope you'll enjoy it"

The scheduled release date is Saturday, April 17th (the night of the band performing at The Gatherings in Philadelphia, PA.)

Andrew Latimer, legendary guitarist for English Progressive Rock band Camel is currently in the studio collaborating with keyboardist David Minasian on David's soon to be released symphonic prog album Random Acts of Beauty. Andrew, who has been battling myelofibrosis for a number of years, is now beginning to get back to work following a successful bone marrow transplant in 2007. David, who has produced and directed 7 DVD's for Camel Productions including the highly acclaimed Coming of Age, is also a classically trained keyboardist as well as a filmmaker. The album will feature a number of melodic classically-tinged symphonic prog epics including the 13 minute track Masquerade co-written by Andrew and David. The project should appeal to fans of the Moody Blues, Genesis, Pink Floyd, King Crimson, Barclay James Harvest, and of course Camel.

In the latest Post-Progressive Podcast from Kscope, we meet up with Tim Bowness from No-Man to talk about the recent double DVD Mixtaped, the forthcoming reissue of Wild Opera, to find out why a No-Man concert is a rare and precious thing, and to find out what he has planned…AND we go backstage with nu-gaze pioneers Engineers to find them in good spirits after a line-up change, and to discover whether ‘’Shoegaze” is a blessing or a curse!

And, of course, your genial host Billy Reeves plays you tracks from Richard Barbieri, No-Man, Engineers, a brand new one from the eagerly awaited forthcoming The Pineapple Thief album, and North Atlantic Oscillation: who since their appearence on the previous Kscope, The Post Progressive Podcast, have become the hippest rock band in the UK (a Radio 1 album of the week, 8/10 in the NME, raves from the London Sunday Times and Uncut amongst others). Told you so! PLUS, listen out for news of the forthcoming Anathema album…

A new Kscope Podcast is available, for free, on the last Friday of every month, subscribe here or via iTunes, and do visit www.kscopemusic.com.

"We’re Here Because We’re Here" is Anathema’s most expansive album to date and by the far best thing we’ve ever done. Not only have we improved as writers, but because we took our time, we had the opportunity to select the very best material and concentrate on it. We gave the songs the chance to breathe and come alive by themselves and it’s ended up being magical – every song is as good as the rest of them.

The self-produced album was mixed by Steven Wilson (Porcupine Tree) and features the exquisite string arrangements of Dave Stewart (Stewart/Gaskin, Porcupine Tree) and mastering skills of legendary Jon Astley (The Who, Led Zeppelin). The song 'Angels Walk Among Us' features subtle backing vocals by Ville Valo of H.I.M.

Thin Air Summernight Horizon Dreaming Light Everything Angels Walk Among Us Presence A Simple Mistake Get Off, Get Out Universal Hindsight

In April/May Anathema will be playing a short series of special concerts to coincide with the album release. Alongside shows in established Anathema territories such as The Netherlands, Turkey and Russia, this spring tour will also see the band play their first ever show in Bulgaria, an opportunity they are looking forward to very much. You can also see Anathema at the following festivals this summer:

In a Labor Day weekend that included performances by Japanese and Italian prog artists as well as the UK's Ozric Tentacles, 3RDegree brought 6 HD cameras and a recording van along to capture its performance that weekend for this new DVD release AND possibly the first Blu-ray release by an independent progressive rock band. DVD is for sale at www.3rdegreeonline.com! Also released on this day will be a re-release of the 2007 DVD The Reunion Concerts capturing the band's performance at NJ Proghouse (run by the NEARfest guys) This will be the first time this will be available on Blu-ray as well.

Live At ProgDay 2009 DVD and Blu-ray feature entire 90 minute set list as well as 4 vignettes of the making of Narrow-Caster-the band's last studio album. Also, one song (not played at ProgDay) is featured from a Brooklyn, NY warm-up show 3RDegree played with Phideaux and Edensong.

The Reunion Concerts DVD and Blu-ray feature the nearly 2 hour original version plus an extra half hour of songs cut from original release as well as some rehearsal footage. All on 2 DVDs (or one Blu-ray, one DVD).

Following up the success of the first effort, Anderson and ProgRock Records announce the second Terra Incognita CD, “A Line in the Sand” to coincide with the publication of the second novel, THE MAP OF ALL THINGS. “This CD features a different, grittier part of the story, focusing on the devastating generations-long war between continents, and it has an entirely different sound,” said Anderson.

This time, the music is helmed by Henning Pauly (Frameshift, Chain, Shadows Mignon) and features some artists returning from the first CD as well as new performers. “Terra Incognita: A Line in the Sand” Vocals are by rock legends Steve Walsh (Kansas), Michael Sadler (ex-Saga), and Sass Jordan (Album Rock’s Female Vocalist of the Year) and Nick Storr (The Third Ending) with guest appearances by Charlie Dominici (solo, original Dream Theater vocalist), Arjen Lucassen (Ayreon and many others), Alexander Froese (Frameshift) and Juan Roos (Shadow’s Mignon). Anderson and Moesta penned the lyrics/story again and even cowrote two songs with multi-Grammy winner Janis Ian (“Society’s Child,” “At Seventeen,” etc.). Due to commitments to their own bands/projects, Erik Norlander and some of the original performers were unable to participate in the second CD.

Both “A Line in the Sand” (ProgRock Records) and THE MAP OF ALL THINGS (Orbit Books) will be released in June.

You can hear 3 full songs at MySpace. The album will be released mid April 2010 and available in stores late June 2010.

10T Records is excited to announce the release of the full length debut CD release by Mars Hollow on June 8, 2010. Mars Hollow are based out of Southern California’s musically fertile San Fernando Valley, where some of rock’s classic albums have been recorded. Comprised of four veteran musicians - John Baker (vocals/guitar), Jerry Beller (drums/vocals), Kerry Chicoine (bass/vocals) and Steve Mauk (keyboards/vocals) - Mars Hollow blend their unique individual musical voices into one captivating whole. Mars Hollow’s self-titled debut album was produced, mixed and mastered by King Crimson associate Ronan Chris Murphy.

"Mars Hollow" is available for immediate pre-sale through the 10T Records website.  All orders received between now and the official release date will ship by the end of the week prior to the official release.  Additionally, all tracks from "Mars Hollow" are available to preview in their entirety through the 10T Records website 

The Summers End Festival, to be held at Lydney Town Hall, Gloucestershire on October 8, 9 & 10 is delighted to announce it’s latest two international bands – The Watch from Italy and Phideaux from the USA.

The Watch are very much on the rise, known both for their excellent original material and their uncanny reproductions of Genesis music from the Peter Gabriel era. Having already headlined Rosfest, and playing to growing audiences throughout Europe, this popular band will play a mixed set of original and Genesis material at this year’s Festival.

Phideaux from the USA join Unitopia as the first two bands from outside Europe to ever play the festival. Led by LA-based multi-instrumentalist Phideaux Xavier, the band have won a cult following with seven albums of remarkable art rock influenced both by classic prog and psychedelic music. We are thrilled that this remarkable 10 piece band will make their first UK appearance at Summers End 2010.

Bands already announced are Unitopia (Australia) and Ark (UK).

A new Summers End website will be coming soon. In the meantime you can stay updated via MySpace and Twitter!

In April 2010, The Dividing Line will celebrate its 10th anniversary. To commemorate this awesome milestone in our history we will be presenting a very special event: a virtual Progressive Rock festival! Similar to the "Live & Interactive" broadcasts we have featured in the past, this event will consist of live performances by some of our favorite progressive rock artists. Each of the featured bands will play a full set from their respective locations while broadcasting to you via our server. The DLBN TEN REVOLUTIONS Virtual Festival starts at 1pm (Pacific Time) on 3rd April 2010 and runs for 10 hours: 1 hour per year that DLBN has existed. Please join us in chat and help us celebrate a decade of The Dividing Line!