Category: rock


Gentle Giant – Playing the Fool: The Complete Live Experience (2025 Remaster)

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May 1, 2025

The iconic 1977 live album, now fully reimagined, mixed, and mastered for an immersive experience! Mixed and produced by Dan Bornemark, The Complete Live Experience brings a fresh level of clarity and depth to Gentle Giant’s live recordings, capturing the full scope of the band’s artistry as they were meant to be heard.
Over the years, specifically in the early 2000s, Gentle Giant were subject to a series of “official bootleg” releases of dubious if historic quality. It is only right, then, in 2025 a definitive live set is reissued with the requisite sonic and setlist tinkering. Oh yes, and the ubiquitous 5.1 mix. ‘Playing The Fool’ is remixed and mastered and “fully reimagined”. Wasn’t the limited edition 29–CD box set…

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Pink Floyd – Pink Floyd at Pompeii MCMLXXII (2025)

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May 1, 2025

Pink Floyd’s Live at Pompeii, the legendary 1972 concert film directed by Adrian Maben, has been visually restored, with audio newly remixed, and will reissued on audio and video formats, in May, as Pink Floyd at Pompeii MCMLXXII.
Pink Floyd at Pompeii pre-dates the release of The Dark Side Of The Moon and is set in the ruins of the ancient Roman Amphitheatre in Pompeii, Italy. Filmed in October 1971 – without an audience – the performance was the first live concert to take place at Pompeii, and features ‘Echoes,’ ‘A Saucerful of Secrets,’ and ‘Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun’, amongst others. Additionally, the film includes rare behind-the-scenes footage of the band beginning work on The Dark Side of the Moon at Abbey Road Studios.

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Simple Minds – Live in the City of Diamonds (2025)

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May 1, 2025

…2CD edition features 24 tracks.
In the spirit of 1987’s Live in the City of Light (Paris) and 2019’s Live in the City of Angels (LA), Live in the City of Diamonds finds Simple Minds in Amsterdam (rather than the actual city of diamonds, Antwerp) last April. It’s short on surprises beyond Jim Kerr namechecking Joseph Conrad on the oldest song, 1980’s ‘This Fear of Gods’, and there’s nothing from this century.
Yet for all the potential water-treading, cloudbusting singer Sarah Brown leavens the testosterone (“That’s rock’n’roll,” bellows Jim Kerr at the end of ‘She’s a River’, with a relish that may not have impressed his younger self), and it’s a stirring romp through most of the hits.
The songs still stand up, not least…

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