UK legendary Progressive Rock band Solstice release the new album “Light Up” on January 13, 2023 via GEP and announce the tour dates for 2023.
Purchase a CD copy here https://gep.co.uk/products/solstice-light-up-cd
Or if you’re a streamer listen on Spotify here, Apple Music or whichever platform you use.
GEP are delighted to be working with Solstice again on what is yet another great album “Light Up” is the perfect follow up to “Sia.” Despite not actually being released yet it’s already generating a lot of excitement in the Prog world:
Tracklist:
- Light Up
- Wongle No9
- Mount Ephraim
- Run
- Home
- Bulbul Tarang
Here’s a quick update of our 2023 shows so far with more TBC. I’ll post ticket links below the poster.
It would be so good to see at one of these!!
2023 Tour Dates
March 3rd – Fusion 4, Stourport – Tickets
April 8th – Progdreams, Boederij, NL – Tickets
Mini Tour with La Maschera Di Cera from Italy
April 28th – 229, London – Tickets
April 29th – Northcourt, Abingdon – Tickets
April 30th – The 1865, Southampton- Tickets
July 1st – Alfold Rock n Blues Festival – Tickets
July 21st – Colchester Arts Centre – Tickets
Really excited to play this beautiful venue with our ‘Brave New World‘ touring buddies, the wonderful TRILOGY
August 12th – Cropredy Festival, Nr Banbury – Tickets
August 25/8 – Day TBC – Towersey Festival – Tickets
SEPTEMBER 2ND – THE STABLES – WAVENDON ~ TICKETS & INFO
The Stables is a beautiful, comfortable venue with great production, masses of parking and situated just off J13 of the M1. It’s a big deal to us to play this show so please, please support it if you can.
Ebony Buckle and her band will open the show and, as you’ll know if you saw her recent full band show at The Stables Stage 2… they’re bloody brilliant! This is our first opportunity to headline the Jim Marshall Auditorium so it would mean the world to us to make a good showing – Tickets
November 11th – HRH Prog (12? :)) – Great Yarmouth – Tickets
“As you can see from the gig list, we’re doing a short tour with our Italian brothers, La Maschera Di Cera. They may not be well known here but are very well established and respected in Europe… and happen to be brilliant!! This will be their first UK tour, organised by ‘Prog For Peart” promotor Mark Cunningham, so please come and support them if you can.
For us, it’s our first London show in over 10 years! I’m pretty sure the last one was The Underworld in 2012! I remember this particularly because Steven Wilson was in the audience and asked me afterwards if I still had the master tapes for Silent Dance so he might remix a couple of tracks… like I was going to say no
Those remixes were originally added to 2013’s Prophecy album but one has just been included in a retrospective release… more on that below.” – Solstice
One of our “Guardians” Mark Earll, asked me if we could do an online lesson covering, appropriately, the “Guardian” guitar solo. I said sure but then thought, we’re so indebted to our “Guardians” and maybe there’s others who might be interested, so put this together instead. TBH I really enjoyed making it so thanks Mark!!
Watch Solstice – Guardian Guitar Solo Tutorial through the YouTube player below:
“We’re so fortunate to not only have amazing supporters, but also names like Barry Robinson championing our music. Barry’s covered Light Up in several videos and brought the music to many new listeners as a result. As part of that series we put together a ‘Beginners Guide To Solstice’ which includes a remastered track from each album (except for Steven Wilson’s remix of Find Yourself.. I mean who would touch that) and live tracks representing Sia and Light Up. It’s 70 minutes of music and may be of interest to any unfamiliar with the back catalogue.” – Solstice
It’s available to download as Flac, Wav or mp3 from our Ko-fi shop for as little as the price of a coffee.
https://ko-fi.com/s/10e6d3aa5c
Lineup:
Andy Glass / Guitars, Bulbul Tarang, Vocals
Jess Holland / Vocals, Acoustic Guitar
Jenny Newman / Fiddle, Viola
Robin Phillips / Bass
Peter Hemsley / Drums
Steven McDaniel / Keyboards
With:
Chris Sampson / Vocal Accompaniment (6)