News
28/4/10
Yeesss! We've been booked for this year's Loreley Festival
in Germany on the 4th Sept. This is a great gig for us and we'll be playing
with our old friends Marillion. More info here.
September is turning into a bit of a tour, with the addition of Riffs
Bar in Swindon we are now playing 5 shows over the first couple of weeks.
Life's good!
Spirit is finally available on iTunes so you can get
the song info when you rip the album to your computer.
The album is £7.99 or 79p a track but you can only buy the title
track as part of the complete album. It means you can download the whole
album minus Spirit for £4.74, blimey!
17/4/2010
Thanks to Jerry Ewing for an 8/10 review of Spirit in this months' Classic
Rock Mag. Very nice!
There's no doubt that the recent media coverage is helping to get the
music out there and for that we are grateful.
2/3/2010
Like I was saying...the gigs are starting to come in. The latest is a
really nice little free festival (remember those!!) on
the Grand Union canal at Great Linford Manor in Milton Keynes. It's called
the Waterside Festival
and we're headlining the Friday night, 18th June at around 8pm. It suitable
for all, including kids so come along and let's hope for a balmy summer's
evening.
30/3/2010
The good news is that we're starting to get more gigs
with a new booking for Stantonbury Campus Theatre on
Sept 14th (yes that's a tuesday and you can sit in a comfy chair - nice!).
Classic Rock presents Prog did a nice feature on us (thanks
Jerry) as well as reviewing Spirit and including a track on the cover
mount CD.
The album's also reviewed in the new issue of Classic Rock and R2 mag
are featuring us in thier May/June fetival edition.
Sorry if you're hoping to download Spirit from iTunes
or simply get track names and artwork. Cherry Red assure us that it'll
be there next week - fingers crossed!
18/3/2010
The launch was a great sucess and we want to thank all
of you who came along to support us. It was the perfect way to kick off
the album.
We filmed the show with 6 hi def cameras for a DVD release, hopefully,
next year. For the first time we have a really excellent film of the band.
iTunes - If you've been trying to download tracks from
Spirit you will have noticed that the album's still not up there. Our
publishers, Cherry Red, are on the case so hopefully - any day now!!!
Sorry about the delay.
Gigs - 2 news gigs
that have just come in - Weyfest in Farnham on Sunday 5th and The Peel
in Kingston-upon-Thames on Sept 11th
22/2/2010
More Gigs! Praise the... We've been booked for Progeny
3 on Sunday 9th May - hooray!! So we've got May 7th at The 100 Club
on the Friday and it's starting to feel like a tour.
Please try and get along to the new album launch on March 6th at the Pitz
Club MK. We so want it to be a good night and that'll only happen
if you come along. 'Spirit' will be out on itunes as well as F2 and, of
course, at gigs and direct from us.
Solstice get some press! Look out for a nice feature
in the March issue of Prog Rock mag courtesy of Jerry Ewing and a review
in Classic Rock Mag in April. R2 (formerly Rock and Reel) are also doing
a feature in their May issue thanks to Oz Hardwick. Thank you, thank you
all!
31/12/2090
Happy New Year to you! Finally the release date for our new album 'Spirit'
is settled for 6th March 2010 at the Pitz
Club. Milton Keynes. Really hope you can make it or, if not, pick
up a copy. We're elated! The album's turned out to be our best to date
and we really hope you'll enjoy it. You can get a copy from us or www.progrock.co.uk
or download at the same and/or itunes. Please let us know what you think.
17/11/09
First gigs og 2010 are in. We're playing the Court Theatre in Tring on
20th Feb and the 100Club in London
on &th May. Check out our gigs page for more info.
18/7/09
Check
this out friends!! It's a wonderful account of Stonhenge Free Festival
1984. It was the last festival and Solstice headlined one of the nights.
Great memories!!
2/6/09
Blimey! Been a while since I updated. We've been busy! Finished drum tracks
and most other tracks for the new record(ugh). Really wanted to mention
some gigs - on July 18th we play the Classic Rock Society in Rotherham,
on 24th the Pitz Club in Milton Keynes and on 8th August the Cambridge
Rock Fest in. well Cambridge. More details on our gig page. Hope to see
you soon.
16/12/08
We've finally started comiting drum tracks for the new album (working
title - Freedom) and boy they sound good. Pete's laying down some great
tracks for the rest of the band to play to.
We have also commited to a launch date which is
24th July at The Pitz Club in Milton keynes. We're putting a tour together
to promote the album so the day after the launch we're up to the Duchess
in York. Watch this space for more dates as they come in - see gigs page
for links.
