UK NEO-PROGRESSIVE ROCKERS 'SOLSTICE' RELEASE NEW ALBUM 'LIGHT UP'

Hello everyone and welcome to another edition of Interviewing the Legends I’m your host Ray Shasho

Andy Glass founded the UK Prog group Solstice in 1980 with violinist Marc Elton and the following 4 years would see them make the Marquee Club their home and take the band to the main stage at Reading Rock Festival, Glastonbury and many others. Following the split in 1985, a change of tack led to touring as guitarist for American soul legends Bill Withers and Geno Washington alongside his work as studio engineer and session musician.   After recording Ian Anderson in the studio, Andy was invited to take the job of 'front of house' sound engineer with Jethro Tull leading to five American tours and long outings through Europe and the UK. Nothing would prove as satisfying as playing with Solstice though and so, inevitably, Andy reformed the band in its current line up in 2007.

The follow-up to 2020's acclaimed Sia is the band's seventh album, and the second to feature vocalist Jess Holland, who was placed fourth in the Best Female Vocalist category of Prog Magazine's 2022 Readers' Poll (guitarist Andy Glass also ranked 5th in the Guitarist category while the band ranked 8th in Best Band).

Big Big Train's Greg Spawton was moved to comment: "Nothing prepared me for the extraordinary new line-up that they have settled on in the last few years. Solstice are back and are back to being brilliant. Their forthcoming album, Light Up, is utterly sensational: beautiful production, great songs, great voices, tricky rhythms and epic guitar solos."

The band have lined up some live dates to support the new album, including appearances at Cropredy Festival, London's 229 venue on April 28 and a co-headline performance with fellow 80s neo-prog veterans Trilogy, the first time the two bands have performed with each other since they toured together back in 1983!

Please welcome guitarist, singer, songwriter, producer and founder of UK’s Prog Rock group SOLSTICE to Interviewing the Legends …

PURCHASE THE BRAND-NEW RELEASE

BY

ANDY GLASS

AND

S O L S T I C E

Entitled

L I G H T   U P

Available at

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GEP Records

(Giant Electric Pea)

www.solsticeprog.uk

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Solstice tour dates 2023

FRI 3 MARCH

Fusion 4 2023 Stourport, UK

SAT 8 APRIL

Progdreams Festival 2023 Zoetermeer, Netherlands

FRI 28 APRIL

229London, UK

SAT 29 APRIL

The Northcourt Music Venue Abingdon, UK

SUN 30 APRIL

the 1865Southampton, UK

SAT 1 JULY

Alford Rock and Blues 2023Alford, UK

SAT 22 JULY

Colchester Arts CentreColchester, UK

SAT 12 AUGUST

Cropredy Festival 2023Cropredy, UK

SAT 2 SEPTEMBER

The Stables Milton Keynes, UK

SAT 11 NOVEMBER

HRH Prog XII 2023Great Yarmouth, UK

HRH Prog XII 2023

Line-up

Focus        Tangerine Dream       Steeleye Span

Airbag       Gong       Spock's Beard

Russ Ballard       Magenta       Solstice

Jump       Galahad       It

Rosalie Cunningham       Godsticks       Ryders Creed

Apostle       Doris Brendel       Gandalf’s Fist

Pearl Handled Revolver       Kepler Ten       The Far Meadow

Codices       The Amber Herd       Dr Hasbeen

I Am The Manic Whale       Mother Black Cap       Stuckfish

Grace and Fire       Dadaxl       The Pearson Memmott Conspiracy       Marmrain

SOLSTICE

Discography

Studio albums

    Silent Dance (1984)

    New Life (1993)

    Circles (1997)

    Spirit (2010)

    Prophecy (2013)

    Sia (released 23rd November 2020)

Light Up (2023)

Live albums

    The Cropredy Set (2002)

    Kindred Spirits (2011)

    Live in Veruno (2022)

Compilation albums

    Pathways (1998)

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