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@otherdemon: Cheers. Watching now.
@otherdemon: I had thought that recording session was happening this month – not that it makes any difference. Like you say, it's exciting news. It seems hardly any time at all goes by here without some exciting news.
@cheezpleez – good choice
Unfortunately Gong are playing on the same night as Motorpsycho in London and a bunch of people in the prog community have already committed to that gig. Hopefully the venue is small enough not to make any difference.
04.04.2019 – NO Bodø, Sinus
10.04.2019 – NO Haugesund, Høvleriet
11.04.2019 – NO Bergen, Hulen
12.04.2019 – NO Bergen, Hulen
13.04.2019 – NO Stavanger, Folken
02.05.2019 – NO Tromsø, Driv
03.05.2019 – NO Trondheim, Verkstedhallen
04.05.2019 – NO Ã…lesund, Terminalen
10.05.2019 – NO Hamar, Gregers
11.05.2019 – NO Oslo, Sentrum Scene
14.05.2019 – DK Aarhus, Train
15.05.2019 – DK Copenhagen, Hotel Cecil
16.05.2019 – DE Hamburg, Markthalle (w. Elder – 25 Years Stickman anniversary)
17.05.2019 – UK London, 229 The Venue 2
19.05.2019 – NL Utrecht, Tivoli Vredenburg
21.05.2019 – NL Groningen, Vera
22.05.2019 – BE Leuven, Het Depot
23.05.2019 – DE Hannover, Faust
24.05.2019 – DE Wiesbaden, Schlachthof
25.05.2019 – CH Lausanne, Les Docks
27.05.2019 – AT Wien, Arena
28.05.2019 – IT Trezzo Sull'adda (MI), Live Music Club
29.05.2019 – IT Bologna, Zona Roveri Music Factory
30.05.2019 – IT Avellino, Teatro Partenio
31.05.2019 – IT Roma, Orion
01.06.2019 – IT Genova, Goa Boa Preview
02.06.2019 – DE Reutlingen, Kulturzentrum franz.K
28.06.2019 – NO Trondheim, Trondheim Rocks
31.07.2019 – NO Trondheim, Byscenen / Olavsfestdagene – Motorpsycho with friends
10.08.2019 – NO Oslo, Øyafestivalen – Motorpsycho with friends
20.09.2019 – GR Athens, Fuzz Club
28.09.2019 – DK Odense, Posten
29.09.2019 – DE Bremen, Schlachthof
01.10.2019 РDE K̦ln, Gloria
15.10.2019 – DE Frankfurt am Main, Mousonturm
16.10.2019 – DE Leipzig, Conne Island
17.10.2019 – DE Berlin, Festsaal Kreuzberg
(Athens added to this list)
Other rock musicians that I know loved and were influenced by Stravinsky include Frank Zappa and Jon Anderson (Yes). (No doubt there are others.) Does the future hold a Stravinsky-influenced MP album?
20.09.2019 – GR Athens, Fuzz Club
Is this a first time in Greece? I think the website mentions that they're returning after a long absence.
There are now even more dates to fill Рbetween Athens and Odense; and between K̦ln and Frankfurt.
In autumn 2017 I think they had a two-week break after a number of Norwegian dates, which is when Kristoffer Lo then joined them to rehearse before the rest-of-Europe tour.
@schnu and Tomcat – I've bought all four albums by Camera and a ticket to see them in April. Will check out Verstärker and Chikn. Cheers
From Roger Trenwith at The Progressive Aspect
Album ReviewsMotorpsycho – The Crucible Published on 4th March 2019
Motorpsycho – The Crucible
Article by: Roger Trenwith
Motorpsycho are now 30 years and 22 albums (excluding live albums and sundry collaborations) into their multi-faceted existence. As you would expect from such seasoned veterans, everything they release exudes an easy confidence, but perhaps more unexpectedly they still manage to surprise. This band never release the same album twice, and although there is a thematic link to last year’s sprawling operatic opus The Tower, we soon realise that we are entering the gaping maw of a new and distinctive prog rock monster, going by the name of The Crucible.
Psychotzar opens proceedings with a fist fight between Yes at their most energised and Black Sabbath. Neither seems to be getting the upper hand so they call it quits, snort a pile of spacedust and let the music do the talking. The riff is quite relentless over which some killer lead lines fly around like shards of white-hot sunspit. It’s getting quite warm in here.
Musing on mortality and our place in the grand scheme of things, as is the wont of anyone over 50, sets the tone as our Nordic warriors call out from the lyrics of the satisfyingly cosmic Lux Aeterna. It is a song that lulls the listener into a sense of false cosiness, when out of nowhere, just over halfway into its eleven minutes a thoroughly barking guitar solo knocks you off your feet at 120 mph, sounding uncannily like a scuzzy outtake from Grace For Drowning. If Mr Wilson was wielding a chain in a Viking biker gang from Mars, he might sound like this. Soon, Mellotrons struggle manfully and eventually succeed in stamping the melody back on this bucking bronco of a tune, as guitars froth and strain at the leash.
There are only three tracks on this album, at nine, eleven, and a staggering twenty one minutes respectively. The Prog Button has been pushed, and I noted a couple of cheeky references nicked from the Mighty Crim along the way, as well as the other references I mentioned, but this remains a trip on the travel-worn but reliable and instantly recognisable Motorpsycho mothership. There is weirdness aplenty in the mid-section of the lumbering propulsive beast of a title track, a monster that lays waste to entire galaxies as it careens about the universe. There is no let up in the energy these wily old creatures shoot at you through the speakers, the guitar fury of Snah driven by the thunderous rhythm section of Bent and Tomas exuding the toughness of an experienced prizefighter. Somehow, you can’t ever imagine this band touring 45 year-old albums on cruise ships, or anywhere else for that matter, for I suspect they will always be looking forwards.
Will they win new fans with this fine slab of sound called The Crucible? Maybe, maybe not, but frankly I doubt they care, such is the self-contained nature of this Norwegian lumbertruck of a band. If you wish your favourite ancient prog band still had the balls and inspiration to make relevant new music, or that modern prog was a bit… dirtier, then you’ll love this, is all I’m saying.
@JERO – I bought that live boxset last time I saw them. It's a real treasure trove. Have fun.
@TrustMe – Very happy for you. Fellow Brit here who only got the bug in last couple years. But heed JERO's words – the live experience is something else – I've been spending shed loads to get to shows in Europe since my first gig in Oct 17. But be sure to bring earplugs just in case – they do play effing loud.