29/6/08
The last couple of shows have been amazing. It's been great to play the
music, but on top of that we've made a lot of new friends and reconnected
with some old ones too. It's a quiet period for us now until the Symforce
festival in Holland at the end of August so the next couple of months
will be spent getting on with the new album and putting the finishing
touches to the live DVD we'll release as a bonus disc. As allways, we're
keen for any contacts that could lead to gigs but please, get in touch
whatever the subject.
11/6/08
since our MK Pitz gig has been rescheduled the organisers of Milton Keynes
festival Togfest
have approached us to play this year. We'll be playing a 45min set on
the Friday night at 7.30pm. There's camping and the music continues through
to Saturday night. A snip at £8 for Friday and £18 for both
days. Hope to see you there. 3/6/08
we've just been told that thanks to some incredible incompetence on the
part of the venue (not the promoter) our show at The Pitz
planned for the summer solstice 21st June will have to be rescheduled
and is now booked for 19th September 2008. Tickets are valid for the new
date or can be refunded from source. Sorry if this has messed up your
plans, I'm gutted. On a more positive note Sprogfest was great - thanks
Bezo and Steve.
24/4/08
We've been confirmed as support for Here&Now at the Riga
Bar on 13th June - should be fun!!
30/3/08
Tickets are now available for our Summer Solstice (21/6/08) show at the
Pitz in Milton Keynes from wegottickets.com
We've got 2 great bands playing with us, please try and get along..see
you there!! 17/3/08
We're really pleased to announce that Solstice will be playing Symforce2
on 23/8/08. This is Europe's biggest indoor prog festival and a great
opportunity for us to spread our wings. 5/1/08
Thanks to those of you who have passed on contacts for potential good
gigs for Solstice-please keep them coming!! 2/1/08
Happy new year to you! I've heard from Nick Barrett of Pendragon today
so watch this space for a gig together later in the year. I've put a clip
from our 'queen' gig on the video page and will
add more soon. 5/12/07
So we played the stadiumMK and her maj showed
up. It was a pretty magical event with thousands of kids having a ball
and us musos having a rare old time. Unreal!! We'll have some footage
up on this site soon thanks to our cameraman Martin Higgs.
Material for the new album is coming along nicely
and I hope to have it ready for our gig in MK on the next summer Solstice.
We have just been booked for the
Prog fest in Frome on 25/50/8 - more details soon. If you have any leads
for decent gigs please email me on andy@solsticewebsite.com
12/10/07
Here's a piece of news I can hardly believe but, apparently, it's true.
On Nov29th we're are playing for the Queen, yes HRH! at the opening ceremony
for the new Milton Keynes stadium; mind boggling. I guess there's a few
tunes we'll need to cut from the set! 1/10/07
Go to 'video' page to check out a couple of
clips from our last gig in M.K.We've just booked a show in the same venue
for the summer solstice next year. Thats Sat 21/6/08 at The Pitz Club,
Milton Keynes. Our friend and top photographer Anthony
Robins took some great stills from the show, some are in this site
with more on our myspace.
25/9/07
we just had a great time at our first 3 gigs. We recorded the last one
at The Pitz Club so look out for video clips on the websites soon. It
was brilliant to see old friends and new and we can't wait to get out
and do more. The next one will be 26 Jan at The Peel, Kingston with, hopefully
plenty more to follow. Our focus now will be on writing/recording new
material.
24/8/07
please note that our 1st Sept gig at the Peel, Kingston has been re scheduled
for the 26th Jan 08 22/8/07
Look out for coverage/reviews/interview of Solstice in the next 2 issues
of Classic Rock magazine 21/8/07
DEF. EDITIONS of Silent Dance, New LIfe, Circles and The Cropredt Set
AVAILABLE FROM 1ST SEPT www.progrock.co.uk
17/8/07
The band are now rehearsing for the Sept shows with Pete Hemsley on drums.
Pete played on New Life and has worked with some great musicians incuding
Page and Plant. I've got to say the band sounnds amasing and is the first
line up really capable of playing the material. The vibe in the band is
incredibly positive and close. I can't wait to get out there and play!
15/8/07
The Definitive Edition Of The Cropredy Set will include the audio Cd and
a DVD of the gig plus an interview with Andy Glass covering the back ground
to the show. F2 will be
releasing 'definitive' versions of Silent Dance, New Life, Circles
and The Cropredy Set which will include a bonus disc and expanded booklets.
We are delighted to announce that we have signed
to Festival music a fantastic
indie who really know and love their music. Their other acts include Magenta,
ChampanA and, personal favorite, Ezra.F2 really care about their products
which are beautifully packaged and presented, so we're looking forward
to these re-issues and to a new studio CD for 2008. All
our studio recordings to date are now available on digital download here
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