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RELEASE DAY!

Still in love with The Afterlife? The scent of roses is dissipating into the ether, the blood pumping through your heart is slowing, the last tacky Valentine’s Day card lies discarded on the bed. What now? For those of you that didn’t hear the new Noctorum album The Afterlife before today, February 15th is the official release date and it is now available to order and stream if that is your poison. GET THE LP | GET THE CD The reaction from those that ordered the album in advance has been […]

My favourite Albums of 2018 – Artists Pick for [sic] Magazine

One of my most impossible tasks is listing my favourite albums. As soon as I commit, I remember that I forgot something. So when I was asked to do this list for [Sic] Magazine, I was hesitant to get involved. But then I heard the Exit North album and I thought this really is without any doubt one of my favourite albums of 2018. But it’s still tough because I tend to have vinyl versions of albums that I buy sent to the archive and I don’t really want to […]

Winter in Königswinter

Christmas Day, Germany 2018. Here we are in the small Kloster Heisterbach graveyard where half a dozen untended graves, moss-ridden and illegible as to who are the inhabitants, lie worn and almost invisible in the grass amongst the trees. The monastery, built at the end of the 12th and beginning of the 13th century, flourished until the Cistercian monks’ suppression in 1803 and final destruction of the monastery in 1809. The picture, taken by Charly Wulff, reminds me of McDonald and Giles’ lone album cover from 1971 – or perhaps […]

UK Tour March 2019

GET YOUR TICKETS HERE I really can’t imagine what I was thinking? I played all over England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland with all of my bands and musical projects, starting in the seventies and continuing way into the 21st century. But for some reason apart from some sporadic shows in London over the years, I have never ventured out into the country proper. Manchester, Birmingham, Edinburgh, Bristol – I have managed to miss them all. Well, all that will be changing with this announcement, because in March next year […]