Rock On! Wednesday, 27 Novembre 2024 – Strawbs, Amazing Blondel, Horslips, Lindisfarne, Perry Leopold & Ragnarök

Psychedelic, heavy, prog and more innovating sounds spanning the late 60s and the early 70s – Wednesday April 17th. Dan’s pick of the week: Strawbs (Hero and Heroine), Amazing Blondel (England), Horslips (The Táin), Lindisfarne (Fog on the Tyne), Perry Leopold (Experiment in Metaphysics) & Ragnarök (Fjärilar I Magen).

The Strawbs zijn een Engelse rockband die in 1964 werd opgericht als de Strawberry Hill Boys. De band begon als een bluegrassgroep, maar ging uiteindelijk over op andere stijlen zoals folkrock en progressieve rock. De band is nog altijd actief en heeft vorig jaar nog een elpee uitgebracht.

Sputnik Music review: “There’s an advantage that Hero and Heroine has in comparison to other progressive rock bands of the time. It can work with a variety of different music forms and yet retain its prog-rock identity. Strawbs has been able to create dark, Gothic, blossoming, beautiful epics, such as Autumn, which gives flavor and spirit to the album. The group has been also able to construct simple, easygoing, fun mainstream folk-rock ballads that are able to attract both ears. But what Strawbs does best is producing the highly prophetic themes throughout every single song of the album, whether it is just a single stanza or the entirety of the lyrics. Examples include the title track, Round and Round, and Midnight Sun, which take on the darkest perspectives of the album. Strawbs ended up rocking the hardest on Hero and Heroine, which led to flourishing success of the fruitfully musical content. (…)

Hero and Heroine was a finely-executed progressive folk album that incorporated some special content in the end. It had an exceptional foundation of fine instrumentality, a variety of effective rock elements, and Cousin’s great songwriting, which made up for the infrequency of publicity. This album, if popular and mainstream criticism disregarded, could be considered one the darkest and best done prog folk rock works of the mid-1970s.”

Wednesday, 27 Novembre 2024 12:00 noon CET Brussels – 11 a.m. GMT London. Repeated: 16:00 & 20:00 hrs CET Brussels, 3 p.m. & 7 p.m. GMT London
Ends: 12 midnight CET Brussels, 11 p.m. GMT London.