Big Big Train are superb,saw them recently in Basingstoke, then 2 days later at the Night of the Progs festival in Germany.
It was just after the heady heights of the amazing 15th Reading Fest that I tuned into Camel and in my estimation a fine set of musicians to a man.The track played tonight is called Lunar and taken from the album Moonmadness affording an excellent insight into the bands musical attributes.A weaving together of fine eclectic proportions as instruments become fused at the five minute forwards mark leaving the listener gravitationaly restrained whilst emotionally floating in a sea of musical soup.Never really propelled into those magical halls of prog rock fame but remained a fine outfit and ever so keen to please :
oh thread resurrection, cool. If you can get over the fact they sing en francais then these are very accomplished musicians, saw them support Fish at one of the academies 3 or 4 years ago. First video is a bit of a novelty signature piece but worth a watch
Think I was at that gig. They had a bank of equipment behind them, like computer consoles with red lights blinking on and off. It was quite fascinating to watch. Which is more than they themselves were. Great gig though.How about Tangerine Dream? I had a few of their albums, such as Rubicon. Never sure if I really liked them that much but at the time, it was interesting. Never saw them live - although I remember they played the Apollo in about 1978 or thereabouts and I was tempted. But it was just blokes standing around with a couple of keyboards and a tape deck, as I understand it.